Under a christian worldview, if someone is say completely agnostic is this person by default on satans side since he didn't choose God? And for clarification when I say God here I mean the God of the bible.
If you aren't on God's side does that put you on satans side?
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Yes.......thanks be to God that I did not die in that state of mind......amazing grace !
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Matthew 12:25 But Jesus knew their thoughts, and said to them: “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand. 26 “If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand? 27 “And if I cast out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they shall be your judges. 28 “But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, surely the kingdom of God has come upon you. 29 “Or how can one enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? And then he will plunder his house. 30 “He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters abroad."
I would not expect very many truth suppressors to come out and say; "yeah, I'm against Christ, I'm rooting for the other guy". It's interesting how the basic principal of agnosticism was first used by the serpent in the garden, in the form of a question, to put into question what God had said to Adam and Eve.
I would not expect very many truth suppressors to come out and say; "yeah, I'm against Christ, I'm rooting for the other guy". It's interesting how the basic principal of agnosticism was first used by the serpent in the garden, in the form of a question, to put into question what God had said to Adam and Eve.
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Everything in the scriptures is binary - two choices - two opposites - two consequences
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26 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;
Deuteronomy 11:
15 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;
19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you
life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed
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29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life;
and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
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With a soul's eternal fate on the line, I would suspect a benevolent god who actually wanted to save souls would have set things up the opposite way. That is, one is saved unless that person consciously chooses not to be.
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That's a hypothetical, I assume, not related to a specific person. It depends totally upon that person's standing before God. He stated "agnostic," and "since he didn't choose God." That's his standing.
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'Under a Christian world view' there are two worlds. One is perishing in a state of separation apart from God (this is the human world as we know it, which Satan apparently prefers, as do most humans, even though we bemoan all the evil and the absence of God here), and the other is eternal life with Him. So the agnostic world view is really 'one world'. It is on the side of 'the ship is not burning and sinking' and also 'even if it was, I'm not sure there is anything outside the ship'. Christ was God's demonstration both that the human ship was sinking AND that there was something completely different outside, a means of rescue.
Sometimes we have to experience that on a personal level before we can accept it at the universal. It's difficult to convince someone they are drowning before they feel that first lick of salt water go down their throat. We don't really feel we need rescuing until God gives us a revelation of what we are becoming in contrast to Christ.
Satan's side is a side of deliberate rebellion - I don't know that I would go so far as to say an agnostic was on Satan's side by default. I would say though, that they were both on the same sinking ship.
Sometimes we have to experience that on a personal level before we can accept it at the universal. It's difficult to convince someone they are drowning before they feel that first lick of salt water go down their throat. We don't really feel we need rescuing until God gives us a revelation of what we are becoming in contrast to Christ.
Satan's side is a side of deliberate rebellion - I don't know that I would go so far as to say an agnostic was on Satan's side by default. I would say though, that they were both on the same sinking ship.
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Jesus stated plainly that if someone was not for Him, they are against Him.
Likewise, as written in Ephesians 2, everyone of us was once in that group called sons of disobedience - subjects of the prince of the power of the air.
It did not matter where we were born, or what group or country.
As also written, everyone is born dead in sins and trespasses. So therefore likewise, everyone needs the Savior Jesus in order to hope for eternal life at all.
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I would say yes to the OP as well. The only clarification is that Satan's kingdom is already doomed. It isn't a situation of Satan's kingdom in any way being a threat to God's.
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Some might interpret Satan in a non-biblical sense, or as an evil within us all. That seems to Rolling Stone mag's interpretation of the "Sympathy for the Devil" rock song, as I recall reading years ago.
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