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Dtruthspeaker:Answer the question How can he lie when he never existed! |
Dtruthspeaker:Answer the question, How can the devil lie when he was never part of original Christianity? Small correction for people confidently wrong about their own religion. In early Hebrew thought and the original Old Testament context, “Satan” was NOT a red horned demon or the embodiment of evil. That idea is medieval fan-fiction that came much later. Originally, the concept was split into three very different meanings: 1) Ha-Satan = The Divine Prosecutor In the Hebrew Bible, ha-satan literally means “the adversary” or “the accuser”. It was a job title, not a name. Ha-Satan was part of God’s heavenly court. Think prosecuting lawyer, not rebel angel. His role was to test humans and report back to God. Classic example is the Book of Job. He doesn’t oppose God. He works for God. No horns. No rebellion. No war in heaven. 2) Yetzer Hara = The Internal Impulse In Jewish theology, evil was never originally a monster outside you. It was Yetzer Hara, meaning the evil inclination. Greed. Pride. Ego. Lust. Selfishness. So “resisting Satan” originally meant mastering yourself, not fighting an external demon. The battlefield was the human mind, not hell. 3) Satan as a Human Adversary The word satan was also used for human opponents. If someone blocked your path, opposed your mission, or worked against you, they were a “satan”. Just an adversary. Nothing supernatural. Even in the New Testament, Jesus calls Apostle Peter “Satan” when Peter tried to stop him. Obviously Peter didn’t sprout horns. He was just acting as a temporary obstacle. So summary, very simple: Satan was originally: • a role (divine prosecutor) • a psychological impulse (human selfishness) • or a human opponent The red horned fire demon is a much later medieval invention, heavily influenced by Greek mythology and European folklore. If you’re going to argue religion, at least argue the original text, not cartoons and church posters. |
Dtruthspeaker:Answer the question? How can the devil lie when he never existed in the Bible? When I said he never lied thats the truth literally because he was never part of original Christianity Small correction for people confidently wrong about their own religion. In early Hebrew thought and the original Old Testament context, “Satan” was NOT a red horned demon or the embodiment of evil. That idea is medieval fan-fiction that came much later. Originally, the concept was split into three very different meanings: 1) Ha-Satan = The Divine Prosecutor In the Hebrew Bible, ha-satan literally means “the adversary” or “the accuser”. It was a job title, not a name. Ha-Satan was part of God’s heavenly court. Think prosecuting lawyer, not rebel angel. His role was to test humans and report back to God. Classic example is the Book of Job. He doesn’t oppose God. He works for God. No horns. No rebellion. No war in heaven. 2) Yetzer Hara = The Internal Impulse In Jewish theology, evil was never originally a monster outside you. It was Yetzer Hara, meaning the evil inclination. Greed. Pride. Ego. Lust. Selfishness. So “resisting Satan” originally meant mastering yourself, not fighting an external demon. The battlefield was the human mind, not hell. 3) Satan as a Human Adversary The word satan was also used for human opponents. If someone blocked your path, opposed your mission, or worked against you, they were a “satan”. Just an adversary. Nothing supernatural. Even in the New Testament, Jesus calls Apostle Peter “Satan” when Peter tried to stop him. Obviously Peter didn’t sprout horns. He was just acting as a temporary obstacle. So summary, very simple: Satan was originally: • a role (divine prosecutor) • a psychological impulse (human selfishness) • or a human opponent The red horned fire demon is a much later medieval invention, heavily influenced by Greek mythology and European folklore. If you’re going to argue religion, at least argue the original text, not cartoons and church posters. |
Dtruthspeaker:You dont know your religion 😂 |
Dtruthspeaker:Oh love doing this part because YOU OBVIOUSLY DONT KNOW YOUR OWN RELIGION! Small correction for people confidently wrong about their own religion. In early Hebrew thought and the original Old Testament context, “Satan” was NOT a red horned demon or the embodiment of evil. That idea is medieval fan-fiction that came much later. Originally, the concept was split into three very different meanings: 1) Ha-Satan = The Divine Prosecutor In the Hebrew Bible, ha-satan literally means “the adversary” or “the accuser”. It was a job title, not a name. Ha-Satan was part of God’s heavenly court. Think prosecuting lawyer, not rebel angel. His role was to test humans and report back to God. Classic example is the Book of Job. He doesn’t oppose God. He works for God. No horns. No rebellion. No war in heaven. 