Gospel of Satan
Contents Updated: Thursday, April 29, 1999
The Gospel of Satan
Christians are usually smugly self-righteous, especially the “born-again” variety. Absolute certainty about nonexistent beings or even abstract qualities is usually a sign of insanity, but there are few so certain as Christians. It is odd to the onlooker, noting that there are thousands of different Christian sects that remain disunited presumably because there is something uncertain about one or other of their beliefs. It must surely be disconcerting for a Christian to be attacked by another Christian for accepting the gospel of Satan, yet that is what one evangelical writer did—A W Pink, in a publication by Bible Truth.
He warns the unwary Christian that Satan is the arch-counterfeiter.
He is busy in the field in which the Lord sowed the good seed, planting tares that look like wheat in appearance. By a process of imitation, he aims to neutralize the Word of Christ. As Christ has a gospel, so Satan has a gospel too, a counterfeit of the former. So closely does the gospel of Satan resemble that which it paradies, multitudes of the unsaved are deceived by it.
It must be a fearful message from one Christian to another one, telling them, as it does, that their certainty is a delusion. If the gospel of Satan so closely resembles that of the good God then how does the Christian distinguish the one from the other? Indeed, how does the Christian know that the gospel they are following is not the Satanic one, because Satan cleverly made the substitution long ago when nobody was looking? Unbelievers are happy to accept the gist of this on the basis of Christian history, which ought firmly to declare to Christians that Christianity is the work of Satan.
Indeed, from its description, the Satanic Gospel sounds better than the Holy Gospel. Preacher Pink describes it thus:
The gospel of Satan does not promote strife and war, but aims at peace and unity. It seeks not to set the mother against her daughter nor the father against his son, but fosters the fraternal, spirit whereby the human race is regarded as one great “brotherhood”. It does not seek to drag down the natural man, but to improve and uplift him. It advocates education and cultivation and appeals to the best that is within us. It aims to make this world such a congenial and comfortable habitat that Christ’s absence from it will not be felt and God will not be needed. It endeavors to occupy man so much with this world that he has no time or inclination to think of the world to come. It propagates the principles of self-sacrifice, charity and benevolence, and teaches us to live for the good of others, and to be kind to all.
Salvation and Human Merit
This all sounds astonishingly good for a Satanic book, but Pink avers that Christians should not want to do good. They should want to repent, sorrow over wickedness, submit to God—all of these, but leave God to do anything about it. “Salvation is not by works or human merit”. “Works” are sinful for a Christian because “in the flesh there dwelleth no good thing”. Peace congresses, reform movements, ethical culture societies, charities are all wicked because they are “works!”
For Preacher Pink, the gospel of Satan is the message that “God is loving” taught by most modern ministers to delude their flocks. “Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light”. Satan misleads Christians into thinking that God is so loving that he will not send sinners to eternal fire in Hell! He is not and He will! Thousands of impenitent souls are deluded into thinking that they have been saved by preachers offering the atoning sacrifice of Christ and telling their flocks that all God requires from them is that they “believe in” His Son. Undoubtedly most Christians do think this, they believe and hope for salvation, but here is another devout believer telling them that they are heading for the very real fires of Hell.
As many are deceived into tumbling into an everlasting fiery pit by thinking they have “accepted Christ” as their “personal saviour”. Too bad! Preacher Pink tells us that their buddy Christ is another delusion. Smugness is not salvation. To be saved from sins, is to “abandon the course of self-will and self-pleasing”. Working in the name of Christ, preaching in the name of Christ, being known by the world and by the Church is not enough to be sure the Lord knows them! Pink reminds these deluded Christians:
Many will say to Me In that day, Lord, Lord, have we not preached in Thy name? And in Thy name have cast out demons, and in Thy name have done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you, depart from Me, ye that work iniquity. (Mt 7:22-23)
It certainly ought to be a salutary tale for these Christians, but it will not make them flinch—they have their buddy and their delusions and they are sufficient. The real message in it should be to snap out of the Christian delusion all together and return to the veneration that can do us all and our children certain good. Love Nature. Love the Goddess. Be selfless and accept that we sacrifice our lives for our children and the future of the world. We live through our children and our deeds. Let us make them good ones!
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