Words Have Meaning: Devil, Diábolos, Slanderers, and False Accusers

In Christendom there are lots of pepole who give a totally different meaning to the words satan, diabolos, sheol, hades and gehenna. Those who call themselves Christian but believe those human teachings about spirit beings called devils or Satan and Lucifer, and make peopel afraid with torture fire in purgatory or even eternal torture in hell, are the most violent opponents of those in Christianity who proclaim the loving God and His coming Kingdom.

 

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Additional reading

1. Satan or the devil
2. Satan the evil within
3. Where does Satan lives?
4. Sheol, Sheool, Sjeool, Hades, Hell, Grave, Tomb, Sepulchre
5. Sheol or the grave

 

Spiritual Wrestlings

Words Have Meaning / “Devil”

Devil, διάβολος, diábolos, dee-ab’-ol-os; from G1225; a traducer; specially, Satan (compare H7854):—a calumniator, false accuser, slanderer; prone to slander, slanderous, accusing falsely, (Aristophanes, Andocides (), Plutarch, others): 1 Timothy 3:11; 2 Timothy 3:3; Titus 2:3; as a substantive, ὁ διάβολος, a calumniator, false accuser, slanderer, (see κατηγορέω, at the end) (Xenophon, Ages. 11, 5; (Aristotle, others)): the Sept. Esther 7:4; Esther 8:1.

From: διαβάλλω diabállō, dee-ab-al’-lo; from G1223 and G906; (figuratively) to traduce:— to accuse. Properly, to throw over or across, to send over, (τί διά τίνος). Very often, from Herodotus down, to traduce, calumniate, slander, accuse, defame (cf. Latinperstringere, German durchziehen, διά as it were from one to another; see Winer, De verb. comp. etc. Part v., p. 17)), not only of those who bring a false charge against one (διεβλητο πρός αὐτόν ἀδίκως, Josephus, Antiquities 7, 11, 3), but also of those…

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