To begin, the first example of religion in this episode begins approximately seven minutes into episode twenty-six, "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment." Lisa sits in Sunday school learning the Ten Commandments and focuses on the eighth commandment, "Thou shalt not steal", realizing that her family is breaking this commandment by stealing a wire. When the family returns from church, Homer turns on the television and Lisa confronts him, asking, "Dad, are you sure this isn't stealing?" when suddenly, Lisa imagines the devil entering her house and setting it on fire. As he sits down, he encourages Lisa: “Come on Lisa, watch a little cable with us!” It won't cost you anything, hahaha! » This confrontation with the Devil symbolizes the temptation of Jesus by the Devil in the Christian religion, just as Lisa was tempted by the free cable, seen in the book of Matthew. “Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after he had fasted forty days and forty nights, then he was hungry.” (Matthew 4:1-2). This passage parallels and illustrates Lisa's inner struggle. At the start of the episode, Lisa was living with a certain number of chains, knowing her family couldn't afford more, and when she suddenly gets hundreds for free, she is captivated, matching how Jesus was starving after forty years. days and forty nights of fasting and was tempted to eat. However, everything changes when Lisa realizes that the only way for her to obtain these chains is to steal, and she is turned off by the idea, comparable to how Jesus knew that if he ate he would give in to the devil . Furthermore, it is evident that Lisa took the commandments very seriously, illustrated as she and ...... middle of paper ...... received God's help and holy promises, which in this case occurs. Furthermore, when this happens, it reflects one of God's many promises in the Christian religion from the book of Jeremiah: "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not thoughts of peace. evil, to give you an expected ending. Then you will call on me, and you will go and pray to me, and I will listen to you, and you will seek me and find me, when you seek me. all your heart." (Jeremiah 29:11-13). When God says this, he implies that God will be found by those who seek him and will prosper and in this case, Bart turned to faith, the only thing that he had left, and went to God in search of sincere and sincere help and God understood his sincerity, thus, he was able to prosper, the second he thought he had failed, and succeeded. the fourth year.