O.k. Thanks. I don't keep up with Buddhism, but I "dabbled" in it for a bit a few years ago. I DO have an issue with this:
Wanting water and food to me is a need, rather than a want.
Perhaps in some cases, want breeds need?i
The devil's nature is sin.
Sin is lust.... And after God put the Law and the 10 in place, it was defined., as "tho shalt not" and 613 Laws.
If a person is in a coma, "flat-line"... no brain activity, their brain stem keeps on informing the body, to do what the body needs to do to stay alive...including needing water and food.
So, the Brain is the soul realm....(Mind, will, emotions).
Its a Blank Tape when we are born, that is always set to "record", and its recording all the time.
These recordings become who we are.... and what we think, and what we want...
The DEVIL understands that what we bring into our soul realm, becomes what we think about, and that becomes what we want and do.
So, he wants us focused on lustful things, always.
This is why you can't go anywhere and not see some enticement to lust.
You can't watch TV and not see something dirty.........often its the commercials.
You can't go to a store and not see things that are going to be placed EXACTLY so that you see them..
The Devils fills every part of the planet with an eye gate issue, or a ear gate issue.
"worldly" = Lust Driven.
This is why we are told to be "in the world" but not OF IT.
And here is the thing....
The reason that we have to be born again, is because this birth, is God becoming our Father.
We are changing spiritual Fathers when we are BORN... again.
That's why Jesus said.. "you MUST be born again", as that is everything.
Its why we go to heaven..
So, born again, from What?
What are we born again from??
Its not just spiritual "death"...
Its also this..
Jesus said.. "you are of YOUR FATHER, the DEVIL.. .and the lust of your FATHER, you will DO".
Those are our SINS, and that is why we are doing them, before we are born again by ANOTHER FATHER, and get a "divine nature"., and become a "new Creation".
See it?
Being born again, changes your Spiritual Father, and that is why the Born again, end up in Heaven, as that is where God our Father is located.
HELL< was created, originally for the DEVIL and his Angels, and because unbelievers are children of the devil, then when they die they go to HELL, as that is for their Father, and that is why they go there.
They are not going to HEAVEN, as their Father, their Spiritual Father,... is not in Heaven.
Reader,
when you die, you are going to your Spiritual Daddy..
That's a fact that your church needs to teach you.
And that is why if your church taught you that water baptism washed away you sin, then you still have the wrong spiritual father.
So, now you can tell your SS class, or your converts, about that..
As its a fact.