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Better would be a well weighted and reinforced block of plastic that looks like an iPhone. Then you can chuck it at people and not worry about losing your investment.

Technically, I don't think that commandment even precludes the worship of other gods (mind you, other parts of the bible do). Just that YWHW must be above all others in your consideration. Depends on what the original meant by what was translated into "before", and whether that meant, y'know, in higher esteem, or more along the lines of "in front of", i.e. where YWHW can see (which is everywhere, generally).

That said, it looks like YWHW actually had a straight up contest with another god (Baal?) over control of the rain at some point? And apparently some other stuff *shrugs*

and I should specify it is part of my belief that Satan absolutely detests humanity and wants them all to suffer the same fate that he will after the rapture, an eternity in hell.

Well... okay. All I'm really noting is I'm not finding a scriptural basis for that belief. Which I think I've mentioned previously doesn't entirely bother me -- people have made plenty of junk up over the years.

They're all gundams though ;_;

Its in interpretation for Satan's motives, most aren't put in there but its not hard to assume he hates us considering god loves us enough to give us free choice unlike the angels who were basically taken away any free will they had before the fall and were eternally stuck wherever they fell at that moment

That last bit is explicitly inaccurate -- Satan, one of the fallen, is straight up noted to be wandering around the earth long after its fall.

As for the assumption bit, not only is it quite hard to assume satan hates humanity -- when by actual account, it is subservient to YWHW's will and no more likely to hate mankind than YWHW is -- stating that assumption is something I would probably say is incredibly dangerous for a mindful christian to do. Character defamation without actual evidence is almost certainly something that's going to trigger the whole "false witness" thing.

Seriously. Attribute to it what it does and what is said of it, and no more, y'know? Which isn't actually all that much.

... mammorc? Illinois roads are the orc's tits?

Hell is just the eternal punishment of god and the reason Satan wants people to go there is one of several reasons
He doesn't want more people to go to heaven
He hates humans with an unlimited passion
and a few probably many others that i forgot

Seriously, unless I missed a few verses when I checked through 'em, the only motivation for Satan that is explicitly stated in the bible was doing freaking YWHW's command in a couple of cases. That was it. Other than that, it deceived but its reason for deceiving was never stated.

And as for hell, it is magnificently ill described. There's some bits on fire, but the nature, extent, and so forth, insofar as I noticed, was unmentioned. There's also contradictory bits (like in that revelations bit -- 21 or 22 puts the sinners and whatnot outside the city, not in hell, alongside a couple other oddities.), parts that ascribe fire only to a specific group (sodom, gomorrah, and surrounding cities) or specifically to the rebellious angels and false prophets, with no mention made of others. I'm also seeing it alternately described as eternal darkness, plain destruction, or simple disconnection from YWHW's presence. It's a bit of a mess.

Also, no, there's no mention as to its size. Some mention of it actually being on earth, iirc.

And, interestingly enough, the bible apparently explicitly states the existence of Hades. What's up with that? Just shanghaiing another religion's word?

Don't blame the libertarians for this one. It's europe's fault. You bastards offloaded all your crazies over here, and unfortunately they bred. So now we actually have to have checks on state power, otherwise you have some lackwit mandating monthly duck fornication rituals and no one can stop them.