Why is it Watchman, that you find it so very easy to insult and be rude...must be your 'Christian nature' coming though. Well, I've tried to remind you of your better nature (if you have one) before, only to be abused more; and as I seem to remember tact not working...here it is, straight out.
That's because you are not familiar with Bible basics.
Says you. Actually, I know my bible quite well, thankyou, and despite you being a spitefully small man, that won't change.
How would you know?? [rhetorically asked]
Well, I know by picking up this wonderful book and reading it....it's called the bible, and while it tells us amazing things, it's still all based upon real life....something I wonder if you still engage in.
For the three ages, see 2 Pet. 3.
Your reading of 2 Peter 3 is faulty. Here Peter turns his attention to explaining the Lord's promised return, and specifically to an apparent debate concerning the timing of the return. He reminds them to remain vigilant in the face of scoffers, pointing out that the Prophets had long ago predicted Christs second coming.
These scoffers try the 'everything has always been the same, always will', tack. But they deliberately overlook (consciously, willfully ignore) the fact that God did intervene when he created the heavens and the earth with the word of his mouth, and also when he judged the earth with water and it perhished. God in fact intervenes in his creation whenever he desires, as is evidenced numerous times in both the OT and NT. Peter cites two obvious occasions of God's intervention, namely, when God acted at creation to form the earth (
out of water and through waterhttp://www.esvonline.org/Genesis+1.6-10), and also when he acted decisively in history, destroying the earth by means of the flood in the days of Noah. And of course Peter then tells them that the world is headed for fire and judgement, and finished up by revealing that the second coming should be a motivation to live a holy life.
No where in there is anything to support your theory. You could perhaps 'read into it', and place meanings upon it that simply don't belong...but the fact is, that is ONLY what you can do. You have nothing else to stand on....just twisting and supposition.
Try learning the Word of God!
Right back at you. You sling around accusations that anyone who disagrees with you is going to burn in hell. It goes both ways of course, but everyone else is just nicer about it....this is a Christian board after all.
Do you think that Satan was created evil? If so, then God would have to have evil in Him in order to create something with evil within. If not, then Satan had to become evil of his own free will.
Since you obviously do not believe in the Word of God regarding the 3 ages, then, according to your thinking, Satan would have fallen sometime in this age. When?? In reading Gen. 2 and 3, Satan is already fallen. Please document when Satan fell before Adam was formed?
When the truth is exposed, you don't have a clue in explaining it.
To answer you first. Satan was a wonderous angel before he fell...God does NOT create evil or has evil within Him.
I believe in Gods word, I just happen to know that your hypothosis of the "three ages" is subjective. Let me explain:
I do believe that Satan fell before Adam was created, and if you want to slap a label on that fine, but I reject your "Gap" theory. Not that I object to someone thinking that perhaps the world is older than just the creation story, but I reject your speculation that Satan inhabited the world for this time. No where in the Bible does it even hint at this, let alone state it outright....once again you're back to twisting text and pure conjecture...something that can't be backed either biblically or scientifically.
And quite apart from your "three ages", the real lunacy as I see it, is your (again conjecture) idea that when God smacked satan back in that 'first age', He decided to give the fallen a 'clean slate'...just wipe their memories and start over. How did you say it?
Yet, Satan, through deceit or other means, was able to get 1/3 of all the first-age souls to side with him. Hence, upon God's overthrow of Satan's first-age rebellion, God, instead of destroying Satan and the 1/3 there and then, decided to destroy the first age and create a new age, free of knowledge of the first age, to test primarily those 1/3 [all souls get an opportunity] to see if they will choose to follow Satan again or remain true to Jesus.
Ridiculous and completely and TOTALY unbiblical and unprovable. I would very much like to see you try....you'll just look foolish.