...Satan called a worldwide convention of demons. In his opening address he said, "We can't keep Christians from going to church." "We can't keep them from reading their Bibles and knowing the truth." "We can't even keep them from forming an intimate relationship with their savior." "Once they gain that connection with Jesus, our power over them is broken." "So let them go to their churches; let them have their covered dish dinners, but steal their time, so they don't have time to develop a relationship with Jesus Christ." "This is what I want you to do", said the devil: "Distract them from gaining hold of their Savior and maintaining that vital connection throughout their day!" "How shall we do this?" his demons shouted. "Keep them busy in the nonessentials of life and invent innumerable schemes to occupy their minds," he answered. "Tempt them to spend, spend, spend, and borrow, borrow, borrow." "Persuade the wives to go to work for long hours and the husbands to work 6-7 days each week, 10-12 hours a day, so they can afford their empty lifestyles." "Keep them from spending time with their children." "As their families fragment, soon, their homes will offer no escape from the pressures of work!" "Over-stimulate their minds so that they cannot hear that still, small voice." "Entice them to play the radio or cassette player whenever they drive." "To keep the TV, VCR, CDs and their PCs going constantly in their home and see to it that every store and restaurant...
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...Son of Satan Narrator: The story takes place in America in the summer. The three boys in the story are in age of eleven to twelve years old. Character: All the characters are round because they have a description. Morgan and Hass are both presented like the best friends to the narrator and as some sort of minions, so that makes the presentation of them bad to my. Simpson is presented as a wimp. He is a freckled boy who is a loner. The father is presented as some sort of military dad. He is strict and very, very hard on the narrator. Therefore, that is not the best presentation to get. Describe the hierarchy: The leader is the I narrator, because we see in the text he always say I feel sorry for him, but I can't let him go, I don't want to show any weakness" and it's easy to see who have the leading word.7 Explain the sexual associations: The sexual associations of the pun "Look who is playing with himself" they say by trying to tell him that he is a trouble for them and that they are many contrary to him, so they have the chance to beat him without getting resestins. There are other similar examples in the text as: "I don't believe you've ever fucked anybody but yourself!" and "You don't even have a dick! You piss out of your ear! "And "No, my ass!" How do the boys bully and intimidate Simpsons verbally and physically? The boys bully and intimidate Simpson very much. They laughed at him and said bad words too. They shot him also hard right to his belly and called...
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...Job was a righteous man, who loved God dearly and was a model Christian. In the book of Job, God made a wager with Satan to see if Job would remain righteous. The first thing many people wonder, is why God would make a deal with Satan in the first place instead of just sending him back to hell. God agrees to let Satan have his way with Job in order to prove a point. He was trying to discourage Satan from meddling with any of God’s other followers. After Satan through everything he had at Job, besides personal death, Satan realized he could not sway God’s people. Job remained steady throughout the ordeal, despite being tempted by the devil and his wife to turn away from God. At one point he does question God’s motives in which God scolds...
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...In “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates, one can see that Arnold Friend is Satan, because he deceivingly lures and steals just like Satan does. The first way Arnold is Satan is portrayed through his deceivingly luring character. In the short story, Arnold drives up to a fifteen year old girl’s home in a gold painted car. He then honks four times in order to deceive the girl, Connie, into believing she actually knows him. Friend hopes the familiar sound of the honk will convince her that he is a friend. In addition, he seems to have the perfect attractive face in Connie’s eyes. But she also feels as if something were wrong for she thinks, “His whole face was a mask, she thought wildly, tanned...
