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Smelly_Cryptozoologist




Satan has been getting a bad rap, there si no evdence i know of stating that satan really killed anyone, for all we know he is but the lord of hell. He brang truth to adam and eve by showing them that there was a world outside (your living in a dreamworld neo) God on the other hand condemned adam and eve to mortal life, thereby commiting the first muder.

does anyone share my thoughs or am i just a sad long haired aussie looking for a nicer god?

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angrycrustacean
It's just another contradiction in Christian beliefs. However, the default explanation, I suppose, would be that Satan, no matter what he does, will always be pure evil, and likewise God will always be pure good.

And I'm aware that that makes no sense. I don't make these things up. laugh.gif
Smelly_Cryptozoologist
Although i have no beleif in either, i feel i must defend satan, what makes you beleive he is pure evil, i fell they are just two aposing sides.
Universal Absurdity
Whatever you want to believe.

*moved to appropriate section*
Smelly_Cryptozoologist
Agreed
SnakeProphet
It's Satan ffs, he's the incarnation of evil. It's not like he can be any good, it's not even like he could want it.
angrycrustacean
QUOTE(Smelly_Cryptozoologist @ May 10 2006, 04:24 PM) [snapback]1183357[/snapback]

Although i have no beleif in either, i feel i must defend satan, what makes you beleive he is pure evil, i fell they are just two aposing sides.


I believe in neither as well, and agree that they're opposing sides. Duality at work, yin & yang, male & female, etc. Following this trend of duality, though, it would be two extremes, one most evil and one most righteous. It could very well be that God is the most evil and Satan is most righteous. Since it's all fantasy though, it's a moot point.
Taulha
I think the sanist are really nice people. The satanic bible states that he wishes for you(his followers) to worship yourselves and not a god or me, just your selves, and only seek me for guiedance. Now he doesn't sound bad at all, besides he was gods favorite angel, and god loved him, and you see may people now a days hate him, but never really realize how god loves him, and we to should show him respect, but not fully worship him. Remember he is the bringer of light. Some people hate him to such a horrible extent, it makes you begin to feel kind of sorry for him. He is one of my favorite angels though as I might add.
angrycrustacean
QUOTE(Taulha @ May 10 2006, 04:30 PM) [snapback]1183369[/snapback]

I think the sanist are really nice people. The satanic bible states that he wishes for you(his followers) to worship yourselves and not a god or me, just your selves, and only seek me for guiedance. Now he doesn't sound bad at all, besides he was gods favorite angel, and god loved him, and you see may people now a days hate him, but never really realize how god loves him, and we to should show him respect, but not fully worship him. Remember he is the bringer of light. Some people hate him to such a horrible extent, it makes you begin to feel kind of sorry for him. He is one of my favorite angels though as I might add.


All well and good, but satanists don't worship satan. huh.gif
Taulha
Not exactly, they go to him in giudance, but for the hardcore, sacrific stuff, it's mostly done in some cults. Satanists are just more resvered people. A lot of people get santanist and cults mixed up...Alot.
Hermetic Hermit
"Satan" has always come across as more intelligent than YHWH to me. God's always fumbling around, can't make a perfect angel, can't make a perfect man and again can't make a perfect woman and then blames her and a talking snake for his ineptitude.

Satan on the other hand gave us knowledge to be like gods but it's the Believers inability to let go of this guilt that keeps them groveling to God.

If God is all-good then why does he condone cruelty?

If Satan is all-bad why does he try and help us?

Maybe, just maybe, who's who has been reversed. Perhaps the real bad guy is pretending to be God while telling us the good guy is the Devil yes.gif

"A mind not to be changed by place or time.
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
What matter where, if I be still the same
. . . Here at least, We shall be free . . .
we may reign secure; and, in my choice,
To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven." -- Satan

Taulha
@Hermetic Hermit: I love that quote the best, and the last part is always heard. But I really like your thoughts and it makes me start to think.
Hermetic Hermit
QUOTE(Taulha @ May 10 2006, 03:58 PM) [snapback]1183413[/snapback]

@Hermetic Hermit: I love that quote the best, and the last part is always heard. But I really like your thoughts and it makes me start to think.


Thanks Taulha.

The Cathari believed YHWH was Satan and for that the good, pure and righteous Church had every Cathari man, woman and child burned alive at the stake and even exhumed Cathar dead to be burned. Sometimes they would pull the half-burnt body out of the fire to let them writhe around in agony for an hour or so before putting them back into the fire.

To the Cathar this behaviour was to be expected, they were they followers of Satan(YHWH) in their minds after all.
aquatus1
Always bear in mind that the Bible is just one side of the story, and the winner's side at that.

