Well, call the bible a “dogmatic onion” all you want. I have excellent reason to disagree and to call the book you’re hung up on a manmade work that is in fact penned in a spirit so obsessed with the devil that it cannot see God. The devil is a little runt next to God and cannot generate any light. But there is no darkness at all in God. Anyhow, that obsession and narrowness renders it into a dark, spiritually useless work. Works that say “Look! The devil! Everywhere!” will tend to be that way no matter WHO writes them, from your favorite author to genuine Christian luminaries.
I call the bible, on the other hand, a spiritual work of light taught by the Holy Spirit. The Lord is literally gripping me with the Holy Spirit yet not as a robot. I’m not here obeying preachers or priests. I’m obeying the Lord, who is sovereign. Sovereign over you, too, whether or not you like that, though He is showing forbearance for now; he wants willing children, not robots.
At this juncture I’ve said pretty well all that I could say that my Lord wants me to say. I wish you a blessed future, not a cursed one, but the Lord can’t bless a dark work to be a light one. My advice, jettison that book and go back to the bible and to respected bible commentaries.
Ciao... but not your slave... and your name seems curiously apropos now because the devil DOES shoot flaming arrows... it was a very good test of my shield of faith and my breastplate of righteousness though, so thanks for that! (They passed!)
“Christianity, it is said, begins from the burning of the false gods by the people themselves. Education begins with the burning of our intellectual and moral idols: our
prejudices, notions, conceits, our worthless or ignoble purposes. Especially it is necessary to shake off the love of worldly gain.”
—pg 28
http://www.hermetics.org/pdf/masonry/Albert_Pike_-_Morals_and_Dogma.pdf
The NFL is full of false gods who personify the love of worldly gain.
When its gladiatorial man-gods become instruments for the subversion and demoralization of the society that feeds it, then what it renders is far, far, away from being “JUST A GAME”.
>>“Look! The devil! Everywhere!”
And the devil, no doubt, loves religion.