What is a pact with the Devil ?

Anthony North: We are all aware of the term, 'pact with the Devil'. It means selling your soul to the Devil for favour, but it always requires something in return, resulting in you being lost to good, and coming under the influence of evil.

During the Witchhunts, witches were thought to have come under the Devil's influence. This is usually rejected nowadays -the Devil is a product of monotheism, whereas witches come under the pagan -a totally different spiritual system.

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In the Old Testament the word "soul" is translated from nephesh, a Hebrew word that occurs 755 times in the Old Testament. It is most frequently translated "soul," but it is also translated in many other ways.

Nephesh comes from the root naphash, a verb occurring only three times in the Old Testament (Ex. 23:12; 31:17; 2 Sam. 16:14), each time meaning "to revive oneself" or "to refresh oneself." The verb seems to go back to the basic meaning of breathing.

A definition for nephesh may be derived from the Bible account of the creation of man (Gen. 2:7). The record states that when God gave life to the body He had formed, the man literally "became a soul of life." The "soul" had not previously existed, but came into existence at the creation of Adam. A new soul comes into existence every time a child is born. Each birth represents a new unit of life uniquely different and separate from similar units. The new unit can never merge into another unit. It will always be itself. There may be countless individuals like it, but none that is exactly that unit. This uniqueness of individuality seems to be the idea emphasized in the Hebrew term nephesh.

Nephesh is applied not only to men but to animals. The clause "let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life" (Gen. 1:20) is literally, "let the waters swarm swarms of souls of life [individuals of life]." Hence animals as well as human beings are "souls."

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This basic idea of "soul" being the individual rather than a constituent part of the individual seems to underlie the various occurrences of nephesh. It is therefore more accurate to say that a certain person is a soul than to say he has a soul. This is clearly expressed in Genesis 2:7: "Man became a living soul."

From the basic idea of a nephesh being an individual, or a person, springs the idiomatic use of nephesh for the personal pronoun. Expressions such as "my soul" are idiomatic for "I," "me"; "thy soul," for "you"; "their soul," for "they" or "them."

http://www.sdanet.org/atissue/books/qod/q40.htm

Sooo errr what do pagans have to do with Satan now?

This post is rather shabby it needs eveidence and backing up first of all exalpain and propely the orgination of the devil from multiple cultures

and if you want my attention stop using pictures from tenacouis D!

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Sooo errr what do pagans have to do with Satan now?

They are friends.

'pact with the Devil'. It means selling your soul to the Devil for favour

a miss leading info. selling something ,doesn't mean have to be soul

They are friends.

I am a pagan and I am not friends with Satan!

look up robert johnson, he had a pact with the devil

so God pretty much evolved from animal gods....neattt

yes back then they had no idea... us witches are not bad, and we don't even beleive in the devil... unless you count the tarot card. Sorry christians, but burning our ancestors kinda leaves a grudge.

yes back then they had no idea... us witches are not bad, and we don't even beleive in the devil... unless you count the tarot card. Sorry christians, but burning our ancestors kinda leaves a grudge.

I've thought about selling my soul, I'm just waiting for it to become a sellers market.