(March 19, 2015 at 2:11 pm)professor Wrote: Satan never fails to twist what is written, as Jesus stated "A kingdom divided will not stand".
The devil is always against the Word, otherwise he would defeat himself. Thus every cult based on a "New revelation" is a lie.
So I take your non-prayer and non-scriptural answer as to mean you follow any shepherd that seems on the surface to be going in the direction you've picked?
God's kingdom was divided by the departure of Satan and his bad angels, so did god's house fall?
As for the devil being against the word, assuming your story to be coherent, Satan knew god and jesus personally and knows the words of god and jesus more perfectly than any man ever could. Why isn't he convinced? Surely he knows his own doom when he must even abdicate a possessed man in Galilee at the mere vocal command of jesus, so why isn't he repenting and falling at jesus' feet?
Advertising exec's at Madison Avenue are so slick at manipulating people's wants they make billions of dollars convincing people to buy things they don't need. They are sly and crafty, but according to the bible, Satan is infinitely more crafty than the best of them. How is it that his craftiness doesn't violate our fair free will that we are judged upon, especially the less intelligent among us? You may be a smart man and you know the difference between a "good" prophet and a "bad" prophet. Surely you've met simpler minded people amongst the pews of the churches you've visited. Is it fair for them to be more at risk of hell-fire because they can't ask a definitive source to tell them whether a prophet is false or not? Remember, a prophet could tell tell the simple minded the interpretations of the scripture verses to mean the wrong things, as the bible is much too complicated for simple minded alone, so why doesn't god have a prayer verification tool to help all the people who aren't the scripture savvy Professor?.
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