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God just let the war break out and go on?

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yes of course they are claims by men. Thomas Jefferson and the architects of the constitution were human. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

. The claim is that the State can not give you your rights nor can it take them away. In order for that to occur god has to come down in person and take them away. Since he is not going to do that those rights stand and as such are distinguished from man made laws. .The State can not give you rights. . The State can not give you what it has not got. The State grants privileges and withhold privileges. So it's between right and privilege. Rights are god given. Privileges are State given. that is the general idea. the meant it this way .

Claim from claim differ. The universal human right declaration is not set up like that. Without these rights being pitched as objective self evident truth they are relativistic. God doesn't have to come down to change them in order for them to be changed. We can do it . There in lies the danger .

But then you can argue what is the difference? these rights in the usa are just ideals that are aspired to but can never be achieved . then you point to diversity as compromise mechanism to achieve the maximum degree of these rights but never the rights themselves .. you state further that diversity is a middle of the road approach where the State tries to control the warfare of the individual against the state and the state against the individual and that that road shifts depending on the human condition . but see here is the thing . in American jurisprudence the emphasis is in the liberty of the individual . that's s the context within which the courts find their findings. By contrast in the UN the emphasis is in making life tolerable to the maximum degree possible which grounds the litigation on utility . but when a relationship is grounded on utility that relationship can not survive once that utility ceases to be or if any other circumstances arise that can serve that utility better.

You can actually see the difference on the ground. UN soldiers sitting safe in their compounds while civilians are being slaughtered outside. UN folks driving expensive land cruisers and SUV while people are starving on the road. And their salaries !!!! people who couldn't muster minimum wages in their countries getting thousand of dollars working for the UN. And their sun glasses and shampoo . it amuses me to watch that charade . .

That's what happens when you serve man made laws. .by contrast when a man serves Jesus he does not go to war for the sake of war or any purposes beyond war such a victory or defeat-- or even your SUV.( this bit made me laugh. Yes suv too ) He goes to war for the sheer worth of the activity , of what he is doing , which is the act of his commitment to the Christ . Such a commitment by it's very nature is not born of reason or beholden to external results but is born of faith . Its what we do when are free and what we do to be free from all our passions such as lust to hang on to our petty life's and hamburgers and shampoo and suvs and salaries .

But then you say that is but passion too. That is true . We compete in terms of the passion of the Christ and not hamburgers. Stay away from hamburgers. Too much fat and sugar clogs the brain. Dampens the firing of neuron in the brain. . Not conducive to free thinking . teh brain works actually something like photons . the law of indeterminacy is in it .it is not subject to causation. see freedom laws operate there too. that's why there is faith. that's why there is faith in the unseen.
 
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I'm having a very hard time trying to understand what you are saying. I take it that english is not your native language so no big deal. If english is your language, then I also have to say that I strongly dislike the spelling and grammar nazi's but this needs serious work.
Photon, I teach high school reading and writing. Get over yourself. Guava's ideas are mature and you need to choose to interact with them rather than letting yourself be constantly distracted by conventional impurities.

This is starting to come across as a general unwillingness to address the concerns of the nay-sayers.

p.s. For the record, I find your grammar and spelling mistakes distracting. Please learn to capitalize and use punctuation correctly. Also please be consistent -- either use contractions or don't. ;) However, this is the only time I will ever mention it -- my concern is the content of your posts, not the form in which they are presented.
 
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Hi all, new here. I'm sorry if this is not the appropriate forum for this kind of discussion but its the closest thing I could find here.

My question is this. What did God do when the War between the angels broke out? We are told that the war broke out, but God does not seem to have taken any direct action when it came to it. I can only assume that this was long before the existence of man.

From what I can tell, it seems that he just kinda stood back and let them make their own decisions. It wouldn't surprise me at all if that is what he was doing, as its what he does with us even now. Let them make their own mistakes. Anyone have any idea or thoughts on why he may have taken that stance on the war that broke out in heaven? Since it was heaven, it seems like he would have taken exception to that kind of thing going on there in that place that he dwells and that he had let them dwell. He didn't seem to put a stop to it, it sounds like he just let it go on until its conclusion.

