Why satan is better than god

Colossians , 14, 15 6 So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him. Ephesians , 20 19 speaking to one another with psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit.

Ephesians 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Philippians 7 But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. Galatians 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control.

Romans , 39 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Hebrews 25 not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching. Share Twit Share Email. Home Other Sciences Other. August 18, Citation : What the Devil? This document is subject to copyright.

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Now, a documentary threatens to rehabilitate Satan. Directed by Penny Lane, Hail Satan? Based in Salem, Massachusetts where else? As such, it has been claiming the same rights and privileges as those obtained by evangelical Christian groups — albeit with a prankster sensibility. Where the city council of Phoenix, Arizona, began its meetings with a Christian prayer, for example, the Satanic Temple demanded that satanic prayers should also be said.

The council chose to drop the prayers altogether. And when the Oklahoma state capitol permitted the installation of a Ten Commandments sculpture in its grounds, the Satanic Temple campaigned to erect its own 8ft-high statue of Baphomet, the goat-headed, cloven-hoofed deity. Greaves is exactly what you would expect the earthly ambassador of Satan to look like.

Pale-skinned, well-groomed and dressed entirely in black, and with one clouded eye, he could have walked off the set of a teen vampire series. Modern conservative Christianity still views magical practices along with a range of popular occult practices — tea leaf reading, horoscopes, seances, tarot cards, and ouija boards — as dangerous dabbling with the Devil. Read more: Is God good?

In the shadow of mass disaster, great minds have argued the toss. The Devil has been imagined and pictured in many forms. In the television series Lucifer he is a handsome, well-built man. Poet and painter William Blake depicted the devil as a chiselled Greek god. In the medieval period, however, because he dwelt on the boundaries between the human and the bestial, he was often depicted in animal form. He was often imagined as goat-like and depicted with animal features: cloven hooves, talons, horns, tail, webbed hands.

In demonological literature he was portrayed as a spiritual being without any bodily form. A master of illusion, he was a shape shifter. It was believed he could change gender and assume a male incubus or a female body succubus. As a spiritual being, the Devil was unable to create children. But he could assume a female form, steal semen from a man and then, in a male form, deposit it in a woman. According to that most famous of all the Demonologies, Malleus Maleficarum , the pleasure to be gained by a woman from sex with the Devil was equivalent or better to that with a man.

But the Devil and his angels gained no such pleasure.