[Cvengr]

Scripturally, Job, the oldest book of Scripture has references to Lucifer, Satan, angels and fallen angels.

Demonic possession may be more than a mental state.

Devil as a device of evil independent of God's will.

[thinktwice]

Scripturally, Job, the oldest book of Scripture has references to Lucifer, Satan, angels and fallen angels.

That makes me wonder how much was added to the Bible and New Testament during those many dark-age days preceding Guttenberg's printing press, when Catholic monks were accumulating contents for, translating and hand-writing what finally made it into modern Bibles.

The fact that the Devil and a Heaven distinct from Hades were not in Homer's Odyssey leads me to think that those theological touchs were added by monks.