Re: Politics and the Church
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Originally Posted by awareness
That's a difficult question. The devil as we know him, as a personification of a independent evil deity, burst upon the scene a couple of hundred years before Jesus, with the book of Enoch. The authors of Enoch had a vivid imagination, so yes, in that case, Satan was a human fabrication.
Then, picking up from Enoch, the gospels pit the devil and Jesus against each other, and the devil is depicted there as a real living person, bargaining with Jesus in the wilderness against God ... not an agent of God, as in the OT.
Thereafter the devil gets blamed for all the bad things, and God is let off the hook.
I thought it was proven that the problem of evil fell into God's lap.
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The POE thread PROVED something?!? 
The devil burst upon the scene in the book of Enoch?!?
Too funny. This place is crazy town.
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