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About the lucifer question
Is it bad that I kind of felt "at home" with him??
I can't explain it completely. I know it's bad because satan is evil and all about evil and I'm nothing about evil...
I have a god named cernunnos, so it's not like I want to go to hell and be with lucifer or anything. I want to go to the otherworld with cernunnos. But then again, I don't believe lucifer looks like that demonic dark red creature with horns. I believe he looks like a dark fallen angel, but evil.
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In case you may not know the story of the War in Heaven, I'll try to condense that here. Perhaps it will answer some questions.
The Creator of our universe will be called God, for lack of better title. God created many creatures in heaven and angels are but one of them. Angels were not given a will like our souls are given, a will with which to make a choices, one of which is to follow God or not. Lucifer was one of Gods favorite Angels and was the most Magnificent looking one. Lucifer began to think about his situation. He didn't like the fact that there really didn't seem to be much choice, it was either live with God....or nothing. You end up in nothingness. The thing is, God doesn't choose making a soul or heavenly creature end up becoming as if they never existed, it is the choice of each and every creature and either He changed and allowed the Angels to decide or it is as the story has been told, Lucifer decided to rebel and convinced half the angels in heaven to come to his side. So started the War in Heaven. Of course God won and all Lucifers army along with him were kicked out of heaven. They fell to earth where they intended to try to get revenge against God by going after another creation of his, the souls that inhabit mortal bodies on planet earth. Lucifer is a creature who separated from God, by his own choice. It is written that God would welcome him back if he were to repent and ask forgiveness and turn over a new leaf. He does not want to. His aim and goal now is to turn as many souls away from God as he can. Why does he still exist? Lucifer is one of Gods creations, one of his children. God loves all his children, He just doesnt love the ugly things we do sometimes and the same goes for Lucifer. He is able to gain so many human followers because he doesnt use scare tactics. No, he presents himself as clean cut, handsome looking if taking on a human form or as a beautiful angel and this all to gain someones confidence in him. Then real slowly so one doesnt notice the change, introduces more concepts and ideas that take a person further and further away from our creator. Think of this like an older family member, like a half sibling, trying to corrupt a younger sibling in their plan of rebelling against the parents. This is exactly whats happening. God is light so Lucifer and his angels of course are not going to choose anything that represents God so they went for anything of darkness and so I imagine for most of them, their looks have changed. Ever seen nature shows of creatures who live in caves or deepest parts of ocean and how bizarre they look due to never coming into contact with the light? Well, they have changed into bizarre looking creatures.
As for the devil as a red creature with horns and forked tail, I can't be sure but early church tried to win people over by instilling fear in them of a place called Hell ruled by this Red devil who tortures you for eternity. If God wouldn't cause Lucifer to cease to exist, an angel who rebelled against him, then it makes even less sense for Him to sentence our souls to eternal torture for not choosing to live in Heaven with him. Nope, the choice is ours, we can choose to cease to exist as all that exists really is Gods creation, his universe, or nothing. Some souls choose to become nothing. God doesnt torture souls. Since Lucifer is a fallen angel, its not a matter of him choosing to exist or not, as he was created an angel. There are stories that at one point in time, way in the future, God will allow the fate of Lucifer to be decided by the voting of souls and other heavenly creatures. So who is Satan? If I remember my stories correctly, he is one of Lucifers fallen angel army, put in charge of the earth. the earth is but one planet in the entire universe. There may be fallen angels who have gone elsewhere but I believe the majority reside on earth or near and around it. I have heard some of this from what I heard Pastors tell in church, but even more from a book called 'The Urantia book". Urantia is the name in heaven by which they call planet earth. It is a story of the history of heaven, the creatures that live there, the evolution of our planet and the coming of Adam and Eve who were not the first two people on earth, and goes on to tell what might be the real story of Jesus purpose to coming to earth, not to save us from our sins. The book also mentions that our Creator is Jesus but that he also has a Heavenly father and is the son of God who also created his own universes. Our universe is Jesus creation and it is very vast. So he has allowed heavenly creatures He can trust to fill many different roles throughout the universe not to mention just our planet, at many different levels which for all rules and purposes are God like in their responsibilities. So your Cernunnos would be one of them. The Goddess some pagans worship or the many different versions of her are others, and there are other lesser spirits placed in charge of plants and vegetation, the elements, and so on. So if any one of us, recognizes and has an affinity to and follows or worships any one of these who fulfill a role of Light and love as the Creator is Light and Love, then we are on the right track, one that leads back to our creator and it matters not to him who we feel most comfortable with as long as we are growing spiritually in Light and Love and not slowly seduced over to following any who are of Darkness and Hate but just pretend to be of the light.
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