Jonro Posted:

All good points. And Satanism came first. The word Satan didn’t come out until the age of Xianity. But his images, ideals and concepts come from thousands of years before, to the earliest of all known religions.

They do, I’ll admit. There’s a list of all the names of Satan in the S. Bible, but I’ve let a friend borrow it for the time.

Also note that you don’t really see the devil as a “punisher” as you do a tempter in the New Testament. All the fire and brimstone speeches didn’t begin until the medieval age.

Ok… but where did this ideals and concepts come from? Certainly not from paganism. The image… yeah, I see where they got that from. That’s been addressed.

And personally, I don’t see a devil as a tempter. I don’t believe in the devil. But I’m taking it as a story… eh, I don’t care one way the either I’m reading Star Trek novels.