Eliminating Satan and hell : affirming a compassionate creator-God / by V. Donald Emmel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Emmel, V. Donald, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Devil--Biblical teaching.

Devil.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 187 pages )

Place of Publication:

Eugene, Oregon : Wipf & Stock, [2013]

Summary:

This book is written for millions of people who have been taught to fear the myths of Satan and Hell, and millions of others who reject the concepts and wish reassurances. When a Lutheran groom and his lovely Harvard-educated bride stood before me, would she eventually go to Hell because she is a Hindu and not a Christian? Is there really a Satan and a Hell, and is our Creator that cruel? It was then that Donald Emmel began his intensive study of the myths of Satan and Hell.Emmel's research reveals that through misunderstandings and mistranslations we have ended up with a cranky, punishing Creator that is not in the Hebrew canon, nor the Gospels, nor the authentic letters of Paul. Emmel concludes that Jesus and Paul retained the Hebrew canon's concepts of hassatan as an adversary working with God, and sheol and gehenna as places of death.In explaining our world today, we must not fly in the face of the vast scientific knowledge, which we utilize but which the ancient mythmakers did not. The ancient myths of Satan as a destructive god, and Hell as punishment for sinners, no longer have validity in the world we now embrace and should therefore be eliminated from our theologies.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1.The Basics of Myth and Scriptural Formation

2.Life and Death in Ancient Myths

3.An Alternative Hebrew Community

4.Hebrew Myths of Systemic Evil

5.Hebrew Myths of Life, Death, and Sheol

6.Yahweh: Punitive or Compassionate?

7.Israel, a Monarchy or Servant?

8.Persian Myths and the Introduction of Satan

9.The Cradle for Apocalyptic Myths

10.Greek Myths of Tartarus and Hades

11.Search for a Different Understanding

12.Jewish Apocalyptic Myths

13.Daniel and the Oral Law

14.Jewish Sectarian Groups

15.First-Century Political Conflict

16.Paul on Satan, Sin, Hell, and Related Concepts

17.Satan in the Gospels

18.Hell in the Gospels

19.The Nature of the Creator-God

20.An Unsettled Christendom

21.Postscript.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781630872434

1630872431