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I pray for the defeat of Satan and evil spirits and evil in general.
But pray 'FOR' them .. to convert them?? Nope. I haven't.
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
reply to post by Infernalis
You're funny too and you don't even know it.
Um, during my experience, as I felt the Satanic rise up in me, and I knowing that it's ego it's insatiable ego desire for power wouldn't be met except in another inevitable fall - I prayed to God to let me become Satan now and get it over with, while in a state of absolute repentance and humility, because my motivation and desire was to avoid at all cost now, and forever, any possibility of separation from God as the center and source of all live and love and wisdom - it was while I was doing laundry, which I felt was apt based on a certain passage in the book of Revelation, and as I fell to my needs, all but under possession on the one hand by an unrelenting, persistent craving for power and glory, but based in ego, and on the other desperate to remain included and accepted as a child of God without any possibility of separation - I swear I heard a CHEER go up in heaven, and so in my laundry room, cleaning my whites clean, on my knees I gave thanks to God, and I think it was at that point that I was saved, even though I still went through some other dramatic nonsense involving spiritual bank heists and the like.
Mine "religion" is an absolute TRIUMPH, wherein something is bounded and another (God's love) demonstrated as boundless and something not only real and alive in this world but in many others, and from powers and principalities of this world and in the heavens above, like a cosmic joke that can only be told from the POV of a human being, as a joke told at the devil's expense.
I know. Been there done that got the t-shirt.
Originally posted by FlyersFan
"But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?" -Mark Twain Personally, I don't think it would do any good ...
Fallen is fallen. Fallen angels can't rise up again.
(at least that's what I've read) I pray for the defeat of Satan and evil spirits and evil in general.
But pray 'FOR' them .. to convert them?? Nope. I haven't.Anyone out there pray FOR Satan or the evil spirits?
Not 'to' them ... but 'FOR' them?? Just wondering ....
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
reply to post by Infernalis
You don't get it. Now I know who I am and am of almost perfect mental health and well being, except for my cigarette addiction.
I've been attacked and have come out the other side, been through the ringer you have no idea.
Reintegration, acceptance, forgiveness, absolute love, free self expression - now I have absolute liberation, not the least of which is the freedom to be myself.
God saved me though, it was by the power of God that I came through the ordeal safe and sound while he did his demonstration.
You haven't walked in my shoes. I may wreak of that to you, but if you had any idea what I've been through you would know that I'm courageous, much moreso than the next guy.
Originally posted by AfterInfinity
reply to post by arpgme
So then we should send love and forgiveness and compassion to him, right? If death and hate and defeat make him stronger, then surely everyone sending positive thoughts to him would kill him...or change him. Love conquers all, right? Or is Satan beyond all that now? If Satan is immune to love, then surely he can't be empowered by hate. Logically, immunity to one is immunity to its opposite.
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
reply to post by Infernalis
Those were some pretty wise works. You do have understanding.
That said, all the treasure IS in Christ where the treasure is his absolute love, and that in him there is no darkness where our reintegration into and reconciliation with God is by the power of forgiveness.
That has wholeness and integrity built right in but without compromise as an all or nothing proposition and I like that.
edit on 15-4-2013 by NewAgeMan because: (no reason given)
They said to Him: "Shall we then, being children, enter the Kingdom?" Jesus said to them: "When you make the two one, and when you make the inner as the outer and the outer as the inner and the above as the below, and when you make the male and the female into a single one, then you shall enter the kingdom."
Originally posted by AfterInfinity
If Jesus could pray for the Romans who were torturing him as he hung on the cross, who are you to turn your nose up at any sinner who could use prayer?
how easy would it be for "God" to demonstrate pure love and forgiveness for Satan?
Treat a man like a dog and he'll act like a dog. Ever thought of that?[
Originally posted by Infernalis
Mark Twain was a Satanist of the highest order.
A religion of fear, is a religion of death.
To pray for Satan is to pray for yourself, you are god's duality, and Satan is your engine.
All of life is perpetuated by the carnal, and carried forward by the idealistic.
I pray for God himself, he will need all the help he can get in picking up the slack for those of you whom refuse to carry yourselves.
The light and the dark mingle in the shade, so the the sharp and the dull mingle till we all bleed. Where is your dead god in this world?