(August 29, 2013 at 6:02 am)findingdoubt Wrote: It seems to me the whole premise of a very powerful Satan who can delude you into believing a lie and you won't know it undermines the entire religious enterprise.Only if your understanding of Christianity is based on a legalistic understanding of the texts. In That one is required to walk a very thin line of righteousness. That is the only place being deceived and following that deception undermindes any version of Christianity.
Quote:The thing about being deceived by Satan is,Not true. God's law has been established.
you don't know your deceived!
Quote:How does a fundamentalist Christian know that aren't deceived and should be Jews or Muslims, or Hindu's or whatever?without the active comfirmation of god in your life, you don't just by looking on the surface.
Quote:I've been thinking about blogging on this point.If 'satan's deception' brings them closer to God then how is his deception in his benfit?
It seems that Christian demonology undermines Christianity because even if they say the evidence looks good to them they can't disprove that Satan is just deceiving them.
Quote:Just as no one could really prove that Satan is not deceiving them when apologists make the claim that they are, Christians cannot disprove that they are deceived.Again there is the matter of God's expressed will.
Quote:The witness in their spirit just might be the devil.The Pharisees that Christ condemned as blasphemeing the Holy Spirit said something similar.
Quote:So since by their religious claims there is an equal chance that their religious claims are crap their religious claims are crap!Again only if one is blind and deaf to the interaction between God and those who follow him.
The way I see it the only way your claim works is if 'the other religions' you mention also warn against satan as being a deceiver as well. For if one of them is correct then wouldn't stand to reason the god of that religion would also warn of satan?
