influence by Satan? I thought people had free will, that doesnt sound like free will either!
2007-01-17 11:01:54 · 18 answers · asked by kyubikitsune888 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
All private clubs make up their own rules.
2007-01-17 11:07:04 · answer #1 · answered by Xfile 3 · 3⤊ 3⤋
I think freely for myself. I suppose according to some religions I'm being influenced by Satan, so be it.
I'd rather believe that I have free will to believe in whatever I choose rather than have a book or group tell me what to believe.
As for Satan, I feel sorry for him/her/it, getting the boot just for asking questions. I despise jealousy and egoism, why would I want to spend eternity in servitude to such a god?
2007-01-17 11:21:05 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Christians make their choice and now they have to continously keep up the image that they are perfect and NOT sin at all, and not keep telling lies and to continously keep being perfect 24/7 because Jesus was perfect and they have to live up to his perfect standard and if they slip just the tiniest little bit they will be dragged down (judged & found guilty) and so they cant slip....
And wouldnt it help if they had some support, so they go out and convert some friends who can start living the perfect life with them and then the friends start falling away because they cant keep up and they dont try and hide their sins, they accept that they cannot keep up to such a high standard so they leave the church and the christian looks at them and envies them their freedom to be honest about themselves, but the christian cannot be honest because they have such a huge perfect example to live up to.....
so the christian keeps looking for more people to support them and help them to stay perfect and eventually they get stressed out and start thinking of some way out of this because they are tired of trying to be perfect, and tired of telling the little fibs, and tired of being made to feel guilty every time they complain about how hard it is, but if they confess to anyone they will be judged as bad and go to hell so they dont tell anyone and the stress keeps building and the cyle continues until BOOM......
The christian has to think the non-christians are going to hell because its the only way they can rationalise why they are jealous of the non-christians freedom to be rude, to tell lies, to break all the rules and not feel guilty about it, while the christians do nothing but heap guilt upon anyone who does NOT continue to live up to the perfect example of their "Lord and Saviour".
2007-01-17 13:55:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is satan that rules over disobedient children / rebellious children. Rebelling against God and Gods purpose / will, results in spiritual death / blindness.
When one becomes a Christian, person is born again, reborn spiritually. And passed from darkness to light. From spiritual blindness to spiritual sight. The old man is dead and the new man alive forever in Christ Jesus. Jesus came to set the captives free, to open the eyes of the blind, for the deaf to hear and the crippled to walk, etc...
The perfect law of liberty is to love God and love others. We are not under the law of sin and death, we are under Gods Grace.
2007-01-17 11:18:40 · answer #4 · answered by t_a_m_i_l 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes you have freewill to choose.
But only through Christ are we free from the bondage of sin.
Are people really that Biblically illiterate?
Eze 18:4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Christ has paid the price and defeated death, that is Satan.
If you are in Christ, Satan has nothing to accuse you of.
NOT GUILTY
2007-01-17 11:11:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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 Gods 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’s 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
2007-01-17 11:10:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Free will... the ability to choose between good and evil. How is that not free? Did you want to be a puppet and not have a choice?
2007-01-17 11:18:15 · answer #7 · answered by impossble_dream 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i love being influenced by Satan atheism forever since it makes more sense
2007-01-17 11:17:02 · answer #8 · answered by cthulhu will raise 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you recognize you're a Christian once you're cramming your beliefs down someones throat who does no longer care, attempting to grant them salvation from hell. you recognize you're an athiest once you experience the favor to strangle the fellow talking to you and in no way difficulty about going to hell.
2016-11-25 00:05:57 · answer #9 · answered by cerchia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can say that if you don't join my biker's club, then you're a ****** scout.
Does that sound DOGMATIC enough???
2007-01-17 11:12:43 · answer #10 · answered by Исаак Озимов 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