False.
God Created Lucifer as a perfect being without evil.
God also allowed free will.
There was no justification or reason behind Lucifer's sin, if there could have been any justification for it it would not have been sin.
The Bible is the inspired record of what was told to those chosen by God to record it and it specifically says that it is this, so you can't use one part of the Bible in a circular logic chain to argue the Bible isn't accurate because you are intentionally misinterpreting it.
No I didn't say that. That is basically what the previous poster said, except in reverse…
I said you can not make such claims. Truth must be judged on its own merits, not on bs circular argument. Reread what I said.
My take, ego. As for 33%, likely a combination of no antibodies against lies and the original big lie theory. He said things that were so outrageous and consistent that some were ensnared, throw in touches of the usual things such as self aggrandizement, envy, etc, etc, etc, it's a predictable end…
He didn't violate the Sabbath, he violated extra strangling regulations the Jews had created to turn the Sabbath into an ugly terrible burden instead of what it was intended to be.
Much of the rest of what you suggest is true… except for the conclusion you draw: "If people walked in his footsteps they wouldn't need the Bible because spiritual revelation would be a part of their daily life"
That is rank nonsense. The record of Jesus and the truth's contained therein are the sword to destroy falsehood. They are the measuring stick to verify whether people who claim to have some new revelation from God are actually listening to God instead of to evil. They are for instruction, education, and give a shield, a mirror, a guide, and a potent weapon to the Christian.
Your conclusion that the Bible is not important is either very poorly informed or intentionally deceptive.
No, it's Jesus and God and the Holy Spirit, or an endless list of other options like the web of a spider that ultimately all lead the same place. And that place is not eternal life.
That's not what the Bible says, proves my point about the necessity of keeping it as a guide unless you want to kiss the devil's ring, if so, go become a Catholic.
Which is not a part of the Bible at all. But instead part of the apocrypha.
Fan fiction, for the Biblical age.
Truly? Just because someone decided writings shouldn't be spread around or included in the Bible means they are automatically true and authoritative? You drank the kool-aid didn't you?
He also gave you a conscience to tell you what is right from wrong. When you were young it was strong, you even had difficulty lying believably. But a you got older you got more and more adept at ignoring it.
Hopefully you aren't to the stage where you can pedovore without a twinge.
It makes no sense, and is insidiously sick.
It implies that God wanted evil, created it intentionally, as opposed to creating free will of which a necessary part was creating the potential for some day evil to arise, not its certainty or in any way that it was the desire of God.
Jesus quoted the Old Testament. He did not directly state that, but even if you assume that he was implying its literal as opposed to figurative veracity, the text clearly refers to adoption into the family instead of being the literal thing, it talks about the people's death that it just referred to as Gods, something a true God does not do.
The Bible is also clear in who is and who is not a God and the nature of humanity and its condition, something cherry picking one verse and twisting it does not change.
An adopted Son is a son still, and as for the quoted about it being in you it is referring to the Holy Spirit, God's presence that comes into the heart of a believer. It is not in any way implying that it is a normal part of being born human.
If you knew me you'd take it back, I am nothing.
But, the CIA was not the first to come up with the idea of spreading twisted and false stories to make it seem like the truth is a lie.
And I do like the quote that I'll paraphrase as: all evil needs to succeed is for good people to do nothing.
Ahhh yes… the insidiousness of one of the first lies told on earth. “You will not surely die."
Yeah yeah, I know I slid like I was getting paid for it… sigh, it gets under my skin. I shall attempt to to show more restraint in the future…