For starters, the first example of religion in this episode begins about seven minutes into episode twenty-six, "Homer vs. Lisa and the Eighth Commandment." Lisa sits in Sunday school learning about the Ten Commandments and focuses on the eighth commandment, "Thou shalt not steal", realizing that her family is breaking this commandment by stealing the cable. When the family returns home from church, Homer turns on the TV and Lisa confronts him, asking, "Dad, are you sure this isn't a robbery?" when suddenly Lisa imagines the devil entering her house and setting the place on fire. As he sits he encourages Lisa: “Come on Lisa, watch a little cable with us! It won't cost you anything, hahaha!” This encounter with the Devil symbolizes the fact that Jesus was tempted by the Devil in the Christian religion just as Lisa was tempted with the loose cord, seen in the book of Matthew. “Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. And after fasting forty days and forty nights, at last he was hungry.” (Matthew 4:1-2). This passage parallels and exemplifies Lisa's internal struggle. At the beginning of the episode, Lisa had lived with a select number of channels knowing her family couldn't afford more, and when she suddenly gets hundreds at no cost, she's hooked, matching how Jesus was starving after forty days and forty nights of fasting and was tempted to eat. However, all of this changes when Lisa realizes that the only way to get these channels is to steal, and is turned off by the idea, comparable to how Jesus knew that if he ate, he would give himself over to the devil. Furthermore, it is obvious that Lisa took the commandments so seriously, exemplified as she and…half of the paper…receive God's help and holy promises, which in this case happens. Furthermore, when this happens, it reflects one of the many promises of God, in the religion of Christianity, from the book of Jeremiah, "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you," says the Lord, "thoughts of peace, and not of evil; to give you an expected end. Then you will call upon 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 will search for me with 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 he had left, and went to God for sincere and heartfelt help and God. He understood his sincerity, so he thrived, the second he thought he had failed, and passed the fourth grade.