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Authors: Kersey Graves
ISBN-13: 9780548280683, ISBN-10: 0548280681
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing Company
Date Published: July 2007
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Kersey Graves

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If the Devil exists, where is he? Is he really in a place called hell? If so, where is that? This well-researched book may shock you by exposing all the basic facts about the devil. Things like:
-- The origins of hell.
-- Where the Christian Devil was borrowed from.
-- Why the church needed a "bad guy" to represent evil.
-- What the words Devil and hell really meant in the Old Testament.
-- "Endless punishment" and its devastating effects.
-- The Devils twin brother -- God!! Was this true?
-- Why God was the author of evil according to the Bible.

These and other startling facts are found in this work. Don't just accept the reality of the Devil blindly. Read this book and decide for yourself if he exists!

	Foreword	iii
	Preface	5
	Introduction	11
Chapter I.	Evils and Demoralizing Effects of the Doctrine of Endless Punishment	19
Chapter II.	Ancient Traditions Respecting the Origin of Evil and the Devil	25
Chapter III.	A Wicked Devil and an Endless Hell not Taught in the Jewish Scriptures	29
Chapter IV.	Explanation of the Words Devil and Hell in the Old Testament	36
Chapter V.	God (and not the Devil) the Author of Evil According to the Bible	42
Chapter VI.	God and the Devil Originally Twin-Brothers, and known by the same Titles	45
Chapter VII.	Origin of the Terms, "Kingdom of Heaven," "Gates of Hell," etc.; also of the Tradition Respecting the Dragon Chasing the Woman, the Woman Clothed with the Sun, etc.	70
Chapter VIII.	Hell First Instituted in the Skies. Its Origin and Descent from Above	78
Chapter IX.	Origin of the Tradition of "The Bottomless Pit."	80
Chapter X.	Origin of the Belief in a Lake of Fire and Brimstone	82
Chapter XI.	Where is Hell; Ancient Notions Respecting its Origin	87
Chapter XII.	Origin of the Idea of Man's Evil Thoughts being Prompted by a Devil	90
Chapter XIII.	The Christian's Devil, Where Imported or Borrowed from	94
Chapter XIV.	The Punitive Terms of the Bible of Oriental Origin	97
Chapter XV.	The Doctrine of After-Death Punishment Proved to be of Heathen and Priestly Origin	104
Chapter XVI.	Explanation of Hell, Hades, Tartarus, Infernus, Gehenna, and Tophet	115
Chapter XVII.	One Hundred and Sixty-three Questions for Believers in Post Mortem Punishment	117
Appendix	Origin of the Traditions Respecting "War in Heaven," and an Explanation of the Terms Hell, Hades, Tartarus, Gehenna, Sheol, Valley of Hinnom, etc.	144
	Index	151

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