Are We Any Better?

Are we any better than others?

We try to please God out of fear of offending Him.
We try to be perfect out of fear.

Perhaps those who blame God are more honest then us.

The ledger will never balance.
He who is forgiven the greater debt will love Him the more.
(See Luke 7:41-43)

I am not perfect.
The Lamb Without Spot is a fiction concocted out of fear.

Fear of offending God is fear of punishment.
So, as God does not punish us, there is no reason to fear offending Him.

Of course we do not want to offend God gratuitously.
But the occasional slip or mistake will be forgiven.

This allows us to relax a bit more.

This does not mean that we should not be good or try to do what we think is right.
We may in fact do more or better things out of love than out of fear.

It would seem that when we give up our fears what is left is love.

Do we obey God out of fear?
Are we afraid of losing our advantage, our brownie points?

Do we think we are better than others?

Content to be equal and act out of love.

That does not make Satanism right or evil good.

Neither does it make God evil.
(The old dualistic trick - beyond good and evil).

I have never known God to act in a way which was harmful to anyone.

God is trustworthy.

We cannot manipulate God.

It is moral superiority.
That which we criticize in others but fail to see in ourselves.

This is generational:
our parents, ourselves, our children.....

Generation X is no worse than our generation.
Satanists are no worse than Christians.

All are equal in the sight of God.
There is no us and them.

To do good makes us feel good.
To love and be loved is pleasurable.

Satanists have been told that evil is delicious.
They have been told that the devil has everything they want.

So are we so different?
Are we not both just choosing pleasure and avoiding pain?
Even suffering in the hope of a reward?

It has been said that we love some things and hate others.
But is not hate just fear?
Perhaps when the fear is gone we will love what we now hate.

The yogis say we must be fearless.

Were we fearless would we hate evil?
Perhaps then we would love our enemies.


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