In this episode of Unpacking #9, Sergio DeSoto dismantles the mental movie most Christians inherited about Satan and “hell”—and shows, text-first, how much of it comes from fan fiction, mistranslation, Dante’s imagination, and revival-era fear engines rather than Scripture. Walking through Job, Zechariah, Yeshua’s rebuke of Peter (“Get behind Me, Satan”), Gehenna’s prophetic backdrop, and Revelation’s end-of-story judgment, he reframes Satan as the accuser—not a dark king—and judgment as covenant clarity, not terror theater. Then he presses the hard questions: if “belief” magically erases evil, what does that imply about the wicked simply believing? And what about the thief on the cross? The episode closes by zooming out to the bigger gospel arc—creation before the apple, evil confronted, and the Bible’s true ending: God dwelling with humanity, with every rival power brought down and the world finally made whole.
