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FBaggins

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2. It depends on how you see the story

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Thu Mar 7, 2019, 07:25 AM

Mar 2019

If you take the majority Christian position that devil/satan/serpent/lucifer are the same, then he would have been created with the rest of the angels during the six days of creation. Which day is not clear, but many assume it was day one because the angels were supposedly witnesses to the creation of the earth.

His fall could not have been prior to day six because everything was still “good” at that point... but it had to have occurred shortly after that (in order for him to be available to tempt Adam&Eve.

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Question about the timeline of events in the Bible. [View all] DetlefK Mar 2019 OP

the story is from the book of enoch rampartc Mar 2019 #1

It depends on how you see the story FBaggins Mar 2019 #2

With metaphor all things are possible Major Nikon Mar 2019 #5

Well, going by the Good Omens timeline (more reliable - Pratchett and Gaiman are good writers) muriel_volestrangler Mar 2019 #3

Maybe not Bretton Garcia Mar 2019 #4