Churches focus on Satan a lot and trying to avoid Satan, but by trying to avoid something and thinking about Satan so much, doesn't it actually give Satan power because you give your thoughts and time focussing on Fear.
Without Satan, Jesus wouldn't have a purpose as his specific purpose was to save people from Satan. But are people being fooled to worship a man as the Bible specifically says not to? Didn't the coming of Jesus give more focus, attention and therefore power to the idea of Satan?
Are churches blindly spreading fear?
If God is love, then wouldn't spreading fear of Satan be bringing people further from the spectrum of love?
2006-10-24 06:16:45 · 11 answers · asked by Earthy 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
"by their fruits ye shall know them"
2006-10-24 06:18:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible says that if you are a Christian, then you need not fear Satan. You are a child of God, therefore, he will protect you. However, you should be wary of Satan attacking and deceiving you. Some of the best Christians fall as a result of listening to Satan instead of God.
2006-10-24 06:20:54 · answer #2 · answered by . 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, God is love but God is also Holy, Holy, Holy, and He is a just God and a Rightious God, Jesus Christ is not satan, He is the only Son of the only living God, and He is God in flesh, repent, turn away from such foolish and blasphemise thoughts, Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life; NO man may come to the Father except through the Son.
2006-10-24 06:20:30 · answer #3 · answered by JesusFreak 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thats precisely what has handed off. They dont comprehend they have been fooled, they imagine they are residing the right way and serving the right one yet they arent.. in the journey that they were to sit down down and actually imagine about some issues they could see that they have got ok been deceived...Ive suggested all alongside jc,devil,similar thang.yet no christian is prepared to admit it,they imagine anybody else has been fooled.They wont even entertain the idea that something isn't accurate with their 'faith' if u will. Being that its an presented faith might want to were an eye fixed-opener yet that dont even do it..Shalom
2016-12-05 04:31:29 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Satan has been used a tool of opression for many years. He's like that monster or story you use to scare your children into behaving. 'Don't steal cookies or the cookie monster will getcha!'
In my opinion there should be nothing to fear from God (the old testament contradicts that, but it also says the world was created in six days, so excuse me if I don't mind ignoring it) So if there is nothing to fear from an all loving God, then there had to be something to force us to love him.
Tada, Satan. Religion is there so that when someone does something that is considered wrong you can say to tham, 'an enternity of suffering awaits you know.' Just like the cookie monster, Satan is there to stop us from putting our hand inside the great cookie jar known as Sin.
2006-10-24 06:23:27 · answer #5 · answered by dirty_class 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible never says to fear satan in fact it says to fear God. Jesus didn't come to defeat satan He came to defeat sin and the result of sin: death. We are to work out our salvation with fear and trepidation, but that just means we are to flee from sin. Fear that doesn't paralyze is actually a pretty descent deterrent.
2006-10-24 06:23:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Luke 11:14-28
[14] Jesus was driving out a demon that was mute. When the demon left, the man who had been mute spoke, and the crowd was amazed. [15] But some of them said, "By Beelzebub, the prince of demons, he is driving out demons." [16] Others tested him by asking for a sign from heaven.
[17] Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them: "Any kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and a house divided against itself will fall. [18] If Satan is divided against himself, how can his kingdom stand? I say this because you claim that I drive out demons by Beelzebub. [19] Now if I drive out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your followers drive them out? So then, they will be your judges. [20] But if I drive out demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come to you.
[21] "When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his possessions are safe. [22] But when someone stronger attacks and overpowers him, he takes away the armor in which the man trusted and divides up the spoils.
[23] "He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me, scatters.
[24] "When an evil spirit comes out of a man, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says, 'I will return to the house I left.' [25] When it arrives, it finds the house swept clean and put in order. [26] Then it goes and takes seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And the final condition of that man is worse than the first."
[27] As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd called out, "Blessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you."
[28] He replied, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it."
2006-10-24 06:32:48 · answer #7 · answered by St. Mike 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mankind has been deceived by the father of deception the devil. God cannot be good and evil at the same time, it is not in his character.
2006-10-24 06:20:19 · answer #8 · answered by Commander 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, as the saying goes, "God is Love. Love is blind. Ray Charles is blind. Ray Charles is God."
2006-10-24 06:18:57 · answer #9 · answered by Gwen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is possible!
2006-10-24 06:19:05 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