Wednesday, 20 May 2026

Hell.


The reason that Satanists don't go to hell is because they were given the wrong information in the first place.

What they were reacting against was the Churches' traditional image of God as a harsh judge and punisher of humankind.

And the Churches' insistence that this God was opposed to sex and pleasure.

So they assumed that His opposite - the devil - would grant them what they wanted.

This is based on dubious passages in the Bible.

For example: the devil shows Jesus all the kingdoms of the world and says to him: "'To you I will give their glory and all this authority; for it has been given over to me, and I give it to anyone I please.  If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours.'"  Luke 4:5-7 (NRSV)

This claim by the devil only appears in the Gospel of Luke and how they could know what the devil said to Jesus in the wilderness is questionable.

And it was probably a lie in the first place.

And so when they see that God is not as harsh and prohibitive as as they were told and they experience the love and forgiveness of God they will change their minds.

And the devil will become redundant*.

How much more will others be forgiven who have been misled and deceived in this life!

Hell is out of character for a loving God.


(*I don't believe that the devil exists in reality - the devil is a human concept invented to explain our experience on Earth.) 

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