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2007-05-27 23:03:28 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
you can have mine as long as you show me some pleasure and pain1
2007-05-27 23:38:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is funny that how Lucifer fell from heaven is the same way that Adam and Eve sinned and was removed from the garden of Eden. Now we have atheist, agnostic and evol. scientists think they can step around God just by saying it is an illusion, delusion or fairy tale. the mere battle and so much defiance placed upon something that is not real is such a huge waste of time unless the Satan of this world has something to gain by destroying the Savior of the world. the greater the fight against God the more it shows man fears the possibility of God being real and of Authority to pass judgment on man.
Other things would be more important to Atheists or Agnostic people with such a short existence to be concerned about.
2007-05-28 22:07:42 · answer #2 · answered by Dennis James 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
"But deliver us from evil."
The last petition to our Father is also included in Jesus' prayer: "I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but I ask you to protect them from the evil one." (Jn 17:15)
In this petition, evil is not an abstraction, but refers to a person, Satan, the Evil One, the angel who opposes God.
The devil is the one who "throws himself across" God's plan and his work of salvation accomplished in Christ.
The Bible teaches that Satan is a fallen angel. Scripture sees in this being a fallen angel, called "Satan" or the "devil". (Cf. Jn 8:44; Rev 12:9)
Satan was at first a good angel, made by God: "The devil and the other demons were indeed created naturally good by God, but they became evil by their own doing."
Scripture speaks of a sin of these angels. (2 Pet 2:4) This "fall" consists in the free choice of these created spirits, who radically and irrevocably rejected God and his reign.
The devil "has sinned from the beginning"; he is "a liar and the father of lies." (1 Jn 3:8; Jn 8:44)
It is the irrevocable character of their choice, and not a defect in the infinite divine mercy, that makes the angels' sin unforgivable. "There is no repentance for the angels after their fall, just as there is no repentance for men after death."
Scripture witnesses to the disastrous influence of the one Jesus calls "a murderer from the beginning," who would even try to divert Jesus from the mission received from his Father. (Jn 8:44; cf. Mt 4:1-11)
"The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil." (1 Jn 3:8)
The power of Satan is, nonetheless, not infinite.
He is only a creature, powerful from the fact that he is pure spirit, but still a creature.
He cannot prevent the building up of God's reign.
With love in Christ.
2007-05-28 21:14:08 · answer #3 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