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Misunderstanding the Bible
Common misbeliefs about the Bible
- Is satan God's counter-pole. Do darkness and fire belong to satan? -
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A typical trait of angels is that they sing. The Bible says that the earth is flat. The Tree Of Knowledge of Good and Evil was a bad, bad tree. Sarah snickered because she didn't believe she'd be a mom. Jonah was gobbled up by a whale. Satan is God's counter-pole. Darkness and fire belong to Satan. In the Bible black stands for bad and white stands for good. A true story is something that actually happened. The Bible is the Word of God The Bible is infallible If you're good, you'll go to heaven. If you're bad, you'll go to hell. God destroyed the Tower of Babel to punish the builders. During a duel with Satan, God wrecked Job just to make a point. Jesus was born in a stable; ox, donkey, and the angels sang! Astrology is always wrong. Hand palm reading is always wrong. Jesus was a Jew, from the line of David Jesus had nails through His feet. Jesus asked God to forgive His executioners for crucifying Him. Jesus was very poor Thomas was a heinous unbeliever, made a fool of by Christ. | Medieval nonsense. Reality and Scriptures are mono-polar, centered around God. Satan is a creature; a completely different kind of being than the Creator. Satan is not omni-present, not omni-potent and certainly no threat to God. Darkness and fire, like anything else, belong to God. But Satan hides in darkness lest he incinerates in the Light. To Satan there's a big difference between light and dark. To God there's not (Ps 139:12). God wields His fire at His discretion, sometimes to destroy, sometimes to guide, often to purify. God very often appears in deep darkness (Gen1, Gen 15:17), and not all "bad" things comes from satan: Isaiah 45:7 reads, "I am the Lord and there is no other, the One forming light and creating darkness, causing peace and calamity [the word used here is the common word for evil...!]; I am the Lord who does all these." After taking all this in account, we may wonder what the function might be of satan. The obvious answer is that he has no function. And perhaps that's why he finds himself shooed off by Jesus as a conclusion of His formative years (Matt 4:10). God's empire is like that of bees (the Hebrew word for bee is the feminine version of the masculine 'Word', Logos in Greek; bees have a house, like flowers, make honey, speak a language, care for offspring, are armed). Satan's 'empire' is like flies (Hebrew word for fly, 'zebub', comes from the verb 'to zig-zag/ move around like a headless chicken'. Beelzebub means Lord of the Flies; flies are homeless, like dung and decaying flesh, make nothing, speak no language, don't care for their offspring, are not armed.) |
