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Sorry. The equivalent of the Academy Award [an Oscar] for stage plays is a Tony Award.

Your (Thy) Throne Oh God, Kelly Willard (1984) Psalms 45:6-7

Q: What is the favorite pasta of a dishonest play stage critic...?

Is this a news article or a "shaggy dog" story...?

Same point in post #13.

When a man is balding from the front, he is a lover. When a man is balding from the back, he is a thinker. When a man is balding from both at the same time, he thinks he is a lover...!

That was not my takeaway from your previous posts.

In case we did not have enough thread-related music already,... The Devil Is Bad, The W's (1998)

The elements might change like "not really wheat" or "not really tares," but the players do not or the whole parable falls apart. The enemy (whoever it is) is personal and deliberate.

Metaphor doesn't turn "an enemy" into something else.

Not given his temptation of Jesus in the desert, that [Hell] was created specifically for him and The Parable of the Wheat & Tares, "An enemy has done this."

@Taken, some have stated that Satan is Heaven's "Prosecutor" (an officer in God's "court") rather than the "Villain" of Creation. This thread is about that debate.

His Judgment is real, and grievous to those who come under it, but it is always Just & Holy; never evil or malevolent. Acknowledging that is not a distortion. Our sin is the only thing that makes it scary. The primary distortion that the Devil does is to divert men's attention away from Plan B...

We do know that God has spirits in His employ that induce pain & death, but none of them are slated for "the fire created for the Devil and his angels." Such are entities of Judgment, not evil. They include The Angel of Death at Passover [Exodus 12], Your aforementioned tormentor of King Saul...

Why would the Judge create an especially grievous prison for a Prosecutor who was just doing his job...? Is there any other who is more qualified to be an expert witness than He? Once we establish that Jesus said/clarified, does a competing Jewish "perception" remain valid in any fashion...?

Remember, this is the OP topic of this thread,

It really isn't an anti-vax issue. That rudeness can accompany any topic where someone has "an axe to grind." I oppose some vaccines. Have I been rude to you? The whole purpose for moderation is to address said rudeness, while still accommodating fair debate & discourse. (It is a difficult...

(@Yan, this topic started out as a derail of another thread. We don't need to derail it, too. Besides, it is in the Debate sub-forum, so a call to cease in our disagreement is inappropriate here.)

That context matches my experience with deliverance ministry, and is the most straightforward interpretation. When Jesus did deliverance (elsewhere), you can tell when He was talking to the person or to the spirit in question. The Bible interprets the Bible.

Then Satan tempting Jesus in the desert, as well as Jesus creating Hell specifically for the Devil, is going to be a source of cognitive dissonance for them. I don't consider it to be my job to enforce any doctrines.