Temptation of St Antony
Antony is a great figure of Christianism. He devoted most of his life to struggle against Satan and his demons. He also helped the Church to expand in Middle and
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Temptation
The Bible makes clear that the tactics of the devil fall into two major divisions. He attacks the human race both directly and indirectly. He is capable of a direct confrontation with human beings, and an indirect approach.
And through these two avenues he maintains his worldwide control over the race of men. The Bible indicates that there are fallen hosts of angels called demons, whom Paul calls here “the principalities and powers, the world rulers of this present darkness, the spiritual hosts of wickedness in heavenly places.”
A direct attack of the devil upon a human life is an obvious thing, but this is something devious, something circuitous, difficult to detect. This indirect approach comes largely through two media, or channels. One is what the Bible calls “the world,” and the other, “the flesh.”
Temptation of Job
Job was a perfect and an upright man that feared God and abstained from evil. Satan using his accusing character and maliciousness, pretended that Job would cursed God if he
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Temptation of the Christ
During the forty days of the Temptation, Satan used three attacks. These three were the epitome of the areas in which a person can be tested: the lusts of the
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Adam and Eve
The Apocalypsis Mosis tells of how Satan used the serpent as a vessel to tempt Adam and Eve. The serpent tells him that he fears the Lord’s wraith, but Satan
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The Three Attacks
The apostles very seldom mention the direct attack of Satan against human beings. There are a few instances of it, but after our Lord physically left the world there seems
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