I believe that Satan was mainly manifested by the church itself within a timespan of almost 2000 years.
In the old testament for example, Satan is just a job title and means "adversary". So in this context, Satan works for God, not against him. He works for God by putting the faith of people to test, like in the example of Job.
Jews in general are focused on this life, not on an afterlife. Even if there is punishment in the Kingdom of the dead, called "Sheol", any punishment there lasts an maximum of one year, and then their bad deeds are considered to be paid off.
Maybe they are even granted entrance into paradise after that, but I don't know how the concept of paradise after death is viewed in Judaism.
Historians agree on what I wrote in this post, that's where I got the information from.
Only in Christianity the idea of an eternal punishment after death arose. And that idea developed gradually, too.
Since this platform deals with death and some might be scared of an eternal punishment because of the indoctrination over the last couple centuries and because I've dealt with this fear myself and still dealing with it because this instilled fear doesn't disappear overnight, I thought I'll open an discussion about this topic and present this information for those who maybe even unconsciously deal with this fear in their minds.
Especially if someone is mentally unstable, this fear really can get to you. Maybe it could help that we wasn't asked if we even want to be born and participate in this existence, so wouldn't we have the right to end our existence and dive into the non-existence that we came from?
And remember that all ideas of an afterlife (reincarnation or whatever) stem from human minds and their fantasy, and people all over the world just decided or rather got forced to accept those believes.
For example, if you refused to participate in being a Christian back then, this had harsh consequences for you. When the fear of Hell wasn't enough to convince you, the church would bring Hell upon you in this life. The church had some nice torture devices and tortured non-believers, and the famous witch-hunt where they burnt women for owning black cats or who healed people with certain plants (the last one was considered witchcraft, today totally absurd to think like that).
So, let's try to break the curse of fear-mongering by the church of an eternal or even temporary punishment and rather see life for what it is; we die someday and there's probably no afterlife awaiting us, only total non-existence like before we were born, and if we suffer to the point where we want to end our life we shouldn't fear punishment after death for ending our life.
They just want to control us as much as possible, and you can't control a dead person.
If you have other views on this matter or want to share something in general, feel free to do so in the comment section.
Greetings :)
In the old testament for example, Satan is just a job title and means "adversary". So in this context, Satan works for God, not against him. He works for God by putting the faith of people to test, like in the example of Job.
Jews in general are focused on this life, not on an afterlife. Even if there is punishment in the Kingdom of the dead, called "Sheol", any punishment there lasts an maximum of one year, and then their bad deeds are considered to be paid off.
Maybe they are even granted entrance into paradise after that, but I don't know how the concept of paradise after death is viewed in Judaism.
Historians agree on what I wrote in this post, that's where I got the information from.
Only in Christianity the idea of an eternal punishment after death arose. And that idea developed gradually, too.
Since this platform deals with death and some might be scared of an eternal punishment because of the indoctrination over the last couple centuries and because I've dealt with this fear myself and still dealing with it because this instilled fear doesn't disappear overnight, I thought I'll open an discussion about this topic and present this information for those who maybe even unconsciously deal with this fear in their minds.
Especially if someone is mentally unstable, this fear really can get to you. Maybe it could help that we wasn't asked if we even want to be born and participate in this existence, so wouldn't we have the right to end our existence and dive into the non-existence that we came from?
And remember that all ideas of an afterlife (reincarnation or whatever) stem from human minds and their fantasy, and people all over the world just decided or rather got forced to accept those believes.
For example, if you refused to participate in being a Christian back then, this had harsh consequences for you. When the fear of Hell wasn't enough to convince you, the church would bring Hell upon you in this life. The church had some nice torture devices and tortured non-believers, and the famous witch-hunt where they burnt women for owning black cats or who healed people with certain plants (the last one was considered witchcraft, today totally absurd to think like that).
So, let's try to break the curse of fear-mongering by the church of an eternal or even temporary punishment and rather see life for what it is; we die someday and there's probably no afterlife awaiting us, only total non-existence like before we were born, and if we suffer to the point where we want to end our life we shouldn't fear punishment after death for ending our life.
They just want to control us as much as possible, and you can't control a dead person.
If you have other views on this matter or want to share something in general, feel free to do so in the comment section.
Greetings :)
