Satan

is not only seen as superior to Gregor, which would imply that he is God, but is also the one that hurts Gregor a majority of the time, causing the audience to believe that he could be an embodiment of Satan as well. Kafka argues against the traditional image of God by tying it to the image of Satan, making the readers wonder if they are maybe the same thing. In the previous quote, “[Gregor’s] father gave him a hard shove, which was truly his salvation.” (20) Being Gregor’s salvation, his father…

In this psalm, David praises God, but he still cries out to God for deliverance. These concepts confuse many people. In everyday life, people are confused why Christians can praise God through trials. David has probably been furthering this confusion through this psalm. However, I believe that David’s praise of God illustrates that God is worth following and knowing even if our worldly circumstances do not change. In fact, following God can sometimes cause worldly circumstances to become worse,…

God became flesh to reconcile us to God, to manifest God’s love, to offer a model of holiness, to allow us to share in divine life, and to defeat the devil. He did everything out of his love. His creation was perfect, but it was the temptation of Satan that brought sin to the world. The consequence of sin required a special sacrifice that would save human beings. God becoming man to offer his father the sacrifice is that special sacrifice needed. God becoming man is known as incarnation.…

Knowledge begins the day we are born; we begin to learn how to breathe, how to eat, and how to sleep, and then later we learn how to walk, how to talk, and how to ride a bicycle. We also learn not to touch a hot stove or swim right after we eat. All this knowledge is attained so quickly in our early years. Then in our teenage years we usually begin to make more mistakes, and those mistakes begin to have bigger consequences; these lessons mold and shape our lives and future choices. In…

Anywhere you look, you are looking at evil. You might not think so, many people may seem wholly good, but everyone has evil in them. You might not see it right now, but trust me, it’s there, lurking in the shadows. This is, at least, what Bram Stoker, the writer of Dracula, and Robert Louis Stevenson, the writer of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, want you to believe through their characters of Dracula and Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde, respectively. These characters use their supernatural…

The year was 1692. The Puritan colonies faced a variety of threats in the New World, especially from the Native Americans (“Salem Witch Trials”, 2015). Puritan way of life was taking a more liberal turn (“Salem Witch Trials”, 2015). Considering the Puritan culture’s emphasis on religion, logically, they would look to a religious mechanism to deal with this problem. Ideas of superstition, ever present in Puritan culture and recorded in books such as A Discourse on the Damned Art of Witchcraft,…

That defense reflects a philosophical view that defines history as a drama between God and Satan, good and evil. He interprets the fall of Rome as part of this drama. Rome’s decline, in Augustine’s view, is simply Rome’s own doing, its fatal instability brought about by its unrighteous twisting of God’s moral order, an act of rebellion that…

Within Book 9 you get to see the works of Satan on Adam and Eve and that is where the story turns tragic. In the beginning, Satan returns to the Garden of Eden and he sets out to find a disguise for himself. As he goes along, he finds a sleeping snake and decides that will be his disguise. The next day, Adam and Eve are in the garden…

Revelation 20:7–10, satanic rebellion will be destroyed, “7 Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison, 8 and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea. 9 They went up on the breadth of the earth…

Often, christian anthropologists ask about the impact of the human sin and Satan in religion. Furthermore, human sin always leads to the cultural captivity of God. It seems that human are changing the glory of God. For instance, many people worship different creatures that they believe being Gods. According to the bible, Satan, the fallen angel, is the object of all false worship. Satan blind people to the truth, so that he can get what he wants by manipulating people. However,…