If Judaism believes in Satan, why doesn't she believe in hell? After all, Satan...

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...presides hell.? In the old testament that is adopted from the Hebrew bible. The garden of Eden and many more.
 
If all those stories are true, then how would Satan reside in hell? It's a place created to torture him, so if he's being tortured in hell how would he be roaming about our world seeking whom he may devour?
 
first of all satan is god's hardman in the old testament and under his control, nothing like the demigod of evil in the new testament
 
That belief highlighted on your question is one of the traps that the devil uses to snare many to his way so he can lead as many into the hell fire with him.
(ie. there is no hell; this way people can sit back relax and not worry of a day of accountability, when in fact adopting such a stance is the biggest mistake of our lives accepting this one of the greatest lies ever told)
He (the devil) is just too pig arrogant to admit it; people like yourself have a chance to adopt the correct belief in God and to follow his last prophet to mankind Mohammad(saw) before you pass away so I urge you to come to Islam.
 
Religions don't believe in things, adherents do. I know that difference is too subtle for you but perhaps someday you'll understand.
 
hel was originally a pagan concept, not a jewish one... the satan in the old testament is not recognized as the same one in the new testament by jews, i.e. lucifer isnt the same character as the snake in genesis. lots of things in the old testament are interpreted way differently by jews then by xtians. if you really want to understand the old testament you should talk to jews about it.
They can actually read hebrew and so have access to the correct translation.
 
Satan was NOT present in the Garden of eden- that is a Christian interpretation of the events that has ntohing to do with Judaism.

In Judaism, angels do NOT have free will. this means that an angel is merely a tool used by G-d to produce a specific result. The Hebrew for angel makes this point in that the word "Malach" is also the word for a messenger! In other words- the Torah is pointing out that angels ar entohing more than messengers from G-d carrying out a specific instruction.

Now- if angels have no free will, they cannot rebel. The idea of an angel rebelling against G-d is a completely foreign one in Judaism and in fact is a forbidden one as we see the commandment to "have no other gods before G-d" to mean we cannot elevate any supernatural entity to a point where it would be able to disagree or work against G-d!

So, who is HaSatan in Judaism? The Hebrew word "satan" also means "accusser"- and we talk about "HaSatan" "the accuser" as this descvribes the function of this specific angel- to bring our sins before G-d so we will be judged. We see this explicitly in Iyov (The book of Job)- Hasatan comes and accuses Iyov of not being righteous and asking G-d to test him. The resulting events are a result of G-d testing Iyov- not any actions of HaSatan beyond accussing Iyov!

This view of HaSatan also explains why there is no hell- HaSatan is merely a servant of G-d that accuses us before him- he ha sno power beyond this. Actually, from the Jewish POV stating that staan rules in hell is creating a dualistic belief akin to that in Zoroastianism and Mithraism of a good deity vs an evil adversary- and such a dualistic belief is seen as being forbidden in Judaism
 
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