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''The fall of Lucifer'' by Gustave Doré.

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AK

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As explained in the Gospel of John

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The Bible mentions "devil" 106 times (King James Version)

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Two-time Oscar winner Denzel Washington attributed the angry face-slap by Will Smith of Chris Rock on-stage at the 2022 Academy Awards to the devil.

Northwest

Undo revision 1843107 by AntiPropagandaist (talk) reverted childish vandalism

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Wikignome72

→‎Devil and Atheism

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→‎Atheism and Satan

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→‎Atheism and satanism

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The physical meaning describes the many bad things which happen by chance: accidents, miscommunication, losing things, etc. The meaning in literature emphasizes the wrongdoing more: false accusations as forbidden by the Ten Commandments.

AugustO

still no evidence!

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added qualifiers to rival definitions

AugustO

→‎Etymology: Herew -> Hebrew

AugustO

→‎Etymology: Though the meaning "to create chaos" may be more obvious in a physical sense, there is no evidence that any Greek speaker ever used it this way. In fact, in the Greek literature it is never used to indicate "creating chaos".

AugustO

Please give ONE example of this usage of διαβάλλω !

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Linguists often prefer purely linguistic connotations rather than physical or scientific ones even where, as in the case of "devil", there is no real basis for preferring a linguistic rather than a physical meaning.

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The fundamental uncertainty discovered in quantum mechanics can be understood not as an unmasking of God, but an unmasking of the Devil.

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restore the alternative meaning of creating chaos

AugustO

That is not the meaning of διάβολος: someone who throws one thing, not many....

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restore alternative meaning as chaos

Dataclarifier

→‎Devil and Atheism: corr "who present them self as" to "who present themselves as"

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AugustO

see talk-page.

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punctuation

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Reverted edits by DavidB4 (talk) to last revision by Sporadic Solvent

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Undo revision 1278810 by Sporadic Solvent (talk) I know nothing about Greek, but Cons banned this user after this one edit, so I assume it should go. Fell free to restore it though

Sporadic Solvent

Changed Greek etymology "διαβολοξ" (diávolox) to the correct etymology "διάβολος" (diávolos)

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clean up

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Spelling/Grammar Check & Cleanup, typos fixed: so called → so-called

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Reverted edits by WeHateEducation (talk) to last revision by Conservative

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Replaced content with "'''Devil''' (from the Greek word διαβολοξ; ''diábolos''), which means *''"one who throws things around"'' in the sense of creating the chaos, or *''"slander..."

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→‎See Also: added * Revelation, Book of (historical exegesis)

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Stuff

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→‎Devil and Atheism: Devil and Humor