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The Legend of Lilith: The Origins of Evil and the Fall of Man The essence of evil is ignorantly greedy supremacy: imposing one’s subjective will on non-harmful human action. Evil takes place because the evil doers are ignorant of the universal ethic and because they lack love and compassion for their victims. The greatest evil seems to always come from the pursuit of the “greater good.” Nazis, Communists, and Socialists, traditionalists, religious supremacists, right wing conservative traditionalists all believe in their greater good and seek to impose it by force if necessary, not realizing that this use of force is the real evil. The cognitive independence and moral equality of human beings makes all our values individually subjective, and therefore the concept of the “greater good” is fallacious. There cannot be any “greater good” but only the goods that individuals are interested in and personally value. To avoid evil, it is not enough to intellectually understand that it is morally wrong to coercively harm others. One must also be instilled with sympathy and compassion for others, an empathy that dissolves greed and makes it hurtful to oneself to inflict harm on others. Good is just not the absence of evil - increasing the good in the world and in your life requires your active participation and action. A person can achieve this goal by living their life in a way that recognizes the tenets of true spirituality, and by working to live a life with courage, compassion and critical thought. There are two basic reasons why people commit evil. Some people are simply amoral. They lack sympathy and do not think there is any morality. To them their victims are merely animals. They think, if someone is weak or foolish enough to be a victim, they deserve no better than to be destroyed because of their weakness. But most evil is committed by people who believe they are doing what is good. In most wars today, the attackers think they are serving the greater good of all mankind. If innocent people are killed, the attackers think that the victims are not really innocent, but guilty by association, and secondly, the bad of killing is more than offset by the greater good of the goal of their religion or government. In effect, these attackers make themselves the judge over others, assuming a superior position as master, judge, and executor. The avoidance of evil therefore requires that a person not make himself the supreme judge and jury over others. Except in immediate defense against impending harm, justice requires an institutional process and obedience to the laws of Elohim. If everybody attacks every person who allegedly did bad, or is bad by association, we end up with chaos, as in today’s world. Unfortunately, few people are open to logical arguments over ethics. The indoctrination of religion, politics, and culture is so deep that very few people can overcome being imprisoned by those institutions and the strongholds built in their minds. This is why evil has persisted since the beginning. Since the beginning of recorded history men have lusted for control of their fellows—the impulse seemingly part of the makeup of the half-animal, half-angel we call human. Until modern times brute force, propaganda, and religion were the most successful methods for the manipulation of human beings, but by the turn of this century coercive methodology had advanced far beyond the sword, the inflammatory slogan and the stick and carrot of heaven and hell. 11 11 The idea of Heaven and Hell as places where the good are rewarded and the evil punished after they die comes not from the Scriptures but from Plato. Here, from the Republic (c. 400 BCE), is the relevant part of Plato's myth of Er. After the reward or punishment described below, the souls are reincarnated. This myth is the foundation for Purgatory, for fiery devils as tormentors of the damned, and for the idea that people go up into the sky after they die. The traditional concept of Hell does NOT come from the inspired Hebrew or Greek manuscripts. It is a pagan myth 8
The Legend of Lilith: The Origins of Evil and the Fall of Man adopted as Christian doctrine in the third century by church fathers. Yet, then as now, innocent people are taught the traditional concept of Hell by trusted authority figures. That trust deters questions, so for hundreds of years the myth has perpetuated. The KJV and other translations have also perpetuated the myth by less than the most accurate translation of the word Hell. Where did the concept of eternal torture (punishing) come from? It is apparent they come to us from early teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. From the Encyclopedia Americana: "The main features of hell as conceived by Hindu, Persian, Egyptian, Grecian, and Christian theologians are essentially the same. The Western religious from Roman times through the Middle Ages borrowed the doctrine of eternal torture from the Pagan Philosophers. Certain writers of the Middle Ages had such tremendous influence on the Christianprofessing world, that their writings and teachings came to be generally accepted