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That is a good answer to the question, is God more powerful than satan, that has never been a question. The question is, does satan still exist and is he still the prince of this world, the answer to that question is yes and clearly he is not eliminated until after the return of Jesus.If we, instead, aim to find out more about God, we will discover that His powers render those of "satan" null and void.
This is only important to those who do not have Christ. For Christ has overcome the world. No one with Christ is concerned with another ruler or adversary......for they know that "greater is He that is in Me, than he that is in the world."That is a good answer to the question, is God more powerful than satan, that has never been a question. The question is, does satan still exist and is he still the prince of this world, the answer to that question is yes and clearly he is not eliminated until after the return of Jesus.
God and Satan speaks to us in our mind consciousness and sub-conscious the thing is do you listen or you don't do you fall or you stay up theres a reason God says stay sober-minded so we wouldnt fall in temptationMost American Christians Do Not Believe that Satan or the Holy Spirit Exist - Barna Group
Do you think that Satan communicates with you? I think it is just ourselves. I think we are made up of multiple agents.... see this video about a split brain patient:
I think that agrees with the idea of us having different sources of thoughts like heart, soul, gut, spirit, sinful self, etc.
At 1:40 one brain hemisphere of a split brain patient says they believe in God while the other hemisphere says they don't. So perhaps one hemisphere would go to heaven while the other goes to hell....
A related thing is that it seems Judas was possessed by Satan twice....
In Luke 22:3 it was before the last supper. In John 13:27 it was as soon as Judas took the bread.
satan is also served by those who deny him because he is then free to do his deeds without detection.This is only important to those who do not have Christ. For Christ has overcome the world. No one with Christ is concerned with another ruler or adversary......for they know that "greater is He that is in Me, than he that is in the world."
I would assume that the preaching of the existence of satan, and the exclamation of the importance of belief in him, would be important in the churches of satan.....or gatherings in which he is worshiped.
I do my best to study serving God.....So I have no expertise in how to best serve Satan. If you have experience in the serving or worship of Satan, please proceed in warning us on how to avoid doing the same......I would, however, stop short of teaching ways to serve satan......for I believe this site is dedicated to the opposite.satan is also served by those who deny him because he is then free to do his deeds without detection.
I will simply accept the fact that you failed to understand my post and I will Ignore your inference.I do my best to study serving God.....So I have no expertise in how to best serve Satan. If you have experience in the serving or worship of Satan, please proceed in warning us on how to avoid doing the same......I would, however, stop short of teaching ways to serve satan......for I believe this site is dedicated to the opposite.
And when you die, you just go into the darkness, of nothing?No satan,
No angels,
No demons,
No god,
No heaven
People are responsible for their own actions, their own thoughts. It's all us.
DO you ever remember having no consciousness, e.g. not existing? If not, how are you so sure that you will be able to experience something that you have never experienced before?Your brain ceases to function so consciousness is lost. Your body immediately starts to decay
Most American Christians Do Not Believe that Satan or the Holy Spirit Exist - Barna Group
Do you think that Satan communicates with you? I think it is just ourselves. I think we are made up of multiple agents.... see this video about a split brain patient:
I think that agrees with the idea of us having different sources of thoughts like heart, soul, gut, spirit, sinful self, etc.
At 1:40 one brain hemisphere of a split brain patient says they believe in God while the other hemisphere says they don't. So perhaps one hemisphere would go to heaven while the other goes to hell....
A related thing is that it seems Judas was possessed by Satan twice....
In Luke 22:3 it was before the last supper. In John 13:27 it was as soon as Judas took the bread.
???DO you every remember having no consciousness, e.g. not existing? If not, how are you so sure that you will be able to experience something that you have never experienced before?
You've suggested no experience at all...which is the point. Us religious folk, talk about experiencing heaven, when we have never experienced it before..... And now you are talking about experiencing Nothingness, when you have admitted to never experiencing it before.???
