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originally posted by: BELIEVERpriest
a reply to: vethumanbeing
That wasn't my point. I didnt say the serpent impregnated Eve, nor did I say that Adam was the serpent. The allusion that I was making was that Satan's goal is to counterfeit God. A Gnostic mind might perceive that as dualism, but that would be an oversimplification of the Angelic Conflict between God and Satan.
originally posted by: VitaArcana
Without Satan, Lucifer,Zues whatever you want to call him/her. There would be no freewill and man would be like apes without will or freedom to express their own existence. If you like it or not the one you call the enemy freed man from the chains of mindless warship and oppression.
originally posted by: BELIEVERpriest
originally posted by: VitaArcana
Without Satan, Lucifer,Zues whatever you want to call him/her. There would be no freewill and man would be like apes without will or freedom to express their own existence. If you like it or not the one you call the enemy freed man from the chains of mindless warship and oppression.
Not true. Satan had pre-existing free will to become what he is today. Man had the free will to learn God's Divine Righteousness or take Satan's Knowledge of Good and Evil. God's knowledge gave us life. Satan's knowledge gave us dying-death...which is a dead-end. So who is the liberator now? The one who led us into bondage to the "good-evil" paradigm , or the one who incarnated to pay the penalty for our trespasses so that we could once again share the Divine Righteousness of God (through His only begotten Son)?
With or without a satan, the choice always exists.
BELIEVERpriest: You said it yourself, the choice is always there. Be one with God, in the sense of fellowship or communion, or be separate from God which creates the illusion of duality. The choice is always ours. The Angelic Conflict exists because Satan wanted to take God's place, and he convinced one-third of the Angels to defect. What was Satan thinking to make him so confident? I dont know.
BELIEVERpriest: Angels are much smarter and stronger than humans. But the question in Satan's mind is; Does God really always win?
BELIEVERpriest: So far God has beaten Satan at his every move, but there are two more major plays that Satan has left: the second advent of the antichrist (his son), and the final deception at the end of Christ's Millennial Reign.
BELIEVERpriest: Once Satan is categorically and legally defeated, then all authority and Jesus's Kingdom will be handed back to God the Father, and all those who share the Resurrection of Life will be in eternal fellowship with God. There is no duality, there never was. Duality implies equally opposing, but Evil is nowhere near as powerful as Divine Righteousness.
BELIEVERpriest: This whole time, duality has been the red herring, just like good vs evil...which are two sides of the coin. One man's good is another's evil, but both self-serving and require self justification. On the other hand, Divine Righteousness is a virtue which respects individual freedom. Satan was the author of sin with his "good-evil" paradigm. God in His Divine Righteousness simply gave Satan the freedom to choose.
BELIEVERpriest: Satan created the "good-evil" paradigm to replace God's order of Divine Righteousness. So the dualism you see only exIsts as a result of inordinate competition on Satan's part.
originally posted by: BELIEVERpriest
a reply to: veteranhumanbeing
The Millennium is coming, and your days of denying it are numbered as it rapidly approaches. You have to account for your blind spots before you can know whats coming.
BELEIVERpriest: To the rest of your argument, I'm finding it harder to follow your logic, so I'll just have to respectfully disagree.
You may not see now, but perhaps at a later time: simply believe that Jesus died for your sins and you will have everlasting life.
originally posted by: VitaArcana
What is coming is the New World Order
There will be things that will occur very soon to set up the stage even more, even if you hate it the truth is that it is already on its way. Unfortunately we all think it's bad and evil but in reality none of us know the real truth about
NWO....
Also religions are an old art form that was used before and is slowly dying off now, you know it, I know it and they know it. A new order must be formed and to cast aside the ways of old.....
Many will try to grasp it and try to stop it, but change is part of the plan and the plan is just....
originally posted by: vethumanbeing
originally posted by: BELIEVERpriest
originally posted by: VitaArcana
Without Satan, Lucifer,Zues whatever you want to call him/her. There would be no freewill and man would be like apes without will or freedom to express their own existence. If you like it or not the one you call the enemy freed man from the chains of mindless warship and oppression.
