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Graylight · 51-55, F
Because... The Miltonian myth of Satan as an angel named Lucifer who rebelled against God and was cast out of Heaven in primordial times has no real grounding in the Bible, and yet it is the origin story that many—if not most—Christians regard as canonical. In the Old Testament, Satan operates as an obedient member of God’s heavenly court even as he roams the earth testing God’s followers. In Jubilees, he is the leader of the evil spirits who remain after the flood, permitted by God to tempt humans. Early Christianity incorporates Satan into a Middle Platonist matrix, imagining him to be the prince of the corrupt angels or demons who control the earth and lowest heavens. It is only the tradition we find in an apocryphal text, The Life of Adam and Eve, that moves Satan’s expulsion back to Eden and explains why it happened.
Many academics in the field agree that Satan and Lucifer are a confabulation of different myths, as was common in ancient literature and occurs even today. Nowhere in the Bible does it say that Lucifer is Satan. And Satan has never been considered a deity in Christianity. It's not the Marvel Universe with villain Gods and dark deities.
https://isthatinthebible.wordpress.com/2021/10/28/when-and-why-does-satan-fall-in-luke-1018/
Many academics in the field agree that Satan and Lucifer are a confabulation of different myths, as was common in ancient literature and occurs even today. Nowhere in the Bible does it say that Lucifer is Satan. And Satan has never been considered a deity in Christianity. It's not the Marvel Universe with villain Gods and dark deities.
https://isthatinthebible.wordpress.com/2021/10/28/when-and-why-does-satan-fall-in-luke-1018/
LordShadowfire · M
@Graylight [quote]And Satan has never been considered a deity in Christianity. It's not the Marvel Universe with villain Gods and dark deities.[/quote]
He isn't directly referred to as a deity, but there's the fact that God can't seem to just get rid of him. If he's the villain of the story (and as you point out, he originally wasn't), God, being all-powerful, should be able to simply destroy him. Since he can't, despite hating the evil he does, it must be assumed that Satan is almost as powerful as God.
He isn't directly referred to as a deity, but there's the fact that God can't seem to just get rid of him. If he's the villain of the story (and as you point out, he originally wasn't), God, being all-powerful, should be able to simply destroy him. Since he can't, despite hating the evil he does, it must be assumed that Satan is almost as powerful as God.
Graylight · 51-55, F
@LordShadowfire Mayhaps. But much of what we know of Satan comes from Milton, not the Bible, so consider the sources of our absolute truths.
LordShadowfire · M
@Graylight You do realize I'm a neopagan, and don't even consider Christianity to be remotely accurate? If anything, the various beings described in it are egregores.
Graylight · 51-55, F
@LordShadowfire I wouldn't call myself strictly Christian, either, but it's important to know the subject matter. Just information, not a weapon.