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nigga crab pollock posted:the bringer of light, beezebub, ba'al, lucifer. i beseech thee with this blessing of two liter of mountain dew on your altar Beelzebub and Ba'al are actually old Canaanite deities. Christians apparently read the Old Testament and suck at reading comprehension.
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Aug 31, 2016 06:51
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"And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease." (2 Kings 1:2)
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Aug 31, 2016 06:53
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The early Christians wrote in Baalzebub as a sort of "lord of demons" because they were illiterate hicks from Galilee who knew their scripture from hearsay.
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Aug 31, 2016 06:55
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nigga crab pollock posted:ya but i was also under the impression that early christians appropriated their names to decry their gods as false and they just kind of stuck as names for the devil I've never heard that theory. Sounds interesting, I'll look into it.
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Aug 31, 2016 16:00
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Moridin920 posted:Another example, the demon goat devil thing is just a demonization of Pan: Actually Lucifer is just a direct translation from the Hebrew name "Hillel Ben-Shachar" (shachar means dawn), mentioned in Isaiah 14:12, which probably refers to the king of Babylon and his eventual fall from grace. The verse was adapted to fit with Christian theology. This is similar to the more famous case of Isaiah 7:14, where the Christian sources have it as "a virgin shall conceive", virgin being a translation of the Hebrew almah, which just means young woman.
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Aug 31, 2016 18:40
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cuz raunchy rear end Romans/Greeks lol: