Did Jesus Deal with the Devil?
I’m no bible expert, so any questions I raise about the bible are always from an outsider, non-expert viewpoint. Having said that, maybe someone can clear something up for me. In the bible, it suggests that the devil tried to tempt Jesus with things like food, power and, important for this article, invincibility. Jesus, obviously, turned him down. Or did he? Later on in the bible Jesus, after being crucified (and killed) comes back to life. Does this mean that Jesus did a deal with the Devil? Was it the Devil, and not God, who allowed Jesus to come back to life?
I’d be interested in what you think about this. It seems as if the Devil made the offer to Jesus and at a later point Jesus exhibited one of the attributes the Devil offered to furnish him with. Like I said, I’m no bible scholar (nor would I want to be) but it seems this is at least a possibility. Just putting it out there.
Not being an expert on the bible myself, I can’t give you chapter and verse on this but it was prophetized that the Massiah (sp.?) would be risen again by God in the old testament. THe devil did indeed tempt Jesus in the desert but Jesus told him to flip off, he had a better offer from dad. I do like your logic but with the prophecy and Jesus’s own prediction I think in this story, God won.
In reality; someone moved the damn body
I think that’s where my reasonable doubt comes from. There were clearly two offers on the table, no one really knows whether he took up the one from Daddy, or the one from the fun uncle.
All I know is, this represents just one of the 100s of questions Christians should be asking themselves before jumping into this whole “believing the bible” thing.
this whole devil - dealing thing is for just one purpose, that is for the redemption of mankind.
Remember that Satan is the “prince of the world,” according to the Bible, and does have certain cababilities- however these aren’t really comparable to God’s, i.e. Jesus, the Father, and the Holy Spirit’s. Recall also that God’s the one who gave Satan power in the first place. No, Satan did not raise Jesus. He was trying to get Jesus to sin, and took advantage of the time Jesus was weakest. At this time he had been fasting 40 days in the desert, and the Bible says “he was hungry.” (-yeah no kidding.) If Satan had a chance to make God fall, it was when he was in human form, and direly weakened. Well, Jesus passed the test. If he hadn’t, there wouldn’t have been any reason for him to have wanted Jesus dead. I don’t think it was in his plans for Jesus to rise again. He wanted Jesus conquered, and remember his ultimate goal is to become God. (That is, be in God’s place.) Also, it was always Jesus who raised the dead by will of his father. He said “I cannot do anything except that which I have been told by my father.” -And according to the Bible, he didn’t. In addition, there are prophesies all over the old testament predicting that Jesus would rise again. It was certainly God who raised him! It might have been an amusing thought, but it simply doesn’t hold when you look at the whole story.