(January 11, 2017 at 7:51 pm)Godschild Wrote:(January 11, 2017 at 2:17 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Then perhaps cite all the relevant passages regarding satan specifically.
If I thought you serious I would, however I know you don't care.
GC
(January 11, 2017 at 2:50 pm)Secular Elf Wrote: Good point.
The thing about Satan, as anyone familiar with Judaism, as either a believing Jew, cultural Jew, or as a student of comparative religion can attest, is that Satan is not a person, but a title, "the accuser", and is part of the broader group of angels in Judaic mythology. In other words, Yahweh's right-hand of justice, so-to-speak. It was the Romano-Greek Christians of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages who made Satan into the figure of "The Devil"; the recipe is quite simple: pour in some dualism by making Satan the bad god, throw in the attributes of Hades/Pluto as the ruler of a fiery underworld, add some imagery by taking the horns and hooves of Pan and sticking them on Lucifer, pin a pointed tail and throw in a dash of red dye mixed with some superstition about the originator of tragedy and voila! You got the king of devils and the adversary of Yahweh.
Sounds like what the biblical uneducated would say.
GC
You are funny. You just do not know how educated about the Bible I really am.
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