"Speak of the Devil" do Christians still believe this?
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Do people really still believe in devils? We have launched international space stations, we have duel-core processors, plasma TVs, extra cheap Virgin flights to selected destinations, and people still believe in devils? I have to say this is most entertaining. Please continue.
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Truth that the devil does not want you to know.  \nJoh 12:40  He (the devil) hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I (Jesus)  should heal them.
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The practice of communicating with the dead is very dangerous!  The Bible, speaking as the Word of our creator, speaks very strongly against it.  In Deuteronomy 18:10 and 11, God condemns any who "looks for omens... consults a spirit medium or a professional foreteller of events, or anyone who inquires of the dead."  Verse 12 mentions that such individuals are in danger of becoming something hated by God.\n\nWhy would God speak out so strongly about the practice of inquiring of the dead?  Because the dead cannot communicate on their own power.  Ecclesiates 9:5 states that when a person dies, they are conscious of nothing at all.  A person who has died cannot think or reason, as verse 10 continues.  Therefore, a person who attempts to communicate with the dead is trying to communicate with an essence that cannot answer back.  However, the real danger comes with Satan the Devil.  Those who believe that they can communicate with the dead are in danger of being misled!  (2 Corinthians 4:4)  Satan has, in times past and even today, used the idea of seances and speaking with the dead through mediums as a way to convince people that they really can speak with their loved ones.  By doing this, Satan himself has not only tricked people, but convinced people to do horrible things by appealing to people's emotions, as they believe they're actually speaking to their dear loved ones.  \n\nEven in the first century, the apostles spoke out against those who could practice magic, including those who sought to speak with the dead.  Such a practice would definately need to be avoided to stay close to God and stay away from Satan the Devil (Proverbs 27:11, James 4:8)
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Your putting pretty high expectations on a man who started a religion after eating a poisonous mushroom and listening to a talking salamander...obviously, he must have been hallucinating!  Anything that adds to or takes away from the word of God, is not truly of God.Satan's biggest lie ever told was denying Jesus was crucified or that He was the Son of God....the very essence of our salvation. Jesus warned against false prophets that would come....He told us to test things in the Spirit-so we would know the truth from the lies.Remember, every knee shal bow and every tounge confess that Jesus Christ is Lord....I think was in Romans...so there will come a moment when Satan himself will have to be on bended knee confessing that! I'm pretty sure that was in Romans-I don't have my Bible with me right now.So, there will come that day! Until then...pray for those who don't know HIM.
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Christians spoke up for slavery, some still do.
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Those words are not of God and not of Christ. A Christian who says those things is not acting as a Christian should. These are deceptions of the devil and are based on hatred.\n\nYou, I see from many of your posts, are grappling with these questions. But you post them as if they were insults or jokes. I see through that. You are partly consumed by a temptation to persecute Christians. You are partly ruled by this and have no control over it. And it bothers you. But your resolution is a false one, in that you believe Christians are at the root of this lack of inner control. It feeds the flames and you relinquish more self-mastery as time passes.\n\nThe proof is that at this moment you are probably saying this is stupid and you will try to ignore it. Ignorance is your tool to continue the persecution. As long as you refuse to understand what Christianity teaches then you can continue to mock it with half-sincere questions based out of your inner conflicts.\n\nIt is not Christians you have a problem with. It is yourself. But go ahead and scoff and continue on in the path of slavery to your emotions.
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Bing! You hit the nail on the head the Christian Devil was taken from pagan religions that lived in the area of the Roman Empire and has nothing to do with the Tanach. According to the original bible there are two types of “devil” the internal and external the internal one is basically summed up to be man animal instinct the desire to seek physical pleasure instead of meaning full existence. Not to say that it is all bad with out it we would all die hungry and childless, but the goal of man is to harness this instinct and use it to go after his ultimate goal getting closer to the creator of the universe (email me and I will explain that further). As for the external this would be the angle of death who really has no impact on our lives and should not be of concern. To further make the point that the Devil dose not exist look at what they say he is. They describe him as a force that “fights G-d” if this is true doesn’t that mean that he is independent of G-d and may be called a god of evil. Think about it.
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You are correct, according to the book of mythology, Satan is God's fall guy and just doing what he is told to do, and that is tempt humans to turn away from the one true God. He changed  his name to Jesus and has had outstanding success in the Christian community.\n\n\nThe bible is the greatest work of fiction ever told, full of drama, suspense, intrigue, sex & violence. Why do you think so many have been sold?
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ita an ancient many thousands of years old jewish art, perhaps it was founded in israel? (before other people occupied the jewish nation)\nIt has nothing to do with the "devil" which is a silly christian invention
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I believe and by looking at most of the Christians of today, there you see the answer. I believe not because i was told to but because I have experienced it myself. So who else can dispute my personal experience but me because even if I'll say that it is so, I cannot force others into believing. The Holy Spirit ha guided Christianity into the light that have shown the exact truth. The truth that each Christian may choose to follow or not. Sure there are still those who fall short of expectations and there are those who refuse to open their eyes from the truth. But what really counts is that Christianity has advanced to a certain level where peace and progress have been a part of who they really are except for a certain few who have continued to pursue their twisted concepts, aspirations and selfish goals in life and others just can't handle it. Maybe the gift has not touched them yet.
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The devil is in the details, although there is a more positive quote not as well known.\nhttp://www.bartleby.com/59/3/devilisinthe.html
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I think it went much further than Gay.  Much of the old writing were of a vengeful God. One whose name you could not mention.  Jesus freed us from the old testament.  Beside Jesus told us to love your brother, sounds pretty perverted to me.  But also pretty open minded.  His first invite to heaven was a theif wasn't it. If God is good and the Devil is evil both without the other concept in them aren't they equals in some sense. Hell was in the times of the Bible only a burning pit for the evilest of criminals outside the gates of Jerusalem not someplace of eternal damnation
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Some Christians actually believe that burning in hell is God's idea. They have accepted a perversion of the scriptures without ever wondering if the translations have been mis-translated.I have been a Christian 32 years and this year I actually researched the horrible untruth "Hell." The Holy Spirit will bring us into more and more truth and expose lies and false doctrines.As with lots of Christian stuff we forget parts of the Bible whilst emphasising others. This gospel is good news! I believe all die. All rise from the grave when Jesus returns and everyones life is opened up and bare before God.. Those who have a relationship with God are resurrected and receive new bodies that will never die. And those who have decided to ignore salvation and deliberately continue to do wrong things are forever lost. Unbelievers simply pass from existence. They perish. The dead know nothing. Jesus and God would never punish forever with unquenchable fire and torment. That's a pagan, heathan, wicked perversion. However upon saying that it is very hard to change your beliefs. Especially when people go years believing a doctrine and millions of others disagree and threaten curses etc.upon those who declare hell is a false doctrine. Little by little people will come to know the truth and be set free. Seek the truth and you will find it.
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It is the work of the devil. God tells us saved people to stay away from such as that. He makes it plain in the book of Deuteronomy 18:9-12
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I wouldn't believe them because satan would never tell you who he is.He would rather deceive you into believing he is someone who cares about you.God would be saddened if you didn't know enough to recognize the devil when you see him.Afterall he has given us a manual to refer to,and yet we doubt what he says.If calling evil just that is crazy,then crazy I am.I know evil when I see it and am not afraid to call it what it is......EVIL SATAN!!!!!
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Christianity is the "the devil made me do it" religion.
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'god' hasn't killed anyone since before jesus's' time (biblically speaking).\nand if you believe any part of that teaching then you know that while satan has not directly killed anyone he has influenced many.\nno, i'm not a christian.  i just studied the bible (among other things).