The Stoics, in particular Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius, repeatedly speak of how we need to get in touch with our personal daemons. The daemon is like one's inner guiding spirit, or, like a guardian angel, so to speak.
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After Christianity conquered the pagan world, the Christians interpreted daemons as being evil (of course, they would) and so the term has come down to us as 'demons' or some kind of sinister entities. The daemons were seen as non-Christian and thus 'wicked'.
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It was the Church leaders who made these declarations back in the early days of Christianity. The masses didnt read Biblical texts and were even proscribed against it by Church authorities. The idea of common people reading the Bible is a Protestant outgrowth
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Lol! They did you a favor
Everyone reads Biblical texts differently. That's why the early Church did not allow the unwashed masses to read it.
There was an apocryphal text discovered recently that depicted Judas in a more favorable light...
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The liberal "Jesus" depicted today, is not the "Jesus" of the canonical Bible.
There is no historical evidence of Jesus.
People who believe the Bible is history are so ignorant I don't know where to begin to unravel their stupidity.
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It was never meant to be a history book. The people in ancient times didn't mistake it for history. They understood mythology and symbolism and metaphor. Modern people have lost all of that cultural nuance. They interpret literally what is meant as metaphor.