Are you being taught by God or by Satan?

Question

The Bible shows that Satan makes himself appear as "an angel of light". In other words, he is able to make things appear true and pure, whereas they are really false and demonic. (2 Corinthians 11:14, 15) His ministers teach lies about God. Like these for example:
The Lie: Hell is a place of eternall fiery torment.
The truth: God does not over-punish the wicked. The wages sin pays is death, not life in eternal torment. (Romans 6:7, 23; Genesis 3:19). He wouldn't torment someone for eternity for sins they commited while on earth for around 70 years. They simply die and are no longer in existence (Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10)
The Lie: (when a child dies) God picks the prettiest flowers to be with him in heaven.
The truth: God does not take children from their parents. All humans are sinners and thus all humans are under a death sentence, even children (Romans 5:12). Sometimes, the death of a child is accidental or due to the faulty ways of mankind, such as murder(Ecclesiastes 8:9; 9:11)

Answer 1

I walk in the Word. If I am misled from time to time by Satan, then I pray that God saves me from the distraction and I beg forgiveness.

Answer 2

SATAN OR BABYLON IS ALL THE SAME THING

The bible speaks for its own self, it takes some rightly dividing of scriptures.

Abraham was a very rich man.
Isaac his son was given all his riches.
Jacob came to be very rich, as well as Esau his twin.
Job was a very rich man.

In this parable, Luke 16:16,17,29,31; is key to truth. Does the bible from Genesis to Luke 16:14; teach any thing in the parable, does the books after teach any such.
So Jesus is using a religious belief of the Pharisees [ as being false in belief ], as rich like father Abraham, and they ignore Lazarus [ wrong ]. So in all their rich dress and impressive looks before men, they get, as rich men the punishment they think should be for Lazarus, Jesus give them as leaders something to think about.

Only his disciples as Moses and Abraham and John would see the truth in all this confusion of religious belief, it started between end of Old Testament onto the coming of John and the law of Moses onto Jesus and his kingdom coming as the message of the New Testament. The Pharisees did not know what Moses was teaching, the taught traditions of man. They were called serpents and vipers by those who knew the truth of the word of God. So they were an extension of world and Babylonians beliefs. The reward and punishment of the imaginations of men. The living dead.

The dead are dead. Psm.115:15-17; 146:3,4; Rev.20:1-6,12,13; 1Cor.15:22; As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
Abraham's bosom is not heaven. Gehenna or the valley of the son of Hinnom is no more, angels are in tartarus and angels do not die Luke 20:34-36; Jude 6; 2Pet.2:4;
and Jesus was resurrected out of sepulchre John 19:38-42; acts 2:31-35; sepulchre hell, and David was still there. So Rev.20:1-6,12,13; they are resurrected from where ever a dead person could be, even death itself.

Answer 3

I am being taught by the Witness spoken of in Rev. 3 His name is Yirayl Hawkins. He leads a congregation called The house of Yahweh In Abilene TX. He is telling the world (via satellite and on line through the Prophetic Word Program) who god is and that we need to prepare for Sept 12, 2006 when nuclear war will begin around the Euphrates River. Satan is getting tired and it's time for this age to see that the ways of sin bring death.

Answer 4

If your heart is pure and you act out of love, then God is in the pilot's seat.
How many times have I had to listen to Christians wishing I burned in hell because I am a Pagan, yet my ENTIRE life revolves around the love and cherishing of all, not just on a Sunday morning in church.
Look to your own religion to see if it is written by Satan, for my God is loving and benevolent, not vindictive and vengeful.

Please take this post with my highest regards and let me say that "let he who casts the first stone, be without sin".
Also " he who truly and sincerely searches for the truth, will be guided to it by God".
I don't call reading just the one book searching for the truth "truly and sincerely" searching.

Love and Light
M

Answer 5

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

Answer 6

Hhhhmmmmmm....seeing as neither exists, and it doesnt matter what your Bible says, as it is a fabrication written by MEN, Im not being taught by either of them. I am self taught, self educated.

Perhaps, IF either really existed, you might perhaps be basing your beliefs on something the Devil is teaching you...how are you to know?? Perhaps the Bible was inked by Satan himself, in order to fool you people into submission???

What does not exist cannot hurt you.

Answer 7

I'm being taught by neither. Why to Christians always have to quote scripture? Why do you constantly have to ram that crap down every-ones throat? Why do you get so upset when anyone offers a dissenting opinion and tell us we are going to hell? Why do you take it in blind faith that everything in the bible is true, yet can't accept empirical evidence that is testable in today's world????

Answer 8

The only black and white things I believe in are pandas, penguins, zebras, and my wife's beautiful Snow White coloring. Black and white isn't so good for theologies or philosophies.

I learn by looking around and keeping myself open to as many sources as possible.

And I don't believe in one all-good entity and one all-bad one. People don't work like that; our creator(s) probably don't, either.

Answer 9

Definately God . God gives us a sence to know whether it is of God or the devil. You just know. And all children do go to God before a certain age of acountability!

Answer 10

The Pope