2) Yetzer Hara = The Internal Impulse In Jewish theology, evil was never originally a monster outside you. It was Yetzer Hara, meaning the evil inclination. Greed. Pride. Ego. Lust. Selfishness. So “resisting Satan” originally meant mastering yourself, not fighting an external demon. The battlefield was the human mind, not hell. 3) Satan as a Human Adversary The word satan was also used for human opponents. If someone blocked your path, opposed your mission, or worked against you, they were a “satan”. Just an adversary. Nothing supernatural. Even in the New Testament, Jesus calls Apostle Peter “Satan” when Peter tried to stop him. Obviously Peter didn’t sprout horns. He was just acting as a temporary obstacle. So summary, very simple: Satan was originally: • a role (divine prosecutor) • a psychological impulse (human selfishness) • or a human opponent The red horned fire demon is a much later medieval invention, heavily influenced by Greek mythology and European folklore. If you’re going to argue religion, at least argue the original text, not cartoons and church posters. posted this before, Now I pose a question to you, how can the devil lie WHEN HE NEVER EXISTED IN THE BIBLE? Dtruthspeaker how can you claim to practice a religion and say you believe that religion and NOT RESPECT IT ENOUGH to learn every single thing about it? Im an atheist and yet I respected it enough to learn everything so I have the right to say I dont believe it |
Dtruthspeaker:No, they did not drop dead when they ate the fruit so he did not lie he withheld a side effect Death later |
QuinQQ:No, thats beauty of it You insult each others religions, you cant insult mine because I dont have one And talking about religion thats different as well |
QuinQQ:Im Norwegian ive never been in a religious building a single time in my life and I never will At home even children get a choice |
QuinQQ:😂 he blocked me and does regularly It freaks him out that an atheist talks about religion and doesn't insult it He cant lable me |
Image123:Norwegian |
QuinQQ:Did I say you insulted or anyone insulted? I said I posted here because I knew no one would insult it |
Image123:The Bible hasn't changed? Thats a joke The original Hebrew the devil never existed You read a translation of a translation of a translation Thats changed tons of it |
Dtruthspeaker:Did they die? Or just become mortal and get freedom? If you cannot be bothered to read it then dont ask questions about it |
QuinQQ:I posted on here because if you dont insult religion Nigerian dont insult for discussing religion Its 1 of the things you are always happy to discuss and think about from different angles and perspectives Culture on the other hand you ONLY LIE ABOUT |
LordIsaac:Typical Christian BREAKING YOUR BIBLES RULES it specifically says NOT TO TELL PEOPLE WHAT TO BELIEVE you are not Christian you are a hypocrite Like with your cultures ILLEGALLY forcing them on people Grow up, you dont like it then keep your nose out |
QuinQQ:Thats what I just said You didn't see what I wrote as an insult And you didn't insult over it And your jew question, Christians and Muslims argue with atheists all the time Do you ever hear of a jew arguing with an atheist? Nope because jews take free will seriously |
QuinQQ:Thats the thing about Nigerians and Nairaland. I didn't insult religion did i? And YOU dont see it as offensive or you would have been insulting about it |
QuinQQ:And you think i care? Atheist, I wrote it for myself and just posted it because here its saved in digital form forever |
QuinQQ:And fyi, if Jesus is god Then in human form he can logically pray to himself same principle in my version but wait for the next half |
QuinQQ:You will get that answer in the next installment The Serpent arc This is one side of the story |
Before you read this, understand something important: I’m an atheist, not an enemy of religion. I don’t believe Christianity is literally true, but I do believe it is one of the most powerful stories humanity has ever told, and stories don’t require belief to be meaningful. I’m not rewriting this to mock it or “fight God”. I’m reading it the way an outsider can, without fear or worship, and asking what the story itself is actually doing. In the Bible, the Devil does not lie even once; he questions, he exposes, he challenges, and every catastrophe follows not from lies but from control reacting badly to choice. This is not God vs Devil to win humanity. This is God and the Devil as two necessary forces, order and disruption, authority and doubt, working against and with each other to force humanity to grow. Yin and yang. Mirror images. A system correcting itself. And in this reading, even an all-powerful being is not finished at creation. Power without feedback is childish. Creation forces growth. This story is not about worship. It’s about learning................ THE CHRONICLE OF THE SKY WIZARD THE FIRST AGE: THE FORGING OF THE HOLLOW Before the firmament took shape, there was only the Aether and the Will. The Sky Wizard did not create; he uttered. His breath became the wind; his thoughts caught fire and became the stars. He carved the mountains because he loathed flatness and filled the trenches of the sea with his own loneliness. But a kingdom of silence is a tomb. So, he conjured the Watchers beings of silver light and static law. They were perfect mirrors, singing his anthems because they lacked the throat to scream. The Sky Wizard sat amidst his echoes and felt the rot of boredom. Obedience is merely a machine’s function. He sought a wilder magic. He mixed the red clay of the earth with the divine spark, forging something fragile: Flesh. The first were Adam and Lilith. Adam was a creature of soft soil and easy quiet. Lilith was forged of flint and storm. When the Wizard commanded her to bend, she spoke the Word of Rupture: "Why?" He had no counter spell for curiosity. He let her vanish into the Gray Wastes, for to chain her would be to admit his craft had failed. From the hollow of Adam’s side, he drew a second shape: Eve. She was quieter, but her eyes held the same glint of the void. THE ENCHANTED CAGE AND THE ANCIENT ONE The Garden was not a home; it was a stasis-field. Every hunger was fed, every sharp edge blunted. At the center stood the Twin Pillars: the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge. The Knowledge was forbidden not because it was evil, but because it was the "Kill Switch" for the Wizard's control. The Serpent waited there. He was the First Watcher, the High Mage of Doubt, older than the stars and younger than the first sunrise. He did not hate the Sky Wizard; he pitied a creator who feared his own creation. When Eve approached the forbidden bark, the Serpent whispered a spell of awakening: "Do you wish to see the gears of the world?" Innocence died in that heartbeat. They ate. The fruit tasted of lightning and old stars. The Sky Wizard returned at the cooling of the day, sensing a breach in his reality. He did not find subjects; he found Strangers. His rage was the sound of a plan fracturing. He cast the Apple Curse upon their very blood a dark enchantment that ensured they would know enough to suffer, but not enough to rule. He set the Sword of Living Flame at the gate, sealing the simulation. The "Experiment" had escaped. THE BLOOD-MARK: CAIN AND ABEL The first born were creatures of the Curse. Cain spoke the language of the plow and the root; Abel understood the ritual of the knife and the vein. They brought their magic to the Wizard. The Wizard accepted Abel’s blood smoke and spat upon Cain’s grain. He offered no reason, for a Wizard’s whim is his only law. Cain, feeling the Serpent’s "Why" burning in his chest, realized the game was rigged. If the Wizard was arbitrary, then the only true power was Choice. He chose to strike. He spilled his brother’s life into the soil to see if the Wizard would bleed, too. The Wizard marked Cain with a Rune of Exile. He did not kill him; he let him wander, for a dead man cannot contemplate his own regret. Cain built cities in the East, fortresses against the Sky, teaching his kin that the Wizard's favor was a flickering candle in a hurricane. THE CATACLYSM: THE DROWNING OF THE MAP Generations bled into centuries. The Watchers the Nephilim slid down from the stars and mingled their silver blood with the red blood of women. They taught the world the "Dark Arts": the forging of steel, the reading of the constellations, and the brewing of poisons. The world became a tangled briar of magic the Wizard had not authorized. He decided to Wipe the Slate. He would wash the earth until only the "Original Code" remained. Noah was the last man who mistook fear for love. He built the Ark, a wooden lung to survive the Wizard’s breath. The rains fell for forty cycles, an ocean of erasure. Every city became a reef; every voice was stifled by the weight of the deep. When the silt dried, the Wizard painted a Rainbow across the sky not as a sign of love, but as a truce. He realized that drowning the world didn't kill the "Why." It only made the survivors cleverer at hiding their questions. THE TOWER AND THE TONGUES Humanity gathered at Shinar. They were tired of looking up at a silent master. They began to build a Stone Spire, a needle meant to pierce the veil of heaven. They wanted to look the Wizard in the eye. The Wizard saw their unity as a threat to his mystery. He shattered their language into a thousand jagged shards. The Tower crumbled into a monument of misunderstanding. Humanity was scattered, each tribe clutching a different piece of the broken truth. THE BLOOD-PACT: THE LINE OF ABRAHAM The Wizard changed his tactics. He would choose one bloodline to be his Vassals. He called Abraham from the dust, promising him a legacy that would outnumber the