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4 days ago · As a pastor, I’ve encountered many questions about the “leviathan spirit,” a term often associated with a particular view of demonic oppression. By examining scriptural references to leviathan and other creatures, some have created a mythology around unique demonic entities attributed to various nefarious deeds.
In Job ch3 v8, Leviathan is identified with the mythical monster, known over a wide culture-area, who causes eclipses by trying to swallow up the sun (an image echoed in Revelation ch12). If Leviathan is a symbol of evil, that explains why his description is the climax of the book.
2 days ago · When the Bible was written, the word dinosaurs did not exist, it came along in 1841 when Sir Richard Owen coined it. However, dinosaurs under different titles are referred to in the Bible. Incredulous as it may seem, the proof is in several parts of the Bible so let’s start with Job.
4 days ago · But some later and very learned men take the leviathan to be the crocodile, and the behemoth to be a creature called the hippopotamus, or river-horse, which may seem to be fitly joined with the crocodile, both being very well known to Job and his friends, as being frequent in the adjacent places, both amphibious, living and preying both in the water and upon the land, and both being creatures ...
5 days ago · Evangelical Protestants agree that Satan is a real, created being entirely given over to evil and that evil is whatever opposes God or is not willed by God.
2 days ago · The Genesis narratives are not the only biblical creation accounts. The Bible preserves two contrasting models of creation. The first is the "logos" (speech) model, where a supreme God "speaks" dormant matter into existence. Genesis 1 is an example of creation by speech.
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4 days ago · I argue that Leviathan suggests this model of prophetic authority – conceived of as a particular kind of prudence – is key to meeting the challenges arising from the anthropological vulnerabilities of ignorance and fear.
