Back a few years ago when praying to God, I told him directly that if anyone ends up in heck undeservingly which is a concept that I cannot justify with a just and loving God then I would go there myself, since then I have been exploring the truth about the religion and quite frankly, knowing that I am darned does give me to freedom to actually explore the religion and discover the truth about it free of Church dogma.
This is what Catholics believe, Jesus sacrificed himself for our sins and went down to heck, I don't believe or agree with the concept of Heck and if he did, then it's my duty as a Christian to follow Jesus and do the same.
The Crucifixarion reflects the scapegoat ritual in Leviticus.
In the Bible, a scapegoat is one of a pair of kid goats that is released into the wilderness, taking with it all sins and impurities, while the other is sacrificed. The concept first appears in the Book of Leviticus, in which a goat is designated to be cast into the desert to carry away the sins of the community.
Jesus was the scapegoat.
First you should accept that Lucifer and Satan are two different beings, Satan is presented as having goat horns as symbolism because of the scapegoat ritual.
Isaiah 14:12-17
Revelation 22:16
2 Peter 1:19 the word Lucifer is used to refer to Jesus in the Latin Vulgate.
You shouldn't be afraid of heck. The real heck is living your life with the fear of heck.
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This is a good point, one thing Lucifer is big on teaching me is apotheosis, or self-deification and if heck is a seperation from God, you can learn to become your own God.
Instead of receiving love from an external source, you can give it to yourself. You can learn to trust yourself.
Thanks for giving me some clarity on why.
As long as you are pure in heart and believe in Jesus, he gives his followers authority over demons. Nothing in heck can harm me worse than the heck I inflict on myself.
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lol this is a good idea just start showing him mike
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Isaiah 14:12-17
Revelation 22:16
2 Peter 1:19
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BIPOC
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Read another book
(like Agams or something)
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im a theist in a vague sense of i believe that heaven and heck are metaphors for what we think will happen when we die AND what i think could happen in the future
so to me Heaven is whatever equivalent is the continuation of consciousness: reincarnation, revived in the future, resurrection of the dead, the soul moving on, a parallel universe where everyone is immortal, eternal return, etc.
whereas Heck is non-existence, so we as humans think of that as the worst thing subconsciously. i think i would rather not exist than live in an afterlife without my loved ones. im hoping for a heaven where everyone is saved
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Snapshots:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrowing_of_Hell#:~:text=The%20term%20'Harrowing%20of%20Hell,of%20the%20Old%20Testament%20period:
ghostarchive.org
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scapegoat#:~:text=In%20the%20Bible%2C%20a%20scapegoat,the%20sins%20of%20the%20community:
ghostarchive.org
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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