User blog comment:BeholderofStuff/Pure Evil Removal Proposal: The Devil (theology)/@comment-40177719-20190830181936/@comment-2059440-20190831031011

the texts also state God is able to stop all evil but that evil must exist to test people - thus the "Devil" is the Accuser.. also a lot of the things written are metaphores or symbolic.. Satan is symbolic of things you aren't meant to do.. I'm not getting into the fruitless arguments on "no no, it is 100 percent facts" even when Jesus etc often told stories with symbolisms and said himself that it was symbolic.

in the end humans in the texts were seen as the main focus, for obvious reasons - the worst we get from Devil himself that is directly his own doing would be the events of Revelation.. everything else is nebulous at best.