#42 The Importance of knowing the Creed and the many names of Old Nick
[Pryr-1.2-42] Honestly, though, all that is in the Creed. It is only bringing forth of this Dying and Death to all and every Part of the old Man*, that the Life and Spirit of Christ may be formed in us. *Old man or Old Nick, Beelzebub, Satan, the Devil, Lucifer, the Beast,the evil one, the Wicked One, Apollyon, --------------------------------------------------------- In England, the Devil was often called the Old Man because he was thought to be a primal being, he was "older than dirt" and what the first Light of God destroyed so that we may have life. But there are other names as well: Bogey Man, Old Bogey, Old Scratch, Old Nick, and even Old Nick Bogey. There is great speculation of why "Nick" and from all I have read I believe because the Archangel Michael (Mick) was the leader of the Armies of God, in rhyming slang, Old Nick would be his counterpart. Satan “And He was there in the wilderness forty days, temp...