Do you use the labels Satan and God as representations of characteristics or as names for actual, individual, conscious beings?
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Do you use the labels Satan and God as representations of characteristics or as names for actual, individual, conscious beings?
Actually the most important question is, must one believe Jesus is the way to be granted a place in heaven? If so, are all that do not believe this possessed by Satan?
So when I say Satan I am talking about an actual being. His characteristics are deception, death, lies, coercion, manipulation, hatred,etc. He is pure evil although he was created perfect. He made a choice to become pure evil. Free will.
Now when I say God I am too talking about an actual being. However personally he is know as Yahweh. His characteristics are love, truth, peace, mercy, justice and more.
The Christian worldview helps to explain the world around us. We have good in the world and we have evil although culturally we may differ on the degrees. Can pure good be pure evil at the same time? No it would be contradictory.
So we must have standards of what is actually good and what is actually evil. Then we try to find the sources of good and evil.
You last question is great bro. So here we go. Jesus claimed to be the only way and the ultimate truth. Now we can't just take his word without looking at the evidence. He tells us to have faith in him due to the evidence. He doesn't ask for blind faith. Now if what he said is true then he is in fact the only way. But if not then that would make a case for every other belief or lifestyle to be truth. So we test everything. Test, test, study, and test.
Now for all those who don't believe that does not mean they are possessed by Satan although there are cases of demonic possession. It just means they have not chosen Yahweh or God as he is commonly referred to. So by not choosing Yahweh you are literally asking him to be free from him. And thus he gives you exactly what you want in that case. Freedom from God. We have free will. But all of our choices in life have consequences good or bad due to the fact that God carries out justice.
I will tell you this. God himself has over and over said that he wants no one to be destroyed spiritually. He has stated his love for humanity and even went to the extent of giving his son over to death. The Bible is one big love story. He has revealed truth to us so that we would make a choice to live and not die. It's hard to see truth with all the confusion. But the confusion about what's truth and not is the work of satan.
God is trying to free people off all the struggle, hurt, poverty, death, hatred, and evil. so he offers security in Him. But the path is through his son since the son is the one who sacrificed for us to truly live in a coming perfect world. Without him we are on our own. But we can choose to be on our own.
But a way out of all this does exist.
You really need to analyze each and everything you typed. You claim contradictory statements by you to be truth. News flash, perfection can only beget perfection. If Satan was made perfect, this cannot change, period. You do not act in the same manner you claim. You claim to check and double check, but make a blatantly false statement.
When two things contradict, both cannot be correct, but neither need to be.
You say, "So we test everything. Test, test, study, and test." What standard of test do you use? You cannot test a subject by using the information given by that subject.
Lastly, " so even if I live a good and generous life, if I do not believe in Jesus, I go to hell? That's the question I wanted a simple yes or no. When you overcompensate in an answer, that's a direct indication you know your answer won't be good or popular.
If you believe I am damned to hell, simply because I do not believe in a flawed bit of writing created wholly by man, then you are not rational nor good. Your god is not love. Read the bible without skipping around and giving certain passages illogical meanings it doesn't have and you'll know the truth my friend.
I cannot perceive a Christian as good who does not see a non-Christian as being good and worthy of heaven.
Now it's time for me to judge...peace out my friend...I'll be back when you decide to be good for yourself, not an imaginary friend because you need structure from an outside source, because of a lack of self control.
There is no need to reply, I am finished...lol This is one of the 3 phrases (it is finished)the bible says were Jesus' last words, which is an irrefutable contradiction in the bible, because only one phrase can be his last. Rationalization is not truth brother, it's trying to create a truth, where none exists.
Bye bye