It’s not ‘the Satan’ in Hebrew, it’s Shaitan, meaning a persecutor or tester. That’s the Hebrew word, and it’s a title in the same way that we have titles in English: judge, executioner, officer, etc. There can be judge Joe, judge Judy, judge Bob, etc. Different beings wear that title, shaitan, all throughout the Bible. Some humans have worn the title and even God himself is, in one context, referred to as shaitan, a ‘satan’, namely in a passage where he is dispensing armies to attack an opposing tribe. There is also an angel in the Book of Job that is referred to as a shaitan, because he is sent by God to test Job, he’s not the ‘one satan’ we think of as dwelling in Hell with a pitchfork punishing sinners because there is no one single satan in the Bible and there is no such thing as a Hell where sinners are punished after death in the first place, those are all falsities concocted by the Catholic church and don’t exist in the original texts, just as fallacious as is their concept of a ‘limbo’; again, this word shaitan is a title, not the name of a specific being, and it’s referring to a bunch of completely different guys throughout the Bible that have nothing to do with one another- some of them supernatural beings, some of them angels, some of them humans, and even God himself. The angel in the book of Job, the Serpent at the Garden, the fallen being Lucifer… these are all completely different beings that got turned into one guy because they either didn’t understand or intentionally mistranslated the word ‘shaitan’ as referring to one being, a single Satan. They’re all different guys.
There is no one singular ‘shaitan’ in the Bible, there is no Satan in the sense that the Catholic church has conceived it, nor in the sense most Christians understand; there’s no one dominating power trying to take over the world or become God, chilling out in Hell waiting for the end of the world and tempting humans into sin. That ‘Satan’ is a myth created by the Catholic Church and just another nearly pagan idol they have created, since that brand of Christianity loves their idols, as they make idols out of all the saints, too. They even pray to the saints… Plus having the old good guy versus evil guy, this God versus one dominating evil,- that old story is very psychologically penetrating, it is an ancient mythic archetype, and it really helps the Church to tie everything together into a really dumbed down, simplified Christianity that is a lot easier to sell to people- but it isn’t real Christianity.
There’s not even a “Hell” for this non-existent Satan to dwell in; this concept of a fiery pit where sinners are punished does not exist in the Bible’s original Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek text. It is mentioned only in one book, the Book of Revelations, and that book reads like it was written by some demented psychotic tripping on about 10 hits of LSD, plus it was written at a time when hundreds of other similar ‘apocalypse’ texts were being composed by the dwindling Gnostic scribes, and it shares no stylistic markers with any of the other books of the bible: I, and many other learned Christians, do not accept the Book of Revelations as being an authentic text inspired by God, it’s just one of a hundred random apocalypse texts the Church chose at random out of the apocrypha to push their brand. They canonized the Book of Revelations and appended it to the very end of their Bible only to help perpetuate the ‘one bad guy’ narrative that helped them to sell their version of Christianity to the masses and gain more political power. True Christianity teaches that there is no one source of evil, there is no one Satan, there is no Hell where sinners are punished, nor any Heaven where the good are rewarded, (Heaven is an inner state of enlightenment reached in our life, not in our death, for there is no such thing as death- that’s the whole point of Christ’s teaching) it is a property inherent to material existence itself; it is simply the negative reflection of God’s absence in the world. A Hell? Think about how pagan that is, Hell, a Hades, this concept of a dark underworld; it’s Greco-Roman! Just like everything else the Catholic Church pushes, it’s all just pagan culture rebranded with Christianity!
It is astounding when you set down and actually learn the Bible’s real languages: Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek. 99 percent of what people claim Christianity is… it all falls apart immediately when you read the true text in its original language. And the Catholic Church in particular, the form of Christianity they have imposed on the world is a mere idol, a complete falsification: their “Satan”, their concept of a Heaven and a Hell, their bizarre conceptualization of a nonsensical ‘trinity’ where God is his own Son who sacrificed himself to himself so he could be resurrected by himself: (WUT) all of that is as false as is their concept of a limbo. At least most modern Christians no longer believe in a limbo, right? But all those other ideas I mentioned have as little foundation in the Bible’s original language texts as limbo does! There are sacred languages, and the Bible is written in sacred languages. Sacred languages have depths of meaning that modern ones lack; one sentence can speak at 100 different levels, and so you cannot really understand it unless you learn those languages, that’s just the way it is. If you don’t, then people will prey upon your lack of knowledge and deceive you into false versions of the religion.
