PART 2...
"
it is POSSIBLE?" --- This is a MAJOR defect in your theology gradyll, for like many things you "believe", this one is clearly derived via
SPECULATION!
No Scripture makes ANY such SUGGESTION... It notes that the SERPENT was present in the Garden... in the persons of ADAM and EVE... which were the ones which were CURIOUS, ...QUESTIONING... the TRUTH that YHVH had spoken --
Gen 3:4-6 -- Just as when YOU are presented DECISIONS during the course of your life, which contain either GOOD or EVIL as the options... There is NO INVISIBLE, INAUDIBLE, "
talking SNAKE"... suggests these options to YOU... YOU consider them as YOUR CHOICES.
The SCRIPTURE notes that "
the "serpent" was MORE SUBTIL than ANY BEAST of the Garden"... An ACTUAL SNAKE is considered as part of the ANIMAL kingdom... which indeed IS a
BEAST. The ones in the Garden MORE SUBTIL were MAN... Being INTELLIGENT, MUCH MORE than ANY animal, including
SNAKES.
The word "
SUBTIL" found in --
Gen 3:1 -- is --
H6175 -- ARUWM -- which means "CUNNING"... animals are not CUNNING... Cunning is the EXHIBITING of SKILL, and is CLEVER, and/or CRAFTY... these are characteristics of HUMAN INTELLIGENCE and are definitely CALCULATING processes...
EVE... by the internal and NATURAL suggestion of her own DECEITFUL heart, decided to EAT! Just as,
YOU in your life, of your own DECEITFUL heart, once decided to SIN!
There was no "
TALKING SNAKE" that prompted
YOU, gradyll...
YOU did it, and in
YOUR DOING, YOU brought the curse of SIN upon
YOURSELF, and the penalty that accompanies it --
Rom 3:23 -- 6:23 -- which is WHY ...DEATH is required of
YOU (and all other sinners).
MAN is made in the
IMAGE of GOD, which
KNOWS ALL THINGS... and is ESPECIALLY "cunning"... One does not have to look too far to see MUCH... CUNNING, within the Human race.
The HEART which is
DECEITFUL above
ALL THINGS (which would include "
satan") ...is the
NATURAL state of MAN, beginning with
ADAM (and EVE) --
Rom 5:12 -- this verse states that SIN ENTERED by the
DOING of ADAM (and his own DECEITFUL HEART, which decieves by NATURE)... not by the deception of a "
TALKING SNAKE".
FIRST --- Yet another LITERAL observation of SPIRITUAL text. As I have said before, ANY UNBELIEVER of ANY religion or even UNSPIRITUAL ATHEISM, could read these passages, and come up with the COMMON ORTHODOX vision. There is NOTHING SPIRITUAL whatsoever in this "interpretation" of the men of Gergesenes.
To begin with, this is not evidence of "possession" the word means to be vexed by a BAD SPIRIT, which ANYONE can manifest that is ANGRY --
Matt 8:30-32 -- Nor of presence of "demons" (fallen angels)... Just ANGRY men, as one might say, ...with VIOLENT tendencies.
The men @ Gergesenes had strong ADVERSITY within them which made them VIOLENT... the ADVERSITY of VIOLENCE (which infests men oftentimes) is that which was CAST out of the men...
As well NO ONE has EVER ADVISED or COUNSELED GOD --
Rom 11:34 -- Isaiah 40:13 -- so the "request" was not a bunch of DEMONS "advising" (even DIRECTING)
CHRIST! ...
Please! The state of the MEN was that which prompted
CHRIST to free them... as
CHRIST was MERCIFUL unto them. A healing... not a bunch of disobedient "ANGELS" which thought to DIRECT & even
ORDER CHRIST to send them into the PIGS!
If these are actually were the SPIRITUAL beings that you contend they were, ...the casting of them from the MEN into the PIGS did NOTHING to them. "SPIRITS" do not "DROWN" or PERISH in water!
What affects MAN, affects the Creation which was
GIVEN over to Him by GOD --
Gen 1:29-30 -- Why does a cat or a dog run in front of a car? Because some "demon" told it to, or "possessed it?
Nah.
Do you actually think that PIGS "think" intelligently? And be directed to their deaths by SPIRITS? What LANGUAGE do "
DEMONS" (spirits) and PIGS (physical uncommunicative animals) commonly share that they might communicate?

(i.e the PIGS given the order by the DEMONS to KILL themselves?)
SECOND --- Where is there proof there are DEMONS in the
WORD? The word "demon" does not even appear in the
WORD.
My point exactly... "
satan" IS NOT a
LION, nor
DRAGON, nor
SNAKE, nor ever was at any time, an "
ANGEL of LIGHT"...
IT is the PRINCIPALITY of ADVERSITY. Which is EVERYWHERE and in EVERYONE...
ADVERSITY is seen in many forms in life, ...but remains ONE THING = ADVERSITY.
And thet ADVERSITY within the FLESH is our ENEMY, not some mythical THEOLOGICAL INVENTION beileved to be a BEING, with other "evil comrades"...
