Talk:Devil
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The idea of "Satan" as the "strong adversary of God" seems to go back to Zoroastrianism / Manicheanism. -- RJwiki
- Yes it does. And Augustine was definitely a Manichean originally. He changed his mind. But it influenced him a lot.
- Also there's all the "evil Gods" in all those pagan religions that the Catholics absorbed (renaming the gods saints or devils based on whatever worked at the time). I guess there were some they didn't want to say were agents of the main God...