You can believe that. I don't. There are a lot of things blamed on God, attributed to God, quoted as God saying. Men are pretty imaginative. When it comes to God, men lie and others swear to it, and most believe it because others do.
What I know is right from wrong; Love from not love. "Satan" is a concept, just as "God" is a concept, and will remain a concept until He/She/It is fully revealed. Though the Jewish fables are interesting, I don't find them especially accurate.
The question I am often asked is "How can you not believe in the Jewish God and still call yourself a Christian?" My answer, "The questions you should be asking are to yourself".
To answer the last first... we know that over a billion already call themselves 'Christian' and yet [confirming Enoch] only tens of thousands are with Jesus when he leaves [Jude 1:14] ... so most Christians are of Satan, not Jesus - for instance foreseen in Rev 13:3-4 , Matt 7:14, Rev 7:3-8, etc...
sinners are not saints and saints are no longer sinners , it is as simple as that, all those with Jesus are saints [Jude 1:14] and all those left behind are sinners still as Jesus warned :-
Matthew 7:23 And then will I [Jesus at his return] profess unto them,
I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Luke 13:27 But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me,
all ye workers of iniquity.
Jesus lists all the saints by descent from named sons of Jacob-Rev 7:3-8
- most are not Jews ,but all are of Israel... and Jesus and the early disciples are clearly Jews and worship the God of Israel...
... as for things said against God very little of it matters in fact , there is only a problem if men deny spirit baptism , because that is the only means of direct teaching by God Himself :-
Mark 3:29 But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness
the only way back from this horrendous state of the wicked is the hARD way... to find out they are wrong in the final trial of the Truth of God, the 'baptism of fire' in the 'lake of fire' ... but it is just an integral named part of the Plan of God for redemption of all from the grasp of sin...
so consider that by them most men have been saved , countless many at judgement day[Rev 7:9-10], all raised from death and 'hell' -Rev 20:13 , saved by works ,not grace , after death, not grace, frees them from sin [Rom 6:7]...
those who sin in the kingdom come though are excluded at judgement day [or before] from the kingdom ... they are then the most wicked of men and Satan as a man [Ezek 28, 2Thess 2] ,but God has taken from them all the 'easy prey' ... only hardened sinners remain doing evil to one another, their misery is from their own sin against one another, the same 'fire' that tried the saints [1 Peter 4:12] and perfected their Love in baptism of fire in this earth and the next ... God uses sin right to the last to perfect mankind in Love... it is after all His point that Love is better than sin for all of us, if He were wrong then He would not be worthy of being called the God of all men...the God of Love...
so by straightforward Loving poetic justice, God saves the wicked too in the end, when they realise their mistake in two lives and turn to Love as Jesus promises all will... time is created for this, it has no other purpose... death is denied and time goes on until all see their mistake in thinking sin was good for them...God is indeed patient and men indeed suffer from other men's sin until they are taken by God [translation to spirit once Love is perfected in life] ...
and all glorify God in life eventually , simply because He is right and shows everyone without forcing anyone [as Love must be given freely else it would not be Love] ... all God can do is show sinners they are mistaken, firts by telling them to see if they have sense to realise , then by showing them, but it gets rough eventually, rough indeed, and God even has to stop men's suicide for shame in the end , one can only perfect Love when alive :-
Revelation 9:6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
thus theer uis no 'eternel hell', no 'annihilation of spirit', no 'living dead' , no lost souls , zombies, 'spirits in a void'... the spirit is what man is , created in God's image, spirit ... returns to God and is thus ONE ... and at tehe dn of this craetion, as at the end of all creations created endlessly, God is still ALL the spirit, and just the same , never changing , ever getting involved in created time or space, so craetions are virtual to God ...like passing dreams, illusions... our reality is God, spirit :-
Ecclesiastes 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
the earth is destroyed , the spirit , including the spirit of all men, cannot be destroyed , it is of God....
God is not just Jewish , but named ALL Israel to be His priests and Kings of the kingdom come under Jesus, MOST of Israel are not Jews and never were Jews... the House of Israel is still rejected by most Jews and are idol-worshippers until the few saints find them - Deuteronomy 28:64
you do not want to let worldwide anti-Semitism distract you from the fact that God had to NAME someone for sake of PROPHECY, for sake of showing man He knows the end from the beginning... He chose Israel, rebellious sinning Israel, to show that ANYONE can be persuaded to Love by the Truth, even Israel who could not follow a set of rules even to save their souls...hence the new coevannt with those whose fathers broke the old covenant -Jer 31:34... so it is as well to read all the scripture before judging it, worth waiting for spirit baptism BEFORE deciding what to believe [from sinners! - saints will only tell one to wait for spirit baptism from God and how to get it by stopping sinning]
