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The Truth Behind Error
“A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and Life’s idea, Truth and Truth’s idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal.”
“Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind’s faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity; namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.”
~ Mary Baker Eddy
First and foremost, I do not believe in Satan as an actual entity with sentience or motivation. My faith dictates he is a metaphor... a metaphor for mortal sin. Sin is nothing more than human failing or, in the simplest term, error. Temptation is the expression of human weakness and not the product of some spiritual adversary intent on causing harm.
It is my firm belief that the whole creation myth is a profound spiritual allegory intended to reveal eternal truths only to those who study and ponder it sufficiently. Heavenly wars, banished hosts, and earthly temptations spawned by the demonic are all part of a rich oral history of tremendous depth and meaning that has, sadly, been reduced to a ridiculously simplistic face-value “historical” narrative in the pages of a terribly misunderstood book.
We are the real Satan and his only power is what we surrender through error.
