Word: satanic
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...Jews are depicted hardly less stereotypically in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice or Richard Strauss's opera Salome. It is hard to see how any version can ever satisfy all. One possible solution, briefly bruited in 1977, is to revert to Ferdinand Rosner's 1750 version, which makes Satan Christ's principal enemy...
...think there is a single element. If you would name one word, you would say sin and the temptations of the evil one, Satan. Because we are all tempted. I think if they had realized what was happening and turned to the Lord in the deepest part of their lives, they would not have fallen. Of course, when a person becomes what they were on television and becomes a celebrity, he faces a special kind of temptation, a special time of vulnerability because you become a target for anybody who is jealous or anybody who is disloyal in the organization...
That is the reason I wrote a book, about four years before all this happened, warning of this. I went into all these things we read in the press about the sex, money and pride. Those are the three areas I think Satan attacks God's servants on. I was told that many years ago by an old clergyman, and I never forgot it. And I learned from that moment on that I would be tempted in those areas. So I never rode in a car with a woman alone. I never have eaten a meal with my secretary alone...
Billy Graham talks about his friendship with Presidents, scandals in the television ministries and how Satan tempts God's people...
...wifely obedience demanded of women, who typically undergo endowment prior to temple marriage. Now women merely join the men in pledging obedience to God. Another key change occurs in a dramatic representation showing a polytheistic Elohim dispatching Jehovah and Michael to create the world. The scene in which Satan pays a Protestant preacher to lure Mormons from their faith is out, perhaps because it offended converts from Protestantism. (The Latter-Day Saints still hold theirs to be the only authentic form of Christianity...