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  1. The word, devil, is bastardized Greek by the early German translators. They were trying to translate and pronounce the Greek word, Diabolous, that in English is Diabolic or Diabolical, which means a deceiver or a liar. There are three words in the KJV Bible, that are purposely not translated into English, and two in the Catholic version. The first word is Satan, which is a Hebrew word, and as a noun it denotes an adversary; as a denominative verb, to oppose or obstruct or be hostile. Satan was not the angels name in Job, as it was written as "ha-satan" in Hebrew that means "the satan," which was the job title that God gave the angel. The angel's name is unknown. In Psalm 109:6, for instance, it suggests the counsel for the prosecution in a court of law. In Matthew 16:22-23, Jesus called Peter a satan (adversary) and a stumbling block, he was not calling him a fallen angel or demon. Mainstream Rabbinical Judaism, that of the Pharisees, has never believed in a fallen angel named Satan. This myth was started by Persian Zoroastrianism and the Greco-Romans. The second word was Devil, which was discussed above. The third word, which only appears once in the KJV, is Lucifer. Lucifer is a Latin word, which means Morning Star, Son of the Morning, Light Bearer, and the planet Venus. It was used several times in the Latin Vulgate, and not once did it equate a fallen angel or a satan. Jesus was called this twice, within the Bible, according to the Catholic Encyclopedia. Venus, or the Morning Star, only comes into view just before sunrise, and disappears with the sun. Those who rose quickly in fame and renown, and died an early death, were called this. Thus, the King of Babylon (see Isaiah 14:4), was called this at Isaiah 14:12, and so was Jesus Christ at Revelation 22:16. The newer Catholic bibles, which are supposedly translations of the Latin Vulgate, replace the word devil with demon, even though the old original Latin bibles, printed in Germany, have devil, and it is said, it is diabolous the original Latin scrolls. If you change these three words with their proper definitions, you will find that the New Testament is actually speaking about something totally different than what you first thought.
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  2. marko a. a. khatwah; I'll guarantee you, that when Styx was in college, he learned this very thing. The myth of Satan controlling the underworld is Greco-Roman. It did not originate in Judaism, though the Essenes did start to believe in it, after the Persians controlled the Levant before the Romans, which was behind the ideology of Enoch. The Greek God, Hades, or the Greco-Roman's Pluton (Pluto), became Satan. This ideology also came from the Persians, via Zoroastrianism, after Alexander the Great conquered the Levant from the Persians. The look of Satan was derived from Pan. It is very simple to look at both the Jewish and Catholic Encyclopedias to learn of the truth, along with several books written by theological scholars on the subject. Below, I quote Dr. Elaine Pagels, PhD, from her book, “The Origin of Satan,” 1995: "In biblical sources, the Hebrew term, “the satan” [ha-satan], describes an adversarial role. It is not the name of a particular character. Although Hebrew storytellers, as early as the sixth century B.C.E., occasionally introduced a supernatural character, whom they called “the satan”; what they meant, was any one of the angels sent by God, for the specific purpose of blocking or obstructing human activity." Pagels PhD in religion (Christianity) is from Harvard, and she teaches it at Princeton. Next, I quote Rabbi Tovia Singer, on the subject of satan: "Although this well-known Christian doctrine has much in common with the pagan Zoroastrian Persian dualism from which it spawned, it is completely alien to the teachings of the Jewish Scriptures. In fact, this Christian notion that [the or a] Satan, in an act of outright defiance, ceased to function as God had intended him to, suggests that God created something imperfect or defective". Next, I quote Rabbi Dr. Raymond Apple: "The word Satan figures in the Hebrew Bible, but not as a proper name. As a noun it denotes an adversary; as a denominative verb, to oppose or obstruct or be hostile. It is sometimes used in a human sense; in Psalm 109:6, for instance, it suggests the counsel for the prosecution in a court of law. "It does not begin to have a superhuman sense until late in the Biblical period; in Zechariah 3 and the Book of Job it is applied to the prosecutor in the heavenly court. But even in this sense, Satan is not a demon. At best, he is one of the celestial beings, but it may be that the word is merely a colorful metaphor and does not imply that there is any actual being with that name. Nor is Satan opposed to God. At worst, he is simply a devil’s advocate drawing God’s attention to things that appear to be wrong. "Kaufmann Kohler’s theory, in his “Jewish Theology”, chapter 31, is that just as the serpent in the creation story “represents the evil inclination which arises in man with his first consciousness of freedom”, so Satan is an allegorical [fictional] figure “representing the evil of the world, both physical and moral”. "In post-Biblical Jewish sources there are very few references to Satan, and those that are found have no dogmatic or authoritative significance. Satan continues to represent the impersonal force of evil; thus, the Tosefta Shabbat advises that one should “not go on a journey with a wicked man, because Satan accompanies him”. In Jewish liturgy the few references to Satan are all impersonal, for instance the evening prayer that God may remove the adversary “from before us and behind us”, and the morning prayer for protection from “the destroying adversary”. "Popular lore has a far stronger notion of Satan deriving from the New Testament. There he not only personifies the spirit of evil but assumes an independent personality hostile to Jesus and to God. As a result, Milton, writing in an age when people regarded Satan as the presiding demon in stark opposition to God, was able, at least in the first two or three books of “Paradise Lost”, to draw a sympathetic picture of Satan and turn him into almost an epic hero. "For Judaism, all this goes much too far." Also, from Dr. Helen Bond: "There's no kind of prince of darkness; somebody who stands in opposites to God. Throughout most of the texts, there's no concept at all of an evil force" Dr. Helen Bond, MTheol PhD, Univ. of Edinburgh, Scotland. Quote from "The History Of The Devil." Last, from Gerald Messandé, in his book, "A History of the Devil": “The framework of the three monotheisms [Essene Judaism, Christianity, and Islam] had been erected. The Devil’s birth certificate was filled out by an Iranian prophet.” Thus, there is no invisible devil who makes man sin (break the ancient laws), it is mans own mind, where man becomes a satan (an adversary to others).
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