{"id":28,"date":"2016-12-16T11:41:36","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T16:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidbsloan.com\/blog\/?p=28"},"modified":"2016-12-16T11:41:36","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T16:41:36","slug":"death-as-a-mythical-creature-in-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/davidbsloan.com\/blog\/death-as-a-mythical-creature-in-the-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"Death as a Mythical Creature in the Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 606px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/7\/6158\/6201282761_3c1ba85a9b_b.jpg\" alt=\"Grim Reaper\" width=\"606\" height=\"800\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grim Reaper &#8211; Lost his Sting! by Waiting for the Word (https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/waitingfortheword\/)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span data-offset-key=\"a12os-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">Did you know that Death is a mythical creature in the Bible? Just as Motu is an enemy of Ba&#8217;lu in Canaanite mythology and Thanatos is a negative god in Greek mythology, in the Bible Death (Hebrew <em>maveth<\/em>, Greek <em>thanatos<\/em>) is an enemy who sends messengers (Prov 16:14), has a son named Calamity (Job 18:13-14), ensnares people (Psalm 18:4; etc.), leads them to the Underworld (Ps 49:14), and devours them (Hab 2:5). Yet the Bible teaches that the Lord will himself ransom his people from Death (Hos 13:14) and devour Death (Isa 25:8). The Lord swallows up the great swallower! Paul speaks of Death as having &#8220;reigned&#8221; (Rom 5:14, 17), but Jesus&#8217; resurrection means that Death does not reign over Jesus (Rom 6:9), and so Jesus will defeat all of his enemies, the last one being Death (1 Cor 15:26, 54-57). Christ has taken away Death&#8217;s keys (Rev 1:18), and though Death is one of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse, bringing destruction wherever he goes (Rev 6:7-8), Jesus will force him to give up the dead that he has swallowed (Rev 20:13) and will throw him in the Lake of Fire (Rev 20:14).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that Death is a mythical creature in the Bible? Just as Motu is an enemy of Ba&#8217;lu in Canaanite mythology and Thanatos is a negative god in Greek mythology, in the Bible Death (Hebrew maveth, Greek thanatos) is an enemy who sends messengers (Prov 16:14), has a son named Calamity (Job 18:13-14), &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/davidbsloan.com\/blog\/death-as-a-mythical-creature-in-the-bible\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Death as a Mythical Creature in the Bible<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidbsloan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidbsloan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidbsloan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidbsloan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidbsloan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/davidbsloan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"http:\/\/davidbsloan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidbsloan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidbsloan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidbsloan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}