Tasmanian Devil

The Devil is a title given to the supernatural entity, who, in Christianity, Islam, and certain other faiths, is the most powerful evil entity and the tempter of humankind. more...

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God and the Devil are usually portrayed as fighting over the souls of humans, with the Devil seeking to lure people away from God and into hell. The Devil commands a force of lesser evil spirits, commonly known as demons. The Devil is destined to be destroyed at the end of this age, but not before he has led many humans, some say the vast majority, to perdition. The Devil is commonly associated with heretics, infidels, and other unbelievers.

This entity is commonly referred to by a variety of names, including Angra Mainyu, Satan, Asmodai, Beelzebub, Lucifer, Mephistopheles, or Iblis. Many other religions have a trickster or tempter figure that is similar to the Devil.

Modern conceptions of the Devil include the concept that it merely symbolizes humans' own lower nature or sinfulness.

Etymology

The English word devil derives via Middle English devel and Old English dēofol and Latin Diábolus, from Late Greek language Diabolos, meaning, slanderer, from diaballein, to slander: dia-, across + ballein, to hurl (scriptural loan-translation of Hebrew satan). Jerome re-introduced Satan in the Latin Bibles (and thus in the European translations that followed), and English translators have used both in different measures. In the Vulgate, as had been the Greek usage, diabolus and dæmon were distinct, but they seem to have merged semantically in English and other Germanic languages.

The Devil in world religions

Zoroastrianism

In the Gathas, the oldest texts of the Zoroastrian Avesta and believed to have been composed by Zoroaster himself, the poet does not mention a manifest adversary. Ahura Mazda's Creation is "truth", asha. The "lie" (druj) is manifest only as decay or chaos, not an entity.

Later, in Zurvanism (Zurvanite Zoroastrianism), Ahura Mazda and the principle of evil, Angra Mainyu, are the "twin" offspring of Zurvan, 'Time'. No trace of Zurvanism exists after the 10th century.

Today, the Parsis of India largely accept the 19th century interpretation that Angra Mainyu is the 'Destructive Emanation' of Ahura Mazda. Instead of struggling against Mazda himself, Angra Mainyu battles Spenta Mainyu, Mazda's 'Creative Emanation.'

Judaism

In Judaism there is no concept of a devil like in Christianity or Islam. In Hebrew, the biblical word ha-satan means the adversary or the obstacle, or even "the prosecutor" (recognizing that God is viewed as the ultimate Judge).

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