Incidentaly, the snake in the garden wasn't necessarily Satan.
Imaginary Friend
QUOTE(aquatus1 @ May 10 2006, 06:32 PM) [snapback]1183472[/snapback]

Always bear in mind that the Bible is just one side of the story, and the winner's side at that.




Histories are recorded by the victors.
And Lucifer was the first and most beautiful of god's angels created.

Satan - not what you think.

QUOTE
"Theology created the fiction of Satan which represents the revolt if an infinite being against the existence of an absolute infinity, against God."
(Mikhaïl Bakounine / 1814-1876)
Taulha
Isn't there also proof of some kind that Satan and Lucifer were never the same person but got confused in the translations to be the same person.
Reincarnated
i've played poker with satan, he isn't such a bad guy once you get to know him.
Darkwind
He's a christian Demi-God he is not in my pantheon. wink2.gif
Hermetic Hermit
QUOTE(Taulha @ May 10 2006, 06:28 PM) [snapback]1183631[/snapback]

Isn't there also proof of some kind that Satan and Lucifer were never the same person but got confused in the translations to be the same person.


That's right, Lucifer is actually the latin lucifer(no capital) and translates to morning star meaning Venus(the planet) and was used when Venus would create distractionary imagery of the Goddess Venus.

A closer comparison for Lucifer the light-bringer or symbol of resurrection would be Jesus.

Revelations 22:16 "I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star."

Or keeping with the mistranslation.....

"I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and Lucifer."

The Church has got it all mixed up. They call Lucifer Satan, but Jesus is Lucifer. They call the Serpent Satan but the Serpent is also Jesus or the Logos.

"Lucifer represents.. Life.. Thought.. Progress.. Civilization.. Liberty.. Independance.. Lucifer is the Logos.. the Serpent, the Savior." -- Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, 'The Secret Doctrine'

I can and will explain further if anyone disagrees.

However Satan is a creation of the Church but represents these qualities that Lucifer shares with him. It's one big mind f@*k which would require more time to explain.
GIDEON MAGE
the Hebrew word "satan" means "prosecuting attorney" or "accuser". it only occurs in "Job" and chronicles. It refers to the angel with the special assignment of presenting YHVH with an opposing opinion. This is a very necessary function in the Jewish universe. the whole "fall" thing is strictly n.t. gobbledegook. The xians dressed him up as the Greek God Pan, in a red suit with horns and hoofs, like the pagan god of the forest. We must remember that the whole focus of n.t. religion is to convert pagans, and it all makes sense. lucifer is something n.t. again, and makes even less sense than dressing up the universe's attorney general as the greek god pan.
Dennison
Its exactly the way the king of deception would want you to think. Now that in itself could me 2 things. The king of deception could be God or Satan ??

Man himself is not truly an evil person, but it takes a certain mentality, and a nudge from something in the wind to make you do it.

now, Satanism has nothing to do with worshipping Satan. Its not even a religion, more like a way of life. You don't kill things or worship devils or things like that. Its more like the slogan of "In myself I trust" or "Only for my Benefit" is the way of the satanist. Its more of a belief in:

I'm on Earth, and although I am happy and thankful for whomever put me here, I'm gonna just live my life and do what I can to be a good person.

Thats my interpretation of it. But back to the Idea.

God has nothing to do with cruelty, humans create cruelty out of their own nasty ways.

and of course you would like to think Satan is "helping" us, but he just wants you to burn in his personal hell set aside for you or whatever that is. All I know what to do about life in general:

BE the best person you can be, be tolerant and respectful of others, there is no reason to hate those around you, you make your life with what you do with it, and when its all over with, who knows what happens. Maybe you rot in a pine box for all I know, but at least I would like to impact those around me and be remembered for the good things. I could care less about going to church and praying to god and being controlled by the religions that were set up to keep us in place.

Instead, I take control of my own life, lead it the way I feel is moral and just, and throw the bible and such to the wind. If there were a god out there, why would he want us pining and groveling. Thats not a god I want to be around , that sounds like someone who lost a war, wanting attention. Usually to me, if there is a Good God he is neither vengeful nor is he in any way cruel. He just wants you to live your life and learn from it.
Stellar
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Its exactly the way the king of deception would want you to think.


Perhaps the king of deception is god...?
Dennison
Truth of the matter is, theres a lot of made up crap that people keep swallowing, and its been in place for 2 millenia, so its not a hard pill to swallow for those who just nod and say ok, i believe that. Its the ones who question these things like:

Why do we pray to a jealous God?
Why do we have to go to church to go to heaven?

and such questions like that makes you think, It sounds to me like a bunch of made up crap to keep you going to church, to terrorize you into staying there, because if you don't, you go to hell.

