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To: kosta50

“Read commentaries of serous authors who disagree with you on this”

Kosta, you sell yourself short if you think that I don’t respect you enough to have researched all sides of an issue when we correspond. I apologize if I have given you that impression. If you notice in the discussion I have referred to different views and have addressed some of them in my argument.

Here is a portion of one of the articles I found in my research,

“Eastern Orthodoxy teaches that nothing is greater than God, including evil.Evil results from the free will of God’s creation, and the evil one, Satan, was once good.His name was Lucifer, or light-bearer, and the Orthodox tradition likens him to the morning star.But he also opposed his own will to God’s will, and found himself in darkness.Orthodoxy teaches that Satan is not as powerful as God.But Satan’s particular talent is falsehood, so he is able to convince people that he is as powerful as God.Eastern Orthodoxy is very optimistic in its outlook, teaching that the triumph of good over evil on the Last Day is a certainty.”


4,263 posted on 12/02/2010 8:27:00 AM PST by blue-duncan
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To: blue-duncan

No need to apologize, b-d. There are plenty of respectable sources (not necessarily Christian) who disagree with your interpretations of Ezekiel or Isaiah, who state that the chapter you mentioned are not about Satan.


4,326 posted on 12/02/2010 2:00:33 PM PST by kosta50 (God is tired of repenting -- Jeremiah 15:6, KJV)
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