History of the Devil

[ailamos]

Not sure if this has been posted before:

 

http://tinyurl.com/y8tp8dt

 

If that doesn't work, try this: History of the Devil

 

A quick summary:

 

Lucifer, Beelzebub, The Beast, Satan, Shaitan... He has been called many names and taken many strange different forms over the ages. So where does the concept of the traditional evil come from? The History of the Devil goes back to the ancient Middle East, even before the Old Testament to find the roots of Satan. The answer is in the ancient Mesopotamia. In Zoroastrianism it was believed that the all-knowing good God was Ahura Mazda, the one Uncreated Creator, and Ahriman was his antithesis, the God of chaos, the dark and evil one. Probably the bases of these teachings like heaven and hell, good and evil were transferred to the other monotheistic religions. Broadcasted in 2007.

Grab your popcorn, it's an hour long.

 

If you're interested, also check out "The History of the Devil and the Idea of Evil from the Earliest Times to the Present Day" by Paul Carus (1900)

 

http://www.sacred-texts.com/evil/hod/index.htm

[Khayr]

Lucifer, Beelzebub, The Beast, Satan, Shaitan

and Bush and the Internet....

 

Ailmos, do you believe in the devil? and if yes or no or i don't know - why?

[ailamos]

Originally posted by Khayr:

and Bush and the Internet....

 

Ailmos, do you believe in the devil? and if yes or no or i don't know - why?

Definitely Bush, but not so much the Internet I'm just an observer, what I believe need not matter.

[Khayr]

I'm just an observer, what I believe need not matter.

aha....yet you started this thread and what we write, espouse and propagate are often a reflection of our thoughts.

 

So please, do share your thoughts on what you think of the devil? Do you think that the Devil exist?