In perhaps the best-known example, the story of Lucifer, pride ( his desire to compete with God ) was what caused his fall from Heaven, and his resultant transformation into Satan.

In the final judgment, responsibility for sin is passed back to Satan who first caused mankind to sin.

A story shortly after September 11, 2001 showed the face of Satan appearing in a cloud of dust caused by the collapse of the World Trade Center.

# External physical pain caused by Satan ;

Furthermore, the Yazidi story regarding Tawûsê Melek's rise to favor with God is almost identical to the story of the jinn Iblis in Islam, except that Yazidis revere Tawûsê Melek for refusing to submit to Adam, while Muslims believe that Iblis ' refusal to submit caused him to fall out of Grace with God, and to later become Satan himself.

Morris wrote in The Remarkable Birth of Planet Earth ( 1972 ) that the craters of the moon were caused by a cosmic battle between the forces of Satan and the armies of the archangel Michael.

According to Luke, Satan took possession of Judas and caused him to do these things.

For example, the text implies that The Fall of Man was caused by Eve having sex with Satan.

Different gnostic schools sometimes identified the demiurge as Adam Kadmon, Ahriman, El, Saklas, Samael, Satan, Yaldabaoth, or Yahweh.

The Dialogue attributed to Aristo of Pella is believed to have furnished Justin with scriptural proof-texts on the divinity of the Messiah by combining a Wisdom Christology-Christ as the incarnation of preexistent Wisdom-with a Second Adam Christology-the first Adam was conquered by Satan, but this Fall of Man is reversed by Christ as the Second Adam who conquers Satan.

Iblis is banished from heaven and becomes Satan by refusing to prostrate before Adam.

In the Ascension of Isaiah and the Life of Adam and Eve, Satan rules over a host of angels.

Members of the Church of Satan, such as Peter H. Gilmore, Peggy Nadramia, Boyd Rice, Adam Parfrey, Diabolos Rex, and musician King Diamond, were active in media appearances to refute allegations of criminal activity.

Queen Jadis resembles the Biblical Satan, as Aslan describes her as the first evil brought into the Narnia and Jadis later tempts Digory to eat one of the forbidden apples in the garden, as does Satan, disguised as a serpent, tempt Adam and Eve into eating a forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden.

Details about the three of Joktan's sons, Sheba, Ophir and Havilah, were preserved in a tradition known in divergent forms from three pre-Islamic Arabic and Ethiopic sources: the Kitab al-Magall ( part of Clementine literature ), the Cave of Treasures, and the Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan.

To the left God produces the tables of the law, Adam and Eve partake of the forbidden fruit, the brazen serpent is reared aloft, and punishment supervenes in the shape of death and the realm of Satan.

* Adam Gussow, writer and blues harmonica player, member of the duo Satan and Adam

As if it had been the design of Christ, in this passage, to speak of the corruption of human nature, and to inquire whether the wound which Satan inflicted on Adam were deadly or curable ; nay, as if he had not plainly, and without a figure, declared in another passage, that all are dead, but those whom he quickens by his voice ().

Muslims believe that when God created Adam and Eve, He told them that they could enjoy everything in the Garden but this tree, and so, Satan appeared to them and told them that the only reason God forbade them to eat from that tree is that they would become Angels or become immortals.

Thus, Adamic story traces the source of evil to Satan ’ s transgression and the fall of Adam and Eve in Eden, a trend reflected in the Books of Adam and Eve that explains the reason for Satan ’ s demotion by his refusal to obey God ’ s command to venerate newly created Adam.

* Satan is traditionally identified as the serpent who convinced Eve to eat the forbidden fruit ; thus, Satan has often been depicted as a serpent.

In Book IX of John Milton's Paradise Lost, Satan is compared to a " will-o-the-wisp " in tempting of Eve to partake of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil:

Ancient exegetes, such as the Midrash and the Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan, suggest something even more sinister behind the killing.

Eve herself was verbally seduced by the serpent, believed in Christianity to be Satan ; the Sirens of Greek mythology lured sailors to their death by singing them to shipwreck ; Cleopatra beguiled both Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, Dionysus was the Greek God of Seduction and wine, and Persian queen Scheherazade saved herself from execution by story-telling.

