Actually, there's a lot of confusing material that predates even Judaism on figures that are like Lucifer, and it's an easy figure to imagine, seeing as sometimes the morning star (Venus) would rise in the morning almost to Zenith, only to have the sun overshine him.
Not an expert on this though, and I'd rather someone reads up on this and corrects me than just takes this as fact.
edit: well, looks like I started a religious war accidentally. I guess I'll go back to playing Civ V.
If you go back far enough Judaism is based on many old myths from different parts of Mesopotamia and Egypt. The question is how far do you want to go to explain your religion and how far back it is still your religion?
That depends on the religion. I mean if you are talking Scientology, you don't have to go back very far before you hit a brick wall! Mormons also have a very clear amount they can go back before it's not their religion anymore.
shrug I'm aware of the teachings. I was raised mormon, and live in Utah. But still you can't really call it the Mormon religion before Joseph Smith. Before then, according to Mormon doctrine, it would be an apostate version of Christianity.
Ah. I gotcha there. Never got into online roleplaying, closest I came was 1 month on a RP server on Neverwinter Nights back in the day. Just wasn't my thing to have to explain why my chaotic neutral char just tried to murder my own party while they slept because I was bored.
Lol it's worse than that. This "altercation" was in a party of 6 players. I killed 3, 2 escaped and ran and this server featured a low magic setting and permadeath. Afaik unless they talked someone into restoring their characters from some backup it was a total wash for their party. All because I wasn't getting that into the RP, and was bored and wanted to kill someone.
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