It's not even right lol. It might be true for Christians, but Satan is basically just a Lawyer in Jewish tradition. The word means "accuser" in hebrew, Satan's basically just the prosecutor.
I believe the oldest specific use of the term is from Job3, so it shows that it was definitely a term Jewish people used for an evil accuser that tries to trick God into thinking righteous people are innocent, even centuries before Jesus was born.
3: For the accuser that spent all its free time scouring the entire planet for anyone it could accuse of sin, and then started a personal vendetta with Job just because God said he was righteous. It first accused Job of only being righteous because God was nice to him [essentially accusing God of bribing Job into being righteous], and then stole & destroyed all of Job's property, killed all of Job's servants & children, and tried to destroy his faith in God [by getting his wife to tell him to "curse God and die", and then sending three psycho false friends to break his spirit & accuse him of literally anything and everything they could think of when that didn't work], so it's the same enemy Jesus mentioned in John 10:10. There are other cases like this, too. It's just a bit subtle, because accuser [generic] and accuser [specific individual] are the same word.
In Jewish tradition, he's basically the prosecutor in the Heavenly court, while God is the defendant. In the story of Job, he tried to claim that Job wasn't actually righteous, God said nah he is, Satan said ill prove it, God said go ahead. Wack story but still
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u/Awes12 1d ago
It's not even right lol. It might be true for Christians, but Satan is basically just a Lawyer in Jewish tradition. The word means "accuser" in hebrew, Satan's basically just the prosecutor.