A Devil?
Hello everyone, this is my first post. I was just thinking last night how odd it is that people believe in the concept of the devil. I used to be a christian, but never really thought about there being some guy down below us making everything bad happen. So I guess my question is: What powers do christians, or other religions, believe the devil has? Can he read our minds as they believe god can? can he control earthy events? Any answers would be great. Thanks.
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Here's what I found when I googled the subject:
Satan knows how people think and he knows the weakness of human beings. This is how he’s able to tempt us. He does not know our inner thoughts: otherwise, he would not have wasted his time tempting Job [Job 1:6-12], or Jesus (when He was a man) [Matthew 4:1-11]. Satan has the power to deceive those who do not follow God:
Satan was brought under the power and authority of Jesus when He died for our sins and established His Kingdom and His church. Satan no longer has power over us and by this, we can be sure that the devil, Satan, cannot read our thoughts. [Revelation 12:7-17]
So apparently Satan cannot read our thoughts. I think the only ones that have the power to read our thoughts are God, Santa Clause, Jesus, and some aliens. The only material that stops these super beings from reading our thoughts is aluminum foil.
Frosty's coming back someday. Will you be ready?
Thanks for the info.
google knows, mabey something here will help, glad you asked that old question ....
http://www.jesusreligion.com/hellpage.html
http://www.jesusreligion.com/biblewords.html
"Hell - the state of mind believing it is separate from God and others; trapped in beliefs contrary to truth on either side of the grave." (?!)
http://www.jesusreligion.com/
http://www.what-the-hell-is-hell.com/AncientHell.htm
http://www.what-the-hell-is-hell.com/teeth.htm
http://www.what-the-hell-is-hell.com/sitemap.htm
http://www.what-the-hell-is-hell.com/HellSiteIntro.htm
http://www.jesusreligion.com/restoreall.html
http://www.jesusreligion.com/iamLC.html
That was a fun review, I like the fire one and the last one, "I AM"
Atheism Books.
Yeah, the I AM... i kept thinking about Dr. Suess' Sam I am, haha. Thanks for the links, lot of info.
... cool, hope some of that was fun. Looking into religion is indeed interesting. I use the liberal xain writers and buddhist to soften up my hard core fundy friends.
.... was just passing on what people think. The "why" is obvious.
God / Devil ? Religion per se is silly . The bible is a totally edited "club" book. Most of the ideas of the varied religious philosophers and gnostics etc were not included. Jesus' ideas were much like the godless Buddha. To say I am god, all are god, or jesus like, is really the same as saying there is no seperate god. This is god right now, every atom / thing of the cosmos. Life is a result of the amazingly huge diversity of probabilities. blah blah ....
I have hundreds of folders on religion. It's to bad the west knows little of the eastern atheistic ideas, which puts the religions of abe to embarrassing shame. I prefer the buddhists, but even the progressive hindhus (Gandhi) can be bright. This is a pretty good example, http://www.hinduism.co.za/jesus.htm
( Don't let words like "heavely father" etc mess up the read, .... I think this was written to god of abe followers, using some of their terms. I just interpret "father" like my dad/mother from who I came, not a creator deity, but creation or reality of the material/energy cosmos itself. Crazy language ! ahh, creation is divine?, ... is just a deep apprechiation and awe of the whole.
Most anything by late Alan Watts is pretty cool. He's on youtube, etc
.... thank the heavenly father/mother creation for the internet ! be peace, so shout at the devil(s) ?! ~
Atheism Books.
Nothing keeps the faith like a magical creature that is running around making evidence that itself does not exist. Of course the devil can't be making DNA evidence because that would mean the devil made us.
Wait, the devil put those fossils there to deceive us? Because I thought God put the fossils there to test our faith.
Good night, funny man, and thanks for the laughter.
Then the first sentence still stands.
Satan has the power to deliver unnaturally tasty riffs to the guitars of the fallen.
Hey, I can read your thoughts man. Don't leave me out. Right now you are thinking "ha, ha funny" or "What a J-Ass."
"Those who think they know don't know. Those that know they don't know, know."