re satan kicked out of heaven biblical in article may athos rutgers edu easteee wkuvx bitnet writes hello all i have a question about satan i was taught a long time ago that satan was really an angel of god and was kicked out of heaven because he challenged god s authority the problem is i cannot find this in the bible is it in the bible if not where did it originate i did a workshop on this for an episcopalian student gathering a couple months ago because i wanted to know the answer too as far as i could tell although that story was never specifically told in the bible many references are made to it primarily in the new testament in the old testament there is actually an entirely different view of satan as a excuse the pun devil s advocate for yahweh see the book of job getting back to the fallen angel story there are no references to lucifer in the bible except for a mistranslation of the morning star in the king james version isaiah which probably referred to a babylonian monarch much in the same was as the sun king referred to louis xiv all in all i don t know where the story came from it may have been rolling around for a long time or milton paradise lost may have invented it sorry for the sketchiness of the rest of this but i am in a hurry and need to eat lunch feel free to email me about the other stuff i found out although a lot of it is just the result of a bible concordance program called quickverse it s really lousy by the way don t buy it wondering eddie o western kentucky university easteee wkuvx bitnet hope this helped vera je cherche une ame qui of course i don t agree with pourra m aider mylene farmer s religious views je suis i just think they re interesting d une generation desenchantee vera noyes mylene farmer noye midway uchicago edu
