Posted on 12/22/2023 9:16:02 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
Is there a Satan? Is there Hell? Is man’s inhumanity toward his fellow man, just part of his “animal nature”? Or is there something greater? Is there a higher power and a lower power that are battling each other? It says in the Bible that our fight is not against flesh and blood but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, and spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
Man’s inhumanity to his fellow man started when Cain murdered his brother Abel and the hatred and murder have not ceased.
You would think that as we have modernized and supposedly evolved into higher beings with higher levels of intelligence, this hatred would become extinct. But it seems that since the 20th century, it has only increased. We saw this with the greatest technological and most advanced Christian nation in the world, as Nazi Germany killed millions, including six million Jews merely because they were Jews. The Jewish People have been hated, persecuted, tortured, and murdered since the days of Pharaoh when he had the firstborn of his Hebrew slaves put to the sword.
Why did God make the Jewish People, the Hebrews, his Chosen People? And was this because He favored the Jews above everyone else? No. On the contrary, in so doing He actually put a target on the back of every Jewish person by calling him or her “Chosen”.
The Jewish People were chosen not because of their greatness or their intelligence. They were chosen because they believed in the one true God and the one true God believed that they could be the people to bring His message to the world.
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Hillary, Obama, Pelosi, Hamas...just for starters.
It’s a lot for some folks to accept that the Lord puts up with us, never mind with Satan.
I am no theologian myself.
Yes
Sister Robert Anthony said it does. She hasn’t been proven wrong since. It’s pretty simple.
Yes, just check the clergy of every church.
Of course it does. Robert Heinlein once wrote that the villain never thinks he’s a villain. That’s only true in fiction. When you have people who openly delight in things that absolutely do harm other people and celebrate being the cause, you have evil. You don’t have to go very far to find them, either, they broadcast it for you.
Read history. It's a series of endless wars, raids, gang rapes, enslavements of whole tribes, and genocides. (Africa is still pretty much like that.) Nobody had it easy.
The Jewish People ... were chosen because they believed in the one true God and the one true God believed that they could be the people to bring His message to the world.
The Bible doesn't say that. I recall Moses telling the Israelites (I think in Deuteronomy) that they were not chosen because of any merit on their part.
Picking up on that, the Catholic Church says the Jews received this unmerited gift as a typological prefigurement of Christ's unmerited gift to humanity of his sacrifice on the cross (i.e., the Jews did not deserve their status, in the same way that humanity did not deserve Christ's sacrifice; both are gifts from God).
Please read psychiatrist Scott Peck’s two books “People of the Lie” and “A Glimpse of the Devil.”
The legendary bestselling author and renowned psychiatrist M. Scott Peck, whose books have sold over 14 million copies, reveals the amazing true story of his work as an exorcist — kept secret for more than twenty-five years — in two profoundly human stories of satanic possession. In the tradition of his million-copy bestseller People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil, Scott Peck’s new book offers the first complete account of exorcism and possession by a modern psychiatrist in this extraordinary personal narrative of his efforts to heal patients suffering from demonic and satanic possession.
For the first time, Dr. Peck discusses his experience in conducting exorcisms, sharing the spellbinding details of his two major cases: one a moving testament to his healing abilities, and the other a perilous and ultimately unsuccessful struggle against darkness and evil.
“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people."
-- Jeremiah 31:31-33
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"In the same way, after the supper [Jesus] took the cup, saying, 'This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.'"
-- Luke 22:20
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"In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away."
-- Hebrews 8:13
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"For neither circumcision counts for anything nor uncircumcision, but keeping the commandments of God."
1 Corinthians 7:19
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"There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise."
Galatians 3:28-29
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The "Chosen People of God?" Yes, and this is what they were chosen for, to bring forth the Savior of both Jew and Gentile. The New Covenant is now in effect. The old Covenant has passed away. Those who are in Christ -- and only those who are in Christ -- are today the Chosen People of God.
Ever think about Tiberius? Caligula? Nero? Commodus?Hitler? Stalin? Mao?The Democrat Party? Viz. the Party of Hate and Evil? The Party of Slavery, Infanticide, the Ku Klux Klan, Jim Crow, racism, and the destruction of the USA?
Will a Bear..?
Does evil exist? Haven’t you seen that fat, Marxist, Pagan, pervert in the Vatican?
Francis absolutely belongs on the list
Even satan/allah believes in God, Heaven and Hell
81 million people voted for it in 2020.
Evil is the absence of good. Just as darkness is the absence of light and cold is the absence of heat.
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