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...understanding and easygoing. From Lines 1013-1096, Adam explains to Eve that they could have it much worse, and suggests that instead of bringing harm to themselves or others they should instead admit their faults and beg for his pardon. Adam’s speech to Eve about begging for forgiveness and God’s subsequent acceptance represents kindness and honesty prevailing over hate, and shows the inverse of what the council of hell chose to do. From lines 1013 to 1096 we see a change in Adam’s feelings toward their situation. Instead of feeling contempt for Eve and Satan and wanting to act out on his hatred, he thinks rationally about what the consequences of those hasty actions may be. On lines 1020 through 1028, Adam states that even though death may be a quick solution to their problems, he doesn’t doubt the vengefulness of God and says that he will not exempt them from paying for it later, and will make “death in them live.” On hurting Satan, he says that that will only put him out of his misery and allow him to escape his punishment, while adding onto theirs. This shows that Adam is choosing not to let hate overwhelm him and dictate his actions, unlike the council in hell, who chose to corrupt mankind out of spite for God. Adam goes on to say that their punishments are not so bad, and that they almost certainly thought they were going to be killed as their punishment when Jesus came down to judge them. However their punishment is birth for Eve and having to hunt for Adam. Adam says that...
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...Protagonist of the story is Job because all of this story are about him, Job is spirit of the story. The antagonist of course, Satan played that role. There were many objectors to our protagonist but Satan was considered as the chief antagonist who managed to destroy Job’s wealth, wipe out his children and make him to suffer many other things like nasty skin boil for instance. Job is dynamic character because through the story he changed from a loyal servant who favor god to a man who fall into distress because of his suffering then finally realize his mistake and submit to God’s will in total obedience. God and Satan can be considered as static characters because through of this story, they seem not to change anything inside. God still God, he always has his own rule and ways, he is wise enough to do everything for a reason. In the book of Job, the author used indirect exposition to reveal characteristic of characters. We read the story and then made our own impress about characters. Job is heroes of this story. He has many things that people dream of, a wealthy landowner and owner. He is loyal, faithful and after many tests and challenge, has found the right way to serve god and lived happy fully. The main conflict in the book of Job is the one between Job and Satan. The conflict of this story has two main sections. The first one focus on the attack of Satan on Job and he react. In the second, it...
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...on Adam's part in God's righteousness alone. Secondly, God (through implication) commands Adam to live according to his capacity to reason rationally. It is made clear to Adam that the first commandment, having to do with faith, is the primary commandment, since it is the only one God articulates. But, when Adam passes the information on to Eve, he does not make this distinction as clear. He also further convolutes the distinction with other things he says. Thus the order of importance of the two contradictory commandments is lost when told to Eve. Then, In book 9, Satan takes advantage of Eve's lack of information by presenting Eve with a situation wherein the conclusion that rational reasoning would produce is at odds with the conclusion that a blind trust in faith would produce. Eve cannot abide simultaneously by both of God's commandments in this situation. By eating the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge (as Satan tells her to), Eve is guilty of losing faith, which initiates the "original, mortal sin" (9,1003-4). However, acting reasonably is what Adam tells her is otherwise valued by God and is generally the human connection to the divine. Therefore, while Eve is guilty of losing faith (which she understands as one of God's commandments), she is entirely following God's (and Adam's) commandment to be reasonable. God's commandments are inherently self-contradicting. From Eve's perspective, the contradiction (of the commandments) is even more apparent, and confusing, since the...
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...sunrise to sunset.” Praise should be the first activity when you open your eyes in the morning and the last activity when you close them at night. David said, “I will thank the Lord at all times. My mouth will always praise Him.” God is seeking for worshippers: John 4:23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. * The spirit part of an unsaved man is dead. * However, the spirit part of those who have received Jesus in their lives is alive. * There can be no true worship unless our spirit is alive. This happens when we receive Jesus as our personal Savior. I. Music in the beginning God created music but Satan distorted it. He used it to deceive many and steal the worship and praise that belongs to God. Music in the beginning was ordained by God and was pleasing to Him. God gave Lucifer the ministry of music for one reason only, and that was to lead the angelic hosts in worship to God. Music was given or created to minister to God the Father. It was born...
