To: betty boop
I cannot bear the thought that there is anything greater than I am in my own self-conceit. And I shall persuade all Your sons similarly. In the end, they all shall worship me ... Dear wise Lady, until this underlined portion, I was in 100% agreement. But I must take issue and offer stern warning: the agony ahead for those not in Christ, by whatever means the Lord so chooses to bring each one to His grace across all of time, that agony of separatrion from God's love will hardly affect any to worship Satan; his lot will fall to the eternal cursing from those sharing his torment.
I am convinced that you have nailed the essence of Satan's powers though, for he worships himself and his greatest effort is to pursuade humankind to worship themselves, in individual adoration of self, in order to strike out against God the Creator. Satan's plan is to amplify and repeat endlessly the temptation to set self above God.
8 posted on
10/01/2001 9:53:31 AM PDT by
MHGinTN
To: betty boop
I neglected to add, the reason Satan seeks to have each individual human set self above God during earthly sojourn is to nullify the greatest force in the universe available to humankind, faith. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen, and as such, because those in Christ have an earnest of their inheretance within their human spirit while on earth (the spark of the Holy Spirit of God), those in Christ may access the greatest power of the universe when applied through the greatest force in the unverse.
BTW, betty boop, I think you might want to think of reviving the Screwtape Letters, given your so similar rhetoric of ol' Screwtape in your above soliloquy.
9 posted on
10/01/2001 10:00:34 AM PDT by
MHGinTN
To: MHGinTN
In the end, they all shall worship me ... Well MHGinTN, it was a boast: And I think, quite an empty one. What you have to say about the reality of what Satan proposes is exactly "on the money" IMHO. Thank you so much for writing. best, bb.
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