Beyond good and evil

Posted by SgtPepper | Posted in | Posted on Saturday, March 28, 2009

I wondered the other day, thinking in the hypothetical case that the christian church is right, that there is a heaven and a hell, a god and a devil, and that if we are good in our lives we'll go to heaven, otherwise we'll end up in hell.

Now, since I have studied this believes, I have learned that going to hell is bad, according to church there one lives in an everlasting hell, where the devil is punishing you for your deeds (doing God's dirty work). And according to what the bible (some interpretations of it) says, it is disposition of God that someone who doesn't deserve heaven ends in hell.

But, the devil is a fallen angel who once opposed the regimen, and so he was outcasted into hell, where he would torture the souls of the unholy and the damned. So, this former angel is in charge of puniching those who have been bad, but isn't that God's will as well? Isn't the devil in this train of thought doing exactly as God wants it to do? Isn't it part of the system?

This might just be me, but I understand that God made the human in image and similitude, and made the angels, somehow the same, just always pure? Weren't the angels made to connect God with the humans? So wouldn't this bond have to be like them in a way? Just obedient. Well, here comes my theory.

The devil, being an angel, had intelligence and was pure, made by God; yet, somehow he managed to change, to escape the system and become arrogant, and willing to dethrone the king. This sounds quiet human to me. So, when he is outcasted, why on earth would he follow the rules once outcasted? Someone once told me that the Devil tortured humans because he was jealous, that God still loved them. But this maquiavelic, sharp and "evil" creature would be as thick as to just torture? Isn't hatred by a human even more elaborated?

So, if he doesn't punish people, then what? 

Well, I think that wisest choice would be to take the evil humans, the outcasted by the lord and claim them as part of an army. Because expatriated revolutionaries don't torture other expatriates, they gather and ensamble a rebelion. So wouldn't it only make sence to get revenge at God by converting his own creations against him? Wouldn't it only make sence that once in hell a soul was enlisted for a final showdown? Well, of course this makes sence, we've heard it in history.

Don't this stories sound too human for superior beings?

Is logic applied to any of this explanations? Don't they sound more like a history lesson?

Perhaps.

There is a tribu in Africa who believed a giant serpent was wrapped all around the Earth, and only after the tributes and rains it would appear. Today we call them rainbows. Tomorrow it will be called Adaptations of historical literature.




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