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...Temptation All of us experience temptations. So did the Savior, but He “gave no heed unto them” (D&C 20:22). Similarly, we do not have to yield simply because a temptation surfaces. We may want to, but we don’t have to. 3. Satan, who is called the tempter (Mt. 4:3; 1 Thess. 3:5), is out to get us. He doesn’t care how spiritual we are, or how secure we are in our Christian homes; he is going to tempt us to sin hoping to lead us away from God and our families. FIRST, TO RESIST TEMPTATION, WE MUST UNDERSTAND WHAT TEMPTATION IS. Temptation is an enticement or an allurement to sin against the will of God. 2. James explains temptation this way: (Jam. 1:13-15) “When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He tempt anyone; but each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he is dragged away and enticed. Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.” 3. These verses teach several things about temptation. a. First, God does not tempt us to sin, in fact, (1 Cor. 10:13) explains that God provides us with a way out of temptation. God allows us to be tempted in order to refine our faith and to help us grow in our dependence upon Him. b. Second, temptation in of itself is not sin. Jesus was tempted, however, He was without sin. Temptation only becomes sin when we give into the temptation. 4. Temptation is a process...
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...DOMINION IN CHRIST A king rules his domain with a word of authority. God created and maintains everything by His Word of power. You who resemble God must rule everything by your word of authority. Your language should be always, “let there be”! Jesus in His earthly Adam was created to rule and have dominion over all other creations (Ge.1:26). This is God’s intention and also His blessing. The purpose of the new creation is to rule and reign in life (Ro.5:17). Sin, satan, sickness and world cannot have dominion over you. God has commanded you to subdue it under your authority. You are born to rule! A king rules his domain with a word of authority. God created and maintains everything by His Word of power. You who resemble God must rule everything by your word of authority. Your language should be always, “let there be”! Jesus in His earthly walk ruled over the demons, diseases, nature and everything by His Word power. You are engrafted in Him. His Words now go through your mouth and rule everything. You are God’s Zion. Out of you should go the scepter of God to subdue all enemies (Ps.110:2). Jesus still rules through you in midst of His enemies. It was not Adam alone who was created in the image of God to dominate. Eve was also included. In Christ, there is no male or female. The gender difference is broken in Christ (Gal.3:28; Col.3:11). Life in Christ knows no barrier of gender or creed or race or color. All human beings come from Adam and Eve. It’s the devil who brought all...
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...Arnold Friend potentially tends to be a beast. In the story, it argues whether Arnold Friend represents Satan or not. I think he does, because he represents a devil figure for the main reason of tricking Connie to ride off with him. Arnold is portrayed of having shaggy black hair and drives a convertible jalopy painted gold. Arnold is not a teenager when Connie realizes the features, such as the painted eyelashes, wig structure, and his stuffed boots. Those features led to her thinking that he wasn’t a teenager, who he isn’t and he’s way much older actually. Oates portrays Arnold to be a psychopathic stalker, but never states the value of his role. She asks him how does he knows her name, and his response was he knows a lot about her. He begins to tell Connie all her friends’ names and tells her where her parents are. The passage below paints a picture of Arnold’s character. But I know what it is. I know your name and all about you, lots of things, Arnold Friend said. He had not moved yet but stood still leaning back against the side of his jalopy. I took a special interest in you, such a pretty girl, and found out all about you—like I know your parents and sister are gone somewhere and I know where and how long they're going to be gone, and I know who you were with last night, and your best girl...
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...Bible Dictionary Project-Old Testament Book: Job The book of Job is the eighteenth book in the Bible and is a book about Faith, Pride and Loyalty. Job was a God-Fearing man who was faithful and loyal to God and His word, and God’s pride for Job caused him to boast about Job while having a conversation with Satan, then giving Satan permission to test just how faithful Job would be if he were to lose everything he had. Job was a wealthy man but Satan was going see how faithful Job really was to God. Satan caused Job to lose all of his material possessions, caused him to become sick and endured tremendous suffering all while his family and friends turned their backs on him, telling him that he brought on all of his suffering on himself because of his sins, but Job never allowed what he was going through to cause him to reject God. As stated in the Amplified Bible Introduction to the book of Job, “Neither the time when Job lived nor the author can be determined with any certainty.” Some of the book was written in the second millennium B.C. (2000-1000). The key theme discussed in the book of Job is suffering and how it relates to righteous living and Job proved to God that even during the times when he was being tested by losing all that he had, He continued to believe in God, and as stated in the (Amplified Bible Job 42:10) “And the Lord turned captivity of Job and restored his fortunes, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.”...
