Comment on Satan Was The Good Guy This Whole Time?
saltesc@lemmy.world 1 day agoThat’s not how the story goes at all.
He didn’t defy God; he wanted to be God.
Mankind wasn’t a factor, it didn’t even exist.
You’d have better luck spinning a story about a bad breakup and we’re a puppy someone got out of impulse, thinking it’d fill the lonely void.
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 1 day ago
Thats how it goes in NKJV. But yes, there are other versions with variations on the tale.
saltesc@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No it does not.
The version of bible does not change canon, just the language.
The narrative you mention does not exist canonically in any Bible.
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 1 day ago
Okay so what is your denomination’s version of canon? I see a lot of denial here and thats about it.
saltesc@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I’m no longer a Christian, and I don’t think any of it is fact. But I was one for 22 years and went to Bible college before seeing the light and studying anthropology. What a text says and whether it’s true are two different things, and you’re making a claim about what’s in that text that just isn’t true. You’re right that the overarching theme was defiance, but not anything else.
Your “refusal to bow to mankind” is only found in later non-canonical texts after the Bible. It’s why it is canon in one Abrahamic text…the Qur’an. Not the NKJV, and obv not any translation of the Christian Bible. I.e. not in the teachings or literature of Christianity, nor your NKJV.
The story never mentions humanity, not even where the NT brings it up. The Torah covers creation and the Fall, so the Bible gets all that from there and so there’s no Lucifer story in it at all until Isaiah, which doesn’t mention what you said at all and that’s the core for that tale in that literature. The only place Satan actually gets pinned to the serpent in Genesis is Revelation, and even there, nothing about refusing to bow to humans.
You may have been preached some individual’s interpretation of the Bible, including their reading of texts written after the Bible (like, 100-700years after), but if you read it, you’d read what I’m saying and not find mention of what you’re saying.