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localroger

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2. Well there is the book of Job, which is in the OT
Fri Mar 18, 2022, 05:10 PM
Mar 2022

And it depicts God and Satan chatting like old friends and making a friendly bet which God then seeks to resolve. Which is not inconsistent with the idea of Satan being kind of a lawyerly consistency checker that God created to keep himself straight, rather like the accountant who manages a person's finances.

There are also passages in the Apocrypha (the four books found in the Catholic Bible but not in the Protestant version) which mention multiple "Satans" as if this is a class of being rather than an individual. That's REALLY consistent with Satan being like a program that runs on your mainframe computer making sure all the other programs are following the rules and not attempting to hack the system.

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