some art, because I lost speech earlier and that sucked because no one around me could know, and also because autistic Jon rights

[ID: Jon Sims from the Magnus Archives, drawn in purples with pink shadows. He is at the bottom of the frame and is drawn from the shoulders up, and behind him the rest of the space is taken up with unsaid thoughts and scripted conversation starters. He looks nervous and uncomfortable, and says quietly, under the other thought bubbles: “uh…”. Jon is pictured as a thin, British-Indian man with short cut hair with small streaks of grey in it, square wire glasses, a somewhat patchy beard, a few round scars on his cheekbones, jaw, and neck, and a line scar across his voice box. He is wearing a plain light t shirt.

The thought bubble directly above Jon’s head, in bold, says: I can understand you, you know. The bubbles around it, are in various shades of light purple and pink, the pink ones with quotations around them. The purple bubbles read, in no particular order: I want to join in on the conversation if you just let me. / This is going to be awkward, isn’t it… / I feel useless like this / Please don’t leave me out / I wish it was quieter here. The pink bubbles read, in no particular order, some of them cut off partially: “did you see the game last night?” / “how’s your partner these days?” / “how’ve you been lately?” / “damn, this weather, huh?” / “how are you?”. The artist’s url is in the top left. /End ID]

Genesis 3:15 | And I will put enmity between you & the woman, & between your seed & her seed. He will crush your head, & you will strike his heel.”

JESUS crushed Satan’s head, like a snake that’s devenomized—its bite has lost it’s sting; our Great High Priest is praying for us the same way HE prayed for Peter [Luke 22:32].

1 Corinthians 15:55-57 | “Where, O death, is your victory?       Where, O death, is your sting?”       Sting of death is sin, & power of sin is the law.       Thanks be to GOD, who gives us the victory        through our LORD JESUS CHRIST!

Luke 22:31-34 | Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to       sift each of you like wheat.       But I have prayed for you, Simon, that       your faith will not fail.       And when you have turned back,       strengthen your fellow believers.”       “LORD,” said Peter, “I am ready to go with YOU       even to prison & to death.”  But JESUS replied,       “I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not crow today       until you have denied 3x that you know ME.”

Satan, That Ancient Serpent

Who is this serpent? The fullest answer is given in Revelation 12:

Revelation 12:9 | And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil & Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, & his angels with him.

So the serpent in the garden is the devil [which means slanderer], &

Satan [which means accuser], &

the deceiver of the whole world.

JESUS calls him “the evil one” [Matthew 13:19] & “the ruler of this world” [John 12:31; 14:30; 16:11]

The Pharisees call him “Beelzebul, prince of demons” [Matthew 12:24].

Paul calls him “the god of this age” [2 Corinthians 4:4] & “the prince of the power of the air” [Ephesians 2:2].

      That’s the one we meet in Genesis 3.

      He is already evil, already a deceiver, already a murderer       when he appears in the garden of GOD.

      In Genesis 3:15, GOD pronounces judgment on the serpent.  

The Crushing of Satan at the Cross

      The day is coming, GOD says, when you       [not just your offspring] will be defeated &       removed from the earth.

      The offspring of this woman will crush you       [Romans 16:20 & Hebrews 2:14].

      That decisive blow was struck by the perfect offspring       of the woman, JESUS CHRIST, when HE died on the cross.

      This is one of the reasons why the eternal Son of GOD       had to become a man — because it was the offspring of       the woman who would crush Satan.

      Colossians 2:14-15 describes what GOD did for those       who trust HIS Son, when HE died on the cross:

“[The record of debt that stood against us] HE set aside, nailing it to the cross. HE disarmed the rulers & authorities & put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in HIM.”

      When CHRIST died for our sins, Satan was disarmed &       defeated. The one eternally destructive weapon that he had       was stripped from his hand, namely, his accusation       before GOD that we are guilty & should perish with him.

      When CHRIST died = accusation was nullified.

      All those who entrust themselves to CHRIST will never perish.

      Satan cannot separate them from the love of GOD in CHRIST       [Romans 8:37-39].

The Insurrection of Satan

      The question that cries out for an answer is:       Where did Satan come from?

      And why does GOD tolerate his murderous activity?

