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God vs Satan

The Liturgist

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That isn't how repentance works.

-CryptoLutheran

Indeed. The New Testament, in the original Greek, uses the word “metanoia” for repentance, which literally means to “change your mind.”
 
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Your understanding tells you that God - perfect light and perfect love - created the evil that he hates. How is that possible?

I never said that God hates, I only quoted this verse.

King James Bible
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
 
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Indeed. The New Testament, in the original Greek, uses the word “metanoia” for repentance, which literally means to “change your mind.”

I shall never change my mind when it comes to the earth.
 
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I never said that God hates,
1 Corinthians 13:6 says that love does not delight in evil.
God does not delight - or rejoice in - evil and all through the OT we can see that he punishes evil. I think it's safe to say that he hates it.

Besides, In Genesis 1, God said that all his creation was very good, Gen 1:31. He wouldn't have said that if he had created evil and does not delight in it.
 
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I shall never change my mind when it comes to the earth.

Is it possible for human beings to observe objectively true things with their senses?

This isn't a mere philosophical question, but is also deeply theological. The Christian religion maintains that the material creation is good, real, and knowable.

-CryptoLutheran
 
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I shall never change my mind when it comes to the earth.

No, but you could change your mind about believing in a Flat Earth model that makes every astronaut, scientist and NASA administrator out to be a liar, when there are alternative models of the Flat Earth which do not require this. Because that’s the main problem from a Christian perspective with most Flat Earthers, that is, accusing people of intentional dishonesty when it is not even necessary to do so (since there are interpretations of a flat Earth that do not require a denial of the factual missions to outer space we have engaged in, or ignoring the existence of those flights which link the Southern Continents together.

Indeed one such interpretation, the Holographic Universe idea, is even being studied by mainstream science, and represents a maximally flat Earth (since it describes the universe with two real spacial dimensions and a third virtual dimension, like a hologram).
 
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Besides, In Genesis 1, God said that all his creation was very good, Gen 1:31. He wouldn't have said that if he had created evil and does not delight in it.

I'm only quoting scripture.
 
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Indeed one such interpretation, the Holographic Universe idea, is even being studied by mainstream science, and represents a maximally flat Earth (since it describes the universe with two real spacial dimensions and a third virtual dimension, like a hologram).

Thanks Liturgist, I will look into this. :thumbsup:
 
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Satan has always counterfeited God's creation even Humans.

Here are just a few examples of what God has made & Satan has counterfeited.

God - An unmovable earth
Satan- A movable earth.

God - All plants & trees.
Satan - Plastic Artificial types.

God - Silk, Cotton
Satan - Satin, Nylon

God - Gold
Satan - metal the look like gold

God - Diamonds
Satan - Zirconium

God - Meat
Satan - Lab Grown

Can you come up with anymore ?
Now I know you're taking the... mickie.
 
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The enemy has had thousands of years to deceive, and has succeeded over most of the world.

Satan’s schemes to destroy us and do us harm are built around stealth and deception but as Paul writes to the Corinthians "we are not ignorant of his schemes." (2 Corinthians 2:11+) In 2 Corinthians 2:11+ the word schemes is not methodeia but noema [from nous = mind] and refers to the content of thinking and reasoning.


Like the title of this thread, the deception is God vs Satan. The truth is, Satan wants to be god.

The Antichrist may even be a cloned version of Jesus himself
 
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The enemy has had thousands of years to deceive, and has succeeded over most of the world.

Satan’s schemes to destroy us and do us harm are built around stealth and deception but as Paul writes to the Corinthians "we are not ignorant of his schemes."
Paul wrote that to Christians.
The devil's first trick is to convince people that there is no devil - that the cartoon image of a little man in red tights carrying a pitchfork is a myth. Then people will laugh off the occult, think that horoscopes and fortune-telling are just "harmless fun" and blame God for evil; saying that he wanted and created it.
The Antichrist may even be a cloned version of Jesus himself.
You seem to have a thing about people being cloned.
Is there evidence that any human has been cloned; never mind Kamala Harris, Biden and other people that have been mentioned?
 
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Is there evidence that any human has been cloned; never mind Kamala Harris, Biden and other people that have been mentioned?

Lol'z - No there's no evidence, well not yet.

Paul wrote that to Christians.
The devil's first trick is to convince people that there is no devil

To believe in God & the scriptures one must believe in Satan & his devious works also.

Then people will laugh off the occult, think that horoscopes and fortune-telling are just "harmless fun" and blame God for evil; saying that he wanted and created it.

Very true, but God did create evil as it says in the Bible. There is nothing that exists that God hasn't created.
 
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Lol'z - No there's no evidence, well not yet.
Exactly.
So why are you writing posts on the Conspiracy theories forum like "do you think he's been cloned?"
To believe in God & the scriptures one must believe in Satan & his devious works also.
I was talking about non-Christians. The devil tries to convince non-Christians that there is no such thing as the devil, and that all evil, and disasters, are God's fault.
Very true, but God did create evil as it says in the Bible. There is nothing that exists that God hasn't created.
Well then, you need to explain my previous verses.
God is light, God is perfect, God is love - love does not rejoice in evil.
Besides that, God punishes those who do evil. If he created it, he would be punishing those who practised something that he had made.

Evil wasn't created; it came about because men decided to reject God, his will and his commands.
The devil is the source of evil.
 
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Exactly.
So why are you writing posts on the Conspiracy theories forum like "do you think he's been cloned?"

Because it is a possibility.

Evil wasn't created; it came about because men decided to reject God, his will and his commands.

Then why does it say that God did create it, in the Bible ?

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I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. Isaiah 45:7
 
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Because it is a possibility.
Yet when I asked you if there was any evidence you said "Lolz - no there isn't any."
So how is it a possibility if there's no evidence - at all?
Then why does it say that God did create it, in the Bible ?
You've been told the answer to that; you won't accept it.

According to you, the Bible contradicts itself.
God punishes those who do evil - see Noah, book of Judges, those in the OT who turned away from God.
God is love and does not delight in evil.
God is light and there is no darkness in him at all.
But there is one verse in one translation of the Bible which says that God created evil - i.e. he is responsible for it - and you accept that over all other passages and revelations about God.
 
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But there is one verse in one translation of the Bible which says that God created evil - i.e. he is responsible for it - and you accept that over all other passages and revelations about God.

No I don't just accept it, there is a reason why we are told this.
 
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