Contributing source: “The God Virus” book page 59 by Dr. Darrel W. Ray
The God Virus Dr. Darrel W. Ray
Paraphrased: When the Babylonians captured Jerusalem around 586 BC, they took the Jews back to Babylon (Iraq). During their decades of captivity, the Jews were introduced to and indoctrinated with Zoroastrianism, which then changed Judaism to the religious concept of God and Satan / Good and Evil. Prior to that time in the ancient Jewish dogma, God did it all. As with much of Judaism, the insane religion "borrowed", adopted and plagiarized the concept of good and evil which evolved into today’s Judeo-Christian-Islamic concepts of God versus Satan.
Note: The first Jewish writings, concerning the battle between God and Satan / Good and Evil, were documented about 200 BC. Of course, the Book of Job is claimed to be ancient and includes the most profound story between God and Satan. Oh, what to believe - as the Bible constantly proves to be controversial and topically inconsistent.
The early writings of the Jewish God claimed that He was a God of love and vengeance. God would punish you if you were sinful and you did not worship God properly. The Biblical God was considered to be the cause of all the evil in the world. People evolved not to like worshipping this one God who brought evil, death, misery and trouble into their lives.
Like the good God idea that they invented and dogmatized, to resolve their emotional conflict, the religion later got the idea to invent or adopt an evil Satan as their good God's soul-stealing adversary. It was a logical, rational attempt to take the heat off their now re-ordained "perfect" God.
Satan was first described to love God and to be in the service of God. Satan later dared to disobey God. The "all-knowing" God did not destroy Satan. For God's pleasure, God kept Satan around for a Chess-like competition with human lives and souls at stake.
The US Government has adopted that God model as evident when it orders its soldiers and citizens to kill or die to protect its interests and to fulfill its self-serving agendas.
Throughout their insane, evil competition, as first documented in JOB 2, God maintained authority and control over Satan. God has remained in charge and responsible for any destruction and evil that Satan may have carried out on mankind. The true evil, behind the scenes, is God Himself.
Isaiah 45:7 I, the Lord, make peace and create evil.
Micah: 2:3 God said: I am planning against this race an evil…
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Malachi 2:2-3 The Biblical God said: I will send a curse upon you. I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have cursed them already. Behold, I will corrupt your seed and spread dung (shit) upon your faces...
Hosea 13:16 Samaria has rebelled against God. They shall fall by the sword, their little ones shall be dashed to pieces, their expectant mothers shall be ripped open.
Lamentations 3:38 Is it not from the most high that good and evil come?
Amos 3:6 Shall there be evil in a city; the Lord hath not done it?
The Bible documents C&V that God creates evil and imperfection. You do believe what is documented C&V in the Bible - don't you?
God's cheerleaders / Biblically ignorant believers insist that "evil" Satan spoils "good" God's perfect world.
Insecure / frightened people wanted hero-models to save them. The Judeo-Christian religions created / invented a fictitious "good" God and later a fictitious "evil" Satan to become slaves to. Believers tend to run their "emotional" (do want - don't want) lives in the same manner. Believers impose themselves on others to support and assist them concerning their do wants and don't wants.
To be a believer in this God-Satan insanity, you have to be in agreement with what you believe. I personally do not believe in nor am I in agreement with the Biblical God character - fictitious or not.
Jerusalem is claimed to be God's holy home on Earth. It is where Abraham was going to sacrifice Isaac. It is where Jesus was crucified and later floated up in the air to Heaven. (Do Christians really believe that?) It is where Mohammad ascended up to Heaven on his horse. (Do Christians believe that?) According to Ezekiel and Revelation, human-soul eternal-afterlife Heaven will be located on planet Earth in Jerusalem.
Eternal-Afterlife?
If Satan is truly an enemy of God and can hurt God, then God is not truly all-powerful nor in control - is He? If you and I truly have "free-will" and we can disobey God and hurt God's feelings, God is not in control. If God is the same from the Alpha to the Omega and does not change - then God, Himself, proves to have no free-will.
Some believers claim that Satan tries to destroy God's relationship with mankind. I rationally view that God's heinous and murderous Biblical C&V deeds against mankind understandably destroys the relationship.
With all the murdering the Biblical God did and ordered others to do in The Old Testament, how can anyone define God as "righteous"? Murderers on death row, had their own self-serving agendas and reasons for being there. Like God, they insanely felt entitled to take the life of another to fulfill their personal agenda.