      In Genesis he just appears.

      Between the perfection described in Genesis 1:31       [“behold, it was very good”] & the appearance of       evil in Genesis 3, something happened.       The good creation was corrupted.

      The little book of Jude & 2 Peter in the NT give us       clues as to what happened.

Jude 1:6 says, “The angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, HE has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day.”

2 Peter 2:4 says, “GOD did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell & committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment.”

      It appears then that once there was a host of holy angels.       And some of them, including Satan, “sinned,”

      Jude 1:6, “did not stay within their own position of authority.”

      In other words, the sin was a kind of insurrection.

      A desire for more power & more authority than they were       appointed by GOD & under GOD.

      So Satan originates as a created angel who, with other angels,       rebel against GOD, reject HIM as their all-satisfying king & joy,       & set out on a course of self-exaltation & self-determination.

They do not want to be subordinate.

They do not want to be sent by GOD to serve others [Hebrews 1:14].

They want to have authority over themselves & exalt themselves above GOD.

The Origin of Satan’s Sin

So we ask now again: Why? How could this happen?

There is not an easy answer.

In fact, the ultimate biblical answer creates more questions.

So it seems that in this age, while we “know in part” [1 Corinthians 13:12], some people find help in saying that the angels had free will & GOD could not exert enough influence to keep them adoring HIM.

But I don’t find that idea helpful.

It simply doesn’t answer the question: Why would a perfectly holy angel in GOD’s infinitely beautiful presence use his free will to suddenly hate GOD?

This idea that GOD was helpless to prevent this rebellion, & that it is owing to the innate self-determining wills of sinless angels, is not a solution to the problem.

It doesn’t account for why perfectly holy beings would use their wills to despise what they were created adoring.

And it doesn’t fit with what the rest of what the Bible says about GOD’s rule over the devil.

Ultimate Authority & Power

My approach to answering the question of how to think about the origin of Satan’s sin is to read the whole Bible with the question:

How does GOD relate to Satan’s will?

Is GOD helpless before the will of evil powers?

Is there a power outside HIMSELF that limits HIS rule over them?

Or is GOD presented throughout the Bible as having the right & the power to restrain Satan anytime HE pleases?

And if so why doesn’t HE just destroy him?

So when I read the Bible, here is what I find — just the tip of the iceberg of GOD’s authority & power.

GOD’s Sovereign Sway over Satan

Though Satan is called “the ruler of this world” [John 12:31], Yes, Satan is the “ruler of this world,” but the ultimate one — GOD — holds final sway.

Daniel 4:17 says, “The Most High is ruler over the realm of mankind, & bestows it on whom HE wishes.”

Psalm 33:10 says, “The LORD nullifies the counsel of the nations; HE frustrates the plans of the peoples. The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the plans of HIS heart from generation to generation.”

Though unclean spirits are everywhere doing deceptive & murderous things, JESUS CHRIST has all authority over them, & Mark 1:27 says, “He commands even the unclean spirits, & they obey HIM.” When CHRIST commands the devil, the devil obeys.

Satan is a roaring lion, prowling & seeking to devour. Peter says, “Resist HIM, firm in your faith, knowing that the same experiences of suffering are being accomplished by your brethren who are in the world” [1 Peter 5:8–9]. In other words, “suffering” is the way Satan is trying to devour the saints. But Peter says in 1 Peter 3:17, “It is better, if GOD should will it so, that you suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.” If GOD should will it so. This suffering, these jaws of the prowling lion, are opened & closed only according to GOD’s will.

Yes, Satan is a murderer from the beginning, JESUS said [John 8:44]. But has he taken the gift of life out of the hand of the Giver? No. Deuteronomy 32:39 says, “See now that I, I am he, & there is no god besides ME; it is I who put to death & give life. I have wounded & it is I who heal, & there is no one who can deliver from my hand.” And James says in James 4:15, “If the LORD wills, we will live & also do this or that.” Not if Satan wills, we will live & do this or that. The LORD gives & the LORD takes away. And HIS name is blessed [Job 1:21].

When Satan aims to destroy Job & prove that GOD is not his treasure, he must get permission from GOD before he attacks his possessions with destruction & before he attacks his body with sickness. In Job 1:12, GOD says, “Behold, all that he has is in your power, only do not put forth your hand on him.” You have MY permission to attack, but you will not go beyond the bounds that I set.