I honestly was a churchgoer, until about age 12, I started to question it all, what was the point of going to church, praying to Jesus, when god was always saying in the ten commandments, pray to noone but him, and I saw this and I thought to myself, ok, someone is wrong here, but who?

What if Jesus wasn't God's only son? All these religions would be worshipping idols? Who is right and who is wrong? Then I just said to myself. Wait, why would God even want people to pray to him in the first place? If you know in your heart, and have faith that you are doing the right things in life, then why would you have to spend it praying and worshipping when it wasn't necessary to live a good and honest life.

You bring up a valid point Hermit. The church has destroyed quite a bit in order to maintain control and terror in its "followers". Which is truly not a good thing. I'm not saying I side with Either God or Satan, I simply side with my own thought of living a good life. Now, I am not one to say Satan brings good things in life, nor am I to say God does, but whatever good happens in my life, is one that I have had my own hand in. I didn't believe in the church, the way it was being run, partially because I could smell the evil radiating from it, from the watchful eyes of the Vatican, you know the Illuminati, along with the New World Order is supposedly controlling the Vatican for its evil agenda. I can see the signs, the world is getting progressively worse, and who knows, it could be the devolution of the human race, or it could be Satan with his minions preparing for the end or who knows !

I personally don't believe in a god or satan, I believe in living a good life and making an impact on those around us. I do like to debate the topic on God vs. Satan tho. Its pretty funny stuff. I guess you could call me an athiest, but I still have morals and lead a good life, I just don't need to be told if I don't go to church I will go to hell, because I know I won't. If there is a god, he would understand the choices people make, and would respect the fact he gave us free will to choose for ourselves, because if he didnt understand that, he wouldn't make for a very good god.
Dennison
QUOTE(Stellar @ May 11 2006, 12:15 AM) [snapback]1183814[/snapback]

Perhaps the king of deception is god...?


Exactly ! Who knows who it is? Personally, I could care less. If it was god or satan, would it really matter? It wouldn't matter to me very much. I would still be here, living my life, doing what I can to make it better than the last day.
Yelekiah
QUOTE(Taulha @ May 10 2006, 09:28 PM) [snapback]1183631[/snapback]

Isn't there also proof of some kind that Satan and Lucifer were never the same person but got confused in the translations to be the same person.

Lucifer is a mistranslation.
It depends one's interpretation of the Bible and the portions of where the "devil" or serpent was in. For example, in Genesis, the serpent says that Eve will *not* surely die if she takes the fruit. And we all know that literally, she didn't. This would lead some to believe that God was lying, and the serpent was telling the truth. However, the death that God had in mind was a spiritual death, not a literal one. If you take that perspective, then the serpent would have been telling a half-truth. Either way, he doesn't sound so nasty to me. Except for the whole Fall of Man bit.
Bluefinger
QUOTE(Smelly_Cryptozoologist @ May 10 2006, 05:12 PM) [snapback]1183328[/snapback]

Satan has been getting a bad rap, there si no evdence i know of stating that satan really killed anyone, for all we know he is but the lord of hell. He brang truth to adam and eve by showing them that there was a world outside (your living in a dreamworld neo) God on the other hand condemned adam and eve to mortal life, thereby commiting the first muder.

does anyone share my thoughs or am i just a sad long haired aussie looking for a nicer god?

devil.gif + blush.gif = yes.gif


Satan isn't the lord of Hell. That isn't biblically supported either. He killed Adam and Eve with a lie. Adam and Eve didn't just get smarter, they got prouder. And the motives of their hearts run rapant in today's society. People living like kings and thinking that their knowledge will give them anything as along as they "believe in theirselves." And after all this, they die. And the knowledge they gained means nothing to them anymore.
Hermetic Hermit
I don't believe in God or Satan. I believe in a mental constraint that people willingly create for themselves called God and Satan is this constraint being broken.

Your body is a temple because you are "God". Whether this God comes with shackles or not is up to you.
Gmac1000
Everyone's Satan is different and everyone's perspective is different on evil"
bosnian
QUOTE(Snake_6024 @ May 11 2006, 12:28 AM) [snapback]1183364[/snapback]

It's Satan ffs, he's the incarnation of evil. It's not like he can be any good, it's not even like he could want it.



