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A satan is involved in King David's census and Christian teachings about this satan varies, just as the pre-exilic account of 2 Samuel and the later account of 1 Chronicles present differing perspectives: And again the anger of the L ORD was kindled against Israel, and He moved David against them, saying: 'Go, number Israel and Judah.'
Today, several nontrinitarian denominations also share belief in some form of the pre-existence of Christ, including the Church of God (Seventh-Day) and the Jehovah's Witnesses, the latter group identifying Jesus as the archangel Michael, [21] interpreting John 1:1 by translating with the phrase "a god," rather than "God". [22]
In Luke 22:31, Jesus grants Satan the authority to test Peter and the other apostles. [86] Luke 22:3–6 states that Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus because "Satan entered" him [85] and, in Acts 5:3, Peter describes Satan as "filling" Ananias's heart and causing him to sin. [87] The Gospel of John only uses the name Satan three times. [88]
God resting after creation – Christ depicted as the creator of the world prior to his incarnation as Jesus [1], Byzantine mosaic in Monreale, Sicily.. Pre-existence, premortal existence, beforelife, or life before birth, is the belief that each individual human soul existed before mortal conception, and at some point before birth enters or is placed into the body.
The Book of Moses, included in the LDS standard works canon, references the war in heaven and Satan's origin as a fallen angel of light. [15] The concept of a war in heaven at the end of time became an addendum to the story of Satan's fall at the genesis of time—a narrative which included Satan and a third of all of heaven's angels.
To Christian scholars, demons did not always have to manifest themselves in a visible and possible tangible form, sometimes it was through possession. [citation needed] According to the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke demons could be seen and heard, as well as banished.
Earlier this year a picture re-emerged that showed what Jesus might have looked like as a kid. Detectives took the Turin Shroud, believed to show Jesus' image, and created a photo-fit image from ...
In the 1840s, [citation needed] Joseph Smith stated that the human spirit existed with God before the creation of Earth. Thus, Latter-day Saints believe in a pre-mortal existence , in which people are literally the spirit children of God, though Smith is explicitly quoted in the King Follett Sermon as saying that "God never had the power to ...