Tend to talk through omens, prayer, meditation, the Rosary, Apostles, prophets, burning bushes, angels, or by manifesting themselves as corporeal beings Occult Ouija boards witchcraft(the evil kind). G-D of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob Adonai, HaShem. Satan, Adversary, Tempter, Baal, Beelzebub, The wicked one, The Evil one, the evil spirit, Father of lies, The archfiend, Belial, Diabolos, Old Serpent, Dragon, Lucifer, Angra Mainyu, Ahriman, Mara, Iblis, HaSatin, anti-Christ, Beast etc. The word Islam means "submission", or the total surrender of oneself to Allah (God) Muslims believe that God revealed the Quran. Philosophers have developed many arguments for and against the existence of God.Ĭomparison chart Devil versus God comparison chartĭevil is referred to as Iblis or Shaitan, with the power to cast evil suggestions into the heart of men Many notable medieval philosophers developed arguments for the existence of God, attempting to wrestle with the apparent contradictions implied by many of these attributes. These attributes were all supported to varying degrees by the early Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologian philosophers, including Augustine of Hippo, Al-Ghazali and Maimonides. God has also been conceived as being incorporeal, a personal being, the source of all moral obligation, and the "greatest conceivable existent". Theologians have ascribed a variety of attributes to God like omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence, perfect goodness, divine simplicity, and eternal and necessary existence. God most commonly refers to the deity worshipped by followers of monotheistic and monolatrist religions, whom they believe to be the creator and ruler of the universe. Accordingly, humans are urged to align themselves with Ormazd and his Yazatas ("angels") and to shun His adversary who is the ruler of darkness and his demons, so that they may facilitate the final renovation (Frashō-kereti).Ĭhristianity views Satan as an angel cast from heaven by God, for being prideful, deceitful, and the tempter: all strikingly similar to the story of Ahriman. In a final battle between the forces of good and evil, human souls will be judged in a fiery ordeal of molten metal where the good will pass through as if it were warm milk and those who chose evil will be purified and all will be reunited in the new perfected world. Ahura Mazda ("Wise Lord"), also later known as Ormazd in Middle Persian, is the God of light, or Truth, and Angra Mainyu ("Evil Spirit"), also later known as Ahriman in Middle Persian, is the primeval Spirit of darkness, or the Lie. Much like classical monotheism, Zoroastrianism has one supreme God, and an evil spirit who chose to be evil, locked in a cosmic struggle where both are more or less evenly matched, though from the beginning Ahura Mazda's triumph is foretold making Zoroastrianism an ethical dualism. Some scholars believe that the notion of a central supernatural embodiment of evil, as well as the notion of angels, first arose in Western monotheism when Judaism came into contact with the Persian religion of Zoroastrianism. However, a "deva" or "diva" is not a devil.
In other languages devil may be derived from the same Indo-European root word for deva, which roughly translates as "angel". The term devil can refer to a greater demon in the hierarchy of Hell. The English word devil derives from the Middle English devel, from Old English dēofol, from Latin Diábolus, from Late Greek Diabolos, meaning, slanderer, from diaballein, to slander: dia-, across + ballein, to hurl. In classic demonology, however, each of these alternate names refers to a specific supernatural entity, and there is significant disagreement as to whether any of these specific entities is actually evil. This entity is commonly referred to by a variety of other names, including Satan, Asmodai, Beelzebub, Lucifer and/or Mephistopheles.
The Devil is the name given to a supernatural entity, who, in most Western religions, is the central embodiment of evil.