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 apparently there is a book of Satan. a friend told me it's not half bad. main thrust is  "everyone makes mistakes and such".

Is it true that God made Satan, so Satan is part of God's consciousness? perhaps it's a whole other route for people to come to God.  

If Satan is the smartest creature out there, it would seem natural that God would keep him close just because otherwise God could get bored. So it makes sense to me that they could be friends. 
 haha the story is much more complicated than that

first of all, "hell" was actually the caldera of the volcano on Tenerife, the greeks called it Tartarus, and it was the ultimate punishment for a criminal in those days, to be tossed into that hot rock soup

"angels" were the most trained and educated of a civilisation that existed across northwest africa, in the regions we know now as mauritania and morocco, and they had some hard core mind tech stuff going on, i mean like telepathy and teleportation and shit

not only that, they had gravity sussed, and by about 8000 years ago they were able to leave the planet and search the outer spirals nearby in the region of Taurus where they have colonised many places

in the period between Adam and Abraham (12-6k years ago) they had a lot of business with us humans, and they are a different subspecies, like the differences of homo erectus and homo sapiens, well, these were something else, they were taller, had white skin, red/blonde hair, and loved bbq and milk

this is where all the "burnt offerings" stuff originated, it was the usual thing to offer up to esteemed guests like the Angels

mostly, in fact, the angels were only seen looking like hobos dressed in dirty clothes and looking messy, and saying strange things that turned out later to be true, like how to survive an impending disaster

now, getting to the subject, "satan" was the leader of a rebellion that the Greeks called the Titanomachy (war of the titans) and the hebrews and middle eastern contemporaries of the humans around the region of the middle east where Adam was born originally, called it the "war in heaven" - this was a civil war in this advanced civilisation where the majority had graduated to become angels, this 1/3rd faction wanted to treat other human species as cattle (sound familiar?) and this was forbidden and a whole big war erupted over this to drive them out

the scumbags, including their leader, Chronos, or Satan or Lucifer or whatever name, and his gang of liars, cannibals and perverts fled in a clockwise direction around the continent of africa and landed in the red sea and with their superior technology and science, pretended to be gods and enslaved all the poor brown people of the region, this started around 8000 years ago, and they taught the brown people beer, growing wheat and barley, and acclimatised them to being slaves and taxing their income and making them an unwitting fodder for their bloodthirsty cult of cannibalism and rape and torture, which they used to maintain their power

gradually these individuals were forced to breed a bit with the lower sapiens and erectus and over the last 8000 years their genetics have declined but it's no coincidence that all the power brokers of modern society are mostly white, and this they use now as a fale gambit to pretend that someone other than their white toxic fallen angel genetic heritage was causing all this violence and war and bullshit

there is probably a few almost purebloods among them left but the thing was about what happened 6500 years ago in the event that was recounted as the Tower of Babel and Sodom and Gomorrah - this was a similar time as we are coming up to now, where the earth's field is crossed by the rotation of the galactic field and our planet is subjected to extremely high levels of energy input from the sun and the galaxy and there is always a massive amount of people dying of floods, earthquakes, wars, starvation, floods, cold and volcanoes, to the point where even it happened long time ago, around 75000 years ago, where only 5000 humans even survived at all (this was before the pale skinned milk drinking north africans first appeared)

that's the best i can make of all the data i have found, and continue to gather, and the main thing is that the people who built the pyramids, most of them, and the sphinx, they left behind all these writings by their favourite guy Enoch whose texts survived despite being almost purged, surviving only in central africa, and are gradually being "unsealed" as per what John the Prophet relates in Revelation, the so-called "apocrypha" or hidden scriptures

anyhow, there's more where that came from just opening up the little bit that gives you the intro 
 wow, ok, love this explanation. hope this goes into the "Book of Nostr"  someday 
 where does God fit into this 
 He made the rules

He is a collector of goodness

after we finish our incarnation, we get to go again if he liked our performance

forever 
 Yes, it is true that God made Satan.  That doesn't make him part of God's consciousness.  It makes him a rebellious creature.  They are not friends and God doesn't get bored.  God does put a limit on the mayhem Satan can cause and only allows bad things that lead to God's desired outcome.

Satan is an angel, the most wonderful angel, who was corrupted by pride and wanted to take the place of God.  Even though he is a being created by the God he foolishly thinks he can thwart and replace.


"12How you have fallen from heaven,
O star of the morning, son of the dawn!
You have been cut down to the earth,
You who have weakened the nations!
13But you said in your heart,
‘I will ascend to heaven;
I will raise my throne above the stars of God,
And I will sit on the mount of assembly
In the recesses of the north.
14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High.’
15Nevertheless you will be thrust down to Sheol,
To the recesses of the pit.
16Those who see you will gaze at you,
They will ponder over you, saying,
‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble,
Who shook kingdoms,"  Isaiah 14:12-16)

The first mention of Satan is in Genesis 3.

"Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Indeed, has God said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?”  (Genesis 3:1)

We know the serpent was Satan because there are several verses, like this one, that equate the serpent with Satan.

"And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him."  (Revelation 12:9)

Of course Satan does not look like the stereotypical picture of Satan.  I recently leaned where the silly picture of Satan all in red with horns, a pitchfork, and cloven feet came from.  In the Middle Ages, they knew that Satan's fall was caused by pride.  To "keep away the devil", they made a comical effigy of Satan to mock him and his pride.  Unfortunately future generations saw this effigy and thought it was a proper view of Satan and it persisted.  In reality, Satan is a physically beautiful angelic being who has become corrupted morally.

"No wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light."  2 Corinthians 11:14)

I'm sorry, but this is all I have time for at the moment.  Have a blessed day.

If you want to learn more about God, check out https://trustjesus.substack.com/ 
 the imagery described about the south american god Quetzlcoatl is very resemblant to what is described in the bible and apocrypha:

https://study.com/academy/lesson/quetzalcoatl-legend-lesson-quiz.html#:~:text=Quetzalcoatl%20was%20an%20Aztec%20and,quetzal%20bird%20and%20a%20serpent.

Is Quetzalcoatl a dragon?
Quetzalcoatl is part bird, part serpent, as evident by his name, which means Feathered Serpent in the Aztec's Nahuatl language. He was often represented as a snake-like being with feathers, along with a conical hat, conch shell, shell jewelry, and a duck-billed face mask.

very flashy, very proud, very flamboyant, all rainbows and sparkles and winks and charm

see how they describe him as at once serpent, bird and dragon... 
 There are many cultural/mythological things in many post-flood cultures which you can tell are corruptions of the truth explained in the first 11 chapters of Genesis.  That is one of the things that makes it obvious that those chapters are true and literal.

For more information on taking Genesis literal (scientifically, historically, and textually), check out my 6 part series.  https://trustjesus.substack.com/p/literal-genesis  If you don't have time for all 6, read 4-6 which are better organized.