This Person Called Satan
By Sondra Treadway (Struggling with this paper fellow believers - I have not turned in yet.... input would be appreciated) I have always believed in a literal supernatural being...yet....as I said "struggling - do assist please"
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This paper has been written from much sought out prayer and counsel. It took many hours of study and I pray that at the end of this paper the reader can come to a sound biblical conclusion as to who this person Satan is as well as his angels.
THE SOURCE OF POWER
I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me. [6] That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else. [7] I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. Isaiah 45:5-7
For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem. Micah 2:11
Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? Shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it? Amos 3:6
For he (YHVH) maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole. Job 5:18
We find in Deut 32:16-24 that Israel chose to believe in God but also believed there were other powers acting in their lives. They sacrificed to these other powers called devils which so angered God that He cast them off from being His people. Would we be behaving precisely as Israel if we were to also accept the existence of other powers separate from God?
Hear what the apostle Paul tells the Corinthians in his letter to them regarding fellowship with those that sacrifice to devils. Please note that Paul uses the words devils and idols interchangeably.
But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. I Cor. 10:20
But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that showed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth is the Lords, and the fullness thereof: I Cor. 10:28
Ponder this: As there is only one God who has the only source of power, would it not follow that devils have no real power at all and that they are nothing? Paul tells us that devils/idols are nothing.
As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one. [5] for though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many.) [6] But to us there is but one God I Cor. 8:4-6
In the seventeenth chapter of Acts, we find further proof of the belief that devils are idols/gods. In Thessalonica they had not heard of Jesus and his resurrection. The people thought Paul was babbling on about a new god. Paul taught them that God is the only source of power and that He is not present in their devils their idols.
By Sondra Treadway (Struggling with this paper fellow believers - I have not turned in yet.... input would be appreciated) I have always believed in a literal supernatural being...yet....as I said "struggling - do assist please"
*****
This paper has been written from much sought out prayer and counsel. It took many hours of study and I pray that at the end of this paper the reader can come to a sound biblical conclusion as to who this person Satan is as well as his angels.
THE SOURCE OF POWER
I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me. [6] That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else. [7] I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. Isaiah 45:5-7
For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem. Micah 2:11
Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? Shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it? Amos 3:6
For he (YHVH) maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole. Job 5:18
We find in Deut 32:16-24 that Israel chose to believe in God but also believed there were other powers acting in their lives. They sacrificed to these other powers called devils which so angered God that He cast them off from being His people. Would we be behaving precisely as Israel if we were to also accept the existence of other powers separate from God?
Hear what the apostle Paul tells the Corinthians in his letter to them regarding fellowship with those that sacrifice to devils. Please note that Paul uses the words devils and idols interchangeably.
But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. I Cor. 10:20
But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that showed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth is the Lords, and the fullness thereof: I Cor. 10:28
Ponder this: As there is only one God who has the only source of power, would it not follow that devils have no real power at all and that they are nothing? Paul tells us that devils/idols are nothing.
As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one. [5] for though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many.) [6] But to us there is but one God I Cor. 8:4-6
In the seventeenth chapter of Acts, we find further proof of the belief that devils are idols/gods. In Thessalonica they had not heard of Jesus and his resurrection. The people thought Paul was babbling on about a new god. Paul taught them that God is the only source of power and that He is not present in their devils their idols.