I agree
Lion of Judah
Satan is a master of disguise he has so many eyes and is a lier.From what I know he is the prince of darkness he is a very evil force that messes with peoples concious like in some cases drug users are attacked when they are weak and either OD or commit suicide Satan can't be good
Jeenuh
QUOTE(Bluefinger @ May 10 2006, 10:48 PM) [snapback]1183855[/snapback]

People living like kings and thinking that their knowledge will give them anything as along as they "believe in theirselves." And after all this, they die. And the knowledge they gained means nothing to them anymore.


that must be the reason my bible thumping sister wont go to a decent college and instead runs around praying every day and telling her siblings if they dont believe in god theyre dead to her.

why waste your life looking forward to an afterlife that might not even exist?

to me satan represents rebellion, which is commonplace in our society, if you dont believe in god and pray x10 a day and believe his in his son jesus, youre going to hell for rebelling agianst the faith.

i agree 100% with Dennison. just try to live a good life, im sure enternal damnation will be completely worth it if you live a good life and god still turns you away. who wants to hang around someone like that for enternity anyway?
Imaginary Friend
QUOTE(Reincarnated @ May 10 2006, 08:42 PM) [snapback]1183656[/snapback]

i've played poker with satan, he isn't such a bad guy once you get to know him.


Yes so have I and if he would just stop raising with an inside straight draw, he'd be the most beautiful and perfect poker player! tongue.gif w00t.gif



QUOTE
"He that is slow to believe anything and everything is of great understanding, for belief in one false principle is the beginning of all unwisdom"
The Satanic Bible, Book of Satan 2:7


The Book Of Lucifer
The Enlightenment
From The Satanic Bible
"The Roman god, Lucifer, was the bearer of light, the spirit of the air, the personification of enlightenment. In Christian mythology he became synonymous with evil, which was only to have been expected from a religion whose very existence is perpetuated by clouded definitions and bogus values! It is time to set the record straight. False moralisms and occult inaccuracies must be corrected. Entertaining though they might be, most stories and plays about Devil worship must be recognized as the obsolete absurdities they are.
It has been said that 'the truth will make men free'. The truth alone has never set anyone free. It is only doubt which will bring mental emancipation. Without the wonderful element of doubt, the doorway through which truth passes would be tightly shut.
...
For those who doubt supposed truths, this book is revelation. Then Lucifer will have risen. Now is the time for doubt! The bubble of falsehood is bursting and its sound is the roar of the world! "
Bosanchero
if there is hell i will be more than glad to se satan there, i rather go to HE who will gladlly accept me than to the one that rejects me, i mean get this IF we do EVERYTHING bad that can be done, and we end up in HELL ( which is ruled by satan) isnt he going to be glad to see us ??? i mean seriouslly if you think about it why would he punish us, he is evil, we did evil we are perfect match, on the other hand good people can go to heaven and enjoy they time with almighty(no not the Bruce)

Satan never asked nothing of me while the other guy writes books fool of thinkg for me to remember and live by original.gif,


to make long story short, PEOPLE live your lives enjoy yourself, be happy, get married have kids, dont think about the end, because that will only destroy your happiness original.gif
aquatus1
There is an interesting and completly unsubstantiated story that I heard once. It seems that a set of missionaries went to the mountains of Peru to preach about the dangers of Satan and about a loving God to the miners inhabiting the mountain. Unfortunately for them, their lesson wasn't quite taken as planned. The miners, reasoning that God was a good and loving person, didn't really need any sort of placation to keep him happy. Satan, on the other hand, was a cruel and harsh spirit, and he also happened to live in the very ground the miners worked in!

Therefore, the miners quite logically decided to worship and make offerings to Satan, the guy they had to keep happy so that he wouldn't bring the roof down on their heads!.
Bosanchero
QUOTE(aquatus1 @ May 11 2006, 01:22 PM) [snapback]1184122[/snapback]

There is an interesting and completly unsubstantiated story that I heard once. It seems that a set of missionaries went to the mountains of Peru to preach about the dangers of Satan and about a loving God to the miners inhabiting the mountain. Unfortunately for them, their lesson wasn't quite taken as planned. The miners, reasoning that God was a good and loving person, didn't really need any sort of placation to keep him happy. Satan, on the other hand, was a cruel and harsh spirit, and he also happened to live in the very ground the miners worked in!

Therefore, the miners quite logically decided to worship and make offerings to Satan, the guy they had to keep happy so that he wouldn't bring the roof down on their heads!.

interesting also brings out a question, why are we making him mad by worshiping god ?? i mean if god is mercifull he will forgive us, dontgetit.gif what i am saying is you have to people living across the street from you

one is your best friend for ages, the other one is your enemy that just bought a gun, wouldnt you want to get on the enemys good side ?? yes.gif
Imaginary Friend
I think what compells some to think the way they do, fearing the creator they then strive all their lives to spend eternity with after life, is because they are afraid to face the inevitable. We all die. And so, living and feeling compelled by our emotions, natures, etc... some feel comforted to hear there is a reason for un-reason. A cause, for all those personal traits they may not admit to to the world, but live with everyday, that can be said to be at blame for who and what they are.

"The devil made me do it!"