Since he didn't act, what if it had just so happened to be that Satan won that War? What if Satan's angels just so happened to defeat Michael's angels, in whatever strange ways that angels battle? It seems like that could have very well happened. Would he have acted then, to throw Satan and his angels out? The whole situation seems very odd. Thoughts? Opinions?
What War between the Angels? I think you've been reading too much Christian mythology and Dante/Milton. Satan is an employee of God - he serves solely at God's discretion.
 
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When war broke out the angels had stepped away from God's commandments. Some TV preachers say that God never pushes you away, this is false (consider numbers 14:18ish), however, in these verses God promises to push someone away 3 or 4 "steps", but pull them close 1000 "steps" (deut 7:9) for every "step" they take. A step can be simply recognizing God's existence. God responds to your actions on a basis of seed and harvest, the reason He made people is because angels were proof that if He made a being that He would keep in His presence from the beginning there would still be those who chose to sow the wrong seed. Now He's created a being who's given choice from the start to receive His guidance, thus proving by their choices if they want to seek the light or not. It's not done because He doesn't know what will happen, but for our sake as a sort of legal system so that no one can dare question His judgement afterwards. In the end everyone receives what they wanted: to be with God or separated from Him. Today the great lie still complains that he was cast out for one trespass, but the newcomers are forgiven multitudes of sins.
 
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War broke out in heaven after the male child (Jesus Christ) was snatched up to God and his throne. (Revelation 12:5) It appears as though Satan was directly behind the assassination attempt on Jesus when he was a baby. This was when King Herod decreed that all the male children aged 2 and under were to be killed. But when the Devil failed, and Jesus eventually fulfilled his mission on earth and was taken up to heaven, the Devil once again attempted to usurp his authority as king. So war broke out in heaven, but the Devil and his angels did not prevail, so they were cast out of heaven.

This war could not have taken place before the creation of man, because Satan was still allowed in heaven long after the fall of man. (Job 1:6) So, according to the scriptures in Revelation chapter 12, the war in heaven apparently took place sometime after Jesus was resurrected and ascended to heaven.

It seems to me that even though Jesus proved he was worthy to rule as king in the Kingdom of the Heavens, Satan decided to declare war as a last desperate attempt to become king, since he had failed at killing Jesus when he was a baby, and he failed at his attempts to tempt Jesus into sinning. He was unable to stop Jesus from becoming the promised king of the kingdom, so his final act of defiance was a desperate one: declare all out war in heaven.
 
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What War between the Angels? I think you've been reading too much Christian mythology and Dante/Milton. Satan is an employee of God - he serves solely at God's discretion.
Revelations 7:5-12
7 And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought, 8 but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer. 9 So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

10 Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, “Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down. 11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death. 12 Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time.”​
 
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Daydreamgurl made a very relevant post.

I respect the quotation she put up and hope that helps you.

God has the power to destroy the Devil at any time He so desires, and as it was written, "he has a short time."
 
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reading too much Christian mythology and Dante/Milton.

*murmurs*

But that isn't possible....





Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit
Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste
Brought death into the World, and all our woe,
With loss of Eden, till one greater Man
Restore us, and regain the blissful seat,
Sing, Heavenly Muse, that, on the secret top
Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire
That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed
In the beginning how the heavens and earth
Rose out of Chaos: or, if Sion hill
Delight thee more, and Siloa's brook that flowed
Fast by the oracle of God, I thence
Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song....
 
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Col. 1:16
For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him.

Like most, I've pondered this to almost maddness. If God is all knowing and all powerful, we can assume that he is always in control. We may not understand many of the things that happen in between. If God is who he claims, then he knew every act, thought and deed that Satan would partake of. He could have easily changed that.

The only clear answer I see is God designed Satan for his purpose. Think about it, when Satan fell, God could've destroyed him, he did not. He could've at least taken his great power away...he did not. So what did God do, he gave Satan dominion over the earth, the same earth where he placed man. God also placed a tree of knowledge in the garden that Adam and Eve refused, until who showed up. It looks like the perfect setup. I think we must accept that Satan was created by God as a tool in his process of bringing knowledge in the world.

Who knows how literal Gens. is, but regardless if the story is true, somehow man developed knowledge to do both good and evil. Man had freewill to choose before the fall, they had to choose to eat it before they did.

I don't think good and evil is a process in God's world as we view it in ours.
He set these two themes at odds with knowledge and gave us the freewill to make a choice. The knowledge itself isn't evil, what we choose to do with it can be.

Man has this need to seperate God from evil. I don't see God evil here, I see him bringing forth knowledge to his creation. Most have God reacting to Satan, not the other way around.

