When did Christianity invent hell and god’s imaginary condemnation of man?

When did Christianity invent hell and god’s imaginary condemnation of man?

Here is an excellent book, my favorite, on this subject and all subjects on the evolution of religion:

The Myth of the Goddess : Evolution of an Image by Baring and Cashford.

If you're not worried about it don't worry about it.
Exodus 3:14
"I Am that I Am."

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When did Christianity invent hell and god’s imaginary condemnation of man?

I think it was in "the fall", right? The fall from Grace... when we ate the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil and were cast out of paradise. That's the root sin that Christianity places on humanity isn't it?

Humanity chose the path of knowledge, a path that awakened it from its animal state of ignorance and bliss. A path that allowed us to judge "right" and "wrong", subjective as those are.

But the two states cannot exist together; blissful ignorance and knowledge, so we cast ourselves out of paradise intrinsically by the path we chose. Although to be honest, we really had no choice, because we cannot be truly human without being the way we are. We are a unique animal in our capacities, and evolved this way without intention.

And so, Christianity exploited an innate condition of humanity as something we needed to pay a price for. And that price could only be paid by following the dictates of the following. A control mechanism rooted in the philosophical underpinnings of what it is to be human.

Or maybe it was just an apple.

Most of what you think are core doctrines of Christianity are in fact core doctrines of "Babylon Mystery Religion". BMR took over the Christian church when the emperor of Rome made Christianity the state religion. You can get several books of that title by different authors detailing the history.

I occasionally find myself wondering why you bother posting the posts you do.

I think the bible has a lot of inconsistencies...but I don't go out of my way to point them out (unless a poster is being hypocritical in their statements, while claiming the bible is the source of his/her inspiration). You don't just go out of your way...you appear to be on a dedicated mission to do so.

And you don't really appear interested in the responses.

What's your angle?

It's alluded to in the New Testament, so the origin would have to precede at least some of those writings.

Here is an excellent book, my favorite, on this subject and all subjects on the evolution of religion:

The Myth of the Goddess : Evolution of an Image by Baring and Cashford.

at least some of them, recognized the actual prehistory of humanity and how our consciousness arose from animals. They inferred what it must have been like for humanity to make that transition, and left simple stories about it. A poignant reminder of a time when people with same brains that modern astrophysicists have, stood in the tall grass gazing out over the savanna and recognized from whence they had come.

rosborne979 wrote:

at least some of them, recognized the actual prehistory of humanity and how our consciousness arose from animals. They inferred what it must have been like for humanity to make that transition, and left simple stories about it. A poignant reminder of a time when people with same brains that modern astrophysicists have, stood in the tall grass gazing out over the savanna and recognized from whence they had come.

It's not that difficult to recognize that humans have the ability to act more like animals, by reacting mindlessly to instincts and emotions, or seek and follow higher ethics.

When reflecting on how high such higher ethics could go, you come to the idea of an ultimate conscience/consciousness.

From there you can contemplate what a perfect existence would be like and how sin prevents such a paradise from occurring in practice.

Sin curses the creation, indeed, and the question is what to do with our lives here despite that curse.

If sin is such a curse, why did god insure that Eve was tempted and Adam sinned by placing Satan or the talking serpent in Eden?

If sin is such a curse, why do Christians sing in their exulted hymn that Adam's sin was a happy fault and necessary to God's plan?

Do you not see the necessity of sin to God's plan?

Regards
DL

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If sin is such a curse, why did god insure that Eve was tempted and Adam sinned by placing Satan or the talking serpent in Eden?

If sin is such a curse, why do Christians sing in their exulted hymn that Adam's sin was a happy fault and necessary to God's plan?

Do you not see the necessity of sin to God's plan?

Regards
DL

If you love sin, the pleasures it brings, the harm it causes, etc.; I would consider you a Satanist.

The point of Christianity is to become aware of sin as causing harm and then transcend it in various ways, all of which are difficult/impossible because of the nature of the creation.

If you want to argue that God added sin as an ingredient to the creation to keep it churning, that's your perspective; but if the ramifications of that is embracing and/or celebrating sin, I would just consider that Satanic.