Yes, it's Satan. The great deceiver. Blame him and repent. And so it goes this boxing match between "good" and "evil", and one is occupied balancing that fence of personal natural character, all the while and afraid of losing the footing, which will then affirm that which they know they did, yet are compelled by the faith to avoid the full responsibility because it was the devil and not them, that did it.

To this day there are many a soul living out the life we all leave, to their last days in it, and behind bars. The devil can be said to have made many an evil man, yet it is the man that suffers for what that says about the man.

If one wants to believe in the devil and hell and damnation, so be it. It speaks to the myopic vision of just what that means, when even the religious texts one subscribes that faith to , as edited and corrupt as they are to the scribes of ego, they are actually giving credit to the anti-god, in having power to persuade god's creation to fall.
God made the devil. God made hell wherein he was to dwell for eternity, because the devil, the first and most beautiful angel of heaven, and other hosts (angels) , rebelled against god's command to serve the human race. (Angel= "angli" = emissary= (go between or messenger for god).

And so god punished the angels that refused to serve man, and banished them unto the pit of his creation, hades/hell, where god would then condemn the human race he intended those angels to serve, for their acts unrepentant. Acts they would not have committed perhaps, if only Satan and the other rebellious angels would have agreed to serve their purpose, and when they did not and god cursed them as he did eve and all the subsequent generations for daring to gain knowledge (and perhaps think outside this perverse box of thoughts?) , and has to this day not forgiven unless they abide in faith to the other emissary sent forth; Jesus. And in the meantime, the all loving god, having created the great pit and damning the first of his angelic creation and others, did not send other angels in their stead, to serve human kind as planned. And so humans were left on their own, to serve sacrifice and live to either heaven or hell.

And when god sought to communicate to human kind he did so as the god he proved himself to be from Genesis. Possessed of that first rage that caused him to damn his angelic creation for transgressions committed against god's will. Thereby positing the eternal question for the thinker amongst the generations; if god will condemn his perfect creation for being imperfect (an impossibility in that equation), what can be said for the corrupt flesh of man!? This god that is possessed of the personalities and committed acts, condemned as sins in his creation called human. Vengeance, jealousy, rage, murder, selfishness, genocide, matricide, patricide, infanticide, misogyny, homophobia, rape, and the list goes on.

So it is well there are those that imagine this duel in themselves between the inspiration of heaven and the temptation of hell. It excuses what they will not admit exists in their own minds and in action, and then defines what they imagine themselves worthy of, subconsciously for all they are whether they admit it's presence or not, when they worship the end of their life as heaven or hell, because it is that which they manifest by their own thoughts and hands, while alive as flesh, living faithfully that it is the doctrines of man that make them what they are to be rather than themselves ever responsible for it all.

It is said in some circles that christianity is the weak mans faith. Easily assumed as a cloak from which to hide behind, all the while pretending to aspire to higher than that which is not even exampled by it's god. Whereas the left hand path, Satanism , Luciferianism, etc... honor what exists in human nature because it is there and we have no choice but to live in it, while at the same time recognizing that life is a choice moment to moment. Exampled by what we believe ourselves worthy of, we commit to our thoughts. Be they good or bad, because the thinking life knows what we do what we choose to do, regardless of implied herd morality, and as such we express what we believe ourselves worthy of in return.

The Satanist, (By the way; contrary to someone's earlier affirmation that satanists do not believe in a literal satan, that is in error; Theistic Satanism does believe Satan is a real being and worship and ritualize as such), believes in the power/spirit called, "Lucifer" or "Satan", rather in a literal being. Others still revere the spirit called satan/ism, Lucifer/ism, as the dark side of nature, the powers of the intellect, the necessary energy that keeps the balance of life and death, darkness and light. Therefore satan is not imagined as a anthropomorphic entity (i.e. real) , but rather as a spirit or philosophy subjectified to human conscious understanding.

*edit for omitted text* rolleyes.gif
Bluefinger
QUOTE(Jeenuh @ May 11 2006, 07:59 AM) [snapback]1184101[/snapback]

that must be the reason my bible thumping sister wont go to a decent college and instead runs around praying every day and telling her siblings if they dont believe in god theyre dead to her.

why waste your life looking forward to an afterlife that might not even exist?

to me satan represents rebellion, which is commonplace in our society, if you dont believe in god and pray x10 a day and believe his in his son jesus, youre going to hell for rebelling agianst the faith.

i agree 100% with Dennison. just try to live a good life, im sure enternal damnation will be completely worth it if you live a good life and god still turns you away. who wants to hang around someone like that for enternity anyway?


