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authentic christianity prior to platonism didn't have separate souls from the body. things like demons being disembodied nephilim are later changes

@sun is that later? i thought purely spiritual beings like angels and demons were always understood

@pernia they were physical

@sun how doe? did they have matter? i only know something i asked chatgpt abt that told me aquinas believed angels learned more intuitively albeit nondynamically about the universe, and thats only because they don't have matter and thus cannot "sense" things in the world, only understand them when God gives them the knowledge.

@pernia that was over a thousand years later

@sun yea well i guess i'm asking whats the picture before then? was satan a physical yet immortal being that harassed people?