For thousands of years, the demonic has refused to remain the same.Ancient Zoroastrianism envisioned a cosmic struggle in which Ahriman and the daēvas invaded and corrupted the good creation. Centuries later, Second Temple Jewish writers described rebellious angels, hostile spirits, Mastema, Belial, and eventually Satan within an increasingly organized landscape of supernatural evil. Christianity inherited that world, but also inherited a problem: if Satan rules a kingdom opposed to God, what prevents the Devil from becoming another god?In this episode of Southern Demonology, JJ follows the demonic from ancient Persia through Second Temple Judaism and into the Christian distinction between the supernatural and the preternatural. Along the way, we explore why demons cannot create, why their existence is characterized instead by corruption and putrefaction, and how limitations involving power, knowledge, time, and place distinguish the preternatural from the divine.The journey ends with Malachi Martin's Hostage to the Devil and its portrayal of demons as personal, intelligent, finite beings whose extraordinary abilities remain those of creatures.From Ahriman's assault upon creation to the modern theology of possession and exorcism, this is the story of how cosmic evil became preternatural evil, and why the kingdom of the demonic can corrupt creation but can never create anything of its own.#SouthernDemonology #Demonology #Preternatural #Ahriman #Zoroastrianism #SecondTempleJudaism #Satan #Angelology #AncientReligion #ReligiousHistory #HistoryOfReligion #SpiritualWarfare #Exorcism #MalachiMartin #HostageToTheDevil #DeadSeaScrolls #AncientJudaism #Theology #ReligiousStudies #Paranormal<a rel="payment" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/2652125/support">Support the show</a>

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