God In The Odyssey

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God in these verses is introducing Human’s worst enemy, eblees and his kind.
15:26-27 God reveals the different beings he has created and in what order. God reveals that he created man from clay and he molded them into their shape. I think it reveals that clay here means wet sand that stiffened. Also, 55:14 gives an example of the way humans were molded, just like pottery,. Here God uses the singular form of humans. “insan”, I think because it indicates that all humans are equal, because all humans were created from the same material, the same way. He then reveals the invisible beings called jin. Jin were created not from fire, but from intense flames as the verse indicates. 55:15 reveals that jin are not created from normal fire. As the translation shows “smoke free fire”, God is capable of creating being in a way that is beyond our understanding. It is a verse to reflect on about God’s great abilities and powers. Then in 18:50 God mentions angels as well, he depicts them in a good obedient way. Then reveals the name of the jin who challenged God because of pride and envy and wouldn’t kneel to Adam. Eblees and his offsprings (shayateen) are
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However, they admired their sinful lifestyle because eblees distracted them from the right path. The temptation lead the tribe to live a wrongful path that they were aware of instead of reminding themselves about the righteous path that God asked them to follow. In 35:6 and 17:53 God clearly states that Shaitan is the enemy of mankind. God is warning mankind of Shaitan and how Shaitan is committed to luring them to the wrongful path.On the other side, those who follow Shaitan footsteps will end up in hell. 6:43 This verse is important because it talks about how people think it is okay to return to God whenever misfortune happens. However, people’s heart instead grows harder further away from God because Shaitan made their sinful actions seem goodly and

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