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Origin Of Satan

D. (pg 6.). Mark claims that Satan is believed to be acting through the higher priests in Jerusalem because they wanted to keep him from attaining his true kingship over the people of the world i.e.; jealousy. She then proceeds to say that this gospel as well as the three other gospels which were elaborated from Marks original is essentially "wartime literature" (pg 8). I found this particularly interesting because of how much influence war has on any type of literature, artwork or musical number. In times of war people are ready to point the finger at the people who oppose you and it is even easier to say that they are evil, especially when you live in a time where more then half of the information of the world is inaccessible.
             I still do not understand why Pagels decided to start off the book with the chapter she chose, instead of the subsequent. It is in the second chapter where Satan's origin is actually mentioned. In the original book of genesis that the Hebrew culture followed, Satan is actually "one of God's angels, a being of superior intelligence and status."(pg. 39) It is in the book of genesis where he is described to be the type of angel who acts as a supernatural obstacle to block the path of anyone who is attempting to either head in a wrong direction or do something that "The Lord" would not like, he only acts as a messenger from god not on his own free will. In the book of Job, Satan is also an intelligent angel who asks god to let him challenge Job in his faith. Job, of course, proves to be loyal to god. If only Satan had remained as that character maybe he would not have such a bad reputation nowadays. It was only after reading the second chapter that I learned exactly what Mark meant by defining Jesus" antagonists as Satan's allies.
             The following chapters include more history about the time when the gospels were written and how Satan develops as a character in the Christian religion, starting from Matthew's gospels finally to Luke and Johns which were written in that order, all within exact decades of each other.


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