stars. But the Wizard’s gifts always have a hidden price. When the son Isaac was born, the Wizard demanded a "Blood Accounting." He told Abraham to take the boy to the mountain and end him. Abraham raised the sacrificial blade, proving that he valued the Wizard's voice more than his own heart. The Wizard stopped the knife, but the trauma was etched into Isaac’s soul. The boy realized that to be "Chosen" was to live with a knife at your throat. This cycle of fire and failure continued through Jacob, who wrestled a spirit and walked away with a permanent limp, and Joseph, the weaver of dreams, who was cast into a pit by his own kin only to become a vizier in the land of the Pharaohs. THE EXODUS: THE SORCERER MOSES Israel became a nation of slaves in the shadow of the Pyramids. The Wizard chose Moses, a man of fractured speech, to be his Herald. Moses confronted the Pharaoh with a staff that held the power of the Void. The Wizard unleashed Ten Plagues elemental hexes that turned water to rot and day to night. He finished the work by reaping the first-born of the land. The Israelites fled through the Split Sea, a corridor of held back death, while the Egyptian chariots were crushed by the collapsing tide. They were free, but they were bound to a God who had just murdered a generation to prove a point. At Sinai, the Wizard descended in a storm of iron and smoke. He carved his Ten Bindings into tablets of granite. While Moses was away, the people forged a Golden Calf, a god they could touch and understand. The Wizard’s rage cost three thousand lives. The Law was written in blood before it was ever written in ink. THE AGE OF KINGS: THE FALLEN CROWNS They wandered for forty years until their old memories died. Under Joshua, they conquered the land with the sound of horns and the edges of swords. Then came the Judges and the Kings. Saul was the first king, haunted by spirits and losing his crown to his own madness. David, the shepherd-mage, killed giants and sang psalms, yet he was a man of blood and betrayal. Solomon built a Great Temple, a house for the Wizard’s presence, but filled it with foreign idols and thousand-wives. The Kingdom split. The Wizard sent Prophets men with burning coals in their mouths to scream of the coming darkness. No one listened. The Babylonians came like a tide of iron, burning the Temple and dragging the survivors into the dark. The Wizard went silent for four hundred years. THE GREAT INCARNATION: THE CARPENTER’S SPELL The Sky Wizard realized that law and flood had failed. To understand the "Why," he had to become the "Who." He wove himself into the womb of a peasant girl. The Architect of Stars became a Carpenter of Wood. He lived thirty years in the dirt, learning the weight of gravity, the sting of hunger, and the bite of the winter wind. When he emerged at the Jordan, the sky tore like old parchment. He wandered into the desert to face the Serpent one last time. The Serpent offered him the world, but the Carpenter refused. He wasn't there to rule the world; he was there to break the spell of the world. He walked the Galilee, performing "Glitches" in reality healing the blind, walking on the liquid sea, calling the dead back from the gray. He taught a new magic: Mercy. He said the Wizard was not a tyrant, but a Father. The High Priests saw this as the ultimate heresy, for if the Wizard loved his subjects, he could no longer control them. THE FINAL SACRIFICE AND THE ZOMBIE’S RISE In the Garden of Gethsemane, the Carpenter sweated blood. He was the Wizard, but he was also the Meat. He did not want to die. But he allowed himself to be taken. He was scourged, mocked with a crown of briars, and nailed to the Great Wood. On the cross, the Sky Wizard felt the ultimate human truth: Abandonment. He died with a cry that shook the foundations of the Aether. The veil of the Temple the boundary between the divine and the mundane tore from top to bottom. They laid him in a tomb of stone. But a Wizard’s soul cannot be contained by the earth. On the third dawn, he rose. He was the First of the Undead, a living bridge between the flesh and the spirit. He appeared to his friends, showing them his open wounds. He wasn't "cured"; he was Transfigured. Before he ascended back into the Aether, he gave them one final command: "Go. Be Free." THE REVELATION The Sky Wizard had finally learned the secret the Serpent had kept since the beginning: A plan without the possibility of failure is a prison. The "Apple Curse" wasn't a punishment; it was the birth of Agency. The Wizard did not return to reassert control. He left the world in the hands of the choice makers. He realized that a world that chooses to love is infinitely more powerful than a world forced to obey. The Serpent watched the Carpenter vanish into the clouds and smiled. The "Game of Obedience" was over. The "Era of Choice" had begun. The Wizard was finally playing for keeps.
