At biblestudy, we are now reading the gospel of Luke and this week we read about how Jesus was tempted in the desert. This sparked a very interesting conversation... what is the devil?
is it a being?
is it like the holy spirit, but bad -- everywhere all the time?
is it simply the absence of God?
We thought about places where evil exists and think about what shape it takes. Our first images were the grotesque evils of man - the holocaust, wars, terrorism, genocide. But in the story, evil is confronting Jesus one-on-one. It is an individual experience of something that is pulling away from God.
We talked about the things that pull us from God - fear, greed, pride...
But it is an interesting question to ponder. What / who is the devil?
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