Does Satan have a body?

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Is Satan only a spirit, or does he have some sort of body?

From current understanding of scripture, and from the visible world around us, it appears that he only has a spirit body at this point in time! Is this true?

According to Revelation, he embodies just one person in the last 7 years of prophecy, but is he the only one? Are there more?

This post is to further explore the concept of the physical nature of Satan.

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Spirits appearing in the bible

I recall that Jesus, after his resurrection, had a visible body that could go through a wall into the next room. Thomas could touch him. So, he had a body, but it was made of a different substance, or matter, than normal flesh and blood.

He then disappeared at will. He was not just a vision. Also, there are bible accounts of angels just appearing out of nowhere.

The bible states the devil “came” to Jesus and tempted him in the desert. Was it just a voice, or did he physically show up? If so, then where did the body come from?

Maybe it is possible that Satan has a “spirit” body. In modern times, and throughout historical literature, he, or one of his fallen angels, has also been said to just appear to people, from out of nowhere. Sometimes, it was as an evil entity, but many times as an angel of light.

How one could either appear, or disappear, may be a function of a higher law of physics that most, or nearly all, of us do not understand. Appearing at will makes the body seen to our eyes, and disappearing is also a function of the will.

Or sometimes, it is not at will, since Philip was caught up after he baptized the converted eunuch.

Act 8:39 And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way rejoicing.

Maybe going through walls can also mean going through bodies, to possess them. Instead of just an evil “spirit” possessing someone, maybe there is more “matter” involved, that accompanies the spirit portion.

If so, maybe this is what causes unnatural disease (natural disease would be due to the body breaking down with injury or age, etc). The unnatural matter would not be recognized by the “self” recognition system of the body, and it would react against it, producing different immune responses to get rid of it.

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Garden of Eden – My first thought was that Satan was only a spirit, because it seemed that he had to use the body of a serpent ( נחש – nachash ) to communicate with Eve. But, maybe he did not possess the snake, but maybe he just WAS the snake. Was he a special species or category of snake like creatures? If Satan did have a body like a serpent, what did it look like?

Archeologists have found evidence of a legged serpent in the phylogeny of snake fossils. Prior to the fall, the serpent was either a quadruped or a bi-ped. The najash (note the similarity to the Hebrew word nachash) was found to have legs. So it was a legged serpent that spoke to Eve.

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Below is a picture of a snake fossil, Najash rionegrina. The red dot marks the femur coming from the hip region. It has a sacrum! It has a pelvic girdle! It has hind limbs, with femora, fibulae, and tibiae! It’s a definitive snake with legs, and it’s the oldest snake yet found.

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Scientists consider this a “transitional” form for evolutionary evidence. Scientists think that the legs just “fell off” due to disuse. Why would a creature stop using their legs? This does not seem credible or logical. If true, why didn’t other “lazy” creatures lose their legs also? The science view makes no sense.

Since they also admit this is the oldest snake fossil found, is it possible that Satan, in ancient times, was the father of “serpents?” It seems like all snakes carry this curse to this day. Why would they all carry this curse, unless they were somehow related to the original one?

Long before man and his science, the Bible clearly describes the serpent’s punishment: being forced to crawl on its belly, forever afterwards. The curse from God turned the snake from a walking creature, into a slithering one.

Gen 3:14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou [art] cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shall thou go, and dust shall thou eat all the days of thy life:

*** I do not condemn the little snake animals that got his curse. Natural snakes would have obvious physical differences from a supernatural being, if they were originally separate groups.

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See this post on Quetzalcoatl, an ancient god who had a body of a snake, with “feathers.”

Click here for more

Maybe Quetzalcoatl’s “feathers” were angel wings. I have been told by someone who used to be on the dark side that devils can appear in bodies to people. So, is this an illusion, or a revealing of something, transferred from dimension to another, by a subtle physiological change, or conscious change of matter?

I believe Quetzalcoatl is Lucifer, or Satan.

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Do Satan and his fallen angels have bodies?

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The Book of Enoch also describes these “angels” as gods, or Watchers. (106.5-6, section 10). Enoch also says they could appear like men when they wished, (17.1), but even so, he never seems to “doubt their divinity (ie. supernatural origin)”.

In Enoch 8.3, Amezarak taught all those who cast spells and cut roots, Armaros the release of spells, and Baraqiel astrologers, and Kokabiel portents, and Tamiel taught astrology, and Asradel taught the path of the Moon. The angels did this in person.

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King of Tyre – Like any region, the kingdom of Tyre had its sequence of kings and rulers. History mentions a few, like Hiram, Abibaal, and Apollinius. However, there is one king/prince of Tyre (seems to describe Lucifer/Satan), that was given in scripture as both

a man, who thinks he is God:

Eze 28:2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord GOD; Because your heart [is] lifted up, and thou have said, I [am] a God, I sit [in] the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou [art] a man, and not God, though thou set your heart as the heart of God:

And a cherub, someone that lived long before Ezekiel in the Garden of Eden:

Eze 28:13 You hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone [was] thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou were created.

Eze 28:14 Thou [art] the anointed cherub that covers; and I have set you [so]: you were upon the holy mountain of God; you hast walked up, and down, in the midst of the stones of fire.

So, this king or prince of TYRE had not only been around during the time of the Garden of Eden, but was still around during the time of Ezechiel. He was part man and part cherub.

