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I think the traditional view was that God is One. God created Angels which are not dieties, not gods, but something else. Some of these angels, led by satan, rebelled and seperated from God. God also created humans. Humans are not dieties, not god, and not Angels, but something else. Eve and Adam were tempted by Satan to seperate from God. Humanity has been seperated from God ever since, thus explaining everything in the world that appears to be less than good - or evil.

imo, where this comes from is the fact that we want to believe that we come from a good source. How then do we explain everything that seems bad or evil. Well, we construct this metaphysical system where everything that's good comes from God and everything evil is our fault. How did it come to be our fault? The bad angel satan mislead us.

This is not such a bad metaphysical construct. It forces us to take responsibility for the world not being better than it could be. And it takes some of the heat off of us and puts it on Satan. It's really pretty monotheistic. There's only one real Diety. Satan is more like one of us than a Diety. You might say Satan is the personification of our rebelion against our better selves.

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