Not true. Satan had pre-existing free will to become what he is today. Man had the free will to learn God's Divine Righteousness or take Satan's Knowledge of Good and Evil. God's knowledge gave us life. Satan's knowledge gave us dying-death...which is a dead-end. So who is the liberator now? The one who led us into bondage to the "good-evil" paradigm , or the one who incarnated to pay the penalty for our trespasses so that we could once again share the Divine Righteousness of God (through His only begotten Son)?
With or without a satan, the choice always exists.
This is the duality God offers is all. Satan was the bringer of knowledge "FREE WILL" to the human; despite the Elohim's/Nephilim protests (cried a foul play on this one; that of enlightenment). Satan may have said "with this knowledge you are now a material being and your body will die"; other dogmas came into being to explain away any fear. This being: you are an individualized soul/spirit and will exist forever. The material world is not reality; you are in a dream dreaming a reality that does not exist.
Revelation 22:16New International Version (NIV)
22:16 “I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you[a] this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star.”
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Lucifer (/ˈlʲuːsɪfər/ lew-sif-ər) is the King James Version rendering of the Hebrew word הֵילֵל in Isaiah 14:12. This word, transliterated hêlêl[1] or heylel,[2] occurs only once in the Hebrew Bible[1] and according to the KJV-influenced Strong's Concordance means "shining one, morning star".[2] The word Lucifer is taken from the Latin Vulgate,[3] which translates הֵילֵל as lucifer,[Isa 14:12][4][5] meaning "the morning star, the planet Venus", or, as an adjective, "light-bringing".[6] The Septuagint renders הֵילֵל in Greek as ἑωσφόρος[7][8][9][10][11] (heōsphoros),[12][13][14] a name, literally "bringer of dawn", for the morning star.[15]
Later Christian tradition came to use the Latin word for "morning star", lucifer, as a proper name ("Lucifer") for the Devil; as he was before his fall.[16] As a result, "'Lucifer' has become a by-word for Satan/the Devil in the Church and in popular literature"
Like several other prophets, Dixon, also has foreseen the advent of the Antichrist and the False Prophet:
"Satan is now coming into the open to seduce the world and we should be prepared for the inevitable events that are to follow. I have seen that the United States is to play a major role in this development... I have seen a �government within a government� develop in the US within the last few years...
I see this �government within a government� being controlled and financed by a well-oiled political �machine� of one of our leading political families. With their eye on the White House, I see them discredit any man who occupies it without their approval, no matter how good his political programs may be.
"They will --- through political intimidation, propaganda, and illegal sixth-column activities --- make every effort to show the nation that only their man, the one who heads their �machine�, has the sole right to occupy the White House. Their campaign is going to cause great harm to our nation both here and abroad.
"I �see� this group succeed in taking over de facto control of the country. They will give rise to an upheaval in our social structure as never before seen. They will bring about increased social unrest and great discontent. Foreign subversive elements will --- as they did in the 1960s --- infiltrate the unruly factions and cause renewed fighting on the nation�s campuses and in racial ghettos.
"All of the evil in the masses will be swept toward an unknown frenzy by this �machine�.
"I �see� a member of this �machine� ascend to power in New York City, enforcing new laws and regulations that will affect many households of that great metropolis. [Obviously, the Rockefellers are indicated here]
"The social and religious chaos generated by this political machine throughout the United States will prepare the nation for the coming of the prophet of the Antichrist. This political unit of the East will be the tool of the serpent in delivering the masses to him.
"The False Prophet�s domain shall be the intellectual seduction of mankind. It means a mixture of political, philosophical, and religious ideology that will throw the populations of the world into a deep crisis of faith in God... One of his first duties and responsibilities in readying the world for the advent of his �master� is to manipulate the available propaganda machines.
With teaching and propaganda the prophet will cause people not merely to accept the Antichrist but rather to desire him with positive enthusiasm to create the conditions of his coming and to participate in organizing the frightful and terrifying despotism of his World Empire.
"[The seemingly miraculous phenomena he will produce] will not be supernatural or preternatural events but rather prodigies of science and human achievements, but interpreted in such a way as to lead men away from God and toward the worship of the Antichrist... The prophet of the Antichrist and the Antichrist himself will be specific and identifiable persons!"