Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "The Occult #318: Three Types of Satanism" video.
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@SspaceB The origin of the word, which is shatan, comes from Persia, specifically Zoroastrian. It's original meaning was that God had two sides, both good and evil, or yin and yang as with the Asiatic belief.
When the Persians invaded the Levant, they called the people of the Levant the shatan, or the adversary. Orthodox ####ism is the same, as they do not believe in a separate entity that creates evil. Any orthodox Rabbi will state this.
In the NT, Jesus called Peter satan: "Get behind me satan." Being a Rabbi, and using his Hebrew language, Jesus was calling Peter an "adversary," or stumbling block, not some invisible evil being. The word literally means an adversary, or someone that blocks progress. It only became associated with an invisible entity in Job, but it was the angel's job, not its name. Orthodox Hebrews don't believe in this either, and especially what was written in Enoch.
Hellenism is the basis for this belief, as there was a Hellenist sect within the Hebrews centered around Antioch, where Paul was from, who believed in some of the Greek's multi-deity beliefs, such as Pluto or Hades, the god of gold and the underworld, which became their Satan. The orthodox Hebrews have never believed this, and still base God upon Isaiah 45:5-7 in the Tanakh
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5) I am the Lord, and there is no other; besides Me there is no God: I will strengthen you although you have not known Me.
6) In order that they know from the shining of the sun and from the west that there is no one besides Me; I am the Lord and there is no other.
7) Who forms light and creates darkness, Who makes peace and creates evil; I am the Lord, Who makes all these.
Since man was made in the image of God, man has a dual personality, that of good and evil. There is no "the devil made me do it."
Genesis is a rewritten account from ancient Mesopotamia, where they believed in multiple gods and goddesses. However, it is a Hebrew allegorical metaphor that means something else. Any Rabbi will state this, as the serpent in the garden is knowledge; specifically the knowledge of death, which separates man from beast. The Torah is completely written in allegory and metaphor. In the Tanakh, satan is always written as "ha satan," or the adversary. God is even called the satan, when speaking to David about the census.
See: The Origin of Satan, by Elaine Pagels
PhD, (1995). She is an American historian of religion, and the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University. She received her PhD at Harvard.
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"Who is Satan in the New Testament, and what is the evil that he represents? In this groundbreaking book, Elaine Pagels, Princeton's distinguished historian of religion, traces the evolution of Satan from its origins in the Hebrew Bible, where Satan is at first merely obstructive, to the New Testament, where Satan becomes the Prince of Darkness, the bitter enemy of God and man, evil incarnate. In The Origin of Satan, Pagels shows that the four Christian gospels tell two very different stories. The first is the story of Jesus' moral genius: his lessons of love, forgiveness, and redemption. The second tells of the bitter conflict between the followers of Jesus and their fellow ####, a conflict in which the writers of the four gospels condemned as creatures of Satan, those #### who refused to worship Jesus as the Messiah. Writing during and just after the ###### war against Rome, the evangelists invoked Satan to portray their ###### enemies as God's enemies too. As Pagels then shows, the church later turned this satanic indictment against its Roman enemies, declaring that pagans and infidels were also creatures of Satan, and against its own dissenters, calling them heretics and ascribing their heterodox views to satanic influences."
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