The history of the devil [part 5/5]
Saturday, December 5th, 2009The idea of “God’s evil enemy” has been around for thousands of years. Lucifer, Beelzebub, The Beast, Satan… He has been called many names and taken many strange different forms over the ages. So where does the concept of the traditional evil come from? While early Christian clerics used the Devil as a symbol of heresy, the concept did not begin with the Christian Bible, but rather in ancient Pe…
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