Again you apply
SPECULATION to your observation...
Actually the passage to which you refer --
Eph 2:1-2 -- does not mention or refer to "satan", it refers to the "
course of THIS WORLD"... Which is the NATURAL state of man.
The word "
AIR" in this verse means to "breathe unconciously"... MEN who are NATURALLY walking according to the
COURSE of THIS WORLD, are MEN that are walking according to the "PRINCE of the POWER of the AIR", in the NATURAL state of MAN, which is DECEITFUL above ALL THINGS --
Jer 17:9 -- and is UNCONVERTED to HOLINESS...
The "prince of the power of the air", are in the DARK (as
JESUS put it, are "the DEAD which bury the DEAD"), ...walking DEAD according to the ways of "
unconsciousness to Holiness" ...of DEATH, ...rather than walking according to the
WAY of
LIFE --
John 14:6
MOST LIKELY?

...is there a SPECULATION PATTERN forming here? ...ABSOLUTELY!
AGAIN, ...this is totally
CONJECTURE on your part... In an attempt to skirt the issue which "issue" WAS DEFINED by
CHRIST within the text... There is no "guesswork" in this text, gradyll!
JESUS CLEARLY called Peter "
satan"... and none of what you just suggested is in the passage.
JESUS CLEARLY defined what this address of Peter actually was:
Matt 16:23 (
BOLDED words are the DEFINITION from
CHRIST) --
But He turned unto PETER, ...GET THEE BEHIND ME... SATAN, thou are an offense unto Me... [definition:] ...for THOU SAVOREST not the things that be of GOD, but THOSE THAT BE of MEN --
NOT that "be of "GOD"... but those things that... BE OF MEN!
Therefore the THINGS that "Peter" whos is addressed as "
satan" in this TEXT are --->
THOSE
things that BE OF MEN = "
satan" = THOSE
things that BE of MEN.
Which is
WHY the
TRADITIONS (
things) THAT BE of MEN, ...when they are
embraced and
repeated and
believed, make the
WORD of NONE EFFECT --
Matt 15:6
"
satan" the ADVERSARY of GOD = Those
THINGS that
BE of MEN.
Is that it gradyll?
"satan" is no more a "he" then is ANGER, or NERVOUSNESS...
"
satan" is the PRINCIPALITY of
ADVERSITY ...
in MAN.
Wherever MAN is... within his makeup in the NATURAL is the ADVERSITY which is OF the FLESH as PAUL aptly noted in his own confession:
Rom 7:22-23 ...
22 --
For I delight in the law of God after the INWARD man [
CHRIST]
23 --
but I see ANOTHER LAW, IN MY MEMBERS, ...WARRING [Rev 12:7 ]... against the law of my MIND, and bringing ME into the CAPTIVITY of the law of SIN which ...IS ...IN... MY MEMBERS.
Do you think PAUL, here, is "demon possessed", gradyll?
[not brought into CAPTIVITY by an "external" ...being, called "
satan"]
Actually
Scripture notes that NO ONE
COUNSELS YHVH --
Isaiah 40:13 -- Rom 11:34 -- as wel --
Eph 1:11 -- notes that
ALL THINGS are done (worked) ACCORDING to the ADVISEMENTS of the
WILL of
YHVH God.
GOD is the one which SENDS men
INTO CAPTIVITY --
Jer 29:14 -- and,
GOD is the one which
DELIVERS men FROM that
CAPTIVITY.
With NO RESPECT of PERSONS involved --
Prov 28:21 -- Acts 10:34
Which = GOD is IN CONTROL of
ALL THINGS... which means that "
satan" (whatever you believe it to be), ...is IN CONTROL of
NO-"THING".
So, the passage which mentions "
satan" in --
Job 2:4-5 -- cannot BE a "BEING"... for NO ONE at ANY TIME has "counselled
YHVH" As these 2 verses (
Rom 11:34 -- Isaiah 40:13) BOTH
testify.
In order for "
satan" to
ADVISE YHVH and therefore be a "BEING"... would also make "
satan" a "
WHO" (advising entity and "COUNSELLOR")... Which thinking is DENIED by these 2 verses.
NOW that I have answered your QUESTIONS... I will note these FEW questions [***] ...that I have posed in this answer for YOU to answer these:
*** (4) -- Please PROVE with SCRIPTURE where "
satan"
comes as a
SNAKE.
*** (5) Please PROVE with SCRIPTURE where "
satan"
comes as an ANGEL (especially of "LIGHT")... or where "
satan" is mentioned as
BEING an ANGEL at all...
*** Rom 7:22-23 ...
22 --
For I delight in the law of God after the INWARD man [
CHRIST]
23 --
but I see ANOTHER LAW, IN MY MEMBERS, ...WARRING [Rev 12:7 ]... against the law of my MIND, and bringing ME into the CAPTIVITY of the law of SIN which ...IS ...IN... MY MEMBERS.
Do you think PAUL, here, is "demon possessed", gradyll?
Thanks for your answers...
PEACE...
...willieH