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Piers Anthony in his series Incarnations of Immortality portrays examples of heaven and hell via Death, Fate, Underworld, Nature, War, Time, Good-God, and Evil-Devil. Robert A. Heinlein offers a yin-yang version of hell where there is still some good within; most evident in his 1984 book Job: A Comedy of Justice.
The Devil is paralleled by both of Middle-earth's dark lords, Morgoth and Sauron; Sauron is in turn supported by a range of demonic figures, including the Nazgûl who appear like the Devil as black riders on black horses, the fiery-eyed Balrogs, and the Orcs with their devilish habits and appearance.
The devil as a fallen angel symbolized Adam's fall from God's grace and Satan represented a power within man. [165] Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) used the devil as a metaphor. The devil, Satan and similar figures mentioned throughout the Bible, refer in his work Leviathan to offices or qualities but not individual beings. [176]
Satan, [a] also known as the Devil (cf. a devil), [b] is an entity in Abrahamic religions that seduces humans into sin (or falsehood). In Judaism , Satan is seen as an agent subservient to God , typically regarded as a metaphor for the yetzer hara , or 'evil inclination'.
A devil is the mythical personification of evil as it is conceived in various cultures and religious ... or one of Satan's emissaries or demons that populate Hell, ...
[1] It is Virgil, Dante's guide through Hell, who tells Dante "that the inhabitants of the infernal region are those who have lost the good of intellect; the substance of evil, the loss of humanity, intelligence, good will, and the capacity to love." [4] Satan stands at the center because he is the epitome of Dante's Hell.
The existence and eternity of hell, the demons and the damned being eternally self-punished in hell, the fate of the demons and the damned being immutable because of their refusal to repent of mortal sin and accept God's forgiveness, there being no repentance after the fall of an angel and the death of a person, there being no forgiveness ...
A typical depiction of the Devil in Christian art. The goat, ram, dog and pig are consistently associated with the Devil. Detail of a 16th-century painting by Jacob de Backer in the National Museum, Warsaw. Daeva (Zoroastrianism) Dagon (Semitic mythology) Dajjal (Islamic eschatology) Dantalion (Christian demonology) Danjal (Jewish mythology)