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RE: Why do christians think god communicates with warm fuzzy feelings instead of direct verbal speach?
December 2, 2012 at 11:07 pm (This post was last modified: December 2, 2012 at 11:07 pm by Drich.)
(December 2, 2012 at 4:51 pm)Darkstar Wrote: Yeah, so atheists aren't being decieved by Satan, as some people actually claim.
Honestly i don't know. Deception is apart of the deceivers job description. But to say satan personally deceived me and that is why I'm an atheist, doesn't line itself up with the biblical model. Although I do see some common threads or beliefs that most of you share.
Quote:Yeah, so...you just said the evil was us, and now you admit he is trying to manipulate us.
Evil is a desision we make. I did not say we could not be influenced. Again I use the examples of Adam and Eve and Job. As both were directly tempted by satan himself.
Quote:Where did you come to that conclusion!?! You do realize that he takes over the world in Revelation, right?
Luke 10:
18 And He said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. 19 Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you. 20 Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather[f] rejoice because your names are written in heaven.”
Revelation 12:9
9 The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
Revelation 13:1-8
The dragon stood on the shore of the sea. And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on its horns, and on each head a blasphemous name. 2 The beast I saw resembled a leopard, but had feet like those of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion. The dragon gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority. 3 One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed. The whole world was filled with wonder and followed the beast. 4 People worshiped the dragon because he had given authority to the beast, and they also worshiped the beast and asked, “Who is like the beast? Who can wage war against it?”
5 The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise its authority for forty-two months. 6 It opened its mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander his name and his dwelling place and those who live in heaven. 7 It was given power to wage war against God’s holy people and to conquer them. And it was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation. 8 All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written in the Lamb’s book of life, the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world.
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Now ask yourself why if He has this power has he waited so long to use it?
