by Bob Duden

Created on: February 02, 2009

The history of mankind is fraught with one simple dilemma; mortality. When and where will death take you, and what lies at the end of the rainbow? In actuality, it's not a dilemma, it's an inevitability. We are all born with a shelf life, just like another can of peas. We just cannot read the date that's stamped on our bottoms. So life becomes a mystery, and it's how we approach the end that creates the dilemma. Is God out there waiting to welcome us on high into the pearly gates of heaven? Or is his antithesis, Satan, beckoning from below? Is there even a heaven or a hell, and an all seeing God with an evil counterpart in Satan? Well, the Bible told me it was so, and therefore, I must be a believer. After all, if you were raised Christian, the Bible is the hand book of life.

So who is the author of this hand book? And while we are on the subject, why do other religions have different hand books? How is the Quran different from the four Vedas and the Bhagavad Gita ? Why do Muslims worship from one and Hindus from the other? Why do Christians hold the Bible above all other teachings? The answer falls into the category of faith, just like the answer to the question, did Satan write the bible? Did Satan write any of the great religious works? The answer is all too simple, man wrote them all, and man did so with the idea of using the written word to keep control over all of humanity. We will teach you how to act, what's right and wrong, and show you the benefits of devotion and faith. Should you fall by the way side, there is an evil greater than anything here on earth, Satan, who will be waiting to lure you into purgatory for all of eternity. What a threat, indeed. But the one saving grace is still redemption and you can stake claim to that, right up until your last breath. All you have to do is agree to believe.

Faith, in an all seeing being, faith in the presence of an after life, faith in the belief that a greater reward awaits us all after we shuffle off this mortal coil, is the glue that binds all of these teachings. Faith is what holds the bible together. The concept of Satan is merely another concept of faith. Satan was by all accounts, a fallen angel who walked the earth in judgement of mankind. He was the worlds first prosecutor, but he wasn't a man. He was born of the belief that there was a distinct difference between good and evil. Commit evil and you were a sinner. The sinners amongst mankind would suffer the eternal damnation of the fires of hell. So hold your faith in high regard, lest you suffer eternity at the hands of Satan. And so it is too, with the Bible, right there at the end in Revelations. "Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city." If you have faith, if you believe and follow in the words of the Bible, then heaven will be your reward. Satan could never write that.

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