Satan
Why Did God Require Animal Sacrifice in the Old Testament?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Animal Sacrifice, Atonement, Christus Victor, Forgiveness, God, God's Wrath, Satan
Topics: Christus Victor view of Atonement, Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
Question: I have a question about the atonement. Why did YHWH in the OT demand that people sacrifice animals? And if these sacrifices anticipated the ultimate sacrifice of the Messiah, as the author of Hebrews…
Why Did Jesus Die on the Cross?
Category: General
Tags: Atonement, Christus Victor, Crucifixion, Jesus, Penal Substitution View of Atonement, Satan, Warfare Worldview
Topics: Christus Victor view of Atonement
If asked why Jesus had to die on the cross, most Christians today would immediately answer, “To pay for my sins.” Jesus certainly paid the price for our sins, but it might surprise some reader…
Did Jesus Believe in Satan?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Demons, Jesus, Satan, Warfare Worldview
Topics: Spiritual Warfare, Cosmic Conflict
Jesus’ teaching, his exorcisms, his healings and other miracles, as well as his work on the cross, all remain somewhat incoherent and unrelated to one another until we interpret them as acts of war. As…
6 Things the Church Fathers Can Teach Us about Spiritual Warfare
Category: General
Tags: Evil, Natural Evil, Problem of Evil, Satan, Sin, Spiritual Warfare, Theodicy
Topics: Spiritual Warfare, Cosmic Conflict
Image by Christina Saint Marche via Flickr Unlike our thinking today about the source of good and evil in the world, the early church fathers, including Irenaus, Athenagorus, Origen, and others before Augustine, possessed a warfare…
Podcast: Did Hell Exist Before Satan Fell?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Hell, Satan
Children ask the cutest questions. Greg considers the origins of hell and other burning questions. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0460.mp3
Atonement: What is the Christus Victor View?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Atonement, Christus Victor, Cruciform Theology, God's Wrath, Jesus, Penal Substitution View of Atonement, Satan
Topics: Christus Victor view of Atonement
Most western Christians today understand the atonement as a sort of legal-transaction that took place between the Father and the Son that got humanity “off the hook.” The legal-transaction scenario goes something like this: God’s…
Podcast: Did Evil Exist Before Lucifer’s Revolt?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Evil, Satan
Greg talks about evil and the goodness of creation, then considers some speculative inferences about the existence of creation for all eternity. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0416.mp3
Podcast: Does God Love Satan?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: God's Love, Satan
Greg talks about the potential of Satan repenting. A great question by Matthew! http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0412.mp3
Podcast: Why Was Satan Allowed Into the Garden to Begin With?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Adam and Eve, Evil, Natural Evil, Problem of Evil, Satan, Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
Greg considers why Satan was allowed into the Garden. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0372.mp3
The Nature of Human Rebellion
Category: General
Tags: Satan, Sin, Spiritual Warfare
God placed Adam in the Garden and instructed him to “protect” it (Gen. 2:15). The word is often translated “till” or “keep,” implying that Adam’s main responsibility was to protect the pristine Garden from weeds….
Podcast: Am I Being Tested By God? Or Am I Being Attacked By Satan?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Satan, Temptation
Greg ponders whether or not the SOURCE of testing matter, and offers wisdom for dealing with testing. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0301.mp3
Podcast: Did the Devil Make Me Do It?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Satan, Spiritual Warfare
Topics: Spiritual Warfare, Cosmic Conflict
Greg peeks into the complexity of our spiritual world and offers wisdom for discerning spiritual activity. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0299.mp3
Podcast: If the Crucifixion Is God’s Victory Over Satan, Why Does Satan Keep Fighting?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Satan, Satan and the Problem of Evil
Greg talks already-but-not-yet, perspectives of the principalities, and the toilsome life of a muon. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0284.mp3
Podcast: Can Satan Heal People?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: healing, Satan, Satan and the Problem of Evil
Greg considers whether Satan has the ability to heal people. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0268.mp3
What We’re Up Against
Category: General
Tags: Evil, Kingdom of God, Kingdom of this World, Satan, Warfare Worldview
Topics: Spiritual Warfare, Cosmic Conflict
Though Jesus dealt a final blow to Satan’s kingdom through the cross and resurrection, the New Testament makes it clear that Satan is still viewed as the “god of this world” (2 Cor 4:4), “the…
Who Rules Governments? God or Satan? Part 2
Category: General
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Government, Open Theism, Power, Satan
In the previous post, I raised the question of how we reconcile the fact that the Bible depicts both God and Satan as the ruler of nations, and I discussed some classical ways this has…
Who Rules Governments? God or Satan? Part 1
Category: General
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Government, Open Theism, Power, Satan
Running throughout Scripture is the motif that depicts God as the ultimate ruler of the nations. On the other hand, the NT teaches that the ruler of nations is Satan. What do we do with…
Podcast: Is It God Withdrawing OR Is It a Scheme of Satan?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Evil, Is God to Blame?, Problem of Evil, Satan
Sometimes evil is attributed to God withdrawing. Sometimes it is attributed to a scheme of Satan. We are called to respond to each differently. So, must we be able to discern which is the case…
Podcast: If Heaven is So Great, Why Did Satan Fall?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Heaven, Heaven and Hell, Satan
Greg discusses the nature of free will and love at the angelic level, heavy metal music, Seasonal Affective Disorder, and Satan’s dumb choices. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0106.mp3
Podcast: Is Satan Just a Copout?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Satan
Is Satan just a copout for what humans should take responsibility for? http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0101.mp3