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The right image is the same sigil in cuneiform from the Joy of Satan Ministries, a recreation of the sigil of Baphomet incorporated with cuneiform lettering instead of Hebrew to spell out "Satan", and made after Maxine Dietrich's reinterpretation of the ideology of spiritual Satanism. Sigillum Dei (Seal of God) Europe, late Middle Ages
[112] [113] For Augustine, the rebellion of Satan was the first and final cause of evil; thus, he rejected earlier teachings about Satan having fallen when the world was already created. [ 114 ] [ 115 ] In his Civitas Dei , he describes two cities ( Civitates ) distinct from and opposed to each other like light and darkness. [ 116 ]
The rabbis usually interpreted the word satan lacking the article ha-as it is used in the Tanakh as referring strictly to human adversaries. [58] Nonetheless, the word satan has occasionally been metaphorically applied to evil influences, [59] such as the Jewish exegesis of the yetzer hara ("evil inclination") mentioned in Genesis 6:5.
Satan is the main character in Normal Bob Smith's satirical Satan's Salvation. In the manga series Blue Exorcist by Kazue Kato, the main character, Rin Okumura, is Satan's son and emits blue flames, a sign of Satan. His twin, Yukio, is also a son of Satan, but does not bear the flames. Lucifer appears in the Saint Seiya anime and manga series.
The Catholic Encyclopedia says that there is only one apparent case of this demonic possession in the Old Testament, of King Saul being tormented by an "evil spirit" (1 Samuel 16:14), but it relies on a reading of the Hebrew word "rûah" as "evil spirit", an interpretation doubted by the Catholic Encyclopedia. [7]
Milton was a Puritan and had never intended for his depiction of Satan to be a sympathetic one. [121] However, in portraying Satan as a victim of his own pride who rebelled against the Judeo-Christian god, Milton humanized him and also allowed him to be interpreted as a rebel against tyranny. [ 122 ]
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In contrast, according to Yair Hoffman, the ancient books of the Hebrew Bible do not show an awareness of the theological problem of evil, and even most later biblical scholars did not touch the question of the problem of evil. [99] In the Bible, all characterizations of evil and suffering assert the view of "a God who is greater than suffering ...