Judaism, Christianity and Islam
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See Webster's, p.17 for "adversary": one that contends with, opposes or resists; p.243 for "contend": to strive or vie in contest or rivalry or against difficulties; p.798 for "oppose": to place opposite against something; p.977 for "resist": to exert oneself so as to counteract or defeat; p.1018 for "Satan": "[Heb satan] the adversary of god and lord of evil ... "; & p.674 for "lord": ... christ [J Lucifer] ... [italics added]
For J Lucifer being contention, rivalry and opposition--UNILATERAL--AGAINST SIVA, PERSONIFIED, see Isaiah, chapter 14, ‡ 13-15: "I will scale the heavens (such WAS THY THOUGHT); I will set my throne HIGHER than god's stars, take my seat at his own trysting-place ... ; I will SOAR ABOVE the level of the clouds, the RIVAL of the most High" (Knox bible, p.640) (italics and emphasis added)
[See corpus, p. for ruin/frustration of above ambition in objective history of so-called christianity
[But here see:
[i. Isaiah, ibid., ‡ 15-21 on the doom: "Thine [J Lucifer's] instead to be dragged down into the WORLD BENEATH, INTO THE HEART OF THE ABYSS. Who that sees thee there, but will peer DOWN at thee and read thy STORY (see Webster's, p.1139 for "story": archaic: history ... ): "Can this be the MAN [Lucifer transformed into mammalhood/J Lucifer from Mary] "who once shook the world, and made thrones totter; who turned earth into a desert, its cities into ruins; never granted prisoner release? For those other kings, honourable burial, each in his own palace; thee the GRAVE ITSELF REJECTS, like a withered root, like a thing unclean. Rots thy corpus unrecognised, beneath yonder coverlet of men slain, that went down to the deep pit together; no fellowship hast thou with those others, no share in their sepulchre, thou who didst lead thy country to ruin, thou, who didst bring destruction on thy people. The posterity of the wicked shall be nameless for ever; FOR THE GUILT THEY HAVE INHERITED, HIS SONS TOO MUST BE SLAIN, they must not live to make the land their own and people the world with cities" (italics and emphasis added)
ii. John Henry Newman quoted by Hutton Gibson, Paul VI's Legacy: Catholicism?, pp.48-49: "god works by human means. As he employs men and inspires them, and yet they die, so doubtless, he might employ a body or society of men, which at length, after its course of two thousand years might come to an end. ... Doubtless, christianity might be such; it might be destined to expire; ... and at length to die; ... " (italics added)
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