why waste your time working in life for things you won't be able to keep? Yeah life with out an after life seems pretty pointless. Living a good life doesn't sanctify you. This is a traditional Roman Catholic misconception. Wow, has the apostasy of the Church of Rome made such a bad impression that many don't even know what God is truly like? They see the deeds done by the Church and those who claim to be authorities over religious matters and they don't even look for themselves. no.gif
Lion of Judah
I would'nt blame anyone for wrong they've done in a lifetime we were all born into a world full of wickedness so we just have to make the best of it.The catholic church I think did a good job in spreading the word of the lord but in other ministries like Islam they are teaching bad so don't blame anyone except Sssatan
GIDEON MAGE
QUOTE(Bluefinger @ May 11 2006, 11:11 AM) [snapback]1184279[/snapback]

why waste your time working in life for things you won't be able to keep? Yeah life with out an after life seems pretty pointless. Living a good life doesn't sanctify you. This is a traditional Roman Catholic misconception. Wow, has the apostasy of the Church of Rome made such a bad impression that many don't even know what God is truly like? They see the deeds done by the Church and those who claim to be authorities over religious matters and they don't even look for themselves. no.gif

"Apostasy"? Like I said before, us non-Christians don't see much difference between various flavors of Xianity. You protestants even use the Catholic date for easter, a pagan holiday revisionized by the catholic church councils, even keeping the name of the goddess Eostra in the name. You keep the same books for the n.t., with a couple of minor exceptions, all chosen and rewritten for Emperors Theodosius and Constantine. You worship a dead Jew as a God, and the Catholics also glorify his Virgin Mother Isis, whoops, Mary. Rather than condemning each other, you should see the likeness. Remember the expression about not seeing the forest for the trees? If anything, the RCC are the original Xians, anyway, and you honor decisions made by their church councils. If you xians really knew God, you would discard the pagan myths promulgated by your church. It is all God.
Hermetic Hermit
Funny how Believers think of Satan as the Great Deceiver yet they have him all figured out. The vast majority of people believe in God and think he is the good guy but Satan is the bad guy that tricks everyone yet has very few "believers" in relation.

Not much of a deceiver really. But if who's who is reversed then yes he is the Great Deceiver and is the most worshipped God on this planet. Now look at the behaviour of His followers not in history but in today's world. Jews, Christians and Muslims all warring together for their God of mercy and forgiveness. While the "heretics" and "Satanists" are saying just leave me alone I want to live my own life.

Yes indeed there is a Great Deception going on. yes.gif
Guardsman Bass
Well, the straightforward answer is that Satan is considered evil because he leads people away from unadulterated worship of God, who is automatically defined as 'good' in Christianity in spite of the fact that he is a murderous, jealous being by human standards.Personally, Satan doesn't sound too bad; he sounds almost like the Jewish version of Prometheus.

One thing that has always mystified me about Satan as the Great Deceiver is why then the believers in such think that all he does is try to get people to commit evil, or fail in their committments, or disbelieve. A real deceiver would do them, but hide them in a mask of righteousness. Satan's people wouldn't be dirty drug dealers, small time crooks, and wacko murderers; they would be clean cut people in suits, who smile and treat you courteously.
Beckys_Mom
QUOTE(Bluefinger @ May 11 2006, 04:11 PM) [snapback]1184279[/snapback]

why waste your time working in life for things you won't be able to keep? Yeah life with out an after life seems pretty pointless. Living a good life doesn't sanctify you. This is a traditional Roman Catholic misconception. Wow, has the apostasy of the Church of Rome made such a bad impression that many don't even know what God is truly like? They see the deeds done by the Church and those who claim to be authorities over religious matters and they don't even look for themselves. no.gif

And as if you do know what God is truly like ...gimme a break blue and do yourself a fav and go back to sleep....you just get worse as time goes on sleepy.gif There is NOT ONE SINGLE person here not even the likes of YOU knows what God is truly like so get over yourself rolleyes.gif
Azalin
QUOTE(Guardsman Bass @ May 11 2006, 11:54 PM) [snapback]1184953[/snapback]

Well, the straightforward answer is that Satan is considered evil because he leads people away from unadulterated worship of God, who is automatically defined as 'good' in Christianity in spite of the fact that he is a murderous, jealous being by human standards.Personally, Satan doesn't sound too bad; he sounds almost like the Jewish version of Prometheus.

One thing that has always mystified me about Satan as the Great Deceiver is why then the believers in such think that all he does is try to get people to commit evil, or fail in their committments, or disbelieve. A real deceiver would do them, but hide them in a mask of righteousness. Satan's people wouldn't be dirty drug dealers, small time crooks, and wacko murderers; they would be clean cut people in suits, who smile and treat you courteously.


