05-02-2023, 02:41 AM
Tiangou wrote:
[quote=DeusxMac]
[quote=Filliam H. Muffman]
Satanists don't believe in the Devil. Only Christians do.
“Satan, also known as the Devil, and sometimes also called Lucifer in Christianity, is an entity in the Abrahamic religions…”
Christian, AND Jewish, AND Islamic.
Not the same guy in Judaism. (Actually, multiple guys in Judaism that Christians merged into one and distorted to extremes.)
I’m absolutely no authority on this subject, but faithful Wikipedia doesn’t seem to say that…
“A figure known as ha-satan ("the satan") first appears in the Hebrew Bible as a heavenly prosecutor, subordinate to Yahweh (God), who prosecutes the nation of Judah in the heavenly court and tests the loyalty of Yahweh's followers.[citation needed] During the intertestamental period, possibly due to influence from the Zoroastrian figure of Angra Mainyu, the satan developed into a malevolent entity with abhorrent qualities in dualistic opposition to God. In the apocryphal Book of Jubilees, Yahweh grants the satan (referred to as Mastema) authority over a group of fallen angels, or their offspring, to tempt humans to sin and punish them.”