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Interesting, because before I read your site I saw as evidence against Satan being a named character the passage of Isaiah 14:12. In it, they described that Lucifer was not a name, only the word for morning star that didn't get translated from the vulgate for some reason. It was claimed to allude to the King of Babylon and not Satan.

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The idea of opposition is a strong concept. It certainly applies in our lives, so it is natural to think that God must have an opponent, someone he is battling with. This is used to explain the existence of suffering in the world. Of course, the main inspiration in early years for creating Satan was Zoroastrianism,which was a major religious competitor in the middle east. People cannot see that the Divine is above all that and that there are better explanations for suffering.t

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