Posted on 11/22/2013 7:49:50 AM PST by Gamecock
Was it an “Obama phone?”
I believe the with the first evil, Man would have realized it within himself.
“Therein, each appearance of the devil can easily be attributed to God Himself, but for Job, which most rabbinical sources feel to be a fictional account for illustrative purposes.”
It’s funny. In his first appearance in the Bible, we have the devil asking “Did God really say that?”, and now we have the rabbis asking much the same thing about the devil in the Bible: “Sure, he’s there, but did God really mean that?”
Interesting.
What Adam realized is immaterial. It is what precipitated Adam's disobedience. As long as God told Adam "You may eat of every tree in the garden" everything was hunky-dory. It was when God also stated that "...but of the tree of ..." then things went south.
Adam knew full well that he was being disobedient. If God had never given His command, "Thou shall not..." Adam would never had known what he was really like. That is what the law does, it reflects our very nature. That is why we need God's grace.
I’ve seen this guy play my Tampa Bay Lightning several years ago.
I believe his last name is pronounced something like ‘Shaytan’. I’ll double-check.
My second favorite team.
The proper Slovak name is atan.
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