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Accordingly, Satan became a devil (shaiṭān) or jinn after he refused to obey. [199] The Tarikh Khamis narrates that Satan was a jinn who was admitted into Paradise as a reward for his righteousness and, unlike the angels, was given the choice to obey or disobey God. [200]
The Lure of the Dark Side: Satan & Western Demonology in Popular Culture (by Eric S. Christianson and Christopher Patridge, 256 pages, Equinox Publishing Ltd, SW11, 2008, ISBN 1-84553-310-0) The Satanic Screen: An Illustrated Guide to the Devil in Cinema (by Nikolas Schreck, 256 pages, Creation Books, 2001, ISBN 1-84068-043-1 )
Lucifer, considered a former radiant archangel, lost his light after his fall and became the dark Satan (the enemy). [ 209 ] Eastern Orthodoxy maintains that God did not create death, but that it was forged by the devil through deviance from the righteous way (a love of God and gratitude). [ 210 ]
[273] [275] Much of their beliefs on aliens, meditation, and telepathic contacts with demons have become popular in a larger milieu within the currents of recent non-LaVeyan theistic Satanism. [269] According to Petersen's survey (2014), Joy of Satan's angelfire network has a surprising prominence among theistic Satanist websites on the ...
As a result, Lucifer has become a by-word for Satan or the Devil in the church and in popular literature", [4] as in Dante Alighieri's Inferno, Joost van den Vondel's Lucifer and John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667). [13]
Mainstream Christianity typically acknowledges a belief in the existence (or ontological existence) of demons, fallen angels, the Devil and Satan. [5] In Christian evangelism, doctrines of demonology are influenced by interpretations of the New Testament, namely interpretations of the Gospels, in that dealing with spirits became a customary activity of Jesus' ministry.
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/GettyTo hear pop culture tell it, Satan—or the devil, if we are being formal—is the ruler of hell. He runs infernal operations in Far Side comics ...
The inverted pentagram is a widespread symbol of Satanism. [1]Theistic Satanism, otherwise referred to as traditional Satanism, religious Satanism, or spiritual Satanism, [2] is an umbrella term for religious groups that consider Satan, the Devil, to objectively exist as a deity, supernatural entity, or spiritual being worthy of worship or reverence, whom individuals may believe in, contact ...