We look at the earliest mention of Old Scratch in the New Testament in the Epistle of James all the way to the Gospel of John. There are also a bunch of internal church memos and other documents bundled up and paper clipped to the back of the gospels, known as the epistles. The New Testament is not JUST 4 similar stories about the same events. I won’t be covering every mention of Lord of Flies but will look at the ones where I feel who and what he is gets established for later generations to build on and create the Satan we know and love today. Despite all the mentions he doesn’t get a lot of screen time and is mostly an off-screen character, spoken of but rarely seen like Voldemort or Sauron. There are also other synonyms used to describe Lucifer. In the King James Version of the New Testament the word Devil or Devils comes up 102 times. It paints a picture of the mindset of the early Chri$tians. For now we are sticking to canonical scripture but that is not to say the non-canonical stuff isn’t relevant. There is a plethora of early Chri$tian writings on our favourite subject. In this episode we will be looking at the shaping of Satan in the 1st century Chri$tian writings.
