In the Old Testament, actually texts that were lost, then God, meaning Yahweh creates angels of light, and angels of Darkness. He allows the angels of darkness such as Belial continue existing, while at the same time, the angels of light war against the angels of darkness or ignorance. Why is this?
Belial although an angel who causes people to turn against God, is also known in Judeaic theology as an angel associated with fornication, wealth, and pollution.
If you take a monothesism approach to Christianity, then God allows evil to exist because you can't have good without evil, or vice versa, which is kind of the issue with monothesism.
It's easy just to call "demons" evil spirits, and good spirits "angels" but that is a really simplified view. In Judaism, then evil comes from God and he isn't this being of pure light, he's more like an unbalanced force that can both destroy as he can create, his actions depending entirely on how he is feeling.
Here is the secret about spirituality. You are allowed to explore, and discover God for yourself. I say things are true, but the actuality is that the spiritual is more fluid than the psychological, which is more fluid than the material, just like how ice becomes water, becomes air. This is an example of the hermetic axiom "As above, so below" which means that which is above is like to that which is below, and that which is below is like to that which is above. Something on the spiritual can be both true and false. This is the secret to spiritual truths. For me, I don't want to believe in a God that is schizophrenic and unstable such as the God in the Old Testament, why not just create a new God such as a God of love, knowledge and light? !actualbiofoids
The term Diablos which means devil means "to slander" and the term "Satanas" means Adversery. If you are afraid of the devil, then you really need to stop and learn to create a new reality, one that doesn't involve fear, because it's just a title for an angel that is responsible for testing the faith of his followers. There is no devil. The term Jesus used were names calling them a Slanderer. When Jesus used the term "slanderer" to the adversary "Satan" of God, he was name calling an angel sent by God to test his faith.
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