anotherlife
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This is very interesting. This may mean that hope is universal too. This may also explain what happens with things that are totally lost. If things widely believed to be lost, such as hitler get to be found again, then everything may get rebalanced. Amazing.On 2nd thought, this may be a paradox. We know from countless church records, that demonic possession happens, and through every century at that. In this case, does satan operate within or outside the will / plan / rule of God? If God's rule is upheld, then satan must attack outside that premise, and then we are back to square one, wondering when satan wants you.Doesn't satan usually extort your consent by putting your relatives or yourself into accidents and such?Satan can't control you without your consent. It goes against God's law and gift of free will.
You have to AGREE to do bad things like that before Satan can make you.
Nope. Goes against the rules laid out by God. After Job, God said He would never test anyone by letting Satan have free reign over them again.
Nope, it's usually people who make a deal, or who are somehow conned into accepting the offer of the demon that wants to possess them.
And..............if you follow the old Jewish tradition, Satan isn't really the devil he's been made out to be, because he's actually God's Prosecutor, and is right there to hold you to account for all actions (both good and bad) that you've done and present your case before God.
Taoist beliefs state that there must be balance, so in order for good to exist, bad also has to be there to balance it out.
Me? I'm a spiritual person who believes God is too big to be contained in just one belief system, so I'm learning as much as I can (guided mainly by the similarities of most belief systems), so that I can tell Him what I learned here when I go to see Him.
Even in the Lost Gospel of Thomas, it states that eventually everyone gets out of hell. Even Hitler and Bin Laden.