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But why would Satan prefer to have the truth plainly visible to all humans and then try to distort it rather than simply obscuring the truth entirely so that no one can possibly know? There is no way the father of lies would prefer to have the truth plainly visible to all.
Ok, I have some time to respond. However, you brought up a lot of good points. Rather than trying to tackle them all at once I think it would be better to break it apart and tackle the parts one at a time.
The answer to this is that Satan does not want to hide the truth. He wants to distort it. His ultimate goal is not to cause people to die in hell (although that is part of his motivation), he wants to dethrone God and take all the worship for himself.
12 How you have fallen from heaven,
morning star, son of the dawn!
You have been cast down to the earth,
you who once laid low the nations!
13 You said in your heart,
“I will ascend to the heavens;
I will raise my throne
above the stars of God;
I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly,
on the utmost heights of Mount Zaphon.
14 I will ascend above the tops of the clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High.”
15 But you are brought down to the realm of the dead,
to the depths of the pit.
You see, he wants to distort the scripture in order to direct the worship to himself.
You have asked a question and at least eight people have tried to answer the question. Out of the answers given, all are “wrong”,
why don’t you just enlighten all of the people that have attempted to answer your question with the “correct” answer?
OK, Thank You. Now I understand what you were trying to show. I actually agree with that as well.
When the choice is “people make mistakes” or “the Boogey man”, I go for the obvious.
I don’t think it is about Obama either, but here we are.
You are an atheist, why does it bother you that people believe in an imaginary sky god that that has ultimate power but can’t protect his sayings from being corrupted?
I agree with your "premise 4". When reading Job, and also the New Testament, I see that Satan is limited by God's permission. So, if God doesn't want Satan corrupting our Bibles then He won't let him do it.1. Men accidentally corrupted the Bible despite trying not to (example: compare the list in Ezra 2 with the list in Nehemiah 7)
2. Satan is more intelligent and more powerful than any man
3. Satan is motivated to corrupt the Bible
4. ???
5. Satan cannot even corrupt the Bible to the same degree that man has
If you admit that Satan actually has corrupted the Bible, then boy are you in trouble. So premise 4 must be, "God manually prevents Satan from corrupting the Bible."
But then why doesn't God also manually prevent scribes from corrupting the Bible, especially if we can agree that they are probably praying for such divine intervention (John 14:13)? This would not be a vulgar miracle, nor would it be the overriding of free will. I know that some Bibles will be corrupted by man - I could easily type one up myself and change some things - but why has God allowed the corruption of the text to get so bad that there is not a single perfect copy on earth? And how does this reconcile with Psalms 12:6-7?
Now this is where knowing the spirit is more important than the letter. Many scholars, including myself, understand that Babylon is an alegory to describe the "world". Particularly anything that is "worldly" or not "heavenly". Satan is the ruler of anything that is not from God and thus making him the ruler of all that is "worldly". In this scripture, the letter literally is talking about the King of Babylon but the spirit is describing Satan who is the "King of all that is worldly".You are taking Isaiah 14 out of context. Back up to verse 4 and you clearly see that it is addressing the king of Babylon, whom the Jews hated.
Therefore I reject this claim:
The answer to this is that Satan does not want to hide the truth. He wants to distort it. His ultimate goal is not to cause people to die in hell (although that is part of his motivation), he wants to dethrone God and take all the worship for himself.
You are right. I am going to get to that. But let's take baby steps.I agree with your "premise 4". When reading Job, and also the New Testament, I see that Satan is limited by God's permission. So, if God doesn't want Satan corrupting our Bibles then He won't let him do it.