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I was listening to a Atheist Experience video on YouTube and a concept that that I never considered was brought up and I'd like to get the opinion of others on this.

  1. Satan was God's right hand man for a certain period of time in heaven and then apparently got tired of it. (Apparently a being can find something unlikeable in heaven)

  2. Satan complained to God and God tossed Satan out of heaven.

So does this mean that getting into heaven and "staying" is an iffy thing? Could a person spend their entire life bowing and scraping to get into heaven, get there and find something out of place, from their perspective and use of free will, and be tossed into hell for complaining about it?

redbai 8 Dec 25
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Does not sound ripe for a joke but I remember well all these bible lies for Beelzebub and geebush jeehobah ghostholes

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Our understanding of Satan and his history comes mainly from the middle ages, and especially later writers such as Milton and Dante, he hardly appears in the bible at all. The association with the snake in Eden is made much later; it was just a common snake to start with. In the later books of Moses God sends 'A' Satan, presumably meaning there are more of them, to deliver the plagues of Egypt, so he/they are clearly still doing as he/they are told at that stage. ( A satan, is just a lower case noun, meaning roughly, 'opponent'. Later King David is said to be one.) In the book of Job, Satan is still Gods drinking buddy who helps him torture Job for a bet.

It is only in the new Testament that he starts to show signs of rebellion, but even there, it is not suggested that he lives in, or is the ruler of hell. The changing face of Satan is one of the best proofs of how inconsistent and extensively rewritten the bible really is.

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Who would know. It’s like asking what would happen if Lizzy Bennett had married Cousin Collins instead of Mr Darcy!

I guess I was thinking of it more as a way to get people to rethink some religious doctrine more than an actual reality. Especially people using the concept of Pascal's wager as a justification to believe. If you could believe all your life and then once in heaven, make a mistake and be tossed into hell anyway, what's the point of giving a shit in the first place? You're never REALLY safe, even in heaven.

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