It is because they have their birth in the pagan religions of the time and vestiges of that paganism is littered throughout the bible. That is a reason there are a million names for the devil, they are generally just the other deities of the greater religious beliefs of the levant of the time. The other competing gods get "demonized" literally.
It is because they have their birth in the pagan religions of the time and vestiges of that paganism is littered throughout the bible. That is a reason there are a million names for the devil, they are generally just the other deities of the greater religious beliefs of the levant of the time. The other competing gods get "demonized" literally.