Exactly Guardsman Bass. Looking at the world around me, thats exactly what I see. Clean cut governmental officials and society broadcasts on T.V, trying to butter up the anarchy of this world. Any news broadcast. governmental election, or presidentional announcements, it's the image you described that fools everyone.
ACfishing2
God wrote all the books
Imaginary Friend
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Beckys_Mom
QUOTE(ACfishing2 @ May 12 2006, 01:10 AM) [snapback]1184976[/snapback]

God wrote all the books

REALLY?? how do you KNOW for sure??? hmm.gif


As far as I am concerned and the same for a lot of others God didn't write ANY books...the bible was written by some guy that THOUGHT its what God would have wanted...are you trying to say that God is in fact very contradicting of himself?? Are you trying to say he is vengefull? After all its in the bible....I personally dont believe God wrote ANY of it..come on Give God some credit..he is way smarter than the bible gives him credit for
isis-999
Is he really that bad.....YES..... thumbsup.gif
scoobysnack
QUOTE(Smelly_Cryptozoologist @ May 10 2006, 05:12 PM) [snapback]1183328[/snapback]

Satan has been getting a bad rap, there si no evdence i know of stating that satan really killed anyone, for all we know he is but the lord of hell. He brang truth to adam and eve by showing them that there was a world outside (your living in a dreamworld neo) God on the other hand condemned adam and eve to mortal life, thereby commiting the first muder.

does anyone share my thoughs or am i just a sad long haired aussie looking for a nicer god?

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Sounds like you've been bathing in the light of Lucifer. He's a good liar and he hates you.

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Some New Age leaders believe that the Fall (in garden of eden) was really man's ascent into knowledge, assisted by Lucifer - whom they hail as the bringer of light and wisdom. These New Age teachers expect an imminent, apocalyptic transformation that will lead humanity into the New Age. By acts of men or by an act of "spirit," earth will be cleansed of those who refuse to evolve. In the New Age, there will be world government; the economy will be remade to Promote "sharing." Traditional morality and traditional families will disappear. Orthodox religions - especially Christianity and Judaism - are considered "separative" and "obsolete"; in the New Age, they too will vanish.

Theosophists make it clear that in the contest between God and the Devil, they side with the Devil. Blavatsky says, "It is but natural ... to view Satan, the Serpent of Genesis, as the real creator and benefactor, the Father of Spiritual mankind. For it is he who was the 'Harbinger of Light,' bright radiant Lucifer, who opened the eyes of the automaton created by Jehovah."[50] According to Alice Bailey, the revolt of the angels against God was part of "the divine plan of evolution;" the fallen angels "descended from their sinless and free state of existence in order to develop full divine awareness upon earth."[51] Spangler, like Blavatsky, praises Lucifer as "the angel of man's evolution. He is the angel of man's inner light."[52] He says that "Lucifer comes to give us the final gift of wholeness,"[53] and "as we move into a new age", "each of us in some way is brought to that point which I term the Luciferic initiation."[54] Spangler sees this as "an initiation into the New Age. It is an initiation of leaving the past and moving into the new, shedding our guilts and fears ... and becoming whole and at peace because we have recognized our inner light and ... the light of God."

Spangler says, "Christ is the perfect balance to Lucifer."[62] Like Matthew Fox, Spangler proposes to replace Jesus with the "cosmic Christ;" "any old Christ will not do, not if we need to show that we have something better than the mainstream Christian traditions. It must be a cosmic Christ, a universal Christ, a New Age Christ. ... The Christ is universal. It is cosmic.

With the New Religion, there will be spiritual totalitarianism. New Age leaders agree that the last 2,000 years - the Age of Pisces - were a time for development of individual identity and personality. According to occult thought, the Piscean Age has as its foundation the male-centered energies that characterize Christianity. The Aquarian Age, on the other hand, is an attempt to bring balance back into the evolutionary process by introducing female energies into our understanding. Those who have embraced this new-age understanding of humanity believe that all of the problems that man faces are a direct result of Christianity and its perceived male- centered belief system.

Therefore, a change in man's thinking must occur to bring about a more equal system that will allow feminine energies to govern humanity. This female-centered system will be based on intuition and experience rather than logic and rational thought, the latter being seen as male characteristics.

In the coming Age of Aquarius, this will change. People will happily let go of individualism and merge their own goals and identity into that of the whole race. As Alice Bailey said, "Selfishness, as we now understand it, will gradually disappear, for the will of the individual will voluntarily be blended into the group will."[
The New Age avatars proclaim their commitment to democracy and tolerance. However, they propose totalitarian solutions to mankind's urgent, undeniable problems. The sacrifice of freedom and the acceptance of unlimited government power will - as always - be for our own good; necessity will be the excuse of tyrants. The New Age movement uses the theory of evolution - a theory of inevitable and desirable Progress - as a justification for whatever policies are needed to drive humanity and the planet to the next great leap upward.
(Can anything good ever come from applying Darwinism to society?)