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...Amber Krutke Ms. Alyse W. Jones English 2111 7 June 2015 Discuss the Ways You Believe the Book of Job Succeeds or Fails in Answering the Question of Why the Innocent Suffer. At first glance, the book of Job appears to tell the tale of God chastising his utmost blameless servant to win a bet with the devil. However, further understanding tells us that this story is actually a message to all those who want to follow God. The message here is just much more challenging to recognize than other stories in the Bible. In chapter one of the Book of Job, Job is described as being “blameless” and “upright” (Alter, page 193). He was a man who “… feared God and shunned evil.” (Lawall, page 193) Genesis 6:9 in our text also describes Noah as a “blameless” and “righteous” man (Lawall, page 163). The difference in these texts is, “… Noah walked with God.” (Lawall, page 163) Therefore, just because Job “feared God and shunned evil” does not mean that he “walks with God.” Christianity and the Bible does not only teach the idea of righteousness. It also teaches the importance of having a relationship with God. Chapter one in the book of Job also states, “And it happened when the days of the feast came round, that job would send and concentrate them and rise early in the morning and offer up burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job thought, perhaps my sons have offended and cursed God in their hearts. Thus would Job do at all times.” Job wants to be a follower of God...
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...The Whole Poem The story starts with Satan and his followers, who have been defeated in a war against God. They decide not to continue with open battle, and instead explore the new world and get revenge there. Satan alone volunteers for this mission, and so after Sin and Death unbar the gate of hell for him, Satan journeys across chaos and travels. God and his Son watch, the Son offering himself for salvation. Satan tricks his way into Eden, and taking the form of a comorant and a toad, he hears Adam an Eve, God's new creations, talking about God's commandments and the rules to not eat the forbidden fruit. Satan is discovered and banished from Eden. God sends Archangel Raphael to give food to Adam and Eve, and tell them about how Satan's jealousy led him to lead a rebellion, and how he was cast into hell. He also tells them how the world was created, and that mankind could rep;ace fallen angels. They talk about the nature of the universe and the condition of angels. Satan returns to earth and possesses a serpent. He convinces her to eat the forbidden fruit, and Adam eats it too. They lose their innocence and become aware of their nakedness, and start arguing. The Son of God comes and judge them, Sin and Death enter Earth, and Satan and his followers are turned into snakes. Archangel Michael is sent to expel Adam and Eve from Paradise, and he tells them about the future, and the events which will follow now they have sinned for the first time, and the salvation of mankind...
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...from perfection and God made a plan to restore perfection. All of God’s creation was perfect. Man was perfect because “God created man in his own image” (Genesis 1:27). Adam, the first man, was alone, so God created a woman, Eve, from one of Adam’s ribs. Eve was the perfect companion for Adam. Because the world was free of sin, Adam and Eve knew nothing of evil. In order to give them the choice to experience sin, God put the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the garden. He told them not to eat the fruit of the tree; if they did, they would surely die. In this perfect world, Satan waited in the tree of knowledge of good and evil disguised as a serpent. Satan started up a conversation with Eve, questioning the rules God had made. Eve told Satan that if she ate the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, she would die. Satan tempted her with a lie by saying, “You will not surely die, for God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil” (Genesis 3:4, 5). Because she wanted to be like God, she was willing to believe the lie. She ate the fruit and gave the fruit to Adam, who ate it as well. When confronted by God, they tried to escape being responsible for their own actions by blaming others. Adam blamed God for giving Eve to him, and Eve blamed the serpent. Sin had entered the world. Adam and Eve were forced to leave the garden because of this...
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