True Christianity, basically, doesn’t exist, and hasn’t existed since the before the first translations into Latin were made and the convention was held to form the ‘Bible’ out of the disparate Christian and Gnostic texts. This thing called Christianity that exists all around us today is just a mishmash of demented idols and I truly feel sorry for all those deprived the genius of the CHRIST.
I have definitely noticed a lot of urban legends and stuff regarding interpreting Satan or angels/demons into passages that don’t actually refer to them. And other stuff like, for example, “cleanliness is next to godliness“ and “God helps those who help themselves” are not in the Bible. That doesn’t mean that Christianity doesn’t exist, though. The title is click bait.
I’m not sure how you can start out with that title and then talk about the genius of Christ. How do you think of it and how do you ground it in reality?
I have shared links to some of my fb posts (legal name, location), and you reflected that you read them. I also gave you my email address with my legal name. If you want that info again & aren’t pretending ignorance… go fish.
Last I checked, the Internets hadn’t caught up with my current address, but it’s been awhile.
Portland? Errybody goes to Portland from California… why is that?? Or some place in Texas. If not the hills.
It’s OK. I won’t put you through any further Misery. lolz
What I mean is the ‘thing’ people call Christianity shares essentially nothing in common with the teaching of Christ, nor the religious thought that preceded his emergence and grounds it historically. So it is Christian only in name. That also means that all the atheists arguing against this dumbed down, retard-ified, false version of Christianity, are just as delusional and lost, because the thing they’re arguing with isn’t even real, it’s a gigantic strawman that has fooled them into believing that what they are arguing against has any historical foundation in the source of Christ’s teachings just as much as it has fooled the pious people of today into accepting it as their genuine faith, as their religion. It’s fooled both sides of the argument.
It is made VERY clear in the old testament that there is no afterlife. Saint, sinner, grasshopper, donkey, criminal, prophet, man, woman, alien: all living things go to exactly the same place after death-- SHEOL, the “dirt”; and that’s it. The New Testament introduces ‘the kingdom within’ as a state of revelatory inner gnosis, not an afterlife; and the only conceptualization of a Hell where you are punished after death exists only in a single book of the bible, namely the Book of Revelations, which is an inauthentic piece of apocryphal text that is, basically, a fake, and does not belong next to any of the inspired texts. So the entire fulcrum of modern ‘Christianity’ is entirely at odds with and detached from the true, historically grounded teachings of Christ, the Gnostics contemporary to the writing of the texts, as well as the ancient Jews.
You mentioned the cleanliness thing not being in the Bible, it reminds me of one of the commandments: don’t take the lord’s name in vain. People think of that along the lines of “God damn it!” being a sin, violating that commandment. Bros, God’s NAME isn’t “God”. “God” is an English word, it isn’t even Aramaic or Hebrew, which if God had a name, it would certainly be in. In fact, the commandment is talking about the sacred names of God, like the 72 letter name that enciphered some of the greatest secrets of the Jewish mystics, forbidden from being pronounced out loud by anyone, even by the high priests. That is what taking God’s name in vain meant, it meant saying some of these cryptological, sacred names of God out loud. One of them is TZABAAOTH. If you take the first letter of every sentence in one of the paragraphs from Genesis and lay them out in the exact order they occur, it spells that word, which is an actual Hebrew-Aramaic word that means “armies”; when you put it together with ‘elohim’ to make the name “Tzabaoth Elohim”, you get one of these sacred names of God, this one meaning basically “Lord of Hosts” or “Lord of Armies”. The 72-letter name is forbidden from being said out loud by ANYONE, but this is one of the lesser names. Still, if I, as a non-Jew, said that out loud, even one of the lesser names, then I just took God’s name in vain and violated one of the ten commandments, and they’d also stone me to death.