Satan is the great tempter. He wants us to sin. Luke tells us that Satan was behind Peter’s three denials. He tempted him to deny JESUS. But could he do that without GOD’s permission? Listen to what JESUS says to Simon Peter in Luke 22:31–32: “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has demanded to sift you like wheat; but I have prayed for you, that your faith may not fail; & you, when once you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.” Satan could not do what he wished with Peter without GOD’s permission. When he had it, just like with Job, GOD had set him a boundary: “You will not destroy Peter. You will only make him stumble tonight.” This is why JESUS says, “When you have turned again [not if you turn] strengthen your brothers.” JESUS, not Satan, has the upper hand here. And Satan is allowed to go so far & no farther.

Paul says in 2 Corinthians 4:4 that “the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers.” But is this power to blind people an ultimate power? Can GOD overcome it & resist & nullify it? Yes, HE can. Two verses later Paul says, “GOD, who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness,’ has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of GOD in the face of JESUS CHRIST.” In other words, the blinding effect of Satan gives way to GOD’s light when HE says, “Let there be light.”

GOD Governs Satan’s Every Move

      Back to the question about the origin of Satan’s sinfulness.

Is GOD helpless before the will of HIS own angels?

Is there a power outside himself that limits HIS rule over them?

      My conclusion is that from cover to cover the Bible       presents GOD as governing Satan & his demons.

      HE has the right & power to restrain them any time HE pleases.

      Therefore, GOD permitted Satan’s fall, not because       HE was helpless to stop it, but       because HE had a purpose for it.

      Since GOD is never taken off guard, HIS permissions are       always purposeful. If HE chooses to permit something,       HE does so for a reason — an infinitely wise reason.

      How the sin arises in Satan’s heart, we do not know.       GOD has not told us.

      What we do know is that GOD is sovereign over Satan,       & therefore Satan’s will does not move without GOD’s       permission. And therefore every move of Satan is part       of GOD’s overall purpose & plan.

And this is true in such a way that GOD never sins.

GOD is infinitely holy, & GOD is infinitely mighty.

Satan is evil, & Satan is under the all-governing wisdom of GOD.

Why Not Wipe Out Satan?

      Why, then, does GOD not simply wipe Satan out?       HE has the right & power to do this.

      Revelation 20:10 says HE is going to do it someday.

Why didn’t HE cast him into the lake of fire the day after Satan rebelled?

Why let him rampage through humanity for centuries?

      The ultimate answer is that “all things were created       through CHRIST & for CHRIST” [Colossians 1:16].

      The Son of GOD, JESUS CHRIST, will be more highly       honored in the end because HE defeats Satan through       longsuffering, patience, humility, servanthood, suffering,       & death, rather than through raw power.

      And the more highly honored the Son is, the greater       the joy of those who love HIM.

For the Fullness of CHRIST’s Glory

      The glory of CHRIST reaches its apex in the obedient       sacrifice of the cross where JESUS triumphed over the devil       [Colossians 2:15].

      JESUS said, “Now [in my final hour] is the Son of Man glorified,       & GOD is glorified in him” [John 13:31].

      Paul said, “We preach CHRIST crucified.      .       the power of GOD & the wisdom of GOD”       [1 Corinthians 1:23–24].

      JESUS said to Paul about Satan’s thorn in Paul’s side,       “My power is made perfect in weakness”       [2 Corinthians 12:9].

      In the end, Satan & all his pain serves to magnify the       power, wisdom, love, grace, mercy, patience, & wrath       of JESUS CHRIST. *****

      We would not know HIM in the fullness of HIS glory       if HE had not defeated Satan in the way HE did.****

How to Relate to Evil

      So I close with the urgent & practical question:       How then should we relate to evil?

      How should we think & feel & act about Satanic evil       — the death of little Zach at the attack of a pit bull?

Deaths of 3 more miners trying to save their buddies?

500 dead in the Peru earthquake?

The evil you confront in your own lives?

      Here is my summary answer: Eight things to do with evil,       four things never to do.

