(May 15, 2014 at 4:40 pm)max-greece Wrote: When reading the biblical stories it always struck me that the Devil was more likely the real good guy of the story than God.
Very little of the Christian story actually held up to scrutiny and there is serious confusion about the whole hell issue. It appears that most Christians are not aware that Satan doesn't run hell - he is a captive there so the only one left that could actually have made it, and currently running it, is God.
That is seriously weird.
I've heard people describe the biblical God as a benign dictator. I see nothing benign.
The Bible writers took their stuff from all of the other religions and blended it together into a new fairy tale. The Greeks had a version of hell in their myths. The Egyptians had a version of resurrection in their myths. And they got baptism from India. Angels came from Persia.
