Introduction
One of the figures that Scripture refers to, in both the Old and New Testaments, is “The Satan”. In addition, the New Testament refers to a figure called “The Devil”. For example, The Satan caused the catastrophes that befell Job, and The Devil is called “The father of lies”.
An important item to note is that the Hebrew word satan means “adversary”, or “accuser”; and the Greek word diabolos (from which we get the word “devil”) means “slanderer”.
As with many other Scriptural concepts, there are several different beliefs about who - or what - The Satan actually is, among various Christian groups. Basically, there are two main questions about The Satan, that these doctrines try to answer:
I’ve been wanting to do this post for a couple of weeks now, but somehow could never find the time to get it totally finished until today. I hope my fellow posters here on KR won’t mind if I go out of turn. Just think of this as my long lost “Saturday” post. 
The Trinity brings out an Ugly Spirit!
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by Ron Shockley
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Recently I traveled to Atlanta, GA to attend the 19th annual Theological Conference put on by Anthony Buzzard’s “Restoration Fellowship” and The Church of God of Abrahamic Faith’s – “Atlanta Bible College”. The conference was a truly wonderful experience and I am already looking forward to going to it again in 2011 for what will be the 20th year. Hopefully sometime in the not so distant future, I’ll post my own little review of the speakers & events here on the kingdomready blog.
Today I’m continuing in my quest to post more works from my collection of old theology writings that are now out of print and as far as I know are not yet out there in any digital form among the “ether” of the internet.
The following little poem is from a very old newspaper clipping that my parents had saved in a theology file they had put together over the years. I truly do not know just how old it is, though from the looks of it it very well could be from the era of the 1940’s - 1950’s. The author is listed as “H. A. Owens”. But I have not been able to find any information about that person anywhere.
Posted in Obedience to Christ, Doctrine, Resurrection, Death is Sleep, Age to Come, hell, truth, Ron's Articles, Satan, Parousia on August 1st, 2009 17 Comments »
I love a good sermon on the biblical truth about death and what our future hope SHOULD be. Maybe it is just my Adventist roots showing, but I do so enjoy hearing this kind of message. It really gives purpose to WHY Jesus is coming back and better yet why we should EARNESTLY DESIRE it to happen! I found this looking through some E.W. Bullinger materials. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did.
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Death No Gateway To Heaven
By: Willard Smith
In the Christian realm today there is unscriptural teaching concerning the death of the believer in the Lord Jesus Christ. We are constantly being told by well-meaning Christians that at death, “We go to be with the Lord.” This phrase is used especially at funerals where preachers misquote or take the Scriptures out of context to reassure the sorrowing that their loved ones are not really dead, but are really enjoying Heaven in God’s presence. This teaching promotes belief in the lie of Satan, rather than what God told Adam and Eve when He placed them in the Garden.In Gen. 2:17 God said,
“But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it, for in the day that thou eatest of it thou shalt surely die.” In the Hebrew could read “Dying thou shalt die.”
This was a certainty.
In Gen. 3:1, Satan speaks for the first time in the scriptures. He asks Eve (by the Figure Erotesis for emphasis), “Yea, hath God said,” or “Can it be that God hath said…?” In Gen. 3:4, Satan’s second utterance, we read, “And the serpent said unto the woman, ‘Ye shall not surely die’… “ This is a plain contradiction of God’s Word in Gen. 2:17. As one has said long ago, “This has become the foundation of spiritism and traditional belief as to death.”
I’ve often thought that the “incarnation” excuse of trinitarians is totally absurd. A “fully God” AND “fully man” Jesus just wouldn’t be temptable. One of the givens about God that we know from Scripture is that he is NOT capable of being tempted (James 1:13).
Therefore if Jesus is God, then Satan has got be a total moron. Trying to tempt God (who cannot be tempted) would be a total waste of time. And I for one don’t think that if Satan is capable of deceiving the entire world (Rev 12:9), he would be stupid enough to even try to tempt God Himself. Therefore if Satan really did tempt Jesus (and that’s what our Bibles tell us) then it would seem to me that ol’ “serpent of old” knows something the trinitarians don’t know.
The seventy were returning from their indigenous missionary excursion with exuberant joy. They had not only witnessed incredible events, they participated in them. Sick people were instantly healed, sinners repented, demons flew out of the possessed, and many responded to the gospel of the kingdom! As the seventy reported to Jesus these incredible events, especially the fact that even the demons were subject to his name, Jesus responded by saying:
Luke 10:18-20
18 And He said to them, “I was watching Satan fall from heaven like lightning. 19 “Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing will injure you. 20 “Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are recorded in heaven.”