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Where good and evil become two gods of equal importance

noreply@blogger.com (melati) — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 11:50:00 +0000

The words of the devil, Satan, Lucifer, Devil, Beelzebub, Belial, Mephistopheles ... are often used as synonyms. Other names of the devil or Satan, the prince of this world, the prince of darkness, the devil, "the Bad", the "tempter", the chief of demons, the Lord of hell... In Islam, the devil is called Iblis or Chaytan.

Some considerations and supplements of course, atheists have no more reason to believe in the devil than God. The Devil and the "Good God" The coexistence, even peacefully, and to God Almighty called "Good" with evil (Evil), personified in Satan, does pose some problems of consistency in Christian theology.

To avoid making Christianity a dualistic religion where good and evil become two gods of equal importance, the Church declared at the Lateran Council in 1215: "the devil and other demons were created by God good by nature but it is they who have made themselves ill. " Clever way to release God. This is a weakness of Christian theology and his "God". Let God Almighty can no longer control his creatures, or it does nothing. Impotent or perverse choice.

Symbolic of Satan for some psychologists, Satan represents man himself and everything it contains as perversions can lead to destruction. It is also the symbol of imaginative exaltation, the principle of evil that man would in itself the most "pernicious" as "imaginative exaltation" vis-à-vis self, c that is to say, the vanity.

The serpent of Genesis symbolize the subtle desire rising from the unconscious. Seduced by the idea of becoming equal to God, Adam and Eve exalt each other. The serpent of temptation creeps in when the crack opened by the imagination.

Satan and young The many young people attracted by the concept of Satan, or even Satanism, really believe that this person exists? Would it not rather a form of rebellion against authority whatsoever against the harshness of reality, against the complexity of a society in which they appear difficult to fit.

Living in families and often exploded in a world losing its bearings, adolescents may be subconsciously tempted to look into Satanism coaching structure and that reassures them.

Devil, Satan, and Lucifer

noreply@blogger.com (melati) — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:32:00 +0000

Some definitions of Devil him self

Devil: (from Latin "diabolus, and the Greek" diabolos "slanderer) The devil is in the Christian religion the spirit of evil, the evil genius. In theology, he is a fallen angel who opposes God. Since medieval iconography, the devil is the supreme leader of demons. It is therefore represented as a human monster, clawed at the terrifying figure, with long pointed ears, horns, a woman's breasts, legs and cloven a long tail. Able to take attractive appearances, he tries to bribe the man and dragged into sin.

Satan (Hebrew "haschatan" opponent). Satan, who appears often in the Bible, is the head of the angels who rebelled in Genesis, thus becoming demons. It was he who tempted Eve in Eden in the form of a snake or tempts Jesus in the Gospels. He lends the ability to change appearance to better win. Satan is represented as different traits, snake, half-man half-goat (inspired by the god Pan), dragon, Leviathan. He attributed the presidency of the Sabbath of witches.
Satan is honored as an adversary of God and the Church in worship called Satanism.

Lucifer (from the Latin "lux" light and "ferre" carry, literally, "light bearer"). As God Latin, Lucifer was the light bearer, the spirit of the air and personified knowledge. The term "bearer of light" was also used during the first centuries AD to describe Christ. Only High Middle Ages that the name Lucifer has been used to refer to Satan. In the Vulgate (the first translation of the Bible into Latin by St. Jerome), it is the transcription of the word in Hebrew Heylel "morning star" (Venus). Lucifer was the most beautiful of angels, head of the heavenly host. By pride and greed of power, he wanted to become like God and rebelled against him. Expelled from heaven and sent to hell, he became Satan, the leader of demons.

His rebellion is regarded by Gnostics as the research knowledge that God wanted to hide from men. Bearer of light, it would be for the Lucifer cults, more powerful than God, just Demiurge (Luciferianism). Not to be confused with Lucifer, Bishop of Cagliari, to 370, which caused a schism (Luciferian) by his tough attitude bishops supporters of Arianism.