However, a very close reading of the book of the prophet Isaiah will reveal this passage was an oracle against the king of Babylon, and not against any spirit-being. that Lucifer was an angel given much glory by God, and who got carried away with it, and as a result was demoted by God and relegated to the lower regions of the universe. For whatever reason the Church has used this passage to explain the origin of evil, i.e. In Isaiah 14:12 there is a reference to Lucifer (from the Hebrew word "Helel" which means angel of light). He is reported to have reported to God along with the other "sons of God." Here again, the Church has misused Scripture to make it sound like this story is about an evil spirit being, when it is very clear that here Satan is the prosecuting attorney of God's Assembly. In the book of Job, we find Satan (from the Hebrew "Ha Satan," the adversary) being part of the Council of God. Nowhere in Scripture do we find support for this notion In either case, the Church has taken the historical stance that this snake was the Devil. Another interpretation of this would be that the man was a "dud," because he was standing right there and was not smart enough to resist eating the fruit when his wife offered it to him. It is to be noted that some interpretations of this story are very sexist in nature, in that they suggest that the reason why the snake approached the woman instead of the man was because the woman supposedly was more susceptible and vulnerable to temptations. Then as the story moves on, we are told about a serpent (snake) in the Garden of Eden who seduces the woman to eat of the fruit which God had prohibited her and her husband to eat of. that God's creation process was not finalized, and that this is the reason why Genesis speaks about the earth being without form and void. Christians who hold on to this view do not consider the alternative possibility, i.e.
Interestingly enough, the Babylonian account of Creation, which has similarities with the biblical account of creation, contains the myth that the earth was in a state of disorder because the evil god Marduk invaded it and wreaked havoc. In their thinking, since God does not make anything imperfect, that chaos spoken of in Genesis has to be attributed to a destructive evil spirit hell-bent (no pun intended) on opposing God and God's creation. Some Christians believe that the reference to the earth being "without form and void" in Genesis 1:2 refers to a cataclysmic destruction brought on by an evil force against God's creation.
In order to support this belief, they have used certain passages of the Bible to justify holding on to these ideas. The Christian Church has for centuries believed in the existence of evil spirit beings. It is not my purpose here to deny outright the existence of spirit-beings that are devoted to evil and to the destruction of humankind, but rather to put these things into proper perspective for our consideration. In the Judaeo-Christian-Islamic tradition there is the notion of God vs. In many religious communities, there is the concept of evil forces vs.
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