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Here’s an alternative understanding:
No argument about heaven and hell being real places.

The beliefs expressed here about hell and “Satan”seems to inspired by Dante’s Inferno, not the bible

“The Satan“ was created by God and is one of His most faithful angels, the way He deals with angels is totally different from the way he deals with men.

How God’s justice system lumps them together at the end is to me an interesting misreading of scripture

That it hell exists is not in question, it’s the nature of it that’s the bone of contention. First it’s not physical fire because physical fire cannot burn souls. It’s allegorical

And the nature and duration of the punishment is another issue. How long is it? Forever and ever? To accomplish what purpose?

All judgement of God towards man as revealed in the bible are always corrective, never vindictive. God is not going to punish a man forever and ever for rejecting Him that sounds like what a monster would do not a God of love who created human beings for his pleasure

Annihilation as indicated by CS Lewis, and a finite time period (not more than a year as alluded to by the rabbis) are more in line with scriptural thought

Eternal damnation was imported from Greek mythology and adopted by the Catholic Church of old and they used it as a tool of manipulation, intimidation and control, selling indulgences etc.

The Protestants took it along with them when they left the Catholic Church and that’s how we got here. And it’s still being used as a tool for manipulation, intimidation and control by the Protestants

Hehe!
https://www.relevantmagazine.com/faith/church/biblical-case-awesome-beards/

Better a lowly person earning an honest living than a shameless man who in the name of God, helps himself from the sweat of lowly people trying to earn an honest living

Rabbi Zusha of Anipoli said:
I learned seven things from the thief:
1, What he does, he keeps to himself
2, He is willing to take risks to attain his goal
3, He does not distinguish between ‘major’ and ‘minor’ things, but takes equally exacting care of each and every detail
4, He invests great effort in what he does
5, He is swift
6, He is always optimistic
7, If at first he fails, he is back time and again for another try

Today is the 14th day of the month of ‘Elul’. During the entire month of Elul each morning, the shofar (ram's horn or trumpet) is sounded in Israel (and in synagogues worldwide)- it's a piercing, haunting sound, stirring the hearts of the hearers to seek G-d and repent of the sin in their (our) lives. http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Blessings/Blessing_Cards/shof2.mp3
The sound of the shofar is like our soul crying out to the Righteous Judge for grace and mercy!
The Talmud writes that the Hebrew word Elul can be understood to be an acronym for the phrase "Ani L'dodi V'dodi Li" – "I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine" (Song of Songs (Solomon) 6:3). Elul is seen as a time to search one's heart and draw close to God in preparation for the coming Day of Judgement, Rosh Hashanah, and Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur-From Wikipedia. It’s a time when the spiritual technology of ‘teshuva’ (repentance) is most auspicious. It a time to receive the messiah, Yeshua (Jesus). From Elul 1 to Tishrei 10 (Yom Kippur) is 40 days, it marks the period of the 3rd ascent of Moses to Mt Sinai, without food+water, after the ‘golden calf’ incident, and he came down with the 2nd set of tablets, a ‘(re)new(ed) covenant’, and atonement for the people, after their repentance was complete. ‘A prophet like unto Moses’ fasted for 40 days as well and brought us a ‘(re)new(ed) covenant’, and atonement, and much more...let’s get in on the spirit of the season! Shalom Bracha! All y’all!