(January 10, 2017 at 8:14 am)Tonus Wrote:(January 9, 2017 at 7:30 pm)Godschild Wrote: Satan is at the root of all these other religions, what better deception than to provide a other belief systems that people fill better fits them than the only true God.
This is one of the things that makes it easy to defend one's own beliefs. Other beliefs that are based on what appear to be the same reasoning are attributed to people being misled by Satan, who can masquerade as an angel of light. But it means that everyone's explanation sounds exactly the same and no one can tell the difference. How can one be sure that it was really god speaking to him, and not the devil?
Satan is not necessarily involved in these religions, he help these religions along and left the nature of men to grab ahold of them. Satan is not omnipresent so he can't effect the masses by dealing with people one at a time, ie. speaking to them. Satan takes on those who can influence the most people and keep himself hidden, if people understood he was involved they would stay away from such peoples. Satan is not omniscient, he is very clever as witnessed in the Garden of Eden. Satan can and would take the lives of all the lost at any given moment if God did not limit him, we know this from the book of Job. There are few religions that recognize Satan in their religion and if they did they would have ways to deal with him. If they knew of his influence in their religions they would run from it or accept the influence and become evil in their dealings with mankind. When one hears from God they need only to line up what they heard with the teachings of the Bible and know who they have heard from. Before you suggest that Satan could do this remember that Christ said, " a house divided against itself can't stand."
GC
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.