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Elvis Presley’s D.J. Fontana. The legendary Elvis Presley drummer passed away this week, at the age of eighty-seven. In honor of his long career—he reportedly was playing gigs right up to his passing—we’re posting our May 1985 interview with him. “I knew Elvis was different by his clothes and his actions on stage.
- The Problem of The Existence of Evil
- Ha-Satan & The Book of Job
- Persian Rule & Zoroastrianism
- The Dead Sea Scrolls
- The New Testament
- The “Harrowing of Hell”
- Characteristics of Satan & The Personification of Evil
Evil has always existed. Humans encountered natural disasters (earthquakes, floods), wars with pillage and rape, disease, plagues, and infant mortality, man-made evil such as murders and theft, and of course, death. As the ancients constructed their religious systems, the existence of evil had to be explained and rationalized. Creation myths often ...
The Book of Job (c. 600 BCE) is the earliest text to address the problem of theodicy, which is a modern term for the problem "If God is good, why does he permit evil and suffering to exist?" The book opens with the angels apparently reporting to God. Among them is the angel ha-Satan, whose function was to travel the world placing 'obstacles' (the m...
When Jerusalem was conquered and destroyed by the Neo-Babylonian Empire (587 BCE), some Jews were taken into captivity in Babylon. Cyrus the Great then conquered the Babylonians in 550 BCE and established the Persian Empire. The state cult of Persia was Zoroastrianism, founded by the prophet Zoroaster. Evil was seen as the polar opposite of good. A...
In the writings of the Jewish sect of Essenes who settled at Qumran (c. 150 BCE), we have our first literature that created a method known as the personification of evil. The sectarian literature equated Satan not only with evil but specifically with anyone or any group not in agreement with their own views, including other Jews. According to their...
In the letters of Paul and the gospels, we have the view that Satan is now the ruler of this world. This is expressed in a letter written by one of Paul’s disciples: Paul often referred to the demons as the agents of Satan who interfered with his mission. Writingfrom prison, Paul explained that he could not visit his community "because Satan hinder...
In the Acts of the Apostles, Luke claimed that Hades(Sheol) could not hold the crucified Christ (2:27). In 1 Peter 3, Jesus "made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits who disobeyed long ago" and 4:6 "the gospel was preached even to those who are now dead." By the 2nd century CE, details were added to the story of Jesus’ death to elucidate two det...
Christian leaders in the 2nd century CE adopted the method of the personification of evil against Jews, women, heretics, and all things pagan. The native cults believed that the gods resided in their temples, but these were agents of Satan. The first iconic portraits of Satan came from the Greco-Roman fertility deity, Pan, who was half-man, half-go...
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Jun 26, 2019 · So I submitted it, they bought and produced it. And that was my first script as D.C. Fontana. JOSH: Did they have any idea that you were a woman? DC: Not when I turned it in. JOSH: So when they called you in to buy it, what was the look on their faces? DC: It wasn’t that surprising. It was like, “Oh, you did a good script for us. Let’s go.”