Okay, some Christies have been up in arms about the part in my last post where I said Lucifer's sacrifice was greater than Christ's. I'll admit, that's not exactly true. Because Christ never really made a sacrifce at all. Allow me to further explain and clarify. I'll set this up real simple, and try to put it in terms you Christies can understand.
According to Christian mythology, Christ is God, and therefore has all of the attributes therein, including immortality. After the crucifixion, Christ supposedly rose to heaven, where he is to reside in luxury for all eternity. What sacrifice is that? What sacrifice is made when an immortal being comes to Earth to pretend to die? What sacrifice is made when a being who cannot be injured gives the appearance of injury? None. It is among the grandest of God's grand tricks. How can you sit there and tell me that Christ died for our sins and then say that Christ cannot die? You've all been horribly decieved. God has tricked you with a typical guilt trip, but what are we guilty of besides being born? What worship do we owe to Christ for his little act of pretend sacrifice? None. Secondly, how is this one temporary act supposed to account for all men's sin for all time? It is a very lopsided view of atonement if one pretend death can forgive all sins. It is as if I were to go to the courthouse and claim that I could post the bail for all the criminals ever convicted and ever yet to be convicted in that couthouse, and I gave them a handful of monopoly money. Not only is it a grossly insufficient amount, it's not even real. It's all an elaborate trick to gain your worship.
For another thing, and this is the critical difference between Christ and Lucifer, Lucifer's suffering is by choice, while Christ's whole existence and purpose was predetermined by God. Lucifer saw a situation, saw that it was wrong, and made the free decision to fight for what was right, and takes his punishment. Christ on the other hand, made no conscious choice to be a martyr; he was invented as one. There is no sacrifice in a thing simply fulfilling it's purpose. There's no sacrifice in that any more than there is in a tree having leaves, it's just what it is. Lucifer however, gave up prominence and power in paradise, something Christ got back, in order to provide for the betterment of Creation. That's a real sacrifice. And he suffers for it eternally, subject to all the unimaginable horrors of the ninth circle. He took the punishment instead of Adam and Eve when they ate of the Tree of Knowledge, and he takes on the burden of punishment for all people, sitting in Hell in your place, so that you could have the gifts of reason and logic and thinking.
Think about that the next time you read something, or hear music, or use technology, and think about the debt you owe to Lucifer for being able to live in a world where people are allowed to think, and think about the ultimate sacrifice he has made for us.
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