Where did satanists get their symbols from in the Bible?

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I have been very curious where satanist got their symbols in the bible to represent satan? Where is it in the bible? Many of these symbols it seems they just invented on their own and have been symbols throughout ages for totally unrelated things.

Peter was crucified upside down with an inverted cross, so how come satanist believe an inverted cross is a satanic symbol?

Where did they get the idea that pentagrams and hexagrams were satanic symbols, where is that in the Bible?

The pentagram mongst the Hebrews, the symbol was ascribed to Truth and to the five books of the Pentateuch. It is sometimes, incorrectly, called the Seal of Solomon.

Early Christians attributed the pentagram to the Five Wounds of Christ and from then until medieval times, it was a lesser-used Christian symbol.

What about this Baphomet or goat head inside a pentagram? Where is this in bible?

Star and Cresant?

I mean many symbols seem to have come from past cultures and beliefs and have absolutely nothing to do with the bible.
 
I’m no scholar on the subject but I have a few ideas that may help you understand.

Symbols like words are maleable and transitory. Many symbols used in the bible are borrowed from the surrounding cultures. This isn’t to say they symbolize the same thing but were adapted to a concept that either developed or involved in some way the original concept originally attached to the symbol.

In Moses’ time the cultures that surrounded the Hebrews were polytheistic and their gods were symbolized by heavenly bodies such as stars the moon and sun etc. Moses incorporated those symbols in Genesis as creations of the Hebrew God of all creation. The most powerfull symbol for time was the dragon and a dragon swallowing it’s tail symbolized the cyclic nature of time. The end of an age ( the tail) is marked when the beginning re-emerges( the head) and swallows it up in the new age.
Moses used that symbology to express the concept of eternity as revealed to him by the great 'I Am" The serpents head no longer swallows it’s tail because it has anthropamorphised and become a heel that will mark the end of the age by crushing it.

The star of David can be christianized into an ascending and descending triangle that converge to symbolize Christ. Many symbols within converted pagan cultures were easily pointed towards Christ. Rather than abandoning the symbols of a people the Church having a love for Truth accepted it wherever it was found and in the measure pagan symbols pointed at Truth they found their true object in Christ.

Anyone that wants to make certain concepts a foundation to organize people around can do the same thing.

Satanists at least the Christ hating variety, tend to imitate anything Christian and twist it to fit their own anti-christ concepts in that way making their symbology fit their beliefs and at the same time obviously anti-christ. The cross isn’t really upside down but has the horizontal cross beam towards the bottom of the verticle beam where it intersects at the genitals to symbolize the rule of the lower faculties and the powers of nature as their source of spiritual fulfillment. As Christians we find fulfillment in the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the higher faculties that seperate us from the beasts that are fittingly symbolized by the horizontal beam at the top intersecting the verticle beam where the heart would be.

A pagan god of winter or death was half human half goat. The serpent as possessor of the power of death is also symbolized by a goats headand then grafted into symbols used by ancient divining cults of which the pentagram is one.

Hope I wasn’t too long with this explanation and also hope it helped .
 
I don’t have a very in-depth answer to your question, Sublime Prince, but as far as I know Satanic worship can involve anything which makes a mockery of God. God and Satan are almost exact opposites, and to give the most fitting praise to Satan they up-turn and abuse the most perfect praise of God. I don’t think that an inverted cross is a Satanic symbol because Peter was crucified upside-down. I think the tradition is that Peter wanted to suffer in this way as he didn’t feel worthy of dying in the same way as Christ. The symbol of an inverted cross is making a mockery of the cross on Calvary - an image which symbolises man’s redemption, Christ’s death and subsequent resurrection. To disrespect this image which is central in the journey of man’s reconciliation with God is pleasing to Satan.

In relation to the pentagram - in Judeo-Christian terms it can represent the Pentateuch or the wounds of Christ. However, I understand it’s not simply the pentagram which is Satanic - it is an inverted pentagram which is associated with Satan-worship. Again, this mocks the Christian symbolism by turning it upside-down. The inverted pentagram is also associated with the goat head because the head (with horns) sits inside the outline of an inverted pentagram. So, in a way the inverted pentagram itself represents Satan because of its association with the goat head and the image of the goat is associated with Satan (depictions of Satan often show him as a horned figure with cloven feet- like a goat).

Hope this helps a bit!
 
Ancient near-eastern gods that demanded human sacrifice sometimes had the horns of bulls and the tails of serpents, to symbolize strength and intelligence (serpents were seen as intelligent for their swift movement and ability to hide as well as moult). They were sometimes depicted as red to symbolize strength, as well. Christians used the images of those gods as a symbol of what we don’t stand for, to contrast with our God, to show the difference.
Inverting Christian symbols is just a simple, unimaginative way to show rejection of Christian values.
 
