2025年1月9日 · The Greek word diabolos (from which “devil” is derived), meaning “slanderer,” comes from a verb that means “to hurl” (i.e., accusations). Diabolos was typically used as the Greek equivalent for the Hebrew śāṭān (in the Septuagint version of Job, for example), though it was not uncommon to simply transliterate the word into the ...

2021年4月3日 · As it turns out, we must turn to later writers and theologians to find that Satan. Professor Heidi J. Hornik and Professor Mikeal C. Parsons explain that it was post-Biblical writers who created the apocryphal tale of Jesus descending into Hell, starting with an early church father, Ignatius (c. 50–107 C.E.), who describes the Old Testament prophets as disciples of …

2025年1月21日 · The devil was in the garden of Eden IN SPIRIT tempting our first parents to sin as is evidenced from Genesis 3. He is a fallen angel, he is a spirit: Ephesians 6:10-12 10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. 11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

2023年11月7日 · Discovering gospel meaning or understanding revelations in the Bible has baffled readers for centuries. In this 13th-century mosaic in the cupola of the Baptistry in Florence, a voracious Devil devours sinners.

2024年11月30日 · In addition to the honor and status implied by the value of the gifts of the magi, scholars think that these three were chosen for their special spiritual symbolism about Jesus himself—gold representing his kingship, frankincense a symbol of his priestly role, and myrrh a prefiguring of his death and embalming—an interpretation made popular in the well-known …

2024年11月22日 · In the Bible, so few women are given names that scholars closely parse the meaning of the names of women we do know. Delilah’s name sounds like the Hebrew word for night, laylah, signaling to some that she was a “lady of the night,” although it also has the less loaded meaning “flirtatious” or simply “affectionate.”

2023年7月20日 · Biblical monsters: Demons, Nephilim, Lillith, Ghosts, Sea Monsters, Gorgons, Beelzebul, and accompanying stories in BHD and the BAS Library.

2024年2月3日 · Yet just because the response is free, doesn’t mean it is optional. No, for Christians it is required. And the specific kind of love that Jesus, the author of 1 John, and the apostle Paul have in mind is a holy love, a righteous love, and a merciful love, which we have received from God and now in some measure are returning.

2023年2月8日 · The vowels were taken from at least three other Hebrew words, namely, Adonay (meaning Lord, with the vowels of a-o-ai causing the hybrid name YaHoWaiH, or later shortened to YAHWEH), Eloah (meaning God, with the vowels of e-o-a causing YeHoWaH later Jehovah), and Elohim (meaning Gods, with the vowels of e-o-i causing YeHoWiH, as shown in Strong ...

2024年5月21日 · The proposition for the concept is as follows: The Latins called the Phoenicians as Poeni. The combined letters o and e is joined to pronounce the sound ‘ye’. So the word Poeni can be rewritten as Peyeni or as Payani or as Payan. In Tamil Nadu, the following words ‘payachi paarai’, Peyazhwar, payans, pai (meaning devil) are currently in ...