Ever prayed for Satan?

lol, why thank you.

I'm curious about the responses too. I know there are a lot of people here are from a lot of different faiths, denominations, spiritual paths, philosophical inclinations... so I hope the responses will be varied and interesting. And flames are always fun...

Having read a little more it seems that Twain was quite interested in Satan's plight;

I have no special regard for Satan; but I can at least claim that I have no prejudice against him. It may even be that I lean a little his way, on account of his not having a fair show. All religions issue Bibles against him, and say the most injurious things about him, but we never hear his side. We have none but the evidence for the prosecution, and yet we have rendered the verdict. To my mind this is irregular. It is un-English. It is un-American; it is French.

The last three words cracked me up!

It is French..omg thats so priceless! LOL

I'll have to find some Twain and read some of it cause it seems like some of his writings would be something I'd enjoy...

Todays a new day (well here anyway) so lets see how this thread goes

Have you seen what someone has put in the tags? Apparently some Christian is so offended by this idea they have had to resort to insulting me... but not in anyway that I can respond. No, they've tagged this discussion with an insult?

How lame (and un-Christian) is that?

Thanks for the response:)

I said on another thread that I find the beliefs of many followers of the Abrahamic faiths to be very simplistic; God good, Devil bad, blame all good on God and blame the Devil for our sins.

That takes an awful lot of praise and blame off us humans.

Interesting, if cryptic, response. Everything has a purpose, you think, in the greater plan?

As in a tapistry we who are the woven threads weaving ourselves in and out do not see the whole picture so we do not always know what is next or what will be the result of our actions... We act with perhaps a plan for our actions...
In some belief systems we choose our own pathways to maximize our learnings here, to have more opportunity to love and to be loved, to work on aspects of the soul that wanted more experiences...
This seems to be in line with the Lakota Oral Tradition that I was taught and also oddly enough with some of the Vedic or Hindu perspectives only they would say that it was our own Karma that created the life.

In the Catholic perspective too, you have the belief that God is all present and that we must work out what we believe in our everyday lives, that there may be a plan but we are partners in the plan's creation.

I believe that there is someone for the want of a better word, a God, a Great Spirit, Om, who sees and knows all...And because that God is the "I Am" God is present always and everywhere... there is no where where God is not present...

I tend to see Satan as a flawed and pitiful creation... one who has limited knowledge and limited understanding and who in the end suffers defeat... He is blamed for so much and yet he does so little... People want to escape their karma, their responsibility for their own actions and they use that one to do it.

There are forces both good and bad here that delight in swinging things in a certain direction but they are unable to do much without willingness either way.
It is best to follow a right pathway and it brings more happiness.

Is this less cryptic?

lol, yes, much less cryptic. I'll see if I can get my teeth into a decent response at some point... when this migraine isn't eating at my skull.

lol, sorry!

Well, we have all the time in the world...

Perhaps they would, twoey, you never know.

And no, the very idea of it never occurred to me either.

The same can be said for an 'sinner' yet people pray for them all the time; pray that they ask for forgiveness, that God turns them towards asking for forgiveness (which negates free will, does it not?).

Exactly, One can not negate free will. You can prey that a 'sinner' repents, but this will not happen untill the person concerned feels a need to repen. The rpoper responce to preying for a siiner would be a preyer asking God to let you be used to show this person that they are worng. Why would someone think they were wrong, if they looked out and saw someone just like them, doing the same things as them, and yet this other person says you must repent.

You don't prey that God changes the other person. You prey for change in yourself so that it will be a guide to the other person.

Excellently put, and yes I agree with you on most points.

However, people do pray that one sinner or another change there ways or ask for forgiveness. I'm more curious about whether or not they have prayed for Satan to be forgiven.

My beliefs on Lucifer, good/evil and the actions of God are pretty much a mute point in this discussion... I'm just curious as to other people's opinions and playing Devil's advocate (no pun intended).

Devils advocate, LOL! He will need a good one,,, One might therfore say that, Satan needs Jesus?

But your question does have marit as we are to "prey for our enamies", What worse enamy do we have than the Advosary. Maybe if all prey for the salvation and changing of Satans heart we can just bypass that whole tribulation period and hell and such? things tha make you say Hummmm...

Okay - so what if everyone on the face of the earth being of spiritual mind and body prayed for satan to free his soul and return to God?

Not praying TO Satan, praying to God FOR Satan.

Von he is asking about preying for the salvation of Satan. Have you ever preyed that God would forgive Satan, or change the heart of Satan. Actualty I kinda lean toward preying to Satan in this case, I mean Why not prey to Satan that he has a change of heart, and that he reconciles himself to God. Why could we not prey to Satan and ask him this?

Genius point agent! If Satan can indeed hear our prayers then why not ask him to ask God for forgiveness and save himself?

Maybe that would just annoy him...

oh ok.. sorry guys i mess up.. yeh that could be possible since our God is benevolent...

Annoy him? I hope it would down right drive him insane!!! Insane enough to cry out to God for mercy!