RE: urge to pray - advice/help
February 13, 2012 at 10:51 am
(This post was last modified: February 13, 2012 at 10:58 am by brotherlylove.)
(February 13, 2012 at 10:01 am)Epimethean Wrote: BL, you are a very deluded fellow. Many here have been pointing out the utter fail of your satan premise, and have, in fact, turned it on you as a perfect foil. You have nothing going here. I can't even give you the strength of your convictions, because they are ludicrous.
If you want to use the "satan foil", it needs to be logically coherent, and it isn't. If you say Satan is the greatest possible deceiver, then he could never do anything which would limit his ability to deceive. The greatest possibility of deception in every possible world is to be completely unknown. If he revealed himself in any way, he would no longer be the greatest possible deceiver and thus the "satan foil" is incoherent.
The concept of Satan has explanatory power, and describes why there is a such a vast variety of supernatural experiences and seeming confirmations of other gods, but only one true God. Thus, that there are authentic experiences that come from God, and authentic experiences that do not come from God. Regardless of what you believe, it answers the objection of people having genuine experiences of other gods and beings.
Psalm 19:1-2
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
