JoeB131
Diamond Member
You have not applied logic, Joe. Twisting the scriptures is not logic. It's perverse and defies logic in light of what you already know. You are accountable for what you know, Joe. All of us must give an account of ourselves to the Lord one day and what will be your excuse when you are reminded of all that you have been given? You live in a free nation - you have the freedom to read the bible, to seek the Lord, to know the truth and to follow it. You are a very intelligent person. You do not have a problem with your mind. You have a heart problem. You've hardened your heart against the truth. I believe you do want to reconcile yourself to God through Christ you just are bound by a spirit of bitterness and it is keeping you in a state of unbelief. Why not ask the LORD to remove that root of bitterness and take it away? Tell him - Lord, I believe! help my unbelief! Humble yourself before the LORD and he will help you. I know he will.
Well, you see, I am free to read the bible. You know what I read in the Bible. There's NO MENTION OF SATAN UNTIL THE BOOK OF JOB!!!! Satan just isn't in there. Then he makes a few appearences in Chronicles (where he gets the blame for David's Census instead of God who had the blame for it in 2 Samuel). Satan and Demons don't appear in the Old Testament that much. Did the writers just not consider them important enough to put in. Also not mentioned in the Old Testament- an afterlife. You live, you die, you die faster if you piss off the Sky Pixie.
What keeps me in a state of unbelief is everyone prayed for Mom's cancer to get better. It didn't.
No God.
Works for me.
We've covered this before - you were made in the image and the likeness of God (Genesis 1:26) Just as every human being who has ever been born was made in the image and likeness of God. For this reason alone, Satan despises you and I. He knows (in a limited sense) how much God loves you and I and how deeply God grieves over the loss of even one of his creation.
And then again, why does God give him that power? You see, this is the problem you guys don't get. If Satan is doing all these terrible things to mankind and perverting God's totally awesome plan, he's doing it with God's tacit approval.
Which makes God kind of a dick.