What experience have I suggested? I don't consider the time after death has occurred to be a conscious experience. I won't be aware that my body is rotting. There will no longer be a me.
nothingness isn't an experience.You've suggested no experience at all...which is the point. Us religious folk, talk about experiencing heaven, when we have never experienced it before..... And now you are talking about experiencing Nothingness, when you have admitted to never experiencing it before.
What makes you lean more towards your inexperience, than ours?
Your body is it's own entity and does not need your consciousness to go on. Of course you can insert your will every now and then, and make it stop breathing for close to a minute or control your own breathing at will........ But when you stop paying attention to your breathing.....your body takes over and breathes on it's own.... Thankfully, the body does allow us to similarly control the heart beat.....That is above our pay grade. The only thing the body needs from us.....is the knowledge that we plan to return to it....it will keep functioning until this is no longer the case....otherwise, you will need machines to keep it going...in normal situations.nothingness isn't an experience.
It is lack of an experience.
I fail to understand how consciousness and experiences can continue once the brain shuts down and starts to decay
Of course. When you sleep or are knocked unconscious, your body stays breathing and heart stays beating.Your body is it's own entity and does not need your consciousness to go on.
Yip, your brain has the capability to control your body, that is a well established fact.Of course you can insert your will every now and then, and make it stop breathing for close to a minute or control your own breathing at will........
You need signals from the brain to keep the lungs breathing.But when you stop paying attention to your breathing.....your body takes over and breathes on it's own....
For brain dead people, the heart continues to beat for a while.Thankfully, the body does allow us to similarly control the heart beat.....That is above our pay grade.
This is pseudoscience nonsense.The only thing the body needs from us.....is the knowledge that we plan to return to it....it will keep functioning until this is no longer the case....otherwise, you will need machines to keep it going...in normal situations.
Huh?If you want your mind blown....Think about how you felt looking in the mirror 10, 20 years ago....and how you felt looking in it today.... If you think carefully, you will notice that the one looking 20 years ago is exactly the same one looking today.......Yet the image in the mirror changed.......and YOU noticed the change even though YOU did not change at all!
I'm absolutely sure that I can die. I don't want to test this yet though. But for now, I'm careful around electrical equipment and when swimming and I wear a seatbelt when in the car.So who is it that is looking at your body in the mirror and noticing how much it has change? That is YOU....and YOU, my friend, cannot die.
This is pseudoscience nonsense.
The mind hasn't left the body, the body has no knowledge if a mind is going to ever return or not.
Huh?
I am forever changing. My physical makeup affects my personality. I am a very different person now than what I was 10-20 years ago.
I'm absolutely sure that I can die. I don't want to test this yet though. But for now, I'm careful around electrical equipment and when swimming and I wear a seatbelt when in the car.
I am the combination of my mind's running state and my body (including memories stored in my brain). There is nothing extra to that. Shut down my brain and there is no running state of the mind, just a body. Remove the body (including the brain) and there is no mind.I am not talking about the mind, I am talking about YOU. The one who seeing the memories left in the mind. The One who chooses to read information that the mind retains.
In a painfully simplistic way the "I" is me. If you were able to have a cloning machine that could duplicate exactly my physical state, then there would be two "I's". we would diverge from that moment on, but both of us would equally claim to be the same person and the person from 10 years ago. We would both consider ourselves to be the original and not the clone.This is incorrect.....You are the one who notices the changes of the body and mind..... If you look carefully you will notice that you can read a book twice....the 1st time you know not what is coming on the next page......but the second time, you know what is coming.....because your body stored it in memory.......So your body/mind changed......but the person looking at the words is exactly the same both times.
I am the combination of my mind's running state and my body (including memories stored in my brain). There is nothing extra to that. Shut down my brain and there is no running state of the mind, just a body. Remove the body (including the brain) and there is no mind.
In both circumstances there is no "me" left.
In a painfully simplistic way the "I" is me. If you were able to have a cloning machine that could duplicate exactly my physical state, then there would be two "I's". we would diverge from that moment on, but both of us would equally claim to be the same person and the person from 10 years ago. We would both consider ourselves to be the original and not the clone.
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