Episode Details

What was your upbringing regarding your belief in Satan or the Devil? How were you taught (or scared) growing up about the fallen angel, the demon, the serpent, Beelzebub, and the many other names? In this throwback episode, we will discover where our idea of Demon or Satan comes from and see how your beliefs or ideas about the devil line up with what scripture says.

• Satan in the Hebrew Bible: Numbers 22:22
• Satan in the Garden of Eden as the serpent: Ezekiel 28:12-19
• Where the term “fallen archangel” come from: Isaiah 14:12

Pop-cultural resources about The Devil:

• Inferno by Dante Aligheri
• Paradise Lost by John Milton
• The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
• Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis

A few images depicting Satan

• Florence Baptistry mural
• Detail of Satan from Hans Memling’s Triptych of Earthly Vanity and Divine Salvation
• Devilish propaganda
• William Blake’s depiction of Lucifer in Paradise Lost

Resources:

• Join our online community at  Sanctuary Collective Community 

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This transcript was generated by AI and may contain errors or omissions.

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