Talk:The Architect/@comment-25515926-20141010224659/@comment-4759352-20141119013723

I'm using the hebrew torah and hebrew bible, before translation errors and Dante's Inferno screwed everything up.

Fun fact, Lucifer being a fallen angel originated from Islam, where Iblis is a fallen Djinn. In the original Bible (as a bunch of theologists and people on the internet will tell you) "Lucifer" or "Morning Star/Day Star" was just a temr used to reffer to a king. The whole story of him being a fallen angel who was cast out of heaven for not bowing to humans was added to help make sense of the inconsistancies caused by translation errors from hebrew to latin to english. More recntly, the "Lucifer being cast out for only bowing to God, not humans" has been replaced with him being "an anarchist who was jealous of God's power and attempted to overthrow him", and "Lucifer" was made to be "The Devil" as well as "Satan", furthering the misconceptions and missunderstandings.

Furthermore, about 76% of the Bible is written in parables. Parables are metephors. "Hell" was originally just an existance without God, or nothingness (not a firey place of pain and suffering. No, that came from "The Devine Comedy"), and when Jesus mentioned it, he was talking about the city dump in metephor.

But yeah. People who didn't go to Heaven didn't go to a firey palce of torment, they just died. Pain and simple. Those who believed would live eternally in heaven. Death was the alternative, not hell.

Now, the closest thing to an ultimate evil in the bible would ahve to be The Antichrist and The False Prophet. Maybe the four horsemen, but they more or less serve a function and work for God to an extent. Same with the Leviathan, which was a cthulhu-esq sea monster, NOT A PRINCE OF HELL as the Devine Comedy seems to suggest (It's sad how much of a fictional poem has been accepted into modern-day christian canon).

So yeah.