After "The Da Vinci Code" became popular in 2003, several of his other works also became popular. "Angels and Demons" is another novel about religion besides "The Da Vinci Code".
The movie "Angels and Demons" has been released for a long time, and there are a lot of comments or texts about this movie on the Internet. Of course, most of the comments are with very strong personal feelings. It seems pointless to simply criticize or praise the film for how well it was made. Let's talk about something else about Angels and Demons.
The book "Angels and Demons" can actually expand a lot of topics.
As far as the title of "Angels and Demons" is concerned, it is a very good title in itself. These five characters contain a biblical story in Western religions. This story is actually not a mysterious story, even in China, many people know it. It's the "Fallen Angel" story. Angel, from the Greek angelos = messenger. In Judaism, Islam and Christianity, the concept of angels is very similar. They are spirits who serve God, who are sent by God to help those in need of salvation, convey God's will, and are God's spokespersons on earth. The shape of the angel is a human shape (that is, the shape of a god) and will shine on the body, with a halo above the head and wings on the back. Angels are the incarnation of pure "goodness", so they will never tolerate the existence of "evil", but they are not friends of human beings. According to the Old Testament, angels will, according to God's command, carry out harsh and severe punishments on sinful people. Examples include killing 185,000 Assyrian soldiers in one night (Kings), and killing all Egyptians' firstborn and domestic animals (Exodus) .
So what is the devil, here we have to talk about "the first war in heaven" and "Lucifer".
Lucifer is a Latin word composed of lux (light, possessive lucis) and ferre (bringing), meaning the messenger of light, shining the morning star. Therefore, it is said to be the most beautiful among the angels. Isaiah 14:12-15, in common Chinese and in the Bible, describes it this way: "O bright star, son of the morning, why have you fallen from heaven? Why have you been cut down to the earth, you conqueror of the nations? You have said in your heart: I will ascend to heaven; I will exalt my throne above the stars of the gods; I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the extremes of the north; I will ascend above the clouds; I will be with the highest All are equal. However, you will fall into the underworld, to the very depths of the pit.”
God took the Son to travel around the heavens, and all the angels knelt down and worshipped the Son. Since angels are energy bodies without entities, and the Son has the same entity as God except that he has not obtained the power of God, God believes that the Son of the entity is second only to himself; and Lucifer believes that God makes the angels Kneeling to the Son was an insult to his dignity, so he led a third of the angels in the heavens to rebel. Lucifer pride and confidence can overthrow God. However, Lucifer and his army were defeated by the new Seraph. Lucifer did not admit defeat, and led his remnants to fall to the sky, losing the glory he once had. Later, Lucifer rebuilt a new heaven-like world in hell, and the fallen angels who followed Lucifer were portrayed as demons.
The first war in heaven was a war of rebellion; the Bible records this:
After creating Adam, God was led by Michael to the tenth highest heaven, and gathered all the angels of the remaining nine heavens to declare Adam the Messiah, The angels were asked to worship the Messiah, and the Archangel was given to serve Adam. At this time, Lilith asked the almighty Yahweh to give her a body because she had no body, but if an angel had a body, wouldn't their spirituality be equal to God's? This request was of course rejected by Jehovah, and the strong smell of gunpowder spread in the heavens because of the appearance of Adam and Messiah.
Standing at the forefront of the ninth prime mover, the first angel, the beautiful and noble Lucifer, categorically refused to pay homage to Adam. Because: "Why do you force me to visit him? I will never visit something so vile and later than I am. Before he was formed, I existed, and he should visit me." (Book of Adam in the Bible) 13 to 14)
Of course, this move offended God, and Lucifer left angrily.
I would rather be a king in hell than a minister in heaven
. The war of angels is about to break out.
On the first day, the two sides were tied. On the
second day, Lucifer (Lucifer) killed Messiah (the Son). On the
third day, Lucifer (Lucifer) was cut off by Messiah (the Son), and the
result----the rebels were driven to the crystal wall. , was thrown into purgatory by thunder, Lucifer became Satan (liar, nonsense), all the fallen angels were removed from the "Book of the Holy Spirit", became demons, and made a contract for a thousand-year war.
Many people think that Satan is Lucifer, but it is not. Lucifer used to be the highest-ranking angel in heaven before he betrayed—the Seraph, serving as the archangel. (Lucifer (Lucifer) was named Lucifinil (Lucifer) before his mutiny. Satan is a pronoun most of the time, representing those angels next to him. The original meaning of Hebrew is "adversary" (Adversary), Lucifer can be said as Satan-level demon king. This is where the
devil came from. For thousands of years, religions have been smearing these images in order to reject paganism, etc., and created many stories. Satan has become the negative. Later scholars have also continued to use this ready-made negative. Image. History is like that.
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