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Aliens – fallen angels / demons?

http://www.abduct-anon.com/alien%20types.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_alien

What is the connection between reported alien encounters and fallen angels?   Are the aliens really from someone else, and visiting here, or are they supernatural beings? Whatever they are, they are humanoid, and strange looking to us. Does this give us a clue?

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If Satan, or any spirit, has a body, how is it physically different from man’s?

Man is said to be mind, body, and spirit. Would Satan and the angels have been created in a similar fashion? Are they also body, mind, and spirit?

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Well, the following is just an academic exercise, which follows. I am not saying this is the real answer.

It seems like if God gave man his spirit, then that spirit part is the same. The difference was when God used the soil of the earth to create the body for Adam, the first man. What is in the soil that got into man? That, then, might equal the difference between the two body types (human vs spirit).

References:

http://chemistry.about.com/cs/howthingswork/f/blbodyelements.htm

http://www.seafriends.org.nz/oceano/abund.htm

Most of the human body is made up of water, H2O, with cells consisting of 65-90% water by weight. Therefore, it isn’t surprising that most of a human body’s mass is oxygen (most of space is hydrogen and helium). Carbon, the basic unit for organic molecules, comes in second (very small amount in air or space). 99% of the mass of the human body is made up of just six elements: oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus.

Oxygen (65%)

Carbon (18%)

Hydrogen (10%)

Nitrogen (3%)

Calcium (1.5%)

Phosphorus (1.0%)

Potassium (0.35%)

Sulfur (0.25%)

Sodium (0.15%)

Magnesium (0.05%)

Copper, Zinc, Selenium, Molybdenum, Fluorine, Chlorine, Iodine, Manganese, Cobalt, Iron (0.70%)

Lithium, Strontium, Aluminum, Silicon, Lead, Vanadium, Arsenic, Bromine (trace amounts)

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Space or air is mainly hydrogen and helium gas. There is very little carbon and oxygen in space. Just a funny thought – helium makes balloons rise and float. Spirits can “ascend” into heaven, and float around in the sky.

	space %
H	87
He	12
C	0.03
N	0.008
O	0.06
Ne	0.02
Na	0.0001
Mg	0.0003
Al	0.0002
Si	0.003
P	0.00003
S	0.002
Cl	.
K	7E-06
Ca	0.0001
Fe	0.002

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Make believe scenario: human –> spirit transformation

It would take a human form to undergo chemical combustion to convert into a more “air like form.”

CxHy + (x + y/4))O2 –> xCO2 + (y/2)H2O

Example 1:

CH4 + 2O2 → CO2 + 2H2O

If the body converted its organic component to gas and water (above example), then it would be less “physical,” and more of a vapor.

Example 2:

CH4 + 2O2 + 7.52N2 → CO2 + 2H2O + 7.52N2 + heat (energy release)

Similar reaction above, except that nitrogen is used also, and heat produced.

When Jesus rose from the dead, there would have been some form of spontaneous combustion, and a burst of heat.

If this is true, it would have been a much more sophisticated form than what we are familiar with on earth, which is usually incomplete, and leaves some mess. Also, Jesus was transforming from a dead human to spirit, and not an alive human to spirit.

So the transformation spirit –> human would require the reverse reaction, and would be more “difficult,” as it requires an input of energy. This is called an endothermic reaction.

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The combustion, or conversion to vapor, would NOT have to be 100% complete.  When we think of Jesus after the resurrection, people could touch him, yet he could go through walls.  So he was “solid,” but “not solid.”

The conversion to vapor would be just enough to make his body change, to make it less dense, go through walls, and to appear and disappear, but still be solid enough to be seen and touched. This is just a theory.

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But where would the energy come from?

One thought is that the spirit draws on the energy of humans, animals or other live forms around it. I am just speculating. Jesus only appeared to those who had great faith in him. The faith could be seen as a form of spiritual energy. The energy and faith of the believer opens the spirit to be able to draw Jesus to them.

In the same way, the devil seems to respond to those who have faith in him also. He can also draw on the emotions of people. When people become slaves to their emotions (increase in emotional state), it is like they open a door for him to enter.

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Alternative theory of spirit ↔ mass (human form) conversion = teleportation:

1. Teleportation – quantum entanglement: the disembodied transport of the quantum state of a system and its correlations across space to another system, where system refers to any single or collective particles of matter or energy such as baryons (protons, neutrons, etc.), leptons (electrons, etc.), photons, atoms, ions, etc.

2. Teleportation – exotic: the conveyance of persons or inanimate objects by transport through extra space dimensions or parallel universes.

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So, is the coming Antichrist the devil in human form, and how does he do it?

Energy theory: If so, then the devil will draw on the faith (energy) of others around him, who have built up the energy platform for him to transform into the New World god.

He might then transform from spirit –> human, as a result of their faith. His believers will provide the energy required for an endothermic reaction, inducing CO2, water, and nitrogen, and other elements to refuse into organic form from a vapor, spirit form.

Teleportation – somehow, the devil will just re-embody from a spirit form, or just enter into our world from a different dimension- and just “appear.” Einstein and other physicists believe there are about 10 dimensions, and where we are is just one of them.

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*** Note : the importance of Faith.

If true faith is the energy to call upon the supernatural to become real to us, then we should be careful where we put our faith.

Faith in Satan gives him power, and causes him to manifest.

Faith in God, and the salvation Jesus offers, gives US the power, and causes Him to come dwell with us.   Hallelujah !!!!

So…..Who do you believe in?