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Atheists & Agnostics

Nevernose

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9. There is no Satan in the Old Testament

Reply to DetlefK (Reply #4)

Sun Sep 25, 2016, 02:12 PM

Sep 2016

There's a serpent in the beginning. Job features God in a contest with "an adversary," but not actually Satan. "Lucifer" is the Greek term for "dawn star" (i.e., the planet Venus, brightest "star" in the sky), and refers not to Satan r a literal fall from Heaven but to a prophecy about a future king of Babylon.

Satan was concocted slowly, over a period of centuries, by Jewish extremist groups like the Essenes.

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Biblical proof that god does not exist, or at least, not as described in the Bible. [View all] Binkie The Clown Sep 2016 OP

Men are fallible, and men wrote the Bible. Every word of it. There was no stopbush Sep 2016 #1

raised catholic, I first started questioning when i heard a caller on a radio show rurallib Sep 2016 #2

Doesn't matter when right or wrong is defined as being right with god. Bradical79 Sep 2016 #3

The Bible is so badly written and so full of contradictions, you cannot read anything from it. DetlefK Sep 2016 #4

And taken for what it is..fiction! mountain grammy Sep 2016 #5

fiction! and mythology AlbertCat Sep 2016 #6

Nothing beats the Greeks.. mountain grammy Sep 2016 #7

AmEn Tigerinu Sep 2016 #8

There is no Satan in the Old Testament Nevernose Sep 2016 #9