(May 5, 2022 at 9:29 am)Angrboda Wrote: Regarding Job, I'm reminded of the Jewish saying, "We are God's chosen. Next time, God, please choose someone else."
I'm curious what the limits of the devil are. In Job, he's able to coerce Job through loss, suffering, and torment. Typically Satan is portrayed as a deceiver, a tempter who achieves his aims by tricking us into doing the bad thing, much as a con man uses our innate desires for gain to persuade us to embark upon unwise courses of action. So the question to my mind is, how much of Satan's effectiveness depends upon our complicity?
I've heard that Satan is simply hebrew for "adversary," and that the Christian perception of Satan is much different from the Jewish one.