and believed, until it became the doctrine of the Christian-professing world. Among these influential writers were Augustine and Dante Alighieri" Thomas Nelson Page describes in his 1923 book "Dante and His Influence" that Dante was not the first to conceive of a journey into the Infernal regions:"Homer and Virgil had both pictured in immortal verse such an experience and other poets had done the same"..."But he [Dante] was the first to make such a journey the central thread on which to hang in epic form the whole of Human Life together with the conditions that brought it into being,"..."All the preaching of the time was of a material or physical Inferno and Purgatory. None doubted the existence, or even within limits the location of such places of punishment. Many Ages have passed since then without substantial change of this fundamental idea, and up to a generation or two ago, it may be said to have been generally accepted, and even now is distinctly taught by a great portion of the body of the Church" Again from the Encyclopedia Americana:"Virgil, pagan Roman poet, 70-19 B.C. belonged to the national school of pagan Roman thought, influenced by the Greek writers. Christians of the Middle Ages, including Dante, believed he had received some measure of divine inspiration" Plato was a pagan Greek philosopher, born in Athens, 427 B.C.E.., a student of Socrates also a pagan. The traditional concept of sinners tormented for all eternity in a fiery hell is clearly from the imaginations of PAGANS. Yahshua referred to "Gehenna," the valley of Hinnom, where garbage burned continually, corpses were sometimes deposited, and in earlier times, people had been sacrificed. He only referred to it to illustrate his lessons about spiritual growth and the earthly realm--that the earthly body was meaningless and would be thrown on the garbage dump. Some suggest he was warning Yisrael that it must turn away from its earthly focus and reform by being more concerned with spiritual growth and the inner person, and if it didn't, the Jews would be destroyed in fire. He was right, of course. Jerusalem and the temple were torched in 70 CE. He didn't refer to a hell as everlasting torment. By the time of the first English translations of the Renewed Testament, the hell myth had been so well rooted in church tradition that where the translators saw "Gehenna," they simply inserted "hell" as the translation. That led to the misconception about hell being in the Renewed Testament and in Yahshua's teaching. (From The Origin and History of the Doctrine of Endless Punishment by Thomas B. Thayer, 1855) “The word hell, in the Old Testament, is always a translation of the Hebrew word Sheol, which occurs sixty-four times, and is rendered "hell" thirty-two times, "grave" twenty-nine times, and "pit" three times. By examination of the Hebrew Scriptures it will be found that its radical or primary meaning is the place or state of the dead. It is plain that it has here no reference to a place of endless torment after death. It is plain, then, from these citations that the word Sheol, "hell," makes nothing for the doctrine of future unending punishment as a part of the Law penalties. It is never used by Moses or the Prophets in the sense of a place of torment after death; and in no way conflicts with the statement already proved, that the Law of Moses deals wholly in temporal rewards and punishments. Now no one believes in such a hell as this. A material hell of fire, and torments by flame, have been long ago abandoned. And the Savior cannot be understood as believing or teaching future torments, . . . We have now passed in review, as far as our limits will permit, the New Testament doctrine of hell, and we have not, surely, found it to be the doctrine of endless punishment, but something very wide from this.” CHAPMAN. [Mark Chapman, Oxford theologian and historian] "Sheol, in itself considered, has no connection with future punishment." Cited by Balfour, First Inquiry. DR. AL- LEN says: "The term Sheol does not seem to mean, with certainty, anything more than the state of the dead in their deep abode."DR. CAMPBELL. "Sheol signifies the state of the dead without regard to their happiness or misery."DR. WHITBY. "Sheol throughout the Old Testament signifies not the place of punishment, or of the souls of bad men only, but the grave only, or the place of death."DR. MUENSCHER. [A distinguished author of Dogmatic History] "The souls or shades of the dead wander in sheol, the realm or kingdom of death, an abode deep under the earth. Thither go all men, without distinction, and hope for no return. There ceases all pain and anguish; there reigns an unbroken silence; there all is powerless and still; and even the praise of G-d is heard no more."VON COELLN. "Sheol itself is described as the house appointed for all living, which receives into its bosom all mankind, without distinction of rank, wealth, or moral character. It is only in the mode of death and not in the condition after death, that the good are distinguished above the evil. The just, for instance, die in peace, and are gently borne away 9
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