The modern popular culture image of Satan as a well-dressed gentleman with small horns and a tail originates from portrayals of Mephistopheles in the operas La damnation de Faust (1846) by Hector Berlioz, Mefistofele (1868) by Arrigo Boito, and Faust by Charles Gounod. Islamic tradition Affiliation The angels meet Adam, and their body language reveals they share, albeit to a lesser degree, the defiant reaction of Iblīs, who stands at the back haughtily turning his head away. Tambling, Jeremy (2017), Histories of the Devil: From Marlowe to Mann and the Manichees, London: Palgrave Macmillan Publishers Ltd.

During the intertestamental period, possibly due to influence from the Zoroastrian figure of Angra Mainyu, the satan developed into a malevolent entity with abhorrent qualities in dualistic opposition to God. It consists of loosely affiliated or independent groups and cabals, which all agree that Satan is a real entity. Mick Jagger assumes the role of Lucifer in the Rolling Stones' " Sympathy for the Devil" (1968), [296] while Black Sabbath portrayed the Devil in numerous songs, including " War Pigs" (1970) and " N. Muslim tradition preserves a number of stories involving dialogues between Jesus and Iblis, [208] all of which are intended to demonstrate Jesus's virtue and Satan's depravity. In the Quran, Satan is apparently an angel, [186] but, in 18:50, he is described as "from the jinns".For the Muslim Sufi scholar Ahmad Ghazali, Iblis was the paragon of lovers in self-sacrifice for refusing to bow down to Adam out of pure devotion to God [222] Ahmad Ghazali's student Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir was among the Sunni Muslim mystics who defended Iblis, asserted that evil was also God's creation, Sheikh Adi argued that if evil existed without the will of God, then God would be powerless and powerlessness can't be attributed to God. In the eleventh century, Anselm of Canterbury criticized the ransom theory, along with the associated Christus Victor theory, [137] [142] resulting in the theory's decline in western Europe. According to the Parable of the Sower, Satan "profoundly influences" those who fail to understand the gospel.

The Reverend Richard Coles gives us a serpent in England's pastoral Eden - and whodunit fans can give praise and rejoice. The satan appears in the Book of Job, a poetic dialogue set within a prose framework, [26] which may have been written around the time of the Babylonian captivity.The word does not occur in the Book of Genesis, which mentions only a talking serpent and does not identify the serpent with any supernatural entity. The same verse describes the Devil as "a man-killer from the beginning" [89] and "a liar and the father of lying.

Depictions of the devil became more common in the ninth century, [275] [276] where he is shown with cloven hooves, hairy legs, the tail of a goat, pointed ears, a beard, a flat nose, and a set of horns.Jeffrey Burton Russell describes the medieval conception of Satan as "more pathetic and repulsive than terrifying" [148] [149] and he was seen as little more than a nuisance to God's overarching plan. I soon came to love crime fiction – for its rollercoaster plots, its memorable heroes and villains, and its knotty moral concerns. Ezekiel 28:12–15 uses a description of a cherub in Eden as a polemic against Ithobaal II, the king of Tyre. Another Persian scholar, Al-Baydawi, instead argues that Satan hoped to be an angel, [199] but that his actions made him a jinn. In the Quran, Satan's name is Iblis ( Arabic pronunciation: [ˈibliːs]), probably a derivative of the Greek word diabolos.