The question of identity regarding God and the Devil has been an ongoing dilemma for religious philosophers. No true identity can be formed due to the lack of undeniable evidence surrounding the figures. In addition, it has always been difficult to relate either characters to tangible or worldly matter; seeing how both are non-perceivable and equivocal figments in our minds. A start is to relate these supernatural beings to each other. The abilities of each are in contrast; God can create but not control, whereas, the Devil can control but not create. Creation is the act of making new matter, whereas the act of controlling is forcing matter to act based on the wishes of the controller.
One of God’s monikers is “The Creator”. He made the universe in seven days, brought a huge flood upon the Earth and rained fire and sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah. Killing through massive disaster was the only option for God, because he couldn’t control the people and make them benevolent. He didn’t have the power. If God had the power, then he would have acted accordingly. God doesn’t like to kill his people, despite him being quick to kill. He wants humans to be fruitful and multiply, he doesn’t want to destroy them. It is irrational to believe that a creator would want his creations to die. In the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, God even gives the town a chance to redeem themselves, but the town fails.
God has another moment of mass creation during Exodus. He creates ten plagues, one after the other. The first was blood, then God sends different animals and plagues to destroy the Egyptian society. It should be noted that God doesn’t control the plagues, in the sense that he hypnotizes and forces people or animals to act according to his will...
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...if the Devil interferes. The importance of this realization comes through the question who is Jesus?
Jesus was created by God and deemed to be his son. He preached Jewish reform to all who would listen. In addition, he was known to heal the sick and cast away evil demons. Jesus was always able to control, but not create. He didn’t create any defense for himself when he was about to be killed, but he did make a martyr of himself. The death of Jesus creates a completely separate religion from Judaism. This split God’s people into two different sections. Later, one began persecuting the other, and in some places, hasn’t stopped to this day. This is not the outcome that God would’ve wanted.
The really crazy thing though, is that Jesus always wanted to be a servant to the human race, he was the son of man, and in the biblical sense, son is a lower status than father.
In Popol Vuh, the gods destroyed one of their own creations, the creation of wood people: “Then came the end of the effigies carved of wood, for they were ruined, crushed, and killed. A flood was planned by Heart of Sky that came down upon the heads of the effigies carved of wood. The body of man had been carved of tz'ite wood by the Framer and the Shaper” (Popol Vuh 121-124). In Genesis, Yahweh also decided to destroy his own creation, the creation of man: “And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and
The Devil and Daniel Webster Movie In the movie and the short story, "The Devil and Daniel Webster", written by Stephen Vincent Benet, there is illustrated the battle between the forces of good and evil. Although the story allows the reader to mentally picture the scenes and the movie does the depicting for the viewer, there are several similarities in each script. Some of these similarities are the way the characters are depicted and the final scene. There are several incongruous scenes between the short story and the way the movie unfolds. The differences are the amount of time that is spent on the character development, also there are some scenes added into the movie such as the harvest dance and the reminder of the contract. There are three main characters in this short story/movie. They are Scratch, Daniel Webster, and Jabez Stone. The actors picked for the roles fit almost perfectly to the descriptions of the characters in the short story. Scratch is described as a " soft-spoken, dark-dressed stranger…white teeth...were filed to a point". As shown in the movie the actor was also a very darkly clad man. He also had a very soft, hypnotic voice and whenever he smiled his teeth were very shiny and pointy. The man described as "the biggest man in the country…when he stood up to speak, stars and stripes came right out of the sky…and when he argued a case, he could turn on the harps of the blessed and the shaking of the earth unde...
The play "The Devil and Daniel Webster" was written by Stephen Vincent Benét in 1938. Stephen Vincent Benét was born in 1898 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. His education came from Yale University and the Sorbonne in Paris, France. "The Devil and Daniel Webster" has a wide array of characters, each with a distinguished personality, yet an overall temperment that would be fitting of a New England community. The main character is Jabez Stone, a wealthy New England statesman whose possition was the state senator of New Hampshire. He had started out as a farmer though, but moved up in life and, when he was about thirty years of age, married the fair woman, Mary Stone- who was in her early twenties.