The hard thing is how fate seems to abound in evil, when you see a million children starving in a 3rd world nation, we ask how could a loving God allow this.....it's beyond our understanding and very difficult to those that deal with pain or suffering to understand.
 
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Hi all, new here. I'm sorry if this is not the appropriate forum for this kind of discussion but its the closest thing I could find here.

My question is this. What did God do when the War between the angels broke out? We are told that the war broke out, but God does not seem to have taken any direct action when it came to it. I can only assume that this was long before the existence of man.

From what I can tell, it seems that he just kinda stood back and let them make their own decisions. It wouldn't surprise me at all if that is what he was doing, as its what he does with us even now. Let them make their own mistakes. Anyone have any idea or thoughts on why he may have taken that stance on the war that broke out in heaven? Since it was heaven, it seems like he would have taken exception to that kind of thing going on there in that place that he dwells and that he had let them dwell. He didn't seem to put a stop to it, it sounds like he just let it go on until its conclusion.

Since he didn't act, what if it had just so happened to be that Satan won that War? What if Satan's angels just so happened to defeat Michael's angels, in whatever strange ways that angels battle? It seems like that could have very well happened. Would he have acted then, to throw Satan and his angels out? The whole situation seems very odd. Thoughts? Opinions?

Have you ever considered that Michael the Archangel is really Jesus Christ, just taking on the role of the leader of the angels into battle. Sometimes you can play a role of something without naturally being it. I mean, you can play the role of a plumber if you know how to fix the pipe without actually being a plumber. Jesus is not an angel, but can't he be the Arch (Leader) of the angels. It would be strange to have angels that belong to Michael if Michael is just another angel like the rest of them.
 
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Col. 1:16
For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him.

Like most, I've pondered this to almost maddness. If God is all knowing and all powerful, we can assume that he is always in control. We may not understand many of the things that happen in between. If God is who he claims, then he knew every act, thought and deed that Satan would partake of. He could have easily changed that.

The only clear answer I see is God designed Satan for his purpose. Think about it, when Satan fell, God could've destroyed him, he did not. He could've at least taken his great power away...he did not. So what did God do, he gave Satan dominion over the earth, the same earth where he placed man. God also placed a tree of knowledge in the garden that Adam and Eve refused, until who showed up. It looks like the perfect setup. I think we must accept that Satan was created by God as a tool in his process of bringing knowledge in the world.

Who knows how literal Gens. is, but regardless if the story is true, somehow man developed knowledge to do both good and evil. Man had freewill to choose before the fall, they had to choose to eat it before they did.

I don't think good and evil is a process in God's world as we view it in ours.
He set these two themes at odds with knowledge and gave us the freewill to make a choice. The knowledge itself isn't evil, what we choose to do with it can be.

Man has this need to seperate God from evil. I don't see God evil here, I see him bringing forth knowledge to his creation. Most have God reacting to Satan, not the other way around.

The hard thing is how fate seems to abound in evil, when you see a million children starving in a 3rd world nation, we ask how could a loving God allow this.....it's beyond our understanding and very difficult to those that deal with pain or suffering to understand.

God designed satan, angels, Judas and everything else for a purpose. If this is the case then how can God punish anyone or anything for doing what they were supposed too? Also, how can we judge God ands call Him righteous without having the ability to judge God as being evil? You can't have it both ways, either we have the ability to judge God morally or we don't have the ability to judge at all, hence we could be following anything.
 
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OK, let's make this simpler. God got a handful of mud one day, and put His Spirit into it. Then He showed Satan that eventually that pile of mud will be holier than him. That's when Satan lost it. Sin was born in his heart because he dishonored God's Spirit, which is pretty much God; that's also the root of all sin - grieving God's Spirit.

On the cross Christ became sin, He received ALL of Satan's desire and the Holy Spirit had to leave His body. Satan dragged Jesus down to hell for 3 days (Paul refers to it as the dungeon), he thought he'd have a buddy to destroy God's works with. What he didn't count on is that Christ so loved the Father and all of us is that He didn't sin even when He became Satan's desire. Hell had to spit Him out after 3 days because He would've wrecked it, thus proving that He is God (hell is separation from God) and that God's Spirit can make even a handful of mud divine.

That's why God isn't interested in anyone who won't follow His Spirit and tries to earn righteousness with service.
 
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