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#28 Satan and the powers of evil

Ask NT Wright Anything

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Reviving Old Scratch

If you believe in a good creator God, then evil is technically speaking absurd. It's like having the wrong stuff in the engine of your car. And if it's got there somehow, we are not told how or why it’s got there. I feel like we need to do justice though to this question which is what do we know about Satan? He's been called 'the prosecutor' and that's exactly what he does. In the beginning of his book You Can't Go Home With Me (Simon & Schuster), David Walliams writes: ‘I want to call him The Prosecutor.' For instance, when Judas accuses Jesus as it were into doing something bad

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