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[–] hansl@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Old Testament God is clearly a harsh parent that will ask you to do inconsiderable things to prove your loyalty, and will just destroy whatever doesn’t fit his vision. He is not the good guy, nor the bad guy I guess. There’s no Hell or Satan in OT, right?

Anyway, I can only imagine a teenage having a fit that his terrarium’s humans aren’t behaving like he want them to, then growing out of his tantrums within a few years.

[–] GlendatheGayWitch@lib.lgbt 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, Satan appears as the snake in Genesis, goes up to God and cons him into a bet that Job will disavow God if everything is ripped away and God goes along with it. Hell, I believe is referenced a few times as Sheol. In the NT, Hades appears as well as the lake of fire and the place where there's gnawing and nashing of teeth.

God does open up the earth and swallow nonbelievers in the OT, along with a bunch of other cruel shit, but I don't recall a place of eternal torment in the OT.

[–] phar@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't believe there is any part that says the serpent is supposed to be Satan

[–] GlendatheGayWitch@lib.lgbt 1 points 1 year ago

Oh that's right. It's in Revelation (new testament) that describes Satan as the serpent of old, relating back to Genesis.