If you wish to know why The Devil invented the Internet the first thing you have to understand is that God and The Devil were not always daggers drawn at opposite ends of the spiritual spectrum, so to speak. Indeed, in the beginning there was the light, and there was God and there was The Devil. And God and The Devil were great friends and partners and the basis, the cement, of that relationship was the world creation business...how did it all go so horribly wrong? Two brothers, one good and one bad, discover that the road to Heaven passes through the foothills of Hell. Who will survive the journey? What on Earth (and Heaven) can God and the Devil do about a man who is too wicked even for hell? A terrifying horror is unleashed on humanity when the Devil hits upon a wicked new invention - the internet. God decides, for the first time in an eon, to have a look exactly what is happening on Planet Earth - and wishes he hadn't bothered. A rich man is forced to confront the corruption in his soul, with fatal consequences. All hell is let loose (literally) when the Devil decides to reclaim the soul of one of his Special Children. And along the way we discover that the Devil also invented religion and two minute past four in the morning - but why? And more.... 11 tales of God and The Devil. Read them - if you dare.

From the National Book Award-winning and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of The Gnostic Gospels comes a dramatic interpretation of Satan and his role on the Christian tradition. "Arresting...brilliant...this book illuminates the angels with which we must wrestle to come to the truth of our bedeviling spritual problems." —The Boston Globe With magisterial learning and the elan of a born storyteller, Pagels turns Satan’s story into an audacious exploration of Christianity’s shadow side, in which the gospel of love gives way to irrational hatreds that continue to haunt Christians and non-Christians alike.

Alas, poor Satan. He's not happy. No one seems to like or understand him; people have got him all wrong. And his relationship with God is a hostile one. Unloved and misunderstood, he's come back to Earth in search of a psychotherapist; he's prepared- if cured- to deliver the all-important Great Answer. In Jeremy Leven's wildly original comic novel, we follow the Prince of Darkness through his seven amazing therapy sessions. And we watch him grow increasingly well adjusted while his therapist, the unfortunate Dr. Kassler, descends deeper and deeper into hell.

Written by three experts in the field, The Invention of Satanism examines contemporary religious Satanism as the product of historical, ideological, and social processes.

Dr. Jeffrey Strickland is a mathematician who carefully calculates the measures of things, even to the extent of subatomic particles unseen by the naked eye. As he did with bosons and photons in Quantum Phaith, he meticulously calculates the nature and impact of Lucifer, the fallen one. Taking a line from Flip Wilson's character, Geraldine Jones, Dr. Strickland proposes that we cannot blame all of our faults and failures on Satan. He suggests that by [sin] nature, we are perfectly capable of doing evil with no aid at all. For followers of Christ, Dr. Strickland affirms that the Devil is no match for the power of the Holy Spirit that indwells us. However, in order to be effective Christians, we must know our enemy and the environment that in which he operates. In ""The Devil did not Make Me Do it,"" you will learn to discern between Lies of Lucifer and the Truth.

This masterly book is the climax of over twenty-five years of study of the impact of Canaanite religion and mythology on ancient Israel and the Old Testament. It is John Day's magnum opus in which he sets forth all his main arguments and conclusions on the subject. The work considers in detail the relationship between Yahweh and the various gods and goddesses of Canaan, including the leading gods El and Baal, the great goddesses (Asherah, Astarte and Anat), astral deities (Sun, Moon and Lucifer), and underworld deities (Mot, Resheph, Molech and the Rephaim). Day assesses both what Yahwism assimilated from these deities and what it came to reject. More generally he discusses the impact of Canaanite polytheism on ancient Israel and how monotheism was eventually achieved.

Originally written in 1938 but never published due to its controversial nature, an insightful guide reveals the seven principles of good that will allow anyone to triumph over the obstacles that must be faced in reaching personal goals.