How Satanism Works
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The Origins of Satan
In one of the gospels in the New Testament, Satan appears to Jesus to try to tempt him. Early Christianity and middle Judaism had this kind of tendency to take other religions, gods and make them the evil characters in their religions. So Beelzebub is actually a corruption of Belal Zevov, which is, no, I'm sorry, BelalZevol or Baal the exalted.
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