(August 7, 2015 at 11:14 am)abaris Wrote:(August 7, 2015 at 11:09 am)CapnAwesome Wrote: I think these 'devil buy's your soul' stories are mostly a modern invention. So it doesn't surprise me that they don't make theological sense.
Whatever you mean by modern. They are around in folklore since the Middle Ages.
Well I'm not really an expert on the topic and am too lazy to wikipedia it, so I'll take your word for it. But even then, that's a good 1000 year gap between these stories and the new testament. I doubt the writers of middle age folk lore were going for biblical consistency.