Would you agree then that Jesus was tempted by sin?
Sin is an "action" of the devil/satan. Jesus had no "temptation" in His Flesh or His Mind. That is why we "listen to Him." Jesus addressed the workings of the Anti-Christ spirit as APART FROM THEM and in OPEN RESISTANCE to them, NOT as a part or pacel of Himself.
Many falsely claim that Jesus had "thoughts" like you or I have thoughts who DO NOT DIVIDE or SEPARATE ourselves from iniquity when we were carnally sold UNDER that mindset of THEM. Jesus did not have "sin" in any form in Himself or in His Words.
Yes, I do know. I understand why you wouldn't want to do that. What I do not understand is why you will not allow another to have a different point of view on whether or not satan exists.
You can believe whatever you please. Not my problem. But the promotions that mankind, God or His Christ are the same as the anti-Christ will receive the Light of Division by those who know better from His Words.
Do not mistake that in these dealings, that we deal with other people. We deal with "spirits."
You see, in my point of view, the word satan is just one word in place of another for the purpose of storytelling.
I am not and will remain disinterested in other people's fairy tales about the nature or existence of the anti-Christ spirit. That working is a very real working in this present world however you try and spin it or pin it. To relegate that working to "storytelling" is very true as it pertains to LYING.
There are very certain workings that the anti-Christ spirit brings to the flesh and mind, and those workings are ACTIVATED by handling The Word. This too is Gods Working. Wherever the Word is sown, Satan comes immediately to steal.
Can it not be acceptable that I have this point of view? I do not hold the point of view that Jesus was what He was talking to. I only hold the point of view that it was not an entity.
I do not call the anti-Christ spirit "an entity." It is the power of ANTI-LIFE, which contains many OPPOSERS or OPPOSITES. One of those workings is to DENY it exists. Another is to BLAME AND ACCUSE Gods offspring, all mankind. You will see this activity of the anti-Christ spirit wherever you find "BELIEVERS."
In the church has sat the greatest hatred of our fellow man that is available. That hatred is the promotion that those whom we are to love, ALL MANKIND, are going to be fried alive forever. So you can either blame the people who hold that view or you can understand the great working of that spirit and NOT blame them. I am in the latter camp. The camp of CLEAN CUTS which divide people from that working, as God has taught me via His Words. Most will not understand the working of division, even while the resistors in them are vilely aroused when they hear this Good News to mankind and the BAD NEWS to them and their workings.
You will see this resistance OPENLY wherever the Good News comes down between these vessels and the Sword of The Lord CUTS them off and shows them as the accusers and condemners they are. I do not count that working against my fellow man, but I do know their arousals and workings quite well.
1 John:
1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God
There are many forms of "testing." One "test" is to see if anyone counts sins against our fellow man. IF they do so, they are speaking from the CONDEMNERS seat as a PAWN.
There is another testing. Those who make God or His Christ or MANKIND, Gods offspring as Satan or devils are assuredly speaking as missing the mark.
There is another test. Those who deny that there is such a power at work in this present world. These speakers speak from a position of BLINDNESS.
4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
6 We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us.
Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. 8
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
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And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
The condemners of our fellow man are aroused and infected when they hear this proclamation.
Someone who started this thread asked where all the christian universalists were? I say they remain locked in an ever greater form of resistance because they approached closer to HIS TRUTH, yet they remain awash in the condemnation of our fellow man, and they slur God and Christ as being the devil. That's where they landed. Nothing has really "changed" for them except the fanciful imaginations that have sprung up.
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