Based on a literal undertanding of the Old Testament / Hebrew Bible / Tanakh shouldn't we worship Lucifer rather than Yahweh?
Satan gave us our love of knowledge and never hurt anyone except based on Yahweh's explicit orders (Book of Job).
Meanwhile Yahweh killed and hurt millions just for fun.
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>>679050
Doesn't matter, because Yahweh has a greater capacity for fucking you up. It's about fear of God, more than love. That came later.
>>679066
Are you saying fear is greater than love?
>>679050
On a literal understanding of the OT, the serpent isn't Satan. And if he was, as you point out, he's God's errand boy anyway, so ultimately, his boons are from God.
SHOO SHOO DEMIURGE
>>679116
Why assume a Demiurge?
>>679050
>literal undertanding
No
>>679140
No?
You can do better than that, anon, surely.
>>679066
"the fear comes later"
>>679155
Biblizism and fundamentalism are a modern inventions and you're pretty much retard
Happy now?
>>679220
You appear to have missed the premise of the thread and appear to have a very low IQ, which would explain your posts, anon.
>>679050
Satan is the main reason death even exists. If Adam and Eve weren't tempted, death wouldn't have come.
>>679050
The Jews don't think the talking snake was anything more than a talking snake.
>What you should know about Satan is that he's basically Tzeentch
There, saved you a minute of reading bullshit
>>679274
Actually, us Jews think that the whole episode was a prophetic vision, since "talking to God" necessarily involves a trance or a dream state unless you're Moses, who was a bit of a Gary Stu in that regard.
>>679283
>us Jews think that the whole episode was a prophetic vision
there's a variety of jewish beliefs on the topic
there isn't a consensus
t. formerly orthodox jew