This document gives a history into the image of Satan and a light anthology of him. This text will instrumental in the metaphysical discernment of this essay.
How could a loving God command the killing of the Canaanites? In order to be able to answer this question there are certain causes that need to be considered and that are very important to take into consideration. Let’s look at the situation from God’s point of view in the matter of the destruction of the Canaanite race. Most of my evidence will be found within the Bible and historical record.
The word ‘devil’ comes from the Greek word ‘diabolos’ which is the spirit or power of evil. The devil is found in almost all religions and is thought to
In the nineteenth century, America had recently become a free nation, but had not yet established its own writing style. Romantics and Transcendentalists created American Romanticism, based on imagination, feeling, individualism and nature. Of the Romantic Writers, Washington Irving was one of the most well known and created several Romantic stories such as The Devil and Tom Walker. The Devil and Tom Walker exemplifies several characteristics of American Romanticism, such as: the setting, the supernatural, and emotion rather than reason.
The bible is one of the most will known books in the world (manly because there are a lot of cristons that fell it is necessary to tell as many people as possible). The bible has been translated and printed then and re-translated and re-printed for centuries {from [original langue]}. The bible was all so written about 40 years after the events that it describes. The ferst part of the bible was written by “James, half brother of Jesus” (http://www.carm.org/bible/biblewhen.htm) wrote it in the “40's or 50's” (http://www.carm.org/bible/biblewhen.htm) or Galatians written by Paul in the year 49. With all this it is very likely that something got mixed up in the translation. The bible has mixed signs and inconsistent that proves Satan was the god that was referd to in the bible. Satan set about to deceive everyone and lure them in to sin buy offering false redemptions.
Christians also believe that Jesus died on the cross to repent the sin's of man. On the other hand, Judaism believes that Jesus did not die to repent man's sins. Sins are not repented by Jesus’s death, but by just seeking forgiveness.
When Jesus asked his disciples about what people thought about him, they answered that some considered Jesus to be e prophet, some - John the Baptist. But Jesus wanted his disciples to understand his mission, the reason why God brought him to Earth. That is why it was important for him to make sure that people realize who he is and that his sayings are vital for the whole mankind. Jesus was the Messiah, the anointed one, above all other prophets. He was sent to suffer for the all human beings and the reasons why his suffering was necessary are described in Mark's Gospel 8:27-9:1.
The battle between what is right and wrong is a classic struggle that has existed from the beginning of time. The most honorable people face the crossroad of choosing either the angel’s path or the devil’s; one path leads to an honest yet difficult life while the other is an easy and selfish one. Throughout history, women have been portrayed as the reason of Man’s downfall. The male dominated world has created stereotypes to blame females for their defeats due to ignorance. Leo Tolstoy’s “The Devil” explores the dichotomy of the objectification of women as the angel and the devil.
When people imagine the Devil they picture a horned evil being with flesh as red as blood and has horns coming out of his head. The Devil can be recognized in any shape or form, through the representation of objects, animals, or even a human being. Even though the devil represents any form of life in “Annabelle Creation” he portrays a porcelain doll that does not only look evil but he becomes aggressively possessive. Additionally, the Devil represents a lonely evil ghostly spirit that possesses human beings in “The Conjuring”. Shadows in the dark can also be a representation of the Devil in “Lights Out”.More importantly, the Devil is recognized as a normal man that is dark and evil in “The Man in the Black Suit”. The Devil is the one true evil that
Death was sent form God as a gift not as a punishment for his creation. Death can be a horrible tragedy, but if death was never sent form God then we would live forever. It’s merely a gift from God so that we may sit alongside Jesus in Heaven than dealing with pain, heartache and misery on Earth. In “Everyman”, God states that if people keep on sinning then they would “verily… become much worse than beasts” (line 49). This quote explains that if there was no death in life then sin would devour us. God states that he “must do justice- on every man living without fear” (line 61-62). What God is
The fact that Jesus is tested by the devil reveals that He is also 100% human.