Satan Wrote the Bible

Dear Damaeus,

Thank you for your thoughts, begun 12 years ago, in agreement that Satan wrote the Bible. They are good thoughts though I may be prejudiced. I think all thoughts are good and especially those that question the status quo. I’m going to quote some of your letter and respond to it. Please send me a link to the place you posted the whole letter and I will post the link so readers can find all of your thoughts on the subject.

 I’m rarely ever surprised anymore about how strong people’s faith is in the truth of the Bible — at how clever they claim Satan to be, and yet they aren’t even able to consider the possibility that he might be clever enough to trick them all into thinking he’s God, by using the very collection of books they hold so dear!

You are rarely surprised because of how often you have heard Christians put down your thoughts but it shouldn’t be surprising when you consider that most people, including you and me, were indoctrinated at an early age—practically from birth—into the belief system of the Bible or some other religion. It is very difficult to shake that kind of indoctrination especially since it was administered by our parents and, if they appeared inadequate to the task, there were super people—rabies, imams, pastors, priests, etc.—to put a heavier hand on the training. We were also trained not to question, not to be a Doubting Thomas.

I don’t think the Bible is completely worthless.  There are nuggets of truth, such as the fact that we were created in God’s image. 

Are we created in God’s image? Might it not be the other way around? The thoughts in your paragraph that begins with these sentences are thoughts based on biblical teaching. Another way of saying that is that you are thinking from within the box created by the Bible. The thoughts in my essay Satan Wrote the Bible are also written from within that box. The notion that we homo sapiens may have created God in our image is a thought from outside the box. I am trying to put myself in the place of early people who had minds and were trying to figure out the mysteries of life. They thought up gods for the sun and moon, thunder and lightening, love and lust. It was much later and still from a much less enlightened place than we are today that they came up with the idea of just one God.

Am I really thinking outside the box, any box? I’m trying to think empathetically, to put myself in other’s shoes or in other times and places. The extent to which I can do this is wondrous but I delude myself if I think I can be truly objective.

The rest of your last paragraph follows. I applaud you exercising your God-given mind.

God is the Word.  Since God is the Word, and we are created in God’s image, we were, therefore, created in the image of The Word — the Word of God.  We do not NEED the Bible.  The Word of God is already inscribed in our hearts.  We have the ability to build a society based on what we feel in our hearts, and it would be a godly society.  But Satan’s rules and regulations, including the Ten Commandments, have made acting on Godly thoughts — thoughts that are derived from the true nature of what we were created to be — “wrong.”  The lives we were created to live have become so crippled and perverted under Satan’s rule-based plan that to suggest to members of our world that we could build a society completely free of any laws whatsoever gets you labeled a nutcase pretty quickly.  But people living out their image-of-godliness DO NOT NEED RULES!