The Real Devil - Duncan Heaster - Part 1 of 3

The ultimate origin of evil and human sin is indeed a deep question; but only by dealing with that issue are we empowered to handle sin and evil and find a way of victory. To blame it all on a personal devil with horns and tail and pitchfork seems to me to be a form of escapism, a dodging of the question, just quickly going for a simplistic but wrong answer. Especially once it is understood that actually this view of 'the Devil' is one nowhere found in the Bible, but is rather an accretion of centuries of speculation and adaption of pagan myths. In Chapter 1, I seek to demonstrate that this is indeed what's happened. Throughout that chapter and those that follow, I seek to demonstrate how surrounding myths about a Satan figure were not only accepted by God's people; but the Bible writers actively seek to deconstruct them by alluding to them and exposing their fallacy. From the account of the Fall in Genesis 1-3 to the references to Satan in Revelation, this is what's going on. The fact Holy Scripture doesn't use quotation marks and footnote sources may mask this to the uninformed reader; but the allusions and deconstructions going on in the Biblical text are powerful and bitingly relevant to both their day and ours.

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