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stone
5th January 2006, 03:47 PM
Someone mentioned in a thread that they heard that it was a jewish teaching that in the story of satans fall, that g-d commanded satan to bow to Adam, because Adam was made superior to the angels? satan refused and to story goes from there.

I said that it doesn't sound like a jewish teaching i've ever heard, someone else said it sounds like a teaching with Islam roots?

Anyone ever hear about this story?
Yovel
5th January 2006, 08:21 PM
That is news to me.
Gwenyfur
6th January 2006, 04:08 AM
:scratch: can't say that I have....
stone
6th January 2006, 09:30 AM
That's kind of what i figured. A person really has to be careful out there about information they receive.
JBond
7th January 2006, 11:39 PM
Yes this is Islamic teaching, not Jewish.
In Jewish teaching Psalm 8 speaks of Adam, him being a little LOWER than the angels and not higher.
Just to help put things into reason.
talmidim
8th January 2006, 03:30 AM
Someone mentioned in a thread that they heard that it was a jewish teaching that in the story of satans fall, that g-d commanded satan to bow to Adam, because Adam was made superior to the angels? satan refused and to story goes from there.

I said that it doesn't sound like a jewish teaching i've ever heard, someone else said it sounds like a teaching with Islam roots?

Anyone ever hear about this story?I heard it was because man was the image and likeness. Y'know, bow before the image of the Almighty, etc. Don't know where though.
mistergarner1
13th January 2006, 09:32 AM
I know that the fall from heaven story is in the book of Revelations. I think that there are some references to it in the book of Isaiah. The worship of Adam story is in the Quaran, not the bible.

Many Christians have misconceptions about HaSatan. According to the book of Job, the Adversary works like a prosecuting attorney. My rabbi described him as a cop, but a bad cop, on the "take".

G-d is completely sovereign over all things in existence. You can never do something that G-d does not permit you to do. Some times you can do things that doesn't WANT you to do, but he still ALLOWS you to do them, because he gives you the chance to make the right decisions, on your own volition.