aris2chat
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If there is a "Devil" per se.
In scripture, Satan, the talking serpent, is a metaphor for a particular type of person also known as a devil.. In Hebrew the word for serpent, nachash, is both a noun and an adjective which means snake, but it can also mean brazen, shining one, and or one who practices divination, in other words, a religious deceiver.
There is no 'if' about it. Take a good look around. For as long as I can remember there has been a plague of talking serpents of biblical proportions crawling all over the world and countless millions of people have died from their poison once bitten.
Here's a chance to enter that stage of development/evolution to communicate with spirits.
Do you see what I see?
"I see dead people. Walking around like regular people. They don't see each other. They only see what they want to see. They don't know they're dead. There everywhere." The Sixth Sense (1999)
The most beautiful, devoted and beloved angel of god's. An adviser, an advocate, keeping god on the right path, helping god consider all angles and possibilities before taking action. God's conscience in a way.
God got upset because his favorite would not bow down to mankind..............a lower life form god was playing with like a toy.
You are making assumption from facts not in evidence that the snake in eden is satan. It was a wise and clever snake. The snake is not associated with satan/devil in the torah. Satan is not seen as evil or devil in the OT. That is a christian interpretation.
The OT talk only of nephilim mating with women.
Hell and evil leader of hell are greko-roman concepts and not jewish.
When Jesus said of Satan, "He was a murderer from the beginning" He was referring to the story of Adam and Eve where the talking serpent convinced them to defy the command of God which caused their figurative death and expulsion from Eden, the realm of God, the world above.
Gehenna is an expression that denotes the realm of degenerate minds without light and life, comprehension, the figurative world below.
BTW......The long list of maledictions promised by Moses for those who set aside the way in which he taught to follow the law sure sounds like hell to me.....
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a jew would not speak or believe in such terms. the gospel was writen by origen, an alexandrian christian all most 200 yrs after jesus death. how does he know what jesus said or believed?
None of the gospels were written by witnesses of jesus. It is all just greek hearsay. stories past by word of mouth down through the years before they were written.
But people erroneously believe they were written by the apostles who were there with jesus.