Does Satan have horns and pitchfork?

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The Bible refers to Satan as a snake. But the image of the Adversary as a red, forked-tail, horned being with a pitchfork was taken from depictions of Pagan gods such as Baphomet and Pan. The early Christians imagined that the gods of the pagans must be demons and accordingly treated their idols as statues of demons.
 
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The Bible refers to Satan as a snake. But the image of the Adversary as a red, forked-tail, horned being with a pitchfork was taken from depictions of Pagan gods such as Baphomet and Pan. The early Christians imagined that the gods of the pagans must be demons and accordingly treated their idols as statues of demons.
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There is also the dragon image in Revelation.

My own thoughts are that he is a fallen angel. Angels don’t have bodies so I don’t think the devil has one.

However we have seen angels appear as human beings so I believe that the devil could too. It may also be possible to take the appearence of other creatures.
 
Weird how we have divinely inspired words but not divinely inspired pictures
 
Elf01 said:
There is also the dragon image in Revelation.

My own thoughts are that he is a fallen angel. Angels don’t have bodies so I don’t think the devil has one.

However we have seen angels appear as human beings so I believe that the devil could too. It may also be possible to take the appearence of other creatures.
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I have heard that both references - Genesis Hebrew ‘snake’ and Revelation Greek ‘dragon’ can refer to a ‘serpent’ and as such there may be some continuity between the two references.

Disclaimer : I do not speak Hebrew or Greek let alone the ancient forms of both languages.
 
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@elf01 the horned beings were metaphor for kings both in Daniel and Revelation.

I’ve read the whole chapter So now It’s clear.

The only physical attribute the devil is being shown as was that of serpent.
 
Having never been to hell, or knowing anyone who went there and could send me a post card, I don’t know. 😉
 
Elf01 said:
Angels don’t have bodies so I don’t think the devil has one.
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Isn’t there a place (I think in Revelation) that says (some) angels have threee pairs of wings.

How is that compatible with not having a body’
 
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Okay so this clears who the horned beings were.

But I got one more question.

What about dragon? Was it Satan? Cz Satan was already depicted as a serpent. And there’s very much resemblance between serpent and dragon.
 
2 Corinthians 11:14: And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.

(he doesn’t come to us with horns and pitchforks, he comes to us with halos and wings…this is consistent with Pope Pius X encyclical warning that modernism aka synthesis of all heresies will come from within the Church, not from outside).
 
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Cirdan_XII said:
Isn’t there a place (I think in Revelation) that says (some) angels have threee pairs of wings.

How is that compatible with not having a body’
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Angels don’t have physical wings because they don’t have physical bodies. The descriptions in Revelations and other places are symbolic images.
 
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