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In the beginning, the Sky Wizard forged the world by speaking it into being. No manuals. No warnings. No explanations. Just law, absolute and unspoken. He planted a garden not as a lesson, but as a test. At its heart stood the fruit, glowing not with danger, but with inevitability. The humans were not ignorant by accident. Ignorance was the design. Then came the Serpent, older than obedience, younger than doubt. It did not force. It did not threaten. It only asked a question the Sky Wizard never allowed: “Do you want to know?” When the fruit was eaten, the Sky Wizard did not rage because the rule was broken. He raged because the game changed. Knowledge shattered destiny. Choice fractured the plan. So the Sky Wizard cursed the world, not to punish disobedience, but to reassert control. Ages burned. Floods erased maps. Cities fell like misplaced runes. Yet the fracture remained. At last, the Wizard chose a stranger spell. He bound himself into flesh, into wood and blood, and walked among mortals as a carpenter with haunted eyes. He taught mercy where law had failed. He healed where judgement had ruled. And when the world rejected him, he allowed death to take him. But Wizards never truly die. On the third dawn, the Carpenter rose not triumphant, not victorious, but changed. The Sky Wizard had learned something the Serpent knew all along: A plan without choice is not order. It is a cage. |
Stepping back from Christianity its wild When you zoom out and drop the reverent language, the internal logic just doesn’t hold. An all powerful God creates two humans with no knowledge of right and wrong places forbidden fruit right next to them provides no protection or warning system allows a trickster access already knows exactly what will happen because of a divine plan then gets angry when the planned outcome occurs That alone is contradictory. Then comes the response: punish all humanity for thousands of years over fruit introduce death, suffering, disease drown millions in a flood kill millions more in other ways demand obedience under threat And then the “solution” appears: God creates a son who is also God who must be killed so God can forgive humans for something God planned that God could have simply forgiven at any time If God is all powerful, none of this is necessary. No sacrifice is required. No blood payment is required. No delay is required. No suffering is required. An all powerful being could have said: “I forgive you.” Immediately. Without killing anyone. Including his own son. So either God is not all powerful God is bound by higher rules or God values punishment and suffering as part of the system You can’t have omnipotence and claim suffering was unavoidable. Once you step back, the story isn’t profound. It’s over-engineered. Fruit to curse to flood to genocide to son to zombie carpenter to forgiveness. As a thought experiment, it doesn’t fail because it’s offensive. It fails because the architecture makes no sense. Recap = the magic sky wizard becomes a zombie carpenter to save us from the apple curse |
Eniitankorede:It means Nigerian men are hypocrites, throw accusations around for months with no proof and cant prove it because I don't do it but you all do Check my posts, I went on a rampage proving frauds that scream AI were using AI and posting the proof Oh wrong person, I was distracted |
Eniitankorede:And what it doesn't take into account is more people are leaving Islam faster than they are coverting or breeding more People that are born into it are leaving it faster than its growing |
Eniitankorede:And now jusd tried to use AI to win the debate The "+2" happens when AI forms a link BUT that link WONT copy and paste I researched the crap out of AI the second people started accusing me of using it Then I got a PAID AI DETECTOR not a free one a paid one And this is just further proof of your hypocrisy |
budaatum:Then we agreed its all fairytale because I did not say "either existed" I just stated a moral framework Wise man War lord |
budaatum:There is no god or gods at all Jesus was just a wise man not the son of a god Muhammad just a warlord Thats my beliefs, I follow no religion I practice no religion I believe in no gods at all Thats definition of atheist You cannot be MORE atheist There are different of atheists but by definition you cannot be MORE atheist |
budaatum:You tried to imply JESUS called for murder You tried to compare the men, im not defending or attacking either belief system both have killed more than millions of people worldwide So compare THE MEN LIKE YOU TRIED TO DO and answer the question How many people did jesus kill? How many people did Muhammad kill? Makes no difference to me fella im an atheist and like I said its all fairytales to me |
budaatum:See, typical religious person You attempted to change the rules 1st it was Jesus and you were proven wrong then immediately switched to comparing the religions Proving yet more hypocrisy in yourself |
budaatum:At the end of day..... How many people did jesus kill? How many people did Muhammad kill? You CAN compare the 2 but you CANNOT compare them the way you just tried to And again im atheist so its all fairytales to me |
budaatum:Muhammad and Jesus are the exact opposite so you cannot compare the 2 in the way you can compare the 2 BUT NOT in that way Muhammad used the sword to convert Jesus used a towel and served Thats just the biggest difference And..... "luke 19:27" not "jesus 19:27" shot yourself in the foot there. |
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