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Demons can take any desired appearance, even that of an "angel of light". And no wonder! Even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. 15 So it is not strange if his ministers also disguise themselves as ministers of righteousness. Their end will match their deeds. —
In the Quran, Satan is apparently an angel, [185] while, in 18:50, he is described as "from the jinns". [185] This, combined with the fact that he describes himself as having been made from fire, posed a major problem for Muslim exegetes of the Quran, [185] who disagree on whether Satan is a fallen angel or the leader of a group of evil jinn. [195]
Although the Book of Genesis never mentions Satan, [30] Christians have traditionally interpreted the serpent in the Garden of Eden as the devil due to Revelation 12:9, [31] which describes the devil as "that ancient serpent called the Devil, or Satan, the one deceiving the whole world; was thrown down to the earth with all his angels."
Eve stays with the female animals and Adam with the male ones. The devil persuades the male snake to rebel against Adam and his wife: at the hour the angels go up to worship the Lord, Satan disguises himself as an angel and speaks to Eve using the mouth of the serpent. The serpent seduces Eve, who swears to give the fruit to eat to Adam too.
[51] [52] In the Second Epistle to the Corinthians, Paul the Apostle warns that Satan is often disguised as an angel of light. [50] In the Book of Revelation, a a dragon/serpent "called the devil, or Satan" wages war against the archangel Michael resulting in the dragon's fall.
For the first time Psyche sees the true form of her lover Eros; darkness had hidden his wings. A human disguise (also human guise and sometimes human form) [1] is a concept in fantasy, folklore, mythology, religion, literature, iconography, and science fiction whereby non-human beings — such as gods, angels, monsters, extraterrestrials, or robots — are able to shapeshift or be disguised to ...
The Book of Moses, included in the LDS standard works canon, references the war in heaven and Satan's origin as a fallen angel of light. [15] The concept of a war in heaven at the end of time became an addendum to the story of Satan's fall at the genesis of time—a narrative which included Satan and a third of all of heaven's angels.
But the inferior devil resisted, and greatly abused his superior; and among other things, he said to him, “Thou art an infernal devil, and by the just judgment of God being banished to hell, art far more heavily punished than I am, who am not an infernal devil, but am permitted to live here in the air, because I did not rebel against God as ...