Is satan a metaphor for gods darker side?

basicly im wondering, is satan a metephor.. alter ego of god... nothing or no1 is perfect not even a christian god I beleive, so is satan a meterphor for gods sinister side??? what do you think about this statement, and this statement is open to...

chrisitan and atheist veiws, im not a christian but I've read the bible and msot of the thigns that happen with satan jsut remind me of an alter ego of god or another side of god... just wondering

Personally I've never thought about it but I guess it is kind of like the good twin and the bad twin. I don't believe there is a Satan but from the upbringing my parents imposed on me then yeah I guess it would be like that.

you know the God squad is not going to be happy about this?

I personally think it's a fascinating way to look at it... Not a seperate entity but simply a darker side, hmm... If religion then was simply created by humans is that then simply a name for a side of humanity they dont want to acknowledge as being part of them? (or am I getting carried away with your theory?)

*laughs* God Sqaud

bring it on

by my belief yes SATAN is a part of "GOD"
and ty I can say you are correct, satan is a part of humanity they dont acknowledge
and again I go to the good and evil theory, if lucifer and the 2 other angels went against god the all knowing being, then how come he didnt know it would happen and let lucifer be an angel of the highest rank in his kingdom? and then send him to hell to be the highest ranking demon, so if god knew all of this doesnt it mean it was his plan to create satan the evil entity?
satan is a part of god just like evil is a part of good and vice versa
then I could safely say god is evil and vice versa

God is a psycho? Well now, that explains EVERYTHING.

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God doesn't have a 'dark side', only light - Satan has only a 'dark side' and will be cast into the 'Lake of Fire' along with those whose names are not found in the 'Book of Life' on judgement day, according to the book of Revelation.

The Satan of the Bible changes drastically from the Old Testament to the New. Satan in the OT was an agent of God. His job was to tempt/trick humans into doing evil, in order to bring about God's higher plan. If you read references to Satan in the OT, you can see he's clearly doing God's bidding when he acts as an adversary to humans. It was not until later, by the time Christianity had started spreading, that Satan was seen as a fallen angel who was God's enemy.

Anyway, Satan is a fictional character.

^^^Finally someone who brings that up 1_~

Most believers view him as a separate being form God

*seperate physical being

Satan was a angel in heaven his name as a angel was lucifur he was the most beautiful but he rebelled against God he and one third of the angels God removed them from heaven there new location is circling the earth seeking whom they can devour his pupose now to destroy us and trick us to decieve us to try to make us focus on anything but God. he wants us to focus on problems on hurts on pain on religion but were are to focus on christ our Lord and savior because he alone is the one who died for our sins. The bible says seek the Lord while he may be found the bible also says today is the day of salvation for tomarrow is not promised to anyone. God bless libbie

No...
Satan is most definitely NOT a metaphor for God's "darker side"
God doesn't have a dark side...

Satan was one of God's angels.
He got kicked out of heaven and bound to hell.

Well, since Satan is the creation of Christianity, it seems fair to me that Christians get to define him. Christians tend to define Satan as a separate being - a "fallen" angel who is unimaginably smart, yet so stupid he didn't realize his power was less than god - something even we puny mortals could see.

It's laughable really, but that's what they claim to believe.

I find it interesting that christians justify things by saying that Satan is the evil one, god does no evil, etc, when god is the one sentencing people to eternities of torture in hell. Kind of reminds me of the US's arrangement with certain countries to do their torture for them so they can keep their hands clean, actually.

haha =)

my theory is prooving well

but I geuinly do beleive God and Satan are of the same being.
maybe god has a split personality?and his darkr side maybe he tried to rid of
(when he sent lucifer away) but the darker side kept comming back
thats why lucifer keeps appearing and god wudnt fully destroy him

No his name was not Lucifer, Lucifer is an ancient Roman God. When Diana(Goddess of the hunt) divided her self into two separate beings Lucifer became her lighter half, his very name meaning light barer. He was so beautiful & so vain about his beauty that he was cast out of Olympus & forced to live life as a mortal on earth(still beautiful & still vain).
Satin was just an angel, a rebellious & prideful angel. When God made Adam, he claimed men to be he greatest creation & demanded that all shall bow down to him. Satin, not seeing on how man could possibly be God's greatest creation, refused to bow down. Satin & a rebel band of angels flew down from heaven & unto earth, becoming distorted & monstrous.
When the bible was made the Christians & such sought to demonize the Pagans so vexed & distorted the story to fit theirs.

& as for the Good & Evil theory, both coincide within God & Satin. Satin, though a "fallen Angel"(like I stated, he just flew out) is just a servant to god, testing us, he cannot so anything to men without God's consent. & it takes a pretty malicious heart to cast people that you "love" into eternal touchier. God & Satin are both relatively equal when it comes to evil & not. After all, God made everything, which means he had to of made evil too.

^^ all the above is pure speculation, it didnt come from the bible or any sourse I've ever read (and I've read about a lot about satan (as a whole), god, angels devils etc.) and never have I heard the name SATIN come up anywhere, if your going to inject your own opinions state that it is your and not a written fact.

I think she means satan

ahh I didnt know that about lucifeir then how come laods
of christians call satan lucifier???
who came up with that :S!

I meant Satan, big woop I made a spelling error. No you wont find the story of Lucifer in the bible, he's a ROMAN GOD genius! Do some research, you'll find what I've stated is FACT
As for the bible, you don't want to get me started on that. It's been translated from language to language, & holds many flaws & errors now.

I don't know how they were able to entangle Lucifer & Satan, but they did it to further demonize the occult from what I've researched. I'm assuming since both were cast out from the heavens is how they were able to.

This has turned out to be a good debate bout time lol...
Has anyone actually read the bible it doesn't make any sense at the nest of times..

hello wise crack LUCIFER IS NOT ROMAN
and christians say worship ONE god not a bunch so legally you are W.R.O.N.G
we arent talking about romans we aint talking about greeks, we are talking about christian belief and if in any way roman gods and christ came up in your search then you probably didnt search well enough, as for the spelling mistake you wrote satin 5 times, that is way too many for a mistake...LOL nice try though
as for the bible, I dont think youd be able to tell me something about it that I dont already know, and its not the trouble its been translated so many times, the problem was whoever wrote it was on LSD or was a conspirator...the bible is written by man so it shall contain mans error