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Fun fact, the origin story for Satan that so many churches point to just isn’t in the Bible.
The entire concept of hell is basically just fan fiction.
The entire concept of religion is a fan fiction.
Yeah... it is astounding how mixed messages get when people are holding the bloody source material in their hands.
Most Christian ideas about hell are from Dante and Milton laundered through loony toons. And in Milton's version, Satan is the protagonist.
I had to explain to someone here on Lemmy that Satan in Job is a rival god, rather than the Satan Christians think, of since it came from before Judaism was monotheistic. The word literally just means 'adversary.' Job is about two gods having a wager. But Christians (and the rest of the western world by extension) are ignorant of the fact that the largest role anyone called Satan has in the Bible has nothing to do with Christian mythology.
And then they decide to conflate the serpent in the Garden of Eden with Satan because reasons.
Edit: Note to self. Do not try to write longer posts with your phone.
Do you have something to read up on there? That sounds interesting.
This is from college classes decades ago, so I can't find you something offhand. I would definitely have been able to tell you more back in the 1990s.
Edit: I do remember that Job starts out with God gathering his sons together. I think possibly the adversary is meant to be one of these sons, who would obviously be gods themselves. But they are interpreted as angels today. Again, because reasons.