A virus seeks weakness and vulnerabilities in a host in order to infect it. The only reason a normally rational individual cannot judge the Biblical God is because he or she is infected with "The God Virus".
The question is the highest form of thought. You can not think and question what you believe - for if you do question what you believe - you prove not to believe it. It's a paradox that produces an awesome dumb-down effect.
The Question Is The Highest Form Of Thought?
For the most part, one cannot cure a virus. One can only hope to outlive it's sickening and life-stealing effects.
Fortunately, not all of us are susceptible to all viruses. Most of us, who were infected and somehow outlived or overcame "The God Virus", become immune and rarely get totally infected again.
Reinforced, irrational fear is what keeps "The God Virus" alive, infectious and contagious among the Biblically ignorant, fear-based gullible. Many just use the dogmatic "god-game" to genetically fulfill their predator / animal desires to damage or control the lives of others.
Knowing the controversial C&Vs of the Bible is the greatest Atheist-maker on planet Earth.
Ernest Hemingway: "All thinking men are Atheists."
Authoritative religionists claim that Satan is at war and in a constant battle with God. Battles produce death and either God can not or God will not kill Satan. Millions of souls would be saved if God killed Satan - but God does not. God is not beyond killing so what does that mean? That means that God wants Satan alive. That means, as the Bible says, it is all for God's pleasure.
Revelation 4:11 God created mankind for His Own pleasure then God destroyed (murdered) men, women and their babies when He wasn’t pleased.
God wants Satan battling with God for the souls of mankind. This just, fair and loving God has no problem sending our souls into Eternal Torment if we do not live up to God's demands concerning God's and Satan's insane contest.
Satan successfully tempted Adam and Eve in The Garden Of Eden to eat the forbidden fruit. For their disobedience, God punished Adam and Eve and then all humans beings who were born since for their sin.
Believers claim that The Garden Of Eden is where Satan (the snake) started unleashing his evil and destructive powers on mankind. Satan is not mentioned, by name, until I Chronicles 21:1 - which is the 13th book of the Bible. There, Satan is credited with doing the same deed as God did in II Samuel 24:1. Are Satan and God but heads and tails of the same coin?
God condemns us with sin when we are successfully tempted by Satan to do something - yet the Biblical God, Himself, - was successfully moved / enticed / tempted by Satan in Job 2:3.
Why would an all-knowing, fair, just and loving God send us into Eternal Torment for being tempted by Satan if God, Himself, is documented by Bible C&V to have been successfully tempted / enticed / moved by Satan?
Satan's form and appearance comes from many religions that the Judeo-Christian-Islamic religions stole (borrowed) and adopted.
Satan's pitch-fork is from the sea-god, Poseidon's, trident.
Poseidon's Trident?
Satan's red color comes from the evil Egyptian god, Set.
Set
Satan's horns come from the Greek god, Pan.
Pan
Satan's horns and the tail come from the Canaanite god, Habayu.
Habayu
Satan?
Isn't this evidence that religions and cultures just make it up as they go? If so - is not this evidence a form of "evolution"?
Did God, Himself, come to Earth as Jesus Christ?
Or, is Jesus Christ "The Son of God"?
If Jesus Christ is also God and "The Holy Ghost", did Jesus Christ impregnate His own mother, Mary, to produce Himself?
The Bible claims that "The Holy Ghost" impregnated Mary in Matthew 1:18&20 - does it not? Of course, you would also have to believe in the "Trinity" which claims that God, Jesus Christ and The Holy Ghost are all one and the same.
Did Satan enter into Judas Iscariot so to have Jesus Christ crucified? If so, how could Judas be judged guilty for Christ's crucifixion?
Did Satan defeat God / Jesus Christ by arranging for the Jews and the Romans to crucify Him?
Did Satan have Jesus tortured and crucified for not bowing down and worshipping Satan in the desert just like God demands that we bow down and properly worship Him? If we don't properly bow down, worship and praise God, doesn't God judge us and then send us into Eternal Torment?
If so, which is worse - Satan's arranging for 12 hours of Jesus' / God's torment, crucifixion and death - or - God's arrangement of billions of souls going into Eternal Torment? Eternity is not a long time - it is eternal / forever. And, the horrible, consistent torment is supposed to be real and beyond anything imaginable.
Eternal Torment
Or, if Jesus Christ was the Old Testament Biblical God, did humanity judge and execute God for all of God's documented murdering of humanity since Adam & Eve?
Corrections? Questions? Comments?
gary@gdevaney.com
