"Let us then, when we desire to effect any thing great and noble, not regard this, the greatness of the labor which it brings, but let ...

1. One of the oddities of Gen 3 is how the Tempter is introduced with so little exposition or backstory, as if the original audience would ...

1. Maybe this isn't worth writing about, but when so many Americans get their theology from Hollywood movies, perhaps some clarificatio...

1. If you were a director, filming Gen 3, how would you visualize the Tempter? As Michael Heiser has noted, the name of the Tempter is a tr...

14 Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destr...

This may be a suggestion without merit, but I'll float it for consideration. Streams and rivers have a serpentine appearance. Of course...

The book of Revelation is chockfull of violence and warfare. Once issue is how literally take this imagery. At one end of the continuum, a ...

In the cosmology of Lewis's Space Trilogy, as I understand it, each inhabited planet has a guardian angel. Mars is an explicit example....

What does Rev 21:8 mean? It can't mean anyone who ever lied is doomed to hell. That would mean there's no point in unbelievers conv...

There are different ways to define fatalism. Freewill theists use fatalism as a synonym for Calvinism or predestination, but that's con...

To my knowledge, there's a very short list of superior werewolf movies, and even those aren't truly great movies. Mind you, there m...

As I've explained before, the problem of evil in general , in the stereotypical formulation, has no traction for me. But I find certain...

Here's a personal anecdote (which I post with permission) by a long-time Tblog reader who was into the occult prior to his Christian co...

The following post on Rod Dreher's website is from a homosexual man named Matt in VA who makes makes a number of insightful observati...

Two traditional prooftexts for the fall of Lucifer are Isa 14 and Ezk 28. Although Isa 14 isn't directly about the fall of Lucifer, it ...

It's striking how little the Bible explicitly has to say about the fall of angels. Just a few scattered, sometimes ambiguous passages. ...

7 Now war arose in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting against the dragon. And the dragon and his angels fought back, 8 but he was def...

Why did Lucifer fall? Short answer: beats me! It's a perennial theological question. Ultimately unanswerable. God knows. Some heave...

I received some interesting feedback from several commenters on this post: http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-fall-of-angels.ht...

The OT doesn't have much explicitly to say about the fall of angels. Whether Isa 14 & Ezk 28 allude to that primordial event is con...