![]() ![]() As Pagels then shows, the church later turned this satanic indictment against its Roman enemies, declaring that pagans and infidels were also creatures of Satan, and against its own dissenters, calling them heretics and ascribing their heterodox views to satanic influences. Stock No: WW31180 In the Old Testament, Satan is merely the Adversary, a forbidding member of God's retinue. Writing during and just after the Jewish war against Rome, the evangelists invoked Satan to portray their Jewish enemies as God's enemies too. The Origin of Satan By: Elaine Pagels Random House / 1995 / Paperback Write a Review Expected to ship on or about 05/18/23. ![]() The second tells of the bitter conflict between the followers of Jesus and their fellow Jews, a conflict in which the writers of the four gospels condemned as creatures of Satan those Jews who refused to worship Jesus as the Messiah. The first is the story of Jesus' moral genius: his lessons of love, forgiveness, and redemption. In the story of Balaam, Satan appears as an angel of the Lord put in Balaam’s path to rebuke him for beating his donkey. In The Origin of Satan, Pagels shows that the four Christian gospels tell two very different stories. According to The Origin of Satan written by Elaine Pagels the story of a traveler named Balaam is told in the book of Numbers. ![]() Who is Satan in the New Testament, and what is the evil that he represents? In this groundbreaking book, Elaine Pagels, Princeton's distinguished historian of religion, traces the evolution of Satan from its origins in the Hebrew Bible, where Satan is at first merely obstructive, to the New Testament, where Satan becomes the Prince of Darkness, the bitter enemy of God and man, evil incarnate. ![]()
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