Justified?

In a way you could say that Satanists are justified.

By this I mean that the image of God that they have received is not worth worshipping.

Their image of God is the traditional image put out by the Church of a harsh judge and punisher of men and women.

They have internalized this false image of God.

And they have made their decision to choose Satan based on this received knowledge.

So in this way you could say that they are justified.

Because they have been told that God is awful.

And based on that knowledge they hate God and love Satan.

Perhaps they will go into Heaven before the religious authorities who created this image of God.

Because it is the fear in the religious authorities which inspired their false image of God.

Jesus said to Nicodemus: "'Are you a teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand these things?'"  John 3:10 (NRSV)

And to the Pharisees: "'Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going into the kingdom of God ahead of you.'"  Matthew 21:31 (NRSV)

So if we look at Satanism from this angle they are redeemable despite the many and terrible things they have done. 

Jesus also said that he who is forgiven more will love more. (Luke 7:42,43)

[Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission.  All rights reserved.]

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