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What is the first mention of Satan or evil in any form of literature?
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∙ 13y ago
The first mention of Satan, although by another name, is in the ancient Gathas of the Zoroastrian religion. The 'Hostile Spirit' was Angra Mainyu, equally uncreated alongside Ahura Mazda, but ignorant and wholly malign.
Zoroastrianism was the religion of the Persians, who liberated the Jews from Exile in Babylon, and it was only in post-Exilic times that the Jews began to write of Satan. However, the Jews had adopted a strongly monotheistic concept for Judaism and could not perceive of Satan as uncreated nor as an adversary to God. They began to perceive Satan as the loyal assistant to God, tasked with testing the righteousness of the faithful. It was not until the first century CE that the Cristians began to see Satan as an adversary to God, in the same way as Zoroastrianism does.
There is no direct link that absolutely confirms that the Jews adopted Satan from Zoroastrianism, nor that the Christian understanding of Satan was influenced by Zoroastrianism, but there are too many coincidences otherwise. Angra Mainyu was Satan.
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What is Satan supposed to mean?
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What does Satan do when he first sees eve?
Satan tempts Eve to eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
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Who are Satan helpers?
Evil jinn.
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Did some people know that Satan was evil?
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How many pages does Literature from the 'Axis of Evil' have?
Literature from the 'Axis of Evil' has 297 pages.
How does Christ describe Satan?
an evil angel
Does Satan hate gay people?
He has no physical needs like humans. Answer The Christian and Muslim descriptions of Satan do not include any mention of sexual orientation. The Jewish definition is so completely different, to the point where it's safe to say that Jews don't believe in this concept of an evil being.
Is Jared Leto a satanist and why or why not?
He is not and why he does not worship Satan he has never said. Maybe because Satan is evil.
Where did Satan get his powers from if God never gave it to Satan?
In Isaiah 45:7 it says that God created evil. But it doesn't say that God does evil in anywhere I looked . God could create evil things but it doesn't say that God makes you do evil. It's like God created the choices to do good or to do evil . It does say that God makes you do evil things. But you can say I'm looking for it. You could say that God created the powers of evil that Satan choose to use but God never forced Satan to use those evil powers.
Would good fail to exist without evil?
Before the Fall of Satan, there was no evil.