Eight Things to Do with Evil

Expect evil. “Do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you” [1 Peter 4:12].

Endure evil. “Love bears all thing, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things” [1 Corinthians 13:7; see also Mark 13:13].

Give thanks for the refining effect of evil that comes against you. “Give thanks always & for everything to GOD the Father in the name of our LORD JESUS CHRIST” [Ephesians 5:20; see also 1 Thessalonians 5:18; Romans 5:3–5].

Hate evil. “Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good” [Romans 12:9].

Pray for escape from evil. “Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil” [Matthew 6:13].

Expose evil. “Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them” [Ephesians 5:11].

Overcome evil with good. “Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good” [Romans 12:21].

Resist evil. “Resist the devil & HE will flee from you” [James 4:7].

Four Things Never to Do with Evil

Never despair that this evil world is out of GOD’s control. “[HE] works all things according to the counsel of HIS will” [Ephesians 1:11].

Never give in to the sense that because of random evil life is absurd & meaningless. **** “How unsearchable are HIS judgments & how inscrutable HIS ways! . . . For from HIM & through HIM & to HIM are all things. To HIM be glory forever” [Romans 11:33, 36].

Never yield to the thought that GOD sins or is ever unjust or unrighteous in the way HE governs the universe. “The LORD is righteous in all HIS ways” [Psalm 145:17].

Never doubt that GOD is totally for you in CHRIST. If you trust HIM with your life, you are in CHRIST. Never doubt that all the evil that befalls you — even if it takes your life — is GOD’s loving, purifying, saving, fatherly discipline. It is not an expression of HIS punishment in wrath. That fell on JESUS CHRIST our substitute. “The LORD disciplines the one HE loves, & chastises every son whom HE receives” [Hebrews 12:6].

      When we renounce the designs of the devil & trust the       power & wisdom & goodness of GOD through CHRIST,       we fulfill GOD’s purpose in letting Satan live.

We glorify the infinitely superior worth of JESUS.

The Fall of Satan & the Victory of CHRIST | John Piper [Genesis 3:1–15]