Many believe Satanism is the worship of Lucifer although that would be Luciferianism. Satanism is the worship of self for what is more insulting to God then the creation worshiping another creation? The creation worshiping it self! So many Christian symbols are converted or contorted to pollute there meanings and used in Satanism. It is a common belief that as Christianity spread through out the many regions of the world, many symbols which once represented pagan gods were now converted (purified) to represent similar Christian meanings. The hard truth is one can draw a straight line on a piece of paper and say it represents God and Gods straight and narrow path he has set for us and a pagan walk up and say it represents the two parts of his self the mental and physical psyche or the upper and lower half’s. A symbol is nothing until you give it meaning all Christian symbols have some root in pagan symbol even the cross which is much like a Star (most commonly nautical stars) and an Ankh (a sun rising on water) both show a celestial body and all represent eternal life to there respective religion. Or take for example the all seeing eye of God a.k.a. the omnipotent eye/eye of precedence, which mostly gained speed during the early renaissance period. It goes back to ancient Egypt with the Eye of Horus later the Eye of Ra. All representing the fact that there god had the ability to see everything. The moral is symbols only have the power you give it. Until someone gives it power by giving it a meaning it’s just a geometrical shape scribbled in the sand or a doodle on the wall.
 
Peter was crucified upside down with an inverted cross, so how come satanist believe an inverted cross is a satanic symbol?

This is an exact example of ‘inversion’ used to refer to the enemy of the biblical god. One thing to remember, however, is that there is little or no evidence of ‘satanism’ in the early christian, or even medieval times. There’s plenty of evidence of occultism, and some evidence of pre-Christian religious survivals, which the christians would have seen as demonic, but functionally no evidence for the sort of inverse christianity that we see in the ‘black mass’. That stuff starts much later - say in the 1600s. By that time the romantic idea of rebellion against a corrupt church was well-established, and inverting the church’s symbols was starting to have that thrill…

Where did they get the idea that pentagrams and hexagrams were satanic symbols, where is that in the Bible?

Strange stories for these, that brush up against the long history of Christian occult practices. The pentagram, as several have said, has always been a symbol of divine power. Even before christianity the mathematical angles of the lines of the pentagram were considered holy by pythagoreans. Because of that holiness the pentagram was used by magicians who sought to summon demons, because in medieval magic only the power of God allowed magicians to successfully summon and control the fallen.

Once the symbols (and the hexagram is more or less the same story, only more jewish) had appeared in the banned books of sorcery, they became connected with ‘the occult’. The writer who really nailed that together was named Eliphas Levi (Alfonse Louis Constant, a failed roman cleric, later socialist and occultist). He sort of reinvented occultism in the middle 19th century, and he made a big deal of the pentagram, and more or less invented the ‘inverted pentagram’ as a symbol of satanism.

The pentagram mongst the Hebrews, the symbol was ascribed to Truth and to the five books of the Pentateuch. It is sometimes, incorrectly, called the Seal of Solomon.

In the so-called “Key of Solomon” a book for summoning spirits under the power of God, the hexagram is called the ‘seal of solomon’ and the pentagram is used in the ‘secret seal of solomon’. The stories vary…

What about this Baphomet or goat head inside a pentagram? Where is this in bible?

Medieval church accounts of satanic witchcraft (which are unsubstantiated by archeology or history) describe a goat being put on a throne to represent the devil, and the biblical verse about ‘sheep and goats’ sort-of sets it up. The baphomet figure was invented by eliphas levi, based on some vague figures in so-called Templar Chapels in Europe.

Star and Cresant?

There is no significant occult content for the star and crescent - I have no idea where christian ‘anti-occult’ preachers get that. Maybe they just can’t tell islam from satanism…

Just some quick notes
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The goats head does originate in scripture. Jesus said that on the last day He would seperate the goats from the sheep. The sheep are His people, and the goats are the wicked people who rejected him.

As far as the other satanic symbols go, I’d guess that occultists through out history are responsible for creating them.
 
**Star and Cresant?

There is no significant occult content for the star and crescent - I have no idea where christian ‘anti-occult’ preachers get that. Maybe they just can’t tell islam from satanism…**

**The star and crescent seem to be more Islamic than Satanic (as far as a religion goes). Some have said that “Allah” was originally a moon goddess in Mecca.

The same emblem or sign can have different meanings in different contexts. For example:

The double-headed eagle, frequently used in imperial Russia and Germany (and maybe Austria) dervies from the Byzantine empire, where it was seen as an emblem of the two natures in Christ. The flag of the Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchate has this symbol with the crossed keys of St. Peter beneath it.

When some people brought it from the Melkite Church to a pro-life rally, one dear soul who knew nothing about this was scandalized. “What is a Masonic flag doing here?”**
 
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