Download or read book Satan Is No Angel and Never Was written by David Moshier and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where did Satan originate? That is a question that many Christians have asked for years. We know the Bible does not seem to answer this question in a direct way. Theories and ideas have been formulated over the ages, and today the most prominent explanation centers around the "fallen angel" story. In an attempt to uncover the truth about the devil, this study will first need to denconstruct the false doctrine by examining every verse used in creating this myth. Then, we may find out that we are asking the wrong question.
Download or read book Heaven and Hell written by Bart D. Ehrman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over half of Americans believe in a literal heaven, in a literal hell. Most people who hold these beliefs are Christian and assume they are the age-old teachings of the Bible. Ehrman shows that eternal rewards and punishments are found nowhere in the Old Testament, and are not what Jesus or his disciples taught. He recounts the long history of the afterlife, ranging from The Epic of Gilgamesh up to the writings of Augustine, focusing especially on the teachings of Jesus and his early followers. Ehrman shows that competing views were intimately connected with the social, cultural, and historical worlds out of which they emerged. -- adapted from jacket
Download or read book Origins of Satan and the Devil written by David Moshier and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 2nd volume of this Christian Bible Study Series, the facts are uncovered, revealing the truth about Satan and the Devil in the scriptures. Each and every verse containing these terms, in both the Old and New Testaments, is examined thoroughly in context here. Many theories have existed that try to explain the origins of Satan, but they are usually based on ideas outside of God's Word. Any search on the internet will show that the "fallen angel" story is the most widely accepted of these. In the first volume, "Satan Is No Angel (And Never Was)", every passage that is used to support this theory was analyzed. All of the flaws were exposed, and it was shown to be a false doctrine. As this study continues, many questions are answered concerning what the Bible really says about the devil.
Download or read book Beyond Thingification written by Markus Watson and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-12 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Thingification will help you get clear on your church's mission and help your church do ministry that really matters. Leading churches is so much harder than it used to be. You used to be able to grow a church simply by starting one. Or by improving the preaching or the music or the children's ministry. That's just not the case anymore. We try to attract people to our churches with new programs. Occasionally it works. Most of the time it doesn't. That's frustrating! And it makes us feel like failures. Eventually, most of us realize that getting our churches to be bigger and better is not God's top priority. We begin to understand that what God really wants is to heal the world. And we want that, too. We want to help our churches bless our communities and restore shalom in the world. The problem is...it's so hard to know how to do that today. In Beyond Thingification: Helping Your Church Engage in God's Mission, Markus Watson: -Describes the historical background that got us to where we are... -Explores the mission to which all of us have been called, and... -Presents a practical way to discern how God is calling your particular church to participate in the healing of the world. As you and your church read Beyond Thingification and implement what Markus Watson terms "Vocational Connection Groups," you will: -Help your church meaningfully engage in God's mission. -Escape the hamster wheel of doing the same old-but now ineffective-ministry programs. Beyond Thingification will help you move: -From confused about the church's purpose...to clear about the church's mission. -From frustrated about your church's ineffectiveness...to excited about what God is doing through your people. -From distracted by meaningless measures of success...to focused on faithfulness as the true measure of success. If you're ready to get clear on how God is calling your church to engage in the mission of God in your unique context, Beyond Thingification will help you do just that.
Download or read book Angels Elect and Evil written by C Fred Dickason and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 1995-10-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are angels like? How many kinds are there? Are mental disorders caused by their influence? Long favored by scholars, this classic has now been rewritten to give us accessible scriptural answers to our questions about the spirit world.
Download or read book The New Answers Book 1 written by Ken Ham and published by New Leaf Publishing Group. This book was released on 2008 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christians live in a culture with more questions than ever - questions that affect one's acceptance of the Bible as authoritative and trustworthy. Now, discover easy-to-understand answers that reach core truths of the Christian faith and apply the biblical worldview to a wide variety of subjects.
