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arpgme
reply to post by Consummatum666Est
I broke a statue of Mary, too when I was younger, by mistake. Maybe it is symbolic but I don't know what it could mean either.
So Satan is more like a rival you fight against to get stronger? I think most christians feel that way., except they say god sends Satan to test them.
AthlonSavage
reply to post by arpgme
I accept there may be forms of energy demons, this however is not the same as saying there is God or devil.
An energy demon? Is that like a Sparkle Vampire or a Metrosexual Wolfman?
This Twilight pop culture is killing us softly with its song, Where did you get the term energy demon? That sounds so Buffy the Vampire Slayerish.
One time at band camp...you know, Camp Crystal Lake.
arpgme
reply to post by Consummatum666Est
I broke a statue of Mary, too when I was younger, by mistake. Maybe it is symbolic but I don't know what it could mean either.
So Satan is more like a rival you fight against to get stronger? I think most christians feel that way., except they say god sends Satan to test them.
You seem to be an expert on information about demons.
arpgme
reply to post by WarminIndy
Why does Satan show his works this clearly and strongly but not God?
Only once in a very long time does God/light manifest and it's never as strong as the Satan stuff.
Somebody "thinks" they saw a light orb of an angel, meanwhile Satan is showing his presence through paranormal activity and time distortion.
AthlonSavage
reply to post by arpgme
You seem to be an expert on information about demons.
I am an expert. You people on here are amateurs with no idea what your talking about.
arpgme
reply to post by WarminIndy
Why does Satan show his works this clearly and strongly but not God?
Only once in a very long time does God/light manifest and it's never as strong as the Satan stuff.
Somebody "thinks" they saw a light orb of an angel, meanwhile Satan is showing his presence through paranormal activity and time distortion.
jhill76
Free Will is just a choice between believing in God, or not. Each one has it's own consequences via perception. Once you choose God, your free will is now limited free will.
If you choose to side with below, then your time is spent learning of why you made that choice.
jhill
Father still controls all, indirectly and directly. So, promises of fame, etc are all mute. Satan, Devil, whatever he is called, can not give.
arpgme
Why does Satan show his works this clearly and strongly but not God? Only once in a very long time does God/light manifest and it's never as strong as the Satan stuff. Somebody "thinks" they saw a light orb of an angel, meanwhile Satan is showing his presence through paranormal activity and time distortion.
arpgme
I broke a statue of Mary, too when I was younger, by mistake. Maybe it is symbolic but I don't know what it could mean either.
So Satan is more like a rival you fight against to get stronger? I think most christians feel that way., except they say god sends Satan to test them.
akushla99
If you subscribe to the adversorial model, are the adversaries there because of your subscription?...theist and atheist alike, subscribe to models all the time...the literature surrounding this construct is replete with subscription-based phenomena (through free will creative mechanisms) that will appear as if from no-where, to legitimise the model - a circularly revolving legitimisation construct, that is solid in its form (to the extent that it legitimises itself)...the zoomed out view is thrilling and humorous in its simplicity and efficacy of process...ants are left on the ground to ponder the ant-reasons why monolithic shoes are crushing them...but it must be satan...Å99
akushla99
reply to post by vethumanbeing
Yes the adversaries show up in mail (OF ALL PLACES SACRED) you filled out the subscription form for an innocent magazine (diabolical as it turns out) and even though you were (through DNA exactitude) guarded against the pamphet droppers (7th Day Adventists, Johovah Witness) you were tricked. As you say akushla, its not just the 'believers' but the athiests as well as they must have a tenent to disbelieve and of course it is the SAME ONE. ITS ALL BASED IN THE SAME DOCTRINE But turned into a FAITH VS NON FAITH free for all. There is something ironic about this as with the wheel or tinker toy model of yin-yang drives the hamsters to ride it/build a better ErectorSet and in so doing is self legitimizing; one idea opposite the other energizes each other as a purpetual battery of motion/thought pink motorized bunny. Suddenly appearing Giant white dunes around their entrance holes (or so percieved by Ants) (an anthro product Dow chemical invention) would be the Japanese explaination of why you take your legs off/shoes before entering a communal abode that may hold old/muddy/sticky ideaforms. Quote VHB
...and that is the birth of the resistance that promulgates into ever expandable divisions between potentiality and 'actuality' at any levels...theists erect the white picket fence, and atheists stand before it, shouting 'I am not an animal-ingrate-sinner'...the free-for-all keeps the fence erected and maintained (regardless of the miniscule spaces that do divide)...both theists and atheists can have wooden heads - ready, able and willing to conk in some form of tommy-knocker game...interesting to note is that many theists (some on this board) are not in essence saying things that contradict (and vice-versa)...the discussions fall to details...Is there a devil? What is the soul? Can you sell it? What are the consequences?...I'm replying less and less, because, intrinsically the same things are being posited from different sides of that fence...I can't (don't want to) speculate on the reason/s for that?! Maybe a good thing, maybe not...
Å99
WII
I don't understand what VHB is talking about in the Hertz and wavelengths...but A99, I understand you better. If you were on the roof with your Big Wheel, I would probably send dad up the ladder to get you. But hey, I'm a middle-aged woman, I see things like that. Call it mother instinct, even though I don't have children, so I have to vicariously be a mom. I hope that is ok.