Who is really the god of this World?

[agorman]

Everytime I read "the god of this World" I think of Gaia, Mother Earth, Shekhinah, etc. Do you think Abrahamic religions due to sexism referred to the femenine/negative/yin side of God as evil and so they gave her the name Satan?

Hinduism has Durga as the Goddess of material nature and Kali (not Goddess Kali) as the evil ruler of this age (although the label "evil" maybe depends on who's talking). Do you think that has to do with Satan?

Moreover I found out the serpent is a symbol of underworld/chthonic/earth divinity. Nothing really evil; just a part of Nature.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

Interesting insights. In some takes of Satanism, Satan is viewed as the Ruler of our innermost Wills. He is most concerned with the realization of individual human destiny and encourages us along a certain path that leads to divinization.

Diane Vera has a nice take on it: Theology of the Church of Azazel

 

[rusra02]

Everytime I read "the god of this World" I think of Gaia, Mother Earth, Shekhinah, etc. Do you think Abrahamic religions due to sexism referred to the femenine/negative/yin side of God as evil and so they gave her the name Satan?

Hinduism has Durga as the Goddess of material nature and Kali (not Goddess Kali) as the evil ruler of this age (although the label "evil" maybe depends on who's talking). Do you think that has to do with Satan?

Moreover I found out the serpent is a symbol of underworld/chthonic/earth divinity. Nothing really evil; just a part of Nature.

Jesus spoke of the ruler of this world, applying the term to Satan. ( John 14:30) Elsewhere, Satan is called "the god of this system of things." (2 Corinthians 4:4)
That truth explains the terrible evils that fill the earth today, IMO. Satan is wicked and merciless, and only interested in himself. And I believe it is as 1 John 5:19 affirms:" the whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one."

 

[agorman]

wicked and merciless, and only interested in himself.

Hey, but those sound like common human characteristics! Especially noticeable in politicians and many successful businessmen. Even in many small kids.

 

[Sha'irullah]

Hey, but those sound like common human characteristics! Especially noticeable in politicians and many successful businessmen. Even in many small kids.

Actually characteristics like ruthless and immoral are found in Yahwehs.

By totaling up the exact number of times Yahweh ha skilled you reach 2,821,364 and if you include the estimated number of people who lived during the time of the floor using historical data you get around 30,821,364 and Satan has killed only 10 roughly.

 

[omnifarious]

Moreover I found out the serpent is a symbol of underworld/chthonic/earth divinity. Nothing really evil; just a part of Nature.

"The LORD said to Moses, "Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and LIVE."


-Numbers 21:8

And sometimes as a symbol for life.

 

[The Sum of Awe]

Actually characteristics like ruthless and immoral are found in Yahwehs.

So it's not exactly wrong to say God made man in his image, except that he wants man not to be as evil as himself?

 

[Robert Alexander]

Whoever chooses to be such and has the mind and will to make it happen. That's the entire point of Satanism