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Please address what she said and do not try to belittle or attack a person. What Exactly do you not agree with and why?
If the Satan is an Angel, then he would have to be immortal. However, if the adversary is simply those who oppose God and mankind like Daniel says: The author presents the alien enemies, rulers of the Persian, Medean, and Hellenistic empires, in traditional visionary imagery, as monstrous beasts. Consequently, he never speaks of Satan, Sernihazah, Azazel, Mastema, Belial, or fallen angels of any kind. Although there are no devils in Daniel's world. there are angels, and there are enemies.
Peter was straying away from what he had been taught and Jesus admonishes him to return back to the way he was taught and obey God not men. Mt 16:23 But he turned around and said unto Peter, Get back behind me, adversary: you are a hammer to me: because you think not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.
What and who are the devils? Ps 22:13 They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
Elaine pagel is not born of CHRIST's SPIRIT
so that the concept of Satan as a distinct being was not then known. JewishEncyclopedia.com
The book' of Job, too, describes the satan as a supernatural messenger, a member of God's royal court: But while Balaam's satan protects him frcim harm, Job's satan takes a more adversarial role. Here the Lord himself admits that the satan incited him to act against Job. (2:3 )..The story begins where the Satan appears as an angel, a "son of.God"-(ben'elohim), a term that,.in Hebrew idiom, often means "one Of the divine beings." Here this angel; the satan, comes with 'the rest of the heavenly. Host; on the day. appointed for them to "present themselves before the Lord.” When the Lord asks whence he Comes, the satan answers, "From roaming on the earth, and walking up and down, on it."-Here the., storyteller plays on the similarity between the' sound of the Hebrew satan and shut, the Hebrew word "to roam;" Suggesting that the satan's special role,in the heavenly court is that of a kind of roving intelligence agent, like those whom many Jews of the time would have known—and detested—from the king of Persia's elaborate system of secret police and intelligence officers`. Known is "the king's eye" or "the king's,ear," those agents roamed the empire looking for signs of disloyalty among the people.,
Job was written around (550 B.C.E.) THE ORIGIN OF SATAN Copyright 1995 by Eileen Pagels and scanned from MY Book.
Daniel is grieved by the works of menso that the concept of Satan as a distinct being was not then known. JewishEncyclopedia.com
The author of Daniel envisions no sectarian enemy, either human or divine. Grieved as he is at Israel's sins, he never condemns man'', Much less the majority, of his people as apostate; Consequently, he never speaks of Satan, Sernihazah, Azazel, Mastema, Belial, or fallen angels of any kind.
.Although there are no devils in Daniel's world. there are angels, and there are enemies. The author presents the alien enemies, rulers of the Persian, Medean, and Hellenistic empires. THE ORIGIN OF SATAN Copyright 1995 by Eileen Pagels and scanned from MY Book.
The book' of Job, too, describes the satan as a supernatural messenger, a member of God's royal court: But while Balaam's satan protects him frcim harm, Job's satan takes a more adversarial role. Here the Lord himself admits that the satan incited him to act against Job. (2:3 )..The story begins where the Satan appears as an angel, a "son of.God"-(ben'elohim), a term that,.in Hebrew idiom, often means "one Of the divine beings." Here this angel; the satan, comes with 'the rest of the heavenly. Host; on the day. appointed for them to "present themselves before the Lord.” When the Lord asks whence he Comes, the satan answers, "From roaming on the earth, and walking up and down, on it."-Here the., storyteller plays on the similarity between the' sound of the Hebrew satan and shut, the Hebrew word "to roam;" Suggesting that the satan's special role,in the heavenly court is that of a kind of roving intelligence agent, like those whom many Jews of the time would have known—and detested—from the king of Persia's elaborate system of secret police and intelligence officers`. Known is "the king's eye" or "the king's,ear," those agents roamed the empire looking for signs of disloyalty among the people.,
God boasts to the satan about one of his most loyal subjects: `Have you considered my servant Job, that there is no one like, him on earth, a blessed and upright-man, who fears God and turns away from evil?", The, satan then challenges the Lord to put Job to the test
Then Job addresses them and says: Job_19:21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
Job 2:10 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
What then do you not agree with? How about John?
How about the JewishEncyclopedia.com SATAN – ...likewise used to denote an antagonist who puts obstacles in the way, as in Num. xxii. 32, where the angel of God is described as opposing Balaam in the guise of a satan or adversary; so that the concept of Satan as a ...distinct being was not then known.
