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Submitted by PaperQueen on December 2, 2005
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Introduction
The modern world has many misconstrued ideas about Satan and his demons that are not in line with Jesus’ teachings in Scripture. Today the world sees Satan in an almost comical way, if they believe in him at all. There is such a lack of belief in anything spiritually supernatural that the idea of demons is less acceptable to today’s society than the idea of ghosts. In Jesus’ time, this was not the case; people were well aware of Satan and his activities. Jesus often had to deal with things of this nature, and addressed the matter several times in Scripture. The difference between what Jesus had to say on the matter and what the world says today is monumental.
Satan plays a major role in many religions, either as an angel, demon or minor god. In Hebrew tradition, God uses the angel Satan to test the piety levels of man. In the Apocrypha and New Testament, Satan is a fallen angel turned evil demon, who is the enemy of both God and mankind. These two portraits of Satan are not mutually exclusive. In all modern Abrahamic religions (and various other mythology), Satan is a supernatural being who is the fundamental personification of evil. In Islamic tradition, the primary demon that tempts Adam and Eve is called Iblis. It was because Iblis refused to prostrate himself before Adam that he was cast from Allah to live on earth among the humans. He vowed he would lure as many humans as he could into sin in order to make them go to Hell, where he was destined after doomsday. He wanted to prove that man was no better than he was.
The most common names for Satan are the Devil, the Prince of Darkness, Beelzebub, Belial, Mephistopheles or Lucifer. The Talmud and the Kabbalah sometimes refer to him as Samael. Most Jewish literature, however, views Samael as a separate angel all together. There is considerable difference of belief as to whether or not any of these beings are actually evil.
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