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Jeffrey B. Russell (The Prince of Darkness: Radical Evil and the Power of Good in History) says that the role of the Devil is to exonerate God for the existence of evil. He says that the Devil is a human construct to explain the existence of evil, in the presence of an all-good, all-powerful creator God. The person of Satan in the Book of Job is an earlier, post-Exilic notion of Satan as the loyal assistant to God, one whose image evolved into an autonomous, wholly evil adversary of God.

Christians took a different approach to evolving Judaism and saw the Devil as an evil personification of Satan. Without Satan, God would be responsible for all the evil in the world, and the role of the Devil is to exonerate God.

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