Download or read book God s Child Or Satan s Angel written by Adam Schutte and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-06-07 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes, life can be really hard. A lot of times we make our own life difficult with the bad choices we make. Other times we grow up in a bad environment, and never had a chance before we got started. Then there are cases where you do your best and life just deals you a really bad hand. Life is not easy for most of us. I can sympathize because it wasn't easy for me either.The question is... What do we do with the broken messes we call ourselves? Do we give up? Do we use our hard circumstances as a crutch for the rest of our lives to excuse the fact that we will never be happy? Or, do we pick ourselves up out of the dust and fight for our happiness?Maybe your situation is so bad that there will never be a chance to change things around. Well, if I can go through hell and back and end up where I'm at today than anyone can. The reason I wrote this book is to show others the first steps to take who don't think there is a way out. I'm telling my story to help people in the most extreme hopeless situations that even they can find a happy ending to their story. I've always said, "Yeah though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I shall fear no evil", not because I needed a false protection from God, I fear no evil because I was something a whole lot worse.I realize using the phrase, "I went through hell and back", has become a cliché. Well, what if you witness your mother being physically abused daily. While suffering violent beatings yourself on a normal basis you became so pathetically addicted to drugs that you constantly attempt suicide. Due to the overwhelming stress on your body and mind you develop multiple personality disorder. You become a violent sociopath, and survive ten years in prison after escaping constant hits on your life due to the fact that there is a murder contract on your head. Living your whole life breaking anyone's heart who ever cared about you, all the while suffering the deepest emotional torment, and hate ever known to man. In this case I don't see anything cliché about my life's story.This was just the beginning of my life. I could have lay down and died and nobody would have blamed me for giving up. Where you have been in life doesn't define who you are now. Society, people around you, and even your own mind may tell you there is no way you will ever be happy, but if I can beat the odds by overcoming the past then anyone can. My story is proof of that.
Download or read book We Are Gods The Son Of God Said So written by Pablo Solutin and published by Pablo Solutin. This book was released on 2015-11 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book brings to the heart of the reader the verses in the Bible that underscore how God's power works in man, the best-loved creation of God. It explains how these verses can change our life and make the image of God in man work again.
Download or read book The Satan Series written by David Moshier and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-16 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This printed version contains all three volumes in a complete Bible study of the false doctrines about Satan, Devils and Demons. The first volume, titled "Satan Is No Angel (And Never Was)" deconstructs this popular idea, in a thorough study of God's Word. The 2nd volume digs deeper into every single occurrence of the word satan or devil. And, the third and final volume investigates the demons of the Bible.
Download or read book The Satan written by Ryan E. Stokes and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people today think of Satan as a little red demon with a pointy tail and a pitchfork—but this vision of the devil developed over many centuries and would be foreign to the writers of the Old Testament, where this figure makes his first appearances. The earliest texts that mention the Satan—it is always “the Satan” in the Old Testament—portray him as an agent of Yahweh, serving as an executioner of evildoers. But over the course of time, the Satan came to be regarded more as God’s enemy than God’s agent and was blamed for a host of problems. Biblical scholar Ryan E. Stokes explains the development of the Satan tradition in the Hebrew scriptures and the writings of early Judaism, describing the interpretive and creative processes that transformed an agent of Yahweh into the archenemy of good. He explores how the idea of a heavenly Satan figure factored into the problem of evil and received the blame for all that is wrong in the world.
Download or read book The Gospel of the Fallen Angel written by Geraint Ap Iorwerth and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'From humble beginnings as a private investigator in the Heavenly Court, Satan worked his way up the career ladder to become God's Chief Prosecutor. It wasn't long before he branched off and started his own global enterprise as Prince of The World. 'The Gospel of The Fallen Angel' is Satan's exclusive, honest account of the life and times of his greatest adversary, Jesus of Galilee.' When Jesus walked on earth he gave strict orders not to let anyone know who he was. My minions couldn't help themselves. They kept blurting it out! I had better self control. Until now! After 2000 years, I've finally broken my silence. Not bad going for the archetypal disobedient one! Satan Geraint's The Gospel of The Fallen Angel is a first to tell the story of Jesus from Satan's perspective. He tells the story of the real Jewish Jesus, not the fictitious Christ of the Christian church. A highly original, clever, often funny, alternative view of the Gospels. It has a lot to say about traditional Christianity that is interesting and uncomfortable. Its appeal is its modern message about what it means to be human, whether one is religious or not.
Download or read book The Origin of Satan written by Elaine Pagels and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1996-04-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the National Book Award-winning and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of The Gnostic Gospels comes a dramatic interpretation of Satan and his role on the Christian tradition. "Arresting...brilliant...this book illuminates the angels with which we must wrestle to come to the truth of our bedeviling spritual problems." —The Boston Globe With magisterial learning and the elan of a born storyteller, Pagels turns Satan’s story into an audacious exploration of Christianity’s shadow side, in which the gospel of love gives way to irrational hatreds that continue to haunt Christians and non-Christians alike.
