As savage as a Greek tragedy or an Old Testament revenge-tale, Rocha’s scenario suggests a cosmic stalemate. The same actor dubs the God and Devil. The same Villa-Lobos music is heard when the ...

His latest book, “Satan in the Bible, God’s Minister of Justice ... of this idea in the Book of Wisdom in the Greek Old Testament, which says that death entered the world through the envy of a devil ( ...

[2] The Devil You Know, p. 14. [3] Ibid., p. 15. [4] Ibid., p. 14. [5] For helpful discussions of these issues, see Paul Copan, Is God a Moral Monster?: Making Sense of the Old Testament God ...

But he's still part of God's administration ... Kelly says there is no reference to ‘Satan’ or ‘the Devil’ in the Old Testament and followers of Christianity have simply confused the ...

The sacred author speaks of God planting a garden ... At this stage in the Old Testament, “knowledge” is not theoretical. It is not “book-learning.” It is experience and experiential ...

The Old Testament’s Satan is not the ... but in active collusion with him against God. By this time in European history, the devil no longer sat passively. Taking an active role, Satan is ...

As in the Old Testament, the Father wants us to ... So submit yourselves to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you…Begin to lament ...

had since taken Lapiz’s teaching one step further by saying that the God of the Old Testament was the Devil, Peñamora said. In the theologians’ meeting with Lapiz, he distanced himself from ...

In a sense, God was the first colonist, gifting land to Abraham with the words: “I will make you a great nation and I will bless you.” This vengeful Old Testament God often deployed weapons of ...