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To: circlecity

I don’t know I was somewhat into that sort of thing as a teen, power is very tempting but after I hit 14 I realized it wasn’t real. The devil is just a metaphor for humanity indulging his own evil.


6 posted on 02/02/2011 7:02:38 AM PST by utherdoul
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To: utherdoul

The devil is not a metaphor!!!! Please realize Satan is very real & does indeed exist!!


9 posted on 02/02/2011 7:12:31 AM PST by surroundedbyblue
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To: utherdoul
"The devil is just a metaphor for humanity indulging his own evil."

That's certainly not the way Satan is presented in the Bible. Satan is a live, conscious, sentient being with power and the will to exercise it for evil.

12 posted on 02/02/2011 7:18:29 AM PST by circlecity
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To: utherdoul
"...after I hit 14 I realized it wasn’t real. The devil is just a metaphor for humanity indulging his own evil."

Christ himself believed in the devil. You know something he didn't?

13 posted on 02/02/2011 7:19:45 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: utherdoul
The devil is just a metaphor for humanity indulging his own evil.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The devil is not a metaphor.

My husband and his teen friends were playing with a Ouiji board. One of his friends asked the Ouiji board if they were going to move. It said, “Yes.” and then predicted “6 months”. When asked where, it spelled out a name that meant nothing to anyone at the party.”

Well...Six months later the father was transferred and his friend and his family moved to house on a street with the exact **same** name as that spelled out by the Ouiji board. ( CREEPY!)

Personally...I will have nothing to do with the occult. While references to witches, fairies, magic, werewolves, Harry Potter etc. are part of the culture and are found in movies and literature, when we encountered these things I always was clear with my children to *never *never never* dabble in these things.

14 posted on 02/02/2011 7:29:45 AM PST by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid!)
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