Alice Bailey and her followers at the Lucis Trust have repeatedly praised revolutions and dictatorships, approving them as part of the workings of "the Plan." She viewed the dictatorships of her time as a positive part of human evolution, fostering humanity's "power to regard himself as part of a whole.
After all, according to Walsch's incubus, Hitler was doing his victims a favor by killing them; his deeds were "mistakes," not crimes: "The mistakes Hitler made did no harm or damage to those whose deaths he caused. Those souls were released from their earthly bondage, like butterflies emerging from a cocoon.

"Birth itself is a death, and death a birth. For in birth, the soul finds itself constricted within the awful limitations of a body, and at death escapes those constrictions again." This is, almost word for word, what Alice Bailey wrote: "Birth establishes the soul in the true prison, and physical death is only the first step toward liberation."

When you see the utter perfection in everything - not just in those things with which you agree, but (and perhaps especially) those things with which you disagree - you achieve mastery." The price of "mastery" is to see "utter perfection" in Auschwitz and Treblinka. "John," the disembodied spirit which Spangler has channeled for over 20 years, likewise said, "We naturally do not identify life with the physical body, consequently, to us, the loss of your physical form is not a tragedy.... The death of millions of people in itself is not a tragedy for us, for it simply means their birth into our domains."
Walsch's "God" says that Hitler does not deserve blame for his acts - the rest of humanity is responsible for allowing them to happen: "The purpose of the Hitler Experience was to show humanity to itself."

"Blame not the personalities involved.... They are only the product of the past and the victims of the present. At the same time, they are the agents of destiny, the creators of the new order and the initiators of the new civilisation; they are the destroyers of what must be destroyed before humanity can go forward along the Lighted Way. They are the embodiment of the personality of humanity. Blame yourselves, therefore, for what is today transpiring."

Nevertheless, these radical New Age leaders believe that the two World Wars were necessary for human evolution, and that the birth pangs of the New Age began with the atomic explosions in 1945. They also advocate sending those people who are unwilling to enter the New Age into oblivion, and reducing world population to 2 billion - or less. Such is the blood lust of the "compassionate."

"Nature is less concerned about individual survival, than with the evolution of the whole to ever higher degrees of freedom, union, and consciousness of God."

From the start of World War II until her death in 1949, Alice Bailey wrote that the war was necessary for the New Age to come. She believed that the New Age would be preceded by a "destructive cycle, wherein the old order passes away" and "human civilization with its accompanying institutions - is destroyed."[202] She gives credit to the "Hierarchy" of ascended spiritual masters for "their decision, taken early in this century, which precipitated ... that major destructive agency, the world war (1914-1945). (The hierarchy is the Illuminati)

"This is a time of preparation not only for a new civilisation and culture in a new world order, but also for the coming of a new spiritual dispensation.

Humanity is not following an uncharted course. There is a divine Plan in the Cosmos of which we are a part. At the end of an age human resources and established institutions seem inadequate to meet world needs and problems. At such a time the advent of a Teacher, a spiritual leader or Avatar, is anticipated and invoked by the masses of humanity in all parts of the world.

If evil always appeared as evil, the enticement to evil works would not be as easily "sold" to an unsuspecting population. However, if the plan of Lucifer was "sold" as a plan to develop a human community by establishing unity in diversity, how much more successful could this plan become? Furthermore, if one were aspire to create globalistic unity in diversity, what strategy would serve to unify those of diverse backgrounds, religions, and cultures?

The solution to this question is really quite simple (the implementation of the solution is not so simple, but the solution itself is very simple): seek common ground among the diverse and cultivate it. Once common ground is found, build upon this common ground with a system of common values, and thus establish unity. Once common values are established, those whose values are in opposition to the majority must be changed (or else).

These are excerpts from various articles

http://www.mdep.org/NewAgeComplete.html
http://www.cuttingedge.org/news_updates/newsupdatemain.html
GIDEON MAGE
Mr. Satan is just doing his job. Read the Book of Job to fiund out what that is. He doesn't hate anyone.
Bluefinger
QUOTE(GIDEON MAGE @ May 11 2006, 09:42 PM) [snapback]1185184[/snapback]

Mr. Satan is just doing his job. Read the Book of Job to fiund out what that is. He doesn't hate anyone.


Oh, he has no job anymore, don't you know that? He lost that job when Jesus defeated sin. If you have no law to accuse anyone of, then there is no need for an accuser. What has been going on is the Satan the accuser accused God of making a mistake and being unkind and continues to this day. Satan will get his when God sets up His kingdom.
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