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Jesus drives out a demon or unclean spirit, from the 15th-century Très Riches Heures. In English translations of the Bible, unclean spirit is a common rendering [1] of Greek pneuma akatharton (πνεῦμα ἀκάθαρτον; plural pneumata akatharta (πνεύματα ἀκάθαρτα)), which in its single occurrence in the Septuagint translates Hebrew ruaḥ tum'ah (רוּחַ ...
The destroying angel passes through Egypt. [1]In the Hebrew Bible, the destroying angel (Hebrew: מַלְאָך הַמַשְׁחִית, malʾāḵ hamašḥīṯ), also known as mashḥit (מַשְׁחִית mašḥīṯ, 'destroyer'; plural: מַשְׁחִיתִים, mašḥīṯīm, 'spoilers, ravagers'), is an entity sent out by God on several occasions to deal with numerous peoples.
Jesus solemnly proclaims that he "will send his angels, and they will gather. . . all evil doers, and throw them into the furnace of fire", and that he will pronounce the condemnation: "Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire!" The teaching of the Church affirms the existence of hell and its eternity.
Such sins are described as removal from God's presence. The devil's sin does not give evil a positive value, since evil is, according to Augustinian theodicy, merely a byproduct of creation. The spirits have all been created in the love of God, but the devil valued himself more, thereby abandoning his position for a lower good.
In Islamic thought, evil is considered to be movement away from good, and God created this possibility so that humans are able to recognize good. [43] In contrast, angels are unable to move away from good, therefore angels generally rank lower than humans as they have reached heaven because they lack the ability to perceive the world as humans do.
Genesis 6–7 – The Great Flood; Rampant evil and Nephilim; Genesis 11:1–9 – The confusion of languages at the Tower of Babel; To scatter them over the Earth; Genesis 19:23–29 – Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah; people of no redeeming value; Genesis 38:6–10 – Destruction of Er and Onan; wickedness in the Lord's sight
Psalm 37 is a response to the problem of evil, which the Old Testament often expresses as a question: why do the wicked prosper and the good suffer? In the New American Bible, Revised Edition , published by the Catholic Church in the USA , the psalm answers that this situation is only temporary: God will reverse things, rewarding the good and ...
The Fallen Angel (1847) by Alexandre Cabanel. The most common meaning for Lucifer in English is as a name for the Devil in Christian theology.It appeared in the King James Version of the Bible in Isaiah [1] and before that in the Vulgate (the late-4th-century Latin translation of the Bible), [2] not as the name of a devil but as the Latin word lucifer (uncapitalized), [3] [4] meaning "the ...