Satan/Belial, etc. as "lords of this world"?

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lsayre
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Re: Satan/Belial, etc. as "lords of this world"?

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lsayre
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Re: Satan/Belial, etc. as "lords of this world"?

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Per the Jewish Encyclopedia: https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/arti ... on#anchor3

All that remains is to date the Metatron sources whereby to determine the potential for them to have sprung from the pre-Christian era.
schillingklaus
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Re: Satan/Belial, etc. as "lords of this world"?

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Paul is a Marcionite invention, and thus he rails necessarily against the law and the Jewish god.

Only the Catholic interpolators and redactors tried to force Paul to worship the Jewish god, but they had to struggle with editorial fatigue in some places.
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