It seems to me that this would imply that if the world were ruled by Satan it would not be under the rule of God/Yahweh. Surely Jews did not think that the world was ruled by Satan as opposed to God/Yahweh?
Why would one believe that the material world should be destroyed, if one believed that the material world is the creation of the God that they worship? It seems that the logic behind the idea that the material world should be destroyed and that our souls will go to live in the spiritual world with God, necessarily flows from a belief that the material world was created by a different being than the God of the spiritual heaven.
20 But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. 21 For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. 22 For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. 23 But each in turn: Christ, the firstfruits; then, when he comes, those who belong to him. 24 Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power. 25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy to be destroyed is death. 27 For he “has put everything under his feet.” Now when it says that “everything” has been put under him, it is clear that this does not include God himself, who put everything under Christ. 28 When he has done this, then the Son himself will be made subject to him who put everything under him, so that God may be all in all.
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47 The first man was of the dust of the earth; the second man is of heaven. 48 As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven. 49 And just as we have borne the image of the earthly man, so shall we bear the image of the heavenly man.
50 I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— 52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”
55 “Where, O death, is your victory?
Where, O death, is your sting?”
56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
How can Paul be so fervently against the Law, if the Law is given by the Father of Jesus? The part in Galatians where this is explained makes no sense, and evidently wasn't in Marcion's version of the letter. Can one despise the law AND worship the law giver? If Paul despises the law, does he not also despise the law giver - God/Yahweh?
How can the material world be so horrible and so corrupt? Was the serpent really able to totally ruin everything God had made? It seems that this only makes logical sense if the Creation is the product of an oppressor. The oppressor who created the Law.
It would seem that the proto-orthodox then turned God/Yahweh into Satan and did some hand waiving around the Law. But there is this big disconnect, because the Law clearly comes from God/Yahweh . But if Paul were railing against Satan all this time, not God/Yahweh, then why does he also rail against the Law? Why was Paul against circumcision? Wasn't circumcision the mark of servitude to God/Yahweh?
There are other reasons to be against circumcision. I think there were others Jews who were trying to relax the requirement of circumcision to make it easier for Gentiles to convert. But, within Paul remains a strong core of ideas that together indicate that Paul was against God/Yahweh. Paul railed against the Law of God/Yahweh, he railed against the mark of God/Yahweh (circumcision), he believed that the material world was corrupt and needed to be destroyed.
So I get back to the question. Are there established precedents for the belief that Satan/Belial was the "ruler of the world" and that the material was thoroughly corrupted by Satan/Belial -- even though it had been created by God/Yahweh?