Is Satan realy evil?

Saten is portraid as evil by Christans, but is he? Lets look at the scripture.

The Sepint
The Serpint in the Genises is offten considerd to be Satan by many Christans. But the scripture doesn’t really suport this.

2 Samuel 24:1
Only in 2 translation have I seen Satan mention in this verse (21 century King James Version and Young’s Literal Version (“an adversary”,Satan is Hebrew meaning “the adversary” or “the accuser”)) but most translation say “he” implying God said it. In The Message version it says “He tested David by telling him, ‘Go and take a census of Israel and Judah.’”
But whether God or Satan told David to take the census the later punishment for taking the census was done by God who killed at least 70,000. Then later repents, God repented “the LORD repented of the evil,”.

1 Chronicles 21:1
A retelling of the stoy from 2 Samuel 24. In this retelling Satan tempted David. But the result was the same, God killed at least 70,000 people.

Job 1:6-2:3
Well Satan dose show him self to be evil here but not the evil that Christens see him. In these 2 chapters Satan kills Jobs family, takes away everything he has and give him a horrible disease but all with the permission of God. He asks God if he could do those things to him. If fact in this story Satan is more like a manifestation of God doubt than an adversary of God.

Psalm 109:6
Only in the King James Translations and The Massage translation have I found “Satan” in this verse, most say “an accuser” but that can translate as “Satan” however in the context of the chapter Satan the angel dose not make sense, an accuser however would.

Zechariah 3:1-2
Again, different translations say ether “Satan” or “accuser” however even if it is “Satan” than it dose not tell us anything about Satan other than than God saying “I rebuke you!”

Matthew 4
In this chapter Satan or the Devil tempts Jesus. It doesn’t say much about Satan beyond that but in context with Job and the since the word “devil” come from a Greek word that means “slanderer” or accuser” and “Satan” being a Hebrew word that means “accuser” or “adversary” it fits with a pattern that implies that Satan is not an adversary of God but an angel that tempts humans not to take them away from God but to test them.

Matthew 12:26
Here is where it starts to turn Satan from an adversery of man to an adversery of God.

Matthew 13:39
And here it continues it

Matthew 16:23
I don’t know if this was the New Testemint writers changing the role of Satan in the mytholigy or if it represents a common view of Satan by the Jews of the time but it clearly shows that the mytholigy of Satan had evolved from an adversery and accuser of humans to an enamy of God.

Matthew 25:41
This is the first time The devil or Satan is said to have angels of his own.

Mark and Luke pretty much repeat what mathew said about Satan

John mentions “devil” several time but they don’t seem to mean Satan but someone (people) considered evil except John 13:2 “During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him,” which seem to be the first insistence of the manipulating people minds directly.

Acts 5:3
“But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thy heart to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land?” Another insistence of Satan manipulating directly

The rest of the New Testament continues to portray Satan as a demon thats the enemy of God and humans.

Which version of Satan is right? The accuser of man or the adversary of God? Well the adversary of God only works if Satan is equal to God (which would make Satan a god) but the accuser of man role would not work given what the New Testament says. Is there a middle ground? Yes, God created Satan to rebel, to be an accuser of man and adversary of God.

What about the war in heaven? Well its only mentions the war in Revelations 12:7-9 and the whole chapter seems like a bad acid trip (as dose much of Revelations) and it doesn’t really give much information on the war or why it happened or the motivations of Satan. The only thing we get is Satan lost the war and he, a dragon and the angels that fallowed him where cast out of heaven. And the fact that there could be a war in heaven has allot of consequence that Christens do not like and ignore.

But is Satan evil? Well, he did kill Jobs family and ruin his life (until God fixed it) but with Gods permission but God has killed and caused suffering in far more people than Satan. If you actually compare the 2 , Satan turns out to be the lesser evil.

Note: I didn’t add any links to the chapters as a usely do. Thats cause I didn;t feal like doing a bunch of copying and pasting. Just go here. Its got all the versions, its got a search thing.