38 Search Results for demons

...  the Acts of the Apostles are replete with references to 'demons' who take possession of the bodies of humans, animals, and idols.  ...  ministry of Christ and his apostles, the origin of these demons and the phenomenon of possession are never in the NT narrated or ...

...  What the pagans sacrifice, however, they sacrifice to demons.  To unite one's self to demons after one has united themselves to Christ sacramentally is to provoke ...

...  the hymn as a thanksgiving on the Theotokos' part, demonstrating her belief once more that the revelation which she has received ...

...  their respective lines of tradition as a whole. To demonstrate that these variants are not isolated incidents of transcriptional ...  Dialogue with Trypho (88.8) to precisely this effect, as a demonstration of Christ’s messianic status as the king descended from ...

...  these distinctions.  Essentially, it is now being demonstrated that all of the extant manuscripts represent variations and stages ...  forms of Luke-Acts will constitute an important step in demonstrating that the variants involve stem from an early stage of ...

...  in the wilderness in certain Akkadian texts describing demons who escape the underworld through crags and crevices in the ground to ...

...  and principalities who ruled over them as "their [the demons] elect and beloved" (56:3-4).  "Elect" in Second Temple Jewish ...

...  of the origin of unclean spirits in the Old Testament and demons in the Synoptic Gospels presupposed by those narratives.  The ...

...  in the first century AD.  They are not argued for or demonstrated, merely alluded to and referenced.  The figure of Enoch is ...  is used to describe the fate of Azazel, the prince of demons, in 1 Enoch 10:4-5.  This connection reveals that the fate of the ...  The ubiquity, for example, of the understanding of demons as 'fallen angels' is a testament to this.  While 1 Enoch does not ...

...  and his apostolic ministry and then arguing that these demonstrate their fully-elaborated doctrine of the papacy.  Likewise, many ...  the value and power of the Scriptures and argue that they demonstrate their own understanding of Sola Scriptura.  The submitted evidence ...

...  scholarship has been completely focused on attempting to demonstrate the reality, or lack thereof, of the historical event of the exodus ...

...  though in actuality the fellowship of these rulers with demons.  Rulers even to a very late period from among the pagan nations were ...

...  that what the nations offer in sacrifices they offer to demons and that to participate in these sacrifices is to commune with demons (1 Cor 10:19-22).  St. Paul's affirmation that an idol is nothing, ...

...  is not.  St. Paul's need to reassert the oneness of God demonstrates that St. Paul is here, rather, thinking of Christ.  This is in ...  of the commandments continues to be the means by which we demonstrate faithfulness and loyalty to Christ (John 14:15).  Though Christ ...

...  is shared by the participant of pagan sacrifice with the demons to which those sacrifices are offered. This distinction by St. Paul, ...

...  to Sheol or Hades.  Mesopotamian sources describe demons who rise up from Sheol through cracks in the earth.  Homer presents ...

This week, most of the contemporary world will celebrate the beginning of a new calendar year.  In the ancient world, a variety of calendars were used by different peoples to organize time in a manner held to be sacred.  This produced different beginning ...

...  charges those whom he heals or from whom he casts out demons to tell no one.  At key moments, he allows only the inner circle of the ...

...  to allow for repentance and an escape from the fate of the demons.  The text affirms that the purpose of the entire creation was ...  men call gods" (Apoc 6). All of risen humanity and the demons themselves are immersed in the river of fire which purifies or torments ...

...  creation, both ranks of angels and the origins of demons in general and disembodied demonic spirits in particular.  Angels are ...  the unclean spirits of the Hebrew scriptures and demons as described by Tobit and the Synoptic Gospels.  These themes are ...  authors.  In these cases, it would be difficult to demonstrate that Jubilees is a source for the New Testament document.  Both ...

...  disaster.  As the more common English name of the book demonstrates, however, the word 'Apokalypsis' in Greek identifies the contents ...

...  live eternally in that state would have made them like the demons, unable to repent (Gen 3:22-24).  Rather than bringing Paradise with ...  sin and death.  Those of the nations, ruled over by demons whom they worshiped, were unclean.  Animals from outside the camp were ...

...  judgment over human persons, including the devil and his demons.  They no longer have any claim.  Christ is the Lord and so the judge ...

...  must prove their legitimacy.  More importantly, they must demonstrate the validity of the presuppositions which produced them in the ...

...   Views of this sort are most often debunked by demonstrating the love and compassion of Yahweh in the Old Testament.  The ...

...  fell after his time.  All of this is with the purpose of demonstrating the necessity of Israel's monarchy, specifically the monarchy of ...

...  persons is in no way superior to that which proceeds from demons.  Heresy is no better than paganism.  In fact, while the evil ...

...  one of Baal's titles is used as a title for the prince of demons (Matt 10:25; 12:24, 27; Mark 3:22; Luke 11:15, 18-19).  Zeus is ...

...  They therefore translated the 'shedim' of 32:17 as 'demons.'  The translation 'demon' is in keeping with the general Greek ...  him to say that "what the pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God" mimicking the language of Deuteronomy 32:17 (1 Cor ...

...  chaos is instead ascribed to Yahweh, the God of Israel, to demonstrate his superiority (cf. Ps 74, 89, 93; Job 26:12-13; Is ...

...  was still not a definite article per se, but rather a demonstrative pronoun, and so is found frequently before proper names.  This ...

...  away, however the reference to pagan sacrifices to goat demons in the wilderness (Lev 17:7) might serve to indicate otherwise.  Second ...

...  are, and how he came to be who he is today.  The various demons and devils of scripture, the subject of the next several posts, are ...

...  The Apostle's reference to it here in this context is to demonstrate the reality of the resurrection.  If the dead are not raised, then ...

...  its interpretation of the scriptural text. The greatest demonstration of this is that the vast majority of the Second Temple Jewish ...  world.  The text includes certain Greek etymologies which demonstrate that it was translated from Greek.  There are also a number of ...

...  be worshipped.  Jews and Christians considered them to be demons, in continuity with the ancient kings described in scripture.  It is ...

...  to govern.  This is why 'all the gods of the nations are demons' (Deut 32:17, Ps 96:5, 1 Cor 10:20).  This situation is also described ...

...  believe that God is one?  You do well.  But even the demons believe, and shudder" (Jam 2:19).  The demons not only believe, but know, that God is the Holy Trinity.  They know ...