Satan and his demons are real beings/entities (with personalities) not abstract evil within unregenerate man

[Pierac]

Yes. But how does this negate that reality?

It's about time... you finally are starting to see...

Luke 10:26 And He said to him, "What is written in the Law? How does it read to you?"

 

[WPM]

It's about time... you finally are starting to see...

Luke 10:26 And He said to him, "What is written in the Law? How does it read to you?"

Reveal your hand and make your point. I'm not going to play games with you.

 

[Pierac]

Reveal your hand and make your point. I'm not going to play games with you.

So... You're not going to play games with me... Welcome to the club!

There is a harder possibility worth sitting with. What if the difficulty is not a flaw in the text at all? What if Scripture is not failing to be clear, but is doing something other than what many of us were taught to expect from it? I was handed the Bible as an answer book, a place to look things up and settle them. It does not always behave like one. It preserves tensions it could have resolved. It tells stories where it might have given rules. It says less than we hope precisely where we most want certainty. A catechism could have spared us all of this. God did not give us a catechism. He gave us something His people have had to wrestle with, and Scripture itself treats that wrestling as faithful rather than faithless.

Welcome to the game!