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In 

Christianity, evil is incarnate in the devil or Satan, a fallen angel who is the primary opponent
of God.[16][17] Christians also considered the Roman and Greek deities as devils.[5][6]
Christianity describes Satan as a fallen angel who terrorizes the world through evil,[16] is
the antithesis of truth,[18] and shall be condemned, together with the fallen angels who follow him, to
eternal fire at the Last Judgment.[16]
In mainstream Christianity, the devil is usually referred to as Satan. This is because Christian beliefs
in Satan are inspired directly by the dominant view of Second Temple Judaism, as
expressed/practiced by Jesus, and with some minor variations. Some modern Christians[who?] consider
the devil to be an angel who, along with one-third of the angelic host (the demons), rebelled
against God and has consequently been condemned to the Lake of Fire. He is described[attribution needed] as
hating all humanity (or more accurately creation), opposing God, spreading lies and wreaking havoc
on their souls.

Horns of a goat and a ram, goat's fur and ears, nose and canines of a pig; a typical depiction of the devil
in Christian art. The goat, ram and pig are consistently associated with the devil.[19] Detail of a 16th-century
painting by Jacob de Backer in the National Museum in Warsaw.

Satan is traditionally identified as the serpent who convinced Eve to eat the forbidden fruit; thus,


Satan has often been depicted as a serpent. Although this identification is not present in the Adam
and Eve narrative, this interpretation goes back at least as far as the time of the writing of the Book
of Revelation, which specifically identifies Satan as being the serpent (Rev. 20:2).
In the Bible, the devil is identified with "the dragon" and "the old serpent" seen in the Book of
Revelation (12:9, 20:2), as has "the prince of this world" in the Gospel of John (12:31, 14:30); and
"the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience" in the Epistle to the Ephesians (2:2); and
"the god of this world" in 2 Corinthians (4:4).[20] He is also identified as the dragon in the Book of
Revelation (e.g.[21]), and the tempter of the Gospels (e.g. Matthew 4:1).
The devil is sometimes called Lucifer, particularly when describing him as an angel before his fall,
although the reference in Isaiah 14:12 to Lucifer (Latin Luciferus, "bringer of light"), the "son of the
dawn", is a reference to a Babylonian king.[22]
Beelzebub is originally the name of a Philistine god (more specifically a certain type of Baal,
from Ba‘al Zebûb, lit. "Lord of Flies") but is also used in the New Testament as a synonym for Satan.
A corrupted version, "Belzeboub", appears in The Divine Comedy (Inferno XXXIV).
In other, non-mainstream, Christian beliefs (e.g. the beliefs of the Christadelphians) the word "satan"
in the Bible is not regarded as referring to a supernatural, personal being but to any 'adversary' and
figuratively refers to human sin and temptation.[23]
Apocrypha/Deuterocanon
See also: Apocrypha, Biblical apocrypha, and Deuterocanonical books

In the Book of Wisdom, the devil is represented as the one who brought death into the world.
[24]
 The Second Book of Enoch contains references to a Watcher called Satanael,[25] describing him as
the prince of the Grigori who was cast out of heaven[26] and an evil spirit who knew the difference
between what was "righteous" and "sinful".[27]
In the Book of Jubilees, Satan rules over a host of angels.[28] Mastema, who induced God to
test Abraham through the sacrifice of Isaac, is identical with Satan in both name and nature.[29] The
Book of Enoch contains references to Sathariel, thought also[by whom?] to be Sataniel and Satan'el. The
similar spellings mirror that of his angelic brethren Michael, Raphael, Uriel and G

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