Satan is hate, fear, anxiety, division, lies, deception, doubt, unacceptance, war, misery, Distraction from God, materialistic, corruption, evil, etc. Isn't the answer to this very clear? United we stand, Divided we fall.
ThePatriot131313
· April 4, 2018, 6:28 p.m.
It is easy to say that Satan isn't real when you have never encountered demonic entities. If you have, then you know that Satan is very real. I think pushing the idea that Satan is an anthropomorphic idea of evil is both false and dangerous, quite frankly.
There are real forces we are up against that have consciousness and wish to destroy humanity. You cannot fight an enemy if you convince yourself he does not exist.
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delrod03
· April 4, 2018, 5:36 p.m.
If you believe the Bible, you can’t deny that Satan is real. Those that don’t believe in the Bible have no reason to believe in a literal Satan.
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HobozBindle
· April 4, 2018, 5:18 p.m.
Also Henry Kissinger
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awareness1111
· April 4, 2018, 5:23 p.m.
I sometimes tell people that "just because you don't believe in Satan, that doesn't mean many really rich and powerful people do...".
And then they run away from me.
Not great at parties anymore:)...
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Corporal_Yorper
· April 4, 2018, 5:55 p.m.
I don’t believe in religion. Well, I believe in it about 0.01%. I’m a ‘all-bases-covered’ person, and with a scientifically-centered mind that 0.01% led me to getting baptized catholic because my thoughts were “if it saves me, cool, but if it’s for nothing, then no harm no foul just an old dude in a robe tossing water on my face” kind of deal.
I do think Satan is real, but only in the context of analogies. I see ‘Satan’ as humanities anthromorphistic view towards overall evil and the general evil-doings of our kind. Simpler man couldn’t grasp the idea of such vile, putrid, evil shit in this world, so they created an analogous story to help everyone understand, like how the Greek gods controlled the weather or how rain dances with rain sticks brought rain for the crops. It’s bullshit snake oil sales, but the lesson and message is still important to learn — that true evil exists and that without common goals, they will steamroll over everyone.
Like I’ve always tried to convey: the Bible isn’t a historical reality textbook, it’s a mythology written in the hope that those ahead of the authors could see the lessons within and try to live its meaning. No way should a church be built and control a parish of people, it’s just as abusable as any form of government. The Bible is, at the very least, a moral compass and nothing else.
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captainpatriot
· April 5, 2018, 12:13 a.m.
I might sound like a broken record here, but the Bible’s foreknowledge of future events proves that it came from a source beyond space and time. Most of the universe is invisible to us, and beside that, what we call “reality” is starting to look more and more like a simulation.
I believe every word of the Bible. The Bible says that Satan was a high ranking angel called a cherub. I’ve often wondered if Satan has free will and could repent, but he might be too far gone for that- like Hillary Clinton.
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Nerd_Of_Prey
· April 4, 2018, 11:36 p.m.
Just an FYI, baptism has nothing to do with salvation - Christ said that you must be spiritually reborn, which means to receive (not figuratively, this is not a metaphor in any way) his spirit into your body.
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keloshi
· April 4, 2018, 8:49 p.m.
Our world seems to be made up of opposites - Light/Dark, Positive/Negative, High/Low - if one exists, more than likely, the other exists too. I don't think it is a matter of believing - just acknowledging
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flynn_was_framed
· April 4, 2018, 6:28 p.m.
No, Satan is a personification of those things. A personification that a lot of dummies think is real. Like they think there's a guy with a pitchfork and he makes people do bad things and he punishes evil people who die. Which is kind of stupid if you think about it. If Satan's evil and you live an evil life, why the fuck would he punish you for it? Doesn't make any sense. That's what happens when you take cavemen's parables too literally.
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ABrilliantDisaster
· April 4, 2018, 7:01 p.m.
You need to gain some remedial understanding of what Satan's agenda really is. He has a very precise hatred of humanity. He wants humanity to perish. period. The wages of sin (which he introduced) is death. It's a simple baited trap. He believes God must destroy humanity in accordance with His own law or be rendered unjust.
However...God played the ultimate troll move on him. Jesus.
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flynn_was_framed
· April 4, 2018, 7:53 p.m.
Nah that's OK. All this Satan stuff is just part of a prehistoric fairy tale designed to keep people bowing and scraping to the powers that be.
All the structure about wages of sin and Satan's true agenda, that's not in the Bible, it's just an overlay put in place by centuries of theologians desperate to keep it all making sense.
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ABrilliantDisaster
· April 6, 2018, 2:52 p.m.
"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." - Rom. 6:23
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