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...Wonderful Life. "I know of no place in classical theology where humans become angels," notes the Rev. John Westerhoff, a pastoral theologian at Duke University's Divinity School. "Angels were created separately and were given free will, just as humans were. That's why there were fallen angels, like Satan. Their fallenness had to do with a denial and distortion of angelic life just as our fallenness has to do with the denial and distortion of goodness and truth...
...Only last week in a Binghamton, New York, court, a man pleading "not responsible" claimed that an angel had told him to molest the five-year-old boy he was babysitting. No less an authority than St. Paul warned the faithful, in his second letter to the Corinthians, that Satan could be "transformed into an angel of light." For Satan was once an angel -- indeed, one of the most exalted as well as the most complex and the most human...
...celestial being who would become Satan had many names in heaven. Most of Western tradition identifies him as Lucifer, the Morning Star, the most brilliant of all the denizens of the empyrean. He is Sammael, according to the rabbinical literature of the 4th and 5th centuries A.D., highest of those who flit around the throne of God, created above the seraphim and distinguished from others by the fact that he possessed twice the maximum allotment of wings: 12. To Muslims, he is Iblis, a word perhaps derived from the Greek diabolos, the proudest of all God's creatures...
Members of the team participated this week in their annual rendition of the Secret Santa gift-exchange game, a tradition which Captain Cara J. Frey '94 says is often played "more like Secret Satan...
...just had three days of mean things, so it's over," Frey said last Saturday referring to the end of the "Satan" period of the game...