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Ah now Amadeus - how I admire your struggling to make some sense out of the status quo - but I have stated elsewhere that that we are advised to simply simply simply believe or enter the long hard slog of trying to find answers - so lets just stick with Satan who is not all lit up but Lucifer is...

@tigger 2 I am not a trinitarian but I also did not read all of what you posted here. I do appreciate your efforts [especially if you did all of the leg work yourself] and hope that it accomplishes something for God. Should you expect a miracle?

Yes, I did because it was the way you were responding to almost everyone. If you don't deserve such treatment, neither do they. Now let us both stop this and get on with God's work.

If I pained you unnecessarily I do apologize, but what you have been doing here has been in public against people who I know have a love for God as well as for others. You can speak to people with kindness even when you disagree with them. None of us have all of the right answers, but all of us...

To what does this verse refer? "I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven." II Cor 12:2 And this one? "And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he...

I glad you understand what your purpose is. Others here do as well, but I will leave it to them as to whether they want share with you. The pain I have is what Jesus had when he wept. You may be right. Perhaps I have already said too much, but I never like to give up hope. Go ahead then with...

We needed a Redeemer. We already had an adversary. God knew that and sent what was needed. There was nothing in man capable of defeating satan, whoever he was.

Who is Michael and who are the angels? Where and what is heaven? The problem is that someone has found answers to all of those questions. The devil in us is no more a figment of our imagination than the sins we have committed because the devil in us is our imagination. This only shows that a...

What are the building blocks? I would start here: "Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto...

Yes, indeed! The goodness you mention within ourselves according to what Jesus said would have to be God, the only one who is good. Of course you were saying that if I render satan as the bad part of us rather than as a separate entity, I might need to consider doing the same thing with Jesus...

All of us believe we are right and the system [church system] has established a whole set of ready made answers to support the continuation of our own ways... and our own beliefs. I keep on pressing for God to help me get beyond my ways. The first necessary thing, I believe, is to admit that...

Very good! But what is your purpose in asking what you ask? Your response @tabletalk was a bit callous. He gave an honest answer. I've cleaned enough toilets myself to fully appreciate anyone who does it. Remember Jesus worked as a servant in washing his followers feet and He also said: "And...

The word "satan" simply means adversary. Is there not an adversary within myself? As to falling from "heaven" I guess it depends upon what is meant by heaven and which heaven. A number of years ago a very popular preacher, Jimmy Swaggert, fell from heaven. He was a man of God who became an...

OK by me!

But it was a good answer, was it not?

@bbyrd009 @pia The two above posts on another thread brought this thing of satan to my mind. While I have seen and heard many arguments in favor of the existence of the external entity called by that name, I have long discounted his existence as a separate being. Perhaps someone could give...

I read through the biography on Wikipedia quickly and found it interesting. I doubt that it was quackery as some wanted to say. Rather he had a gift [or a curse] which no one really understood including himself. His own beliefs and those of others around him likely affected in a measure just how...

I cannot help you on that. I have only just heard of him...

Absolutely! We are to eat his flesh and drink his blood. If the heart is right in the consuming of the wafer and the fruit of grapes it is not harmful, but what if this is simply another picture or shadow or type of the real thing, be it according to Catholic or Protestant ritual? Jesus is the...

This is where I am on the Word of God. Consider it as if He spoke [however God would do that] the Word only once before the foundation of the world of men and what He spoke is reflected as a result of how any man acts and reacts. Resultant curses occur and blessings occur, but God does not need...