orestian:

orestian:

orestian:

jesus and satan are the same guy in different hats

god created satan in order to have him rule the inferno, because he already had hell built and ready to go before the Fall. if we assume that jesus and satan are the same person, after suffering for centuries lucifer is allowed a chance to atone for his sins and becomes a human being, dying voluntarily on the cross in order to return to god’s side. this completes his penance (for the crime of sneaking out of hell to tempt humankind into falling from grace and being banished from eden.) the archangel gabriel is seated at the left hand of the father (god) and jesus/satan is seated at his right hand; essentially, humans were god’s project from the getgo, and so lucifer’s job was tormenting the damned, before there were even any damned, and gabriel’s job is, sort of, to punish the living. gabriel shares that role frequently with the archangel michael, who carries a flaming sword and is often depicted crushing serpents with his heel, like the virgin mary. the serpent here does not particularly represent jesus/satan, but rather the embodiment of the original sin.

if we accept this metanarrative, then the gospels become much more interesting. for example – it becomes obvious that jesus must have arranged for judas to betray him in advance, thus condemning himself to death and requiring judas to repent in the desert for the supposed betrayal (really a sacrifice of the self; judas gives up the companionship of the apostles, becomes a secret martyr for christ, etc) before he can rejoin christ in heaven. we are meant to understand that we are all judas, and in doing so, understand that the holiest of men can still be liars. we are begged to consider that perhaps the scriptures themselves are littered with lies, inserted here and there by translators and monarchs. in fact, the actions and life of judas iscariot become a sort of pageant for the fall and redemption of christ/satan; judas becomes the most christlike of the apostles.