Satan

biblical person · 15 episodes

194Hadassah, Queen of Persia 27 May 2024 4:30¶ 18 “The angel of the Lord, thus Jesus. So here’s the problem. The garments are defiled and that’s a problem, because the garments here represent…” 5:05¶ 19 “But the angel of the Lord says – he does not say shut up. I almost said that. He says, “The Lord rebuke thee,”…” 37:10¶ 117 “Satan, if he’s listening, and he is, can probably figure out “tribe of Judah” but why take chances. “Let’s just get them all. Let’s…”

177The Story 22 Jan 2024 16:11¶ 46 “No. If I were to characterize Satan in the story, he’s the guy that tries to steal the show, who actually isn’t supposed to…” 15:23¶ 44 “Speaking in those terms, you’ve described it as a war story, an action story, an adventure story. You’ve implicitly described it as a romance.…” 15:59¶ 45 “As we look at scripture and look at the gospels, is that where the apparent conflict really is found? Are we afraid that Satan…”

176The Effects of Sin 15 Jan 2024 5:56¶ 18 “It’s true empirical science, I suppose, but not very intelligent, or certainly not very wise empirical science, because what Satan is saying here is,…” 7:58¶ 24 “Satan’s argument is, “This tree is a fact in itself, a brute fact. It awaits your apprehension. You will find in it something of…” 6:52¶ 19 “He doesn’t specify all that he means, but at the very least “You will be as gods, deciding good and evil for yourself. You’ll…”

158Daniel in the Lion's Den - A Resurrection Story 6 Mar 2023 32:46¶ 123 “Now, a couple things here before we reach the climax of the story. First of all, Satan. There’s more than meets the eye here.” 32:59¶ 125 “Yeah, a roaring lion. He’s managed to get the emperor of the world – the Jews’ world, anyway – to shut down all prayer…” 33:25¶ 126 “What Satan was wanting was a silent world, a world that stopped calling up to God, that just gave up on God and was…”

143The Point of No Return 7 Nov 2022 6:36¶ 28 “And the answer is we’re God, so to speak. We get to be the ones who determine reality. It’s no mistake that there’s a…” 7:47¶ 30 “But getting us to believe that’s Satan’s paradigm is Satan’s paradigm.” 7:55¶ 31 “I forget who wrote it, it may be Good Omens but was probably someplace else, “The prince of darkness is a gentleman.” No, he’s…”

135Conspiracy Theory 12 Sep 2022 15:23¶ 51 “Now, is she thinking, “Yeah, me and the serpent, we’re going to be best buds.” I don’t think so. And Satan is not saying,…” 16:14¶ 53 “Satan figures, “I’m a super-powerful angel. What could they possibly do to me?” 34:46¶ 117 “He uses the conspiracies, and the conspiracies themselves, insofar as they’re ungodly, are inherently unstable. Conspirators will turn on one another. They’re out for…”

103Rebellion and Witchcraft 31 Jan 2022 30:42¶ 114 “It is indeed Satan’s worldview. It has to be. He awakes, is created, and finds himself praising God, and at some point he’s got…” 31:36¶ 125 “It’s not at all the same thing. I love the fan fiction thing. Satan is writing himself a new narrative, a metanarrative in this…” 31:15¶ 123 “Satan awakes and God is there, but Satan awakes and the world is there. As they look down on the world, there’s a world…”

76The Theology of the Conquest 26 Jul 2021 18:56¶ 62 “He can’t go to God directly and attack God, but he can attack God’s work and he can attack God’s promise and he can…” 19:09¶ 63 “Kill them. Kill them all, because that would work.” 19:14¶ 64 “Lead them into idolatry so that God kills them all.”

62In The Wilderness 7 Mar 2021 23:24¶ 65 “Again we could say, “What kind of temptation is that? First, Satan’s a liar.” This is so. “And secondly, he doesn’t own all the…” 24:21¶ 70 “Now, this is not a legitimate authority. Satan is not God, and yet somehow on some level Satan was actually the power behind the…” 24:52¶ 72 “So part of what Satan is doing is flat-out deception. He does have, within God’s economy, that permission, that long leash – at least…”

46Faithful Witness 15 Nov 2020 17:37¶ 71 “So we can have conversations like that, and we can laugh about it and we can poke fun even at ourselves, and it’s okay.…” 18:13¶ 72 “One of the things that, again, Lewis puts in the front of Screwtape is he’s quoting Thomas More. “The devil, that proud sprite, cannot…”

15The Babylon Project 12 Apr 2020 11:34¶ 41 “This is simply paganism, from Satan’s come-on in the Garden of Eden forward, “You shall be as gods, deciding for yourself good and evil.”…” 12:16¶ 42 “Satan never said there wasn’t such a being as Yahweh, just that he was highly exaggerating who and what he was.” 12:27¶ 44 “Somebody obviously had come and talked to them, but he couldn’t be that. He might be very big, very powerful, but he could not,…”

12OOPArts, Social Theory, and Progress 22 Mar 2020 29:35¶ 109 “This is more or less Satan’s version of what actually happened. Satan believes that Yahweh is a product of the universe, but Satan knows…” 30:04¶ 110 “He’s just another cosmic force, another god. He woke up sooner and got there first. He’s playing a mass con job on the universe,…” 28:11¶ 105 “It’s also worth pointing out that the difference between true religion and false religion is also the difference between God’s eternal begotten Son and…”

10Myth of Neutrality 8 Mar 2020 2:41¶ 15 “Along comes the serpent and asks a seemingly innocent question. “Has God really said you can’t eat from any of these trees?” but notice…” 5:05¶ 21 “Satan is putting this forward – you used the word neutrality earlier – as a neutral enterprise. “I’m not saying reject God. I’m not…” 12:54¶ 43 “Satan says, “Stand on the neutral ground of your own autonomous personality. Figure this tree out without reference to God,” so she’s already being…”

9Dominion 1 Mar 2020 35:22¶ 97 “Would God say, “Oh, Satan! I didn’t see it coming! You got me on that one. We’ll make sure that never happens again, but…” 42:45¶ 114 “So Satan in ‘destroying’ – as he thought – the first plan, actually opened it up into something far more glorious than he could…” 40:14¶ 108 “Satan tried to destroy it, and what he gave God was a stage where the stakes are infinitely higher and where to accomplish it…”

2In The Beginning 12 Jan 2020 20:15¶ 75 “But one of these angels had to ask, “What’s really going on here? Because if the universe is only so many days old, then…” 20:48¶ 77 “Exactly, the cosmic race to the God chair. “If Yahweh got there first and he’s pulling the cosmic con job of eternity, convincing all…” 21:11¶ 78 “He knew he didn’t make himself. He didn’t want to believe that God made him, because that means God is sovereign and he’s going…”