Acts 26:18 "to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the dominion of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in Me."
John 8:44 "You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies."
Who will you choose?
2006-08-17 07:26:14 · 30 answers · asked by Yoda Green's Hope 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The person who does not receive Christ is rejecting Christ:
Mat 12:30 "He who is not with Me is against Me; and he who does not gather with Me scatters.
John 12:48 "He who rejects Me and does not receive My sayings, has one who judges him; the word I spoke is what will judge him at the last day.
Acts 17:30,31 "Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent, 31 because He has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness through a Man whom He has appointed, having furnished proof to all men by raising Him from the dead."
2006-08-17 07:26:26 · update #1
Satan works for the Lord? I think not dear. lol
2006-08-17 07:32:28 · update #2
Yes, if you go against God, then you are for Satan no matter how you try to sugarcoat or justify what you do.
2006-08-17 07:39:24 · update #3
Thanks for those sections I just highlighted those in my bible to refer back to later. Those were helpful to me for someone in my life that is standing at a crossroad. Oh yeah by the way I have chosen The Lord Christ Jesus.
2006-08-17 07:36:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
When accepting God or religion you are choosing evil. By rejecting religion you are on the right track to become a decent human being.
The Bible is Trash.
The Bible is the biggest load of garbage and codswallop ever written by man, and I’m sure it will go down in history as the greatest load of gobbledygook ever to inflict such traumatic mental and physical damage on humanity, but still today, some people sadly believe the Bible to be true. That’s very sad indeed. Very sad.
When people quote various passages from the Bible, for example ...
Mathew 5:29-30 God encouraged self-mutilation.
Isaiah 13:15-18 God allowed women raped and little children slaughtered.
Genesis 6:11-17 and 7:11-24 God is the greatest mass murder in history.
What happens? Religious people pop up from under every stone with the same old garbage. “That was the old Bible, or we’ve changed the meaning, or we’ve changed the context, or the quotes are out of context or or or, excuse after excuse.”
The fact is, they are Bible quotes, and the Bible is full of evil atrocities which religious people continually cover up, yet seem happy to drum into the minds of gullible little children. This is such a shameful disgrace in a civilised world.
If religious people are unable to apply commonsense and logic to develop a simple moral code to live by, then perhaps they could strip out of the Bible the evil, murders, rapes, abuse, and all traumatic references. Granted there will not be a lot left to read, but at least religious people may end up with a decent moral code to follow based on good, and not scare the living daylights out of innocent little children.
2006-08-17 07:30:51 · answer #2 · answered by Brenda's World 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
In ancient Jewish tradition Satan is simply an angel doing the work that God assigned to Satan to do.
The word Satan means challenger. With the idea of Satan challenging us, or tempting if you will. This description sees Satan as the angel who is the embodiment of man's challenges. This idea of Satan works closely with God as an integral part of God plan for us. His job is to make choosing good over evil enough of a challenge so that it becomes clear to us that there can be only one meaningful or logical choice.
Contrast this to Christianity, which sees Satan as God's opponent. In Jewish thought, the idea that there exists anything capable of setting itself up as God's opponent would be considered polytheistic or setting up the devil to be an equally powerful polarity to god or a demigod.
Oddly, proof for The Christian satan/devil mythology is supposedly found in the ancient Jewish texts that were borrowed to create the bible. One can’t help but wonder how Christians came up with such a fantastically different interpretation of Gods assistant Satan in their theology.
Other hints about Satan’s role in human relations can be seen if you look at the name Lucifer. It meaning in the original tongue translates as Light bearer or light bringer. Essentially the bringer of enlightenment. The temptations of the Satan idea bring all of us eventually into Gods light. Hardly the Evil entity of Christian mythology.
Love and blessings
don
2006-08-18 02:01:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I choose God.
Keep in mind too that when we lie, we are denying God.
When we lust or hate, we are denying God as well.
Whenever we sin, we have chosen satan over God.
In Acts 26:18 that you posted it talks about the opening of eyes to see the light. This is what we all need, is the light so we can see right from wrong and do our best to not deny God and to not give props to satan.
2006-08-17 07:38:47 · answer #4 · answered by Nep-Tunes 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are not choosing to worship Satan in that sense. However there is light and darkness, if you are not in the light you must be in darkness, there is no middle ground.
So therefore spiritually I would say their Father is that of the Devil and not of God... however shall we think of it this way... Just like the Pharisees in which I believe that verse is referring too, although they thought they were in the light... their Father was that of the Satan. So reasonably so if a person thinks he is in the light but his actions caused him to have his spiritual Father be the devil
What do you think about people who refused God all together.
But like it said if you are not for me you are against me... and there is only one force against God and that would be Satan. Although that may not be your choice to worship Satan or even believe in him at all in the Spiritual sense you are choosing Satan. To be deceived by Satan and to be cradled in his lies.
2006-08-17 07:34:54 · answer #5 · answered by schr91 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People like you are ignorant of the truth and of the world. You believe that what you believe in is the truth. Something has been thumped into your head and you go around spouting it like a parrot. The more you open you rmouth the more ignorant and intolerant you seem. Learn about the world around you. Christianity is not the only religion in the world and who says it is the true religon. Just because you believe in it doesn't make it so.
2006-08-17 17:25:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
To put it another way:
There is the Spirit of Christ and the spirit of anti-christ.
I am made up of spirit, soul, and body. My spirit is either with Christ or against Christ. The anti -christ spirit was already here in the time of Jesus.
But in the end times we will see the anti - christ spirit embodied in human form.
2006-08-17 07:35:49 · answer #7 · answered by cathyhewed1946 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-09-29 09:17:15 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the is no satan and no god i beleve in none so why is it the christians judge the human race by an out of date book its time the christians joined the rest of the human race in the 21 centry
2006-08-17 07:42:39 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
1. Satan represents indulgence instead of abstinence!
2. Satan represents vital existence instead of spiritual pipe dreams!
3. Satan represents undefiled wisdom instead of hypocritical self-deceit!
4. Satan represents kindness to those who deserve it instead of love wasted on ingrates!
5. Satan represents vengeance instead of turning the other cheek!
6. Satan represents responsibility to the responsible instead of concern for psychic vampires!
7. Satan represents man as just another animal, sometimes better, more often worse than those that walk on all-fours, who, because of his “divine spiritual and intellectual development,” has become the most vicious animal of all!
8. Satan represents all of the so-called sins, as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification!
9. Satan has been the best friend I have ever had, as He has kept my happy all these years!
2006-08-17 07:31:05 · answer #10 · answered by wittster 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