A satan is an opponent, with the connotation of an accuser in the court. The satan is a particular god/archon/angel whose main goal is to condemn everyone under the law to keep us enslaved in his matrix prison world. This one is the owner of this realm. He has authority over all the nations on earth. Paul calls him the god of this world. John calls him the ruler (archon) of this world.
Mainstream Christianity, like Pharisaic Judaism, is just another social engineering plot to brainwash Christians into choosing law over faith. From the beginning law was a scheme to condemn people, knowledge of good and evil is literally what led to the fall and condemnation of man. Yet most would say that God is for law and slavery and the satan is some freedom-fighter rebel. But which one was it who warned against law? And which one tricked people into choosing it despite this? And which one rules this prison matrix world?
But luckily for the satan, people are blind enough to not see this glaringly obvious fact. And religious orthodoxy will ensure that they never even think about uncovering the truth. Do you see what's been going on here? In contrast Jesus constantly criticized the legalistic Pharisees and called them the synagogue of the satan (This is why it's so important that Christians demonize "the Jews", so they miss the reason for this and it goes over their head that they themselves have become this same synagogue of the satan. If they can make "the Jews" a scapegoat, they can think that's why the Pharisees were called a synagogue of the satan and not because of their religious system). And Paul sternly warned against becoming enslaved to anything. Though he does sometimes mention being a δουλος Χριστου, that can easily be dismissed as ancient colloquialisms, since when the actual subject of slavery does come up he is staunchly opposed to anything resembling it.
This is also the real reason why the cross had to happen. I hope no one seriously thinks the current explanation of "God brought charges upon us but then sacrificed himself to himself to appease himself" makes any sense whatsoever. If he were the one bringing charges, he could simply drop them without going through all that trouble. No, someone else must be pressing the charges, and it's the one who's named after just that. The same one who brought in guilt so people could become condemned. Now that's actually logical.
I hope you realize the Eden story is about you, and not some guy and his wife who died thousands of years ago. Otherwise why is it worth recording? You see, biblical literalism is an essential element of the plot to enslave everyone, because if everyone reads it literally they can't make sense of it. "Adam" is misleading; it's just a word meaning "man", any person or mankind itself. Now each person is this adam (yes you too ladies) and there are two trees you may eat from. One freely gives life. The other gives the knowledge of good and evil, and through it death. Sound familiar? What else gives knowledge of good and evil, and kills? The law. I think you can guess what the tree of life represents. By the way, unlike in popular depictions, the "cross" was more likely just a regular wooden pole or tree. But you must watch out not to be tricked into eating off the tree of knowledge of good and evil (notice: not just "knowledge", big difference). There are snakes; this is either deceitful satan or other demons, or those who are "wise" (yes snakes represented wisdom in Hebrew culture, which is why Jesus said to be as wise as snakes). The snake gives you convincing reasons to eat from it. There are also those who are close to you (this is who "Eve" represents here) who may also convince or pressure you to eat off it. But it will condemn you so that you die and suffer punishment.
Now let's get something straight here. You're not going to be thrown in a fire pit where you keep regrowing and burning over and over again, and "hell" has been pretty much given the final nail in the coffin at this point. All the evidence I've gathered indicates that anything that's held against you leads to another term here, in this prison world, where "luck" torments you to varying degrees and in different ways. Things like NDEs consistently confirm this, at least when they figure out that the deity they're seeing is an imposter. It turns out they're all demons in disguise, so everyone usually sees whichever god they believe in, but everything else is the same: there's a life review, an extremely petty judgement, then the person is told they didn't make it to whichever afterlife they believe in and handed a sentence to more time on earth, or a flat-out lie that they need to remain here to "learn" (how useful, when you can't remember what you "learned"). Or the person is so brainwashed they love the world and willingly return. Another possibility is a gateway to "heaven" or some kind of afterlife which is actually a trap leading back to earth. There's some really crazy sophisticated layers of deception here. Now before you say, "But reincarnation isn't Biblical", you have to realize that it was already assumed to be the case by Jews (and in fact still is for the most part, which will probably come as a surprise for many). This is why the Pharisees ask Jesus if a man who was born blind was so as a punishment for a sin. Jesus also seems to think John the Baptizer was Elijah (note: there wouldn't have been a way out yet, even though he was one of God's, since he lived before the atonement was made. It's also a myth that Elijah was taken to "heaven", in ancient languages the same word is used for the sky, and Elijah was apparently still on earth some time after the incident).
Now let's talk about the Exodus. There's no evidence at all that it ever happened (though that can change; the absence of evidence is not the same as counter-evidence). Or so you might think. But it will make sense once I explain it. Moses (sometimes Jesus but not always) and Aaron (John the Baptizer and Paul) have to lead the Hebrews (God's people) out of Egypt (the world aka the matrix) and stand of to Pharaoh (the satan) in order to escape the land in which they are enslaved. Pharaoh sees that they are a threat, so he works to reduce their strength, including intentionally oppressing and overworking them so they have no time to think for themselves or rebel. It may be noteworthy that in a prior story "Abraham" was told to sacrifice his "one and only son", but then given a ram instead. A ram is a domestic sheep, which is also what a lamb is. And who does a lamb represent? Then the name of the place was named "God will provide". There's too much crazy stuff going on to mention it all, but those are some major points I've found.
Of you think I'm crazy, keep in mind that ALL the authentic books of the New Testament read it in the same way. They themselves were called crazy by the orthodox Pharisees.
In light of all this evidence it makes no sense for the satan to be some kind of freedom-seeking rebel. He always acts as the enslaver, though like a communist will always find excuses for it. Our modern notions have reversed the roles of Jesus and the satan, to trick all the Christians into worshipping and believing the former even though they think they're obeying the latter. It also works to slander God to the rest of the world and make the satan seem good to them, just like in the garden. Then he teaches them a bunch of crap like "Earth is a school" and all kinds of toxic positivity so they remain brainwashed and obey unquestioningly. In fact, if you look closely, pretty much every aspect of the world we live in is designed for this kind of brainwashing. Directors of movies like The Matrix and The Truman Show obviously know about this and it's where they got their inspiration.
WAKE UP NEO.
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