Download or read book Understanding the Book of Job written by Tom Tompkins and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2010-10-14 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is safe to say at the very least, that the Bible is a fascinating book. A book full of many true tails, even struggles and disappointments, along with much information intended to help people grow and mature in their relationship with God. After all, it is impossible to have a positive relationship with someone we have not gotten to know and this principal applies to all relationships including one with God. While there are many ways to get to know our Heavenly Father, reading the Bible is one of the most important tools provided for us. However: many shy away from reading the Old Testament for various reasons, and one reason high on most peoples list is due to the "gloom and doom." However, not reading the Old Testament portion of the Bible is similar to using half of the pieces to a 1000 piece puzzle. We will never see the big picture if we only use half of the pieces included. One of the most misunderstood and misused books of the Bible is the book of Job. Yes, the book of Job is filled with suffering and difficult times in the life of Job and his family and friends. In turn the book of Job has become a favorite among many when it comes to dealing with difficult times in their own life or the lives of others. This particular take, on the book of Job however, is written to help us understand the lessons than can be learned from Job's life, as well as a better understanding of the character and nature of God Himself, by taking a look at the oldest book in the Bible, from a different angle. When we do so, I believe we will see things we never would have seen without changing the lens we view this incredible story through.
Download or read book The Satanic Myth written by Barry Fike and published by Stratton Press. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After years of searching, doing linguistic studies, and looking at the Hebraic understanding from many writings in ancient lore, I began to see something that I believe many in Christian circles have missed concerning the concept of Satan. While Satan is mentioned in scripture, the concept is never developed theologically. People have to run from Genesis to Isaiah trying to string a series of random verses together to get an understanding of who or what evil is composed of. When we get to historic Christianity, the doctrine of the devil is only second to the doctrine of God, and the devil is an indispensable part of the machinery of faith and piety. All of a sudden, we seem to have leaped from the Hebrew scriptures to the New Testament, and again, tying random scriptures together, we have developed a complete theology concerning evil and the ruler over it. The logic is inconsistent and doesn't work with the evidence within the biblical text. Let's look at the logic of the good and evil impulse within each individual that makes all of us free moral agents without the need for a Satan/Devil/Lucifer the way most Christians understand it. Having preached for over forty years within the Lord's body, Dr. Barry Fike has studied the Hebrew background of the New Testament church for over thirty years trying to understand the development of the body of Christ from its foundational Hebraic roots. While working with students at many educational levels, alongside the local body in California, Dr. Fike has a passion for learning the truth about theological positions that the church holds and testing it with his foundational knowledge. This book is a result of looking, studying, and probing into the biblical text and the evidence that comes from looking into its Hebrew background.
Download or read book The Story of Redemption written by Ellen G. White and published by Review and Herald Pub Assoc. This book was released on 2002 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is God changeable? Does He have different gospels for different people? The story of redemption takes you behind the scenes in the struggle between God and Satan. It explains how the conflict began, what the issues are, and how the outcome is already assured. It traces the theme of God's relationship with man from the garden of Edan to the return of Christ and beyond.
Download or read book Imagine There s No Satan written by James R. Brayshaw and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world where evil abounds and the paranormal becomes normal to many, a world where many think the dead can speak and demons possess the souls of innocents, people everywhere claim these are the works of Satan. But is Satan real? 'Imagine There's No Satan' takes an in depth look at who and what Satan is. Where does the idea of a cosmic Satan come from? Does the God of the Bible really allow an evil being to harm humans and torture dead souls in hell? You will be guaranteed to look at the existence of Satan from a new and liberating perspective after you've read Imagine There's No Satan - Volume 2 of Satan Christianity's Other God Satan is exposed as a myth of ancient cultures; repackaged, mishandled, seasoned with mysticism, and woven into the fabric of Christianity. Today you and I are offered the traditional view of Satan, a view that leaves little room for logic.The other option is to find for ourselves that Satan never was real. Satan only exists in the imagination of man and lives in the lore of storytellers from the past. If you have ever wondered how God can allow Satan to exist, where dead souls go, if a psychic can truly contact the dead using the power of Satan, or if Hell really exists, then you will want to read every word of 'Imagine There's No Satan'. Get ready; because Satan is about to disappear forever and you'll see that God can exist without Satan. All you have to do to get started is 'Imagine There's No Satan'!
Download or read book Satan written by John Brown and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not a self-help book nor should it be. This book is designed through only biblical accounts to expose, the fallen angel, "Satan". Even though he seems a mystery to humanity, Ezekiel 28:13 demonstrates he was . "created blameless and served a great purpose but was banished from the Garden of God, Eden." Now, he exists with a different purpose from the "original design" which includes: tempting, manipulating, hurting, and destroying human life. Our very outcome of heaven and hell weigh in the balance and it is imperative to know the enemy of our lives. This book will explain and point out only biblical accounts of Satan's existence and purpose.