More deeply, ‘Tzabaoth’ designates God’s aspect in Netzach and Hod, the founding stones of the Left and Right pillars of the sephira, in terms of the ancient Jewish kabbalists’ cosmogony; the diffuse aspect of the third supernal triad closest to Malkuth or physical reality, whereby the Light of Tipheret is broken like light shone through a prism and dispersed to material creation and to multiplicity, creating the veil of Paroketh that separates us from direct divine inspiration, and which must be pierced to receive gnosis, or what more ancient Jews called the misach, the cosmic veil. Similarly, all of God’s divine names encode deep esoteries, the secrets of the Jewish mystics and the inner workings of their God’s ‘divine plan’, for this is what the divine plan refers to: it refers to the actual workings of creation itself, the means and the architecture by which God produced the world from nothingness. Doesn’t have anything to do with our earthly fortunes, has nothing to do with things going our way or not or if this one person dies or not, etc. To believe that your personal life has anything to do with that great plan would be vanity; nobody gives a shit if things go your way or not, least of all the creator of the universe: God’s divine plan and ‘mysterious ways’ has precisely dick to do with that.
My favorite secret name of God is EL-VEDATH; 'God made manifest through Knowledge; God made manifest by Mind." You could also translate it as… knowledge is power; divine power, God’s power. All of these secret names are recovered cryptographically, that is, in the performance of different technical gematria on the original holy texts, be it taking the first letters of sentences or the last ones, taking every other letter, reading something backwards, etc. etc. etc. The holy texts like Genesis are written like two mirrors pointed at one another: every word reflects every other word in the text like Indra’s net, every letter reflects every other letter; with infinite levels of meaning, such that every possible mathematical/cryptographic operation on the texts will reveal legitimate Hebrew-Aramaic words. You can do these operations to recover not just words, but whole sentences, grammatically correct and everything. In fact, you can recover an infinite number of sentences and collapse the text of Genesis from its 11-dimensional hyperobject into lower-dimensional, topological space, producing from it 1,000 new Bibles, each one unique, each one containing its own unique text and wisdom. And then you can repeat the process on every single one of those 1,000 new bibles to produce 100,000 more new bibles, and so on. This is taught in the Sefer Yetzirah. In the old days, learning the entire holy corpus by heart, along with all the commentaries, was just a preparation: one could not boast of wisdom until they can read down to at least 1,000 layers of text. And to keep 1,000 layers of meaning lined up and straight in your head without simply going insane… that is why the ancient Jews had their parable, about those not yet ready tasting of the knowledge of the kinds of techniques offered in Yetzirah: it can drive one mad without the necessary psychological and mental preparations. No human could have conceived a literally infinite text like Genesis.
But I do not believe it is the word of God given to us. I actually believe aliens implanted a linguistic virus, some kind of recursive ‘intrinsic semiotic code’ capable of self-compiling and reproducing itself inside of our nervous system which hijacked our higher cortical functions. As evolutionary drift took place, interference from the right hemisphere of our brain led to our self-awareness splitting off from that area in our cortex, and then our singular language (of which Aramaic is our nearest remnant) split off into innumerable fragmented languages,- an event memorialized in our mythologies by figures like Enki. He was a culture-hero who used ‘namshubs’ to break the unity of tongues and force man into self-awareness, whereas he had been under the dominating control of this linguistic code operating in our brain:
Now, I do not believe these aliens implanted that intrinsic semiotic code in our brain maliciously. I believe it was a gift. They connected us to some metaphysical source for Language’s “Ground”:
It’s just that this ‘gift’ restricted our ability to achieve self-awareness.
Imma go smoke some more dope now. Cheers. And I don’t mean weed. Anyways, food for thought, shit gets deeper but I got tired.