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Although the Book of Genesis never mentions Satan, [30] Christians have traditionally interpreted the serpent in the Garden of Eden as the devil due to Revelation 12:9, [31] which describes the devil as "that ancient serpent called the Devil, or Satan, the one deceiving the whole world; was thrown down to the earth with all his angels."
Among them, the angels are created from the light of fire, the jinn from a blaze of fire, and the devils from the smoke of fire. Satan is counted among these animals. They inhabited the earth before mankind. [41] The German orientalist Almut Wieland-Karimi classified the Jinn in the ten most common categories mentioned in folklore literature: [42]
For some thinkers, the existence of evil and hell could mean that God is not perfectly good and powerful or that there is no God at all. [62] Theodicy tries to address this dilemma by reconciling an all-knowing, all-powerful, and omnibenevolent God with the existence of evil and suffering, outlining the possibility that God and evil can coexist.
Probatio diabolica (Latin for "devil's proof" or "diabolical proof") is a legal requirement to achieve an impossible proof.Where a legal system would appear to require an impossible proof, the remedies are reversing the burden of proof, or giving additional rights to the individual facing the probatio diabolica.
The Sumerian afterlife was a dark, dreary cavern located deep below the ground, [25] where inhabitants were believed to continue "a shadowy version of life on earth". [25] This bleak domain was known as Kur, [26]: 114 and was believed to be ruled by the goddess Ereshkigal.
In other words, signs of alien life may have been erased on Earth because of stuff like erosion and plate tectonics. However, Wright says proof may still be found under the surfaces of Mars and ...
The rabbis usually interpreted the word satan lacking the article ha-as it is used in the Tanakh as referring strictly to human adversaries. [56] Nonetheless, the word satan has occasionally been metaphorically applied to evil influences, [57] such as the Jewish exegesis of the yetzer hara ("evil inclination") mentioned in Genesis 6:5.
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