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The Christian text “Life of Adam and Eve” relates the same incident : Speaking to Adam, the Devil said : “ ...because of you I am expelled and deprived of my glory which I had in the heavens in the midst of angels, and because of you I was cast out onto the earth.” 2 Adam answered, “What have I done to you, and what is my blame with you? Ch 13 “The devil replied,...It is because of you that I have been thrown out of there. 2 When .......Michael brought you and made (us) honor you in the sight of God, and the Lord God said, ‘Behold Adam! I have made you in our image and likeness.’ Ch 14 3 And I answered, ‘I do not honor Adam.’ ...’Why do you compel me? I will not worship one inferior and subsequent to me. I am prior to him in creation; before he was made, I was already made. He ought to worship me.’ 15 1 When they heard this, other angels who were under me refused to honor him. (Life of Adam and Eve (Vita) 12: 1-2, 13:13, 14:2-3; 15:1-3; 16:1-3)
The LDS and other restorationists will be aware of other controversies that arose besides this one where Satan is offended or passed over for honors he felt were due him. The additional information regarding the fall of Lucifer to become Satan, the devil and an enemy to God is more clear and more logical and the early narratives and additional data available in ancient Judaism, Christianity and Islam add logic and data that most of the newer Christian movements no longer have.
This is obviously a summary of data, yet, even an incomplete survey of the early literature makes clear that the early Christian texts demonstrate that the ancients had a sensible concept of the origin of the Devil and for some of the underlying motives as to why Lucifer battles against God and God's plan for the moral education of those among mankind who are willing and wanting to live by the moral laws which will ultimately prepare them to live in happiness and harmony in a social heaven for eternity. It is important to note that this ancient Christian doctrine is the same doctrine found in the Jewish texts that have been cited and it is the same doctrine in the Islamic documents that have been cited. It is a "crossroads" doctrine that was common to early Judaism, to early Christianity, and to early Islam.
Compared to the lack of data and historical incoherence which characterize most modern religious theories the ancient Christian doctrines were, I think, more coherent and more logical and represented a more detailed explanation of the Devils origin. This is partly why I was so astounded to find a modern Christianity that was tied into these base historical issues so closely and converted to restorational theology. I hope the LDS readers will start to understand the tremendous historical strength of their position on these base doctrines.
Such doctrines were "great crossroads of agreement" for early Judeo-Christian-Islamic traditions AND Importantly, they explain and make rational, many of the most difficult moral and theological questions that plague modern christian theology in modern christian movements.
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σινεσετζω
The Christian text “Life of Adam and Eve” relates the same incident : Speaking to Adam, the Devil said : “ ...because of you I am expelled and deprived of my glory which I had in the heavens in the midst of angels, and because of you I was cast out onto the earth.” 2 Adam answered, “What have I done to you, and what is my blame with you? Ch 13 “The devil replied,...It is because of you that I have been thrown out of there. 2 When .......Michael brought you and made (us) honor you in the sight of God, and the Lord God said, ‘Behold Adam! I have made you in our image and likeness.’ Ch 14 3 And I answered, ‘I do not honor Adam.’ ...’Why do you compel me? I will not worship one inferior and subsequent to me. I am prior to him in creation; before he was made, I was already made. He ought to worship me.’ 15 1 When they heard this, other angels who were under me refused to honor him. (Life of Adam and Eve (Vita) 12: 1-2, 13:13, 14:2-3; 15:1-3; 16:1-3)
The LDS and other restorationists will be aware of other controversies that arose besides this one where Satan is offended or passed over for honors he felt were due him. The additional information regarding the fall of Lucifer to become Satan, the devil and an enemy to God is more clear and more logical and the early narratives and additional data available in ancient Judaism, Christianity and Islam add logic and data that most of the newer Christian movements no longer have.
This is obviously a summary of data, yet, even an incomplete survey of the early literature makes clear that the early Christian texts demonstrate that the ancients had a sensible concept of the origin of the Devil and for some of the underlying motives as to why Lucifer battles against God and God's plan for the moral education of those among mankind who are willing and wanting to live by the moral laws which will ultimately prepare them to live in happiness and harmony in a social heaven for eternity. It is important to note that this ancient Christian doctrine is the same doctrine found in the Jewish texts that have been cited and it is the same doctrine in the Islamic documents that have been cited. It is a "crossroads" doctrine that was common to early Judaism, to early Christianity, and to early Islam.
Compared to the lack of data and historical incoherence which characterize most modern religious theories the ancient Christian doctrines were, I think, more coherent and more logical and represented a more detailed explanation of the Devils origin. This is partly why I was so astounded to find a modern Christianity that was tied into these base historical issues so closely and converted to restorational theology. I hope the LDS readers will start to understand the tremendous historical strength of their position on these base doctrines.
Such doctrines were "great crossroads of agreement" for early Judeo-Christian-Islamic traditions AND Importantly, they explain and make rational, many of the most difficult moral and theological questions that plague modern christian theology in modern christian movements.
Clear
σινεσετζω
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