From
The Biography of Satan
by Kersey Graves
Hell and Damnation
The belief in a cruel after-death punishment is (as we have already shown) the prolific source, on their own account of groundless and tormenting, fears to all its believers.

It is also the source of a fearful amount of the most painful unhappiness to millions of the human race in dread apprehension of the fate of their friends, even when but little is entertained on their own account.

The post mortem punishment doctrine taught by the Christian world, invests the Deity with a character absolutely dishonorable and disgraceful, if not blasphemous, by representing him as morally capable of inflicting the most excruciating punishment upon the major portion of his children, whereas he would be a cruel and hateful monster if he should thus punish one of his subjects for a single day.

Feminization
...it converts the Christian world into cowards, instead of moral heroes, by appealing solely to the organ of fear the basest of human motives instead of to the natural love of virtue implanted in the human mind.

Forceful Conversion
It has caused the butchery, the bloody slaughter of millions of the human race by the efforts used to convert them, and "the rest of mankind" to the true religion, in order to "save their souls from Hell."

Belief in the Devil
The belief in Devil obsession and endless punishment has caused more than one hundred thousand human beings to be tortured to death in various ways by "Christians" who believed in the superstitious notion of witchcraft.

Convenient Afterthought
There is abundance of historical testimony to prove that no nation in its earlier history not even "God's holy people," had any idea or conception of the existence of a prime originator of evil, or "tempter of souls," separate and apart from God himself.

  • Note: The concept of the evil one came originally from natural cataclysm, especially the havoc caused by comets. Set, Sut or Sutekh was a deity based on the evil comet. The serpentine Apep was another. We also have characters such as Typhon, Tiamet, Leviathan, and the dragon or beast of Revelation, etc - Mtsar

No Satan in Judaism
The proof that the early Jews (Hebrews or Israelites, rather), like the heathen at a still earlier period, were entirely ignorant of, and had no conception of, the existence of a Devil, or distinct evil principle, and ascribed all evil and all crime, as well as all goodness, to God, is of a threefold character:

  • The absence of any allusion to such a personage in the Jewish Scriptures, or even to a state of punishment after death.

  • The repeated positive declarations in the same 'Holy Book,' that God himself is the author of evil.

  • The fact that all those names, terms and titles now applied to the Devil, or used to designate such a being, found in the Old Testament, were by the Jews applied also to God, and are still more remotely traceable to Pagan astronomical imagery or star-born spiritual beings.

Serpent of Genesis
we are told that Mother Eve was beguiled by a serpent to eat an apple. But a serpent is not a Devil, according to our dictionaries, but a snake.

  • Note: Even the first murderer, Cain, is not committed to hell or any such place of torment. He is merely "banished." God's own act of drowning the world is a far more egregious crime or "sin" than any committed by Adam and Eve. Clearly, according to the scriptures, wrath, violence and utter destructiveness are not sinful.
God the liar, exposed in the first chapters and verses of Genesis, alters what we know about evil and its source. If the serpent is not Satan or the Devil, what is he? (Here for more...)
God as Father of Lies
Graves rightly points out the glaring contradiction found in the Book of Genesis. in John 8:344, Satan is accused as the "father of lies." Yet we find that in Genesis, it was Jehovah not the serpent who spoke falsely.

Jehovah declared that if Adam and Eve ate of the tree, they'd die (Gen 2:4). This did not occur. Adam did eat of the tree and yet he lived for 930 years, becoming father of innumerable sons and daughters. Eve also lived on. The serpent told Adam and Eve, "You shalt not surely die." (Gen 3:4)

The serpent tells Eve that if she eats of the tree she'll "be as gods knowing knowing good and evil." (Gen 3:4)

However, as the text clearly confirms, the "father of lies" told the truth. It's admitted by Jehovah himself when he tells the Elohim, "behold the man has become one of us, to know good and evil." (Gen 3:22)

So, the serpent had told Adam and Eve the truth, whereas Jehovah lied. As Graves states: How then can the Serpent-Devil be justly charged with deceiving our first parents, when God himself thus admits he told them the truth?

  • Note: As I show in my Atlantis book, this leads us to believe that the identity of the "serpent" has been altered and misrepresented. The subtextual meaning of Genesis chapter three is that the serpent encouraged Adam and Eve to be as the gods, since that was their right. However, the "gods" (Elohim) wanted them ignorant, and punished them egregiously for doing something they had the perfect right to do.