The Ge ' ez Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan ( ca.

* 1808 in art-William Blake completes Satan Watching the Endearments of Adam and Eve.

He asserts that Satan is called the dragon ( Greek drakon ) on account of his having revolted apodedrakenai from God, and traces the Bacchanalian cry " Evoe " to the name of Eve as the first sinner.

* Satan springing from the ear of Eve at the touch of Ithuriel ’ s Spear

This tradition appears in numerous older sources, including the Kitab al-Magall, the Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan, the Cave of Treasures, and the writings of Patriarch Eutychius of Alexandria.

One account, the Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan, states that " In the days of Phalek ( Peleg ), the earth was divided a second time among the three sons of Noah ; Shem, Ham and Japheth " — it having been divided once previously among the three sons by Noah himself.

6th Century Ge ' ez work The Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan.

The angel Suriyel is briefly mentioned in the Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan as bearing Adam and Eve from the top of a high mountain to the Cave of Treasures.

Since people in both Heaven and Hell remain forever the same age they were when they died, this would mean that the baby would remain a baby and never have a chance to live out a full life, a fact that distresses Scumspawn and Edith so much that they manage to convince Satan to disobey God's orders and try to return the baby to the world of the living.

The Quran states that Satan was a jinn ( as in Islam, angels cannot disobey Allah ) and also he is mentioned with the angels in verses ( 2: 34, 7: 11, 15: 29, 17: 61, 18: 50, 20: 116, 38: 71 ) prior to his fall.

Lewis ' books belong to the unique genre which can be characterized as " Theological science fiction " or " Christian science fiction ", i. e., they assume the basic tenets of Christianity are factually true: God exists and He created the Universe and watches over everybody ; Adam and Eve were real persons, the ancestors of everybody, and they were tempted by The Serpent / Satan to disobey God-with very serious consequences ; Jesus really is the Son of God and He truly died on the cross in order to redeem Humanity ; Satan is present, trying all the time to tempt people into selling him their souls, and those who are so tempted suffer a very terrible Perdition ; and so on.

The wager between God and Satan brings on the destiny of Faust, but Faust assumes his role voluntarily.

In their case, the god of this world ( Satan ) has blinded their unbelieving minds, that they should not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

The author of the Book of Revelation writes about God and the angels versus Satan and demons in an epic battle at the end of times when all souls are judged.

: Do you renounce Satan and all the spiritual forces of wickedness that rebel against God?

It relates the story of Job, his trials at the hands of Satan, his discussions with friends on the origins and nature of his suffering, his challenge to God, and finally a response from God.

The " sons of God " and Satan ( literally " the Adversary ") present themselves to God, and God asks Satan his opinion on Job.

Satan answers that Job is pious only because God has put a " wall around " him and " blessed " his favourite servant with prosperity, but if God were to stretch out his hand and strike everything that Job had, then he would surely curse God.

God gives Satan permission to test Job's righteousness.

As Job endures these calamities without reproaching God, Satan solicits permission to afflict his person as well, and God says, " Behold, he is in your hand, but don't touch his life.

" The Satan ", meaning literally " the adversary ", appears in the prose prologue of Job, where he is not the devil, as he becomes in later Christian works, but one of the celestial beings who stand before God in the heavenly court.

In different parts of the earth, Satan will manifest himself among men as a majestic being of dazzling brightness, resembling the description of the Son of God given by John in the Revelation.

God used Satan to try King David (; ), who then numbered the people out of pride.

The religious dualism of Christianity is not a perfect dualism as God ( good ) will inevitably destroy Satan ( evil ).

Rather, evil spirits described in various faiths ' traditions, such as Satan, fallen angels, demons, and jinns, are metaphors for the base character traits a human being may acquire and manifest when he turns away from God and follows his lower nature.

It also distinguishes between the world ( which is full of evil and under the dominion of Satan ) and the children of God ( who are set apart from the world ).

The Gospel also takes a strongly anti-Pauline tone at times, saying in the Italian version's beginning: " many, being deceived of Satan, under pretence of piety, are preaching most impious doctrine, calling Jesus son of God, repudiating the circumcision ordained of God for ever, and permitting every unclean meat: among whom also Paul has been deceived.