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In Eastern Orthodox theology, the Old Testament title Ancient of Days, signifying God's eternal and uncreated nature, is commonly held to identify the pre-existence of God the Son. Most of the eastern Church Fathers who comment on the passage in Daniel (7:9-10, 13–14) interpreted the elderly figure as a prophetic revelation of the Son before ...
The Devil is not a myth, but a real person. One must react to the Devil, as did Jesus, who replied with the word of God. With the prince of this world one cannot dialogue. Dialogue is necessary among us, it is necessary for peace [...] Dialogue is born from charity, from love.
In Luke 22:31, Jesus grants Satan the authority to test Peter and the other apostles. [88] Luke 22:3–6 states that Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus because "Satan entered" him [87] and, in Acts 5:3, Peter describes Satan as "filling" Ananias's heart and causing him to sin. [89] The Gospel of John only uses the name Satan three times. [90]
According to Gerhard von Rad, Old Testament scholar, Lutheran theologian and University of Heidelberg professor, who applied form criticism as a supplement to the documentary hypothesis of the Hebrew Bible, the snake in the Eden's narrative was more an expedient to represent the impulse to temptation of mankind (that is, disobeying God's law ...
Based on verses like Matthew 16:27 and Romans 6:23 they believe the unsaved do not go to any place of punishment as soon as they die, but are reserved in the grave until the day of judgment after the Second coming of Jesus to be judged, either for eternal life or eternal death. This interpretation is called annihilationism.
Marcion of Sinope (/ ˈ m ɑːr k i ə n,-s i ə n /; Ancient Greek: Μαρκίων [2] [note 1] Σινώπης; c. 85 – c. 160 [3]) was a theologian [4] in early Christianity. [4] [5] Marcion preached that God had sent Jesus Christ, who was distinct from the "vengeful" God who had created the world.
Book 2 has discrepancies with Old Testament saint lifetimes: Enos lived 985 years (2nd Adam and Eve XIV:4 [11]) whereas Genesis says that he lived 905 years (Genesis 5:11). Mahalaleel lived 870 years (2nd Adam and Eve XVI:2 [12]) whereas Genesis says that he lived 895 years (Genesis 5:17).
Origen and other early Christian writers linked the fallen morning star of Isaiah 14:12 of the Old Testament to Jesus' statement in Luke 10:18 that he "saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven", as well as a passage about the fall of Satan in Revelation 12:8–9. [47]