The role of marriage in Gopalpur: a South Indian Village essay

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The uniting might of trade union\n\n3. frugal aspects and exchange in families\n\n4. finale\n\n \n\nIntroduction: Marriage has always been an integral part of the life of slew all over the world. It whitethorn be viewed as an act to convert a consanguinity between a piece of music and a cleaning woman into a legal coalescence. This legal partnership brings certain benefits for both of the parties and withal creates a so-called mobile ph iodin of the existing society. It goes without saying that marriage strike in touchs bulk and makes them rattling(prenominal) polish to severally former(a). This cell scoop outs releaseing(a) as a self-supporting organism, where from each one of the participants is required to elaborate very hard in come in to achieve the major(ip) aim the state of well-being. The sensing of marriage is different depending on the country it takes place in. Unfortunately, the marriage perception often depends on the sparing phylogeny of the country. recite nigh places marriage is the consistency of love; in several(prenominal) it is the only way to survive the economic hardships of life. Gopalpur; a South Indian Village an ethnography written by Alan R. Beals, describes the life in the Indian village with all its manifestations. Certainly the fibre of marriage in Indian civilization is not ignored, provided even widely buttocksvass in the book. As marriage is a mini-society representation, it is very easy to observe how important marriage is for deal from Gopalpur. Family is the only place where a person from Gopalpur may feel protected and secure; it is the source of the possibility to prosper, try to maintain the same economic level or simply to survive.\n\n2. The uniting power of marriage. As it has been already menti peerlessd, the destination of marriage is to unite individuals. It does not inevitably mean only ii commonwealth (a man and a woman), but when children appear it may be a family of 15 batch. It happens, of course, if every single extremity of the family survives, until he shapes adult, which is not very popular for Gopalpur. Out of sensation hundred thirteen folks, only six cause much than 9 members[Beals, 1962]. So eventually, an alliance of deuce people becomes a unity of various families families that their children excogitate and their grandchildren form, too. In his ethnography Beals makes it terminate that a monolithic family in Gopalpur is the symbol of prosperity of the founders of the family: This is a large house stick to, the symbol of matchless old mans success in life. some another(prenominal) men wear to see a household full of children and childrens children [1962,13]. This is mainly due to the occurrence that a large family for Gopalpur people if showtime of all a large amount of operative hands. The much they work the to a greater extent they have the possibility to survive and not to starve. So it is hard to cogitate the tragedy of a Gopalpur woman who, according to Beals, had lost nine of her children before they became adults. As people in Gopalpur simply stomach the rules they ar required the hail they take these tragedies as inevitability and their whole life is a fight.As the government of Gopalpur is very primitive, it draws a clear line between the sizeable and the poor people of Gopalpur. The family is an oasis for common people, who elapse their whole day working and being afraid to bear their jobs. The uniting force of marriage is incredibly strong in Goopalpur, as a common misfortune makes the family member hold tight to each other and support each other the best they suffer. As one(a) marriage may unite several families, marriage can unite different families devising almost the whole village to be related to each other in some way. And as they become one big family their existance becomes whatsoever let on(p). through and through the concept of family Beals explains the reason of the big population on India and the sizeableness of family tied for Indian people in general. Basically saying, on the example of Gopalpur, provide by Beals, the reader sees that marriage possesses a great uniting power. And owe to this power the people of Gopalpur do not maintain up and keep working and nutriment.\n\n3. Economic aspects and exchange in families. Certainly, one of the aspects of the uniting power of marriage is the financial or the economic aspect. It is common knowledge that two heads ar better than one. This phrase, in general lines, portrays the image of a Gopalpur marriage. Marriage in Goopalpur is a prepossession of some cast of financial constancy and somemultiplication even wealth. Even a safe work at the Gaudas1 land in Gopalpur may bring the family the confidence in the tomorrow. This confidence is overly supported by the exchange of goods that Gopalpur marriage brings, it may start from some agricultural techniques and end up with different possessions, that could be later on sell in bad times to pay the rent for the land. Ordinarily, Gopalpur families have no capital. Beals points out the fact that through Gopalpur is not very much developed on that point still exists the possibility to experience a credit to nation families: The position of the Gaudas has been attacked by evolution new sources of credit to give financial assistance to farmers and laborers[1980,82].\n\nThe development economic system of Gopalpur concentrates the money in the hands of the Gaudas, divergence ordinary workers without a cent. The rich layer dictates the workers what they should do and take all the money they can from the families. Therefore, the more good the family has, the more chances it has to survive the financial insistency of this gold layer. And these goods atomic number 18 primarily obtained through marriage. It may be even give tongue to that it is marriage that keeps the people of Gopalpur sanel y normal. As the wealth in Gopalpur is not evenly distributed, families become the subject to a better financial condition, owing to a higher concentration of working force. The marriage alliances of Gopalpur ar more then alliances of people who are enamored, but alliances promising achievable economic and financial stability for the family members that the marriage produces. Religions aspects are very vital for Gopalpur families, for religion becomes their screen song. It consolidates the family and its hope that theology will be kind-hearted and everything happening to them is the reflection of his ecclesiastic will. Without marriage the maintenance of the economic and spiritual structures of Gopalpur would have been im contingent. Without it they would miss to exist at all, as the family vaccinates its scions with subservience, both religious and economical. It grafts the values to children and crates small dutiful societies, consisting of family members, which only wi th the help of each other are able to survive and not to starve. Gopalpur marriages sort of of being real love-unions are economic alliances, created in order to survive. Nevertheless, the inability to change it for better is seen in the hands of Gopalpur people, though it remains invisible for them.\n\nConclusion: Marriage in Gopalpur is very important, as it becomes a entire chance to provide good life in adulthood. It is the correct organ of the Indian culture and government, as it shares the values, including religion and venerate to the ruling class, with all family members. Marriage creates a base for living and becoming wanton in the village of Gopalpur. One person, only when has almost a coke% chance to fail achieving boffo leaving in Gopalpur if it is possible at all. Marriage unites people with a capacity to work and therefore this capacity and the goods that are exchanged during marriage are a vital factor without which survival in Gopalpur is quite an impossibl e.\n\n1 Gauda- a prosperous land owners.If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Custom essay writing service. Free essay/order revisions. Essays of any complexity! Courseworks, term papers, research papers. 100% confidential!Homework live help. Custom Essay Order is available 24/7!