When was evil created?

[Baalzebutt]

In Hebrew, the very first letter of Genesis is 'Bet', the second letter, as opposed to 'Aleph', the first letter. This has been interpreted to allude to a back-story. What the back-story actual tells can only be guessed at from later events recorded in the canonical Scriptures. I cannot remember exactly, but I think the creation of angels might be found in the Book of Enoch. That said, New Church doctrine states that angels come from the human race. My favorite Swedenborg quote is, "Anyone can see that God did not talk to a snake." The idea is that God literally talking to a snake is so ridiculous that it should prompt us to get below the surface of the text. For atheists, of course, that's a non-starter.

That is twice now that the xtians have mentioned other documentation than the bible.

It is well known that there are a number of "gospels" that didn't make it into the bible. To me, this is one of the fundamental facts that shows the bible CANNOT be the word of god. Why? Because it was assembled by man. Man chose which gospels to put in, which to leave out and did so based largely on how best to control poulations and gain as much power as possible. The bible is a political document, nothing more.

In any case, I think it is kind of odd that the xtians would have to go outside of their holy book to answer these questions. If angels did, indeed, come from man, then how is the evil (serpent) in the garden explained?