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Nah. I have no interest in doing so. Besides, you brought it up.You can start your own thread about proving Buddha’s existence.
Yes, in the Urantia Book he was an assistant to Lucifer. Both were taken into custody just prior to the public faze of Jesus’ ministry. Lucifer, a son of God was a high administrator who launched a rebellion against the existence of the Father. Lucifer became an atheist of sorts. We don’t know if the trial of Lucifer & followers has concluded yet.@cOLTER , is Satan's existence confirmed in the UB?
If it wasn't satan misleading people, it would be somebody else.Satan was allowed to mislead the world and sustained in power while millions were purportedly destroyed for their wickedness..
Satan or the devil is depicted as having far more power than any human. But I would agree that religious people tend to blame the devil for the wickedness of their own hearts.If it wasn't satan misleading people, it would be somebody else.
Almighty God created us with free-will .. He knows what He created.
..blaming satan does not resolve us of responsibility for our own actions.
Agreed .. satan has vast experience compared to us.Satan or the devil is depicted as having far more power than any human..
We're coming up to where billions might get destroyed for it...Satan was allowed to mislead the world and sustained in power while millions were purportedly destroyed for their wickedness. Satan is put away but then brought back to mislead more people.
I don't understand the accusation that the Gospel of John was a conspiracy concocted by the Pharisees, but you are entitled to your belief. Rather I see John as filling in material that was absent in the first 3 gospels. While I believe there was a revelation-vision to John while on Patmos, I do not believe that it survived intact. I believe that the Book of Revelation was corrupted by apocalyptic thinkers of that age.We're coming up to where billions might get destroyed for it...
You've noticed that Paul & Simon were Pharisaic; next it is possible to then notice that the Gospel of John aligns with their Pharisaic principles, and that it doesn't sound like Yeshua in the Synoptic Gospels.
The Pharisees are accusing (satan) Yeshua's principles, and in the process making Christianity; then along came the Quran accusing (satan) Christianity's principles, and in the process making Islam.
Soon because of all this misleading people: Christendom (Magog) is supporting Zionism/Rabbinic Rebels (Gog) to be a heavily armed firecracker or funeral pyre, trying to steal back the land of unwalled villages (Ezekiel 38:8-12)...
This leads to a huge war in the Middle East (Armageddon), and then the Judgement Day Fire is at the end of Ezekiel 38:22; as millions have died from adverse reactions from the vaccine (Ezekiel 39:4-5).
The same timeline is in Revelation 16's explanation of the Great Tribulation: adverse side affects in Revelation 16:2, the Euphrates dries (Revelation 16:12) prior to Armageddon (Revelation 16:16) with Christ back secretly explaining prophecy (Revelation 16:15, Revelation 3:3).
In my opinion.
The author of the book of Revelation didn't know Greek according to scholars; whereas the author of the Gospel & Letters of John was adept at Greek... Thus they are different authors.revelation-vision to John while on Patmos
Here & here is an ongoing list showing some of the contradictions in John Vs the Synoptic Gospels.I don't understand the accusation that the Gospel of John was a conspiracy concocted by the Pharisees
All of the Gospels have contradictions, that's not new. Jesus left no writings on purpose. But that's for another topic thread, I just hadn't heard the Pharisee conspiracy before.The author of the book of Revelation didn't know Greek according to scholars; whereas the author of the Gospel & Letters of John was adept at Greek... Thus they are different authors.
Here & here is an ongoing list showing some of the contradictions in John Vs the Synoptic Gospels.
The more we study all the errors within the Gospel of John, we can show it had to be written by a member of the high council, as to be able to contain the many private conversations of the Pharisees, that are documented within it.
The most likely partial author of the Gospel of John is Nicodemus, as he is referenced three times within it, and the conversation about being Born Again in John 3, is only Yeshua, and Nicodemus present, where none of the other authors document it.
In my opinion.
Yeshua never approved the so called " "commonly "accepted Bible and Christian theology, please? Right?paarsurrey said: ↑
" Revelation 12:9, Revelation 20:1-3 "
The friends here just to keep in mind that the above verses "Revelation 12:9, Revelation 20:1-3 " are not from Jesus, please. Right?
The Catholics, Protestants and Messianic Israelites have published Red Letter Bibles* in these Bibles they have colored in red letters all the stuff that is supposedly/tentatively and or that which might have been said by (Jesus) Yeshua- the Israelite Messiah, one gets to know, please. Right?
The above verses have not been colored in red in them, please. Right?
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*Holy Bible King James Version (Red Letter Edition)
The Roman Catholic Holy Bible with the words of Jesus in red.
World Messianic Bible
cOLTER said: ↑
I'm referring to the commonly accepted Bible and Christian theology.
Paarsurrey: #27
" commonly accepted Bible and Christian theology "
Did Yeshua accept this "commonly "accepted Bible and Christian theology, please? Right?
If yes, then kindly quote from Yeshua in this connection, please. Right?
"The great dragon was hurled down--that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him."
Revelation 12:9, NIV:
Its a difficult thing to understand. Why was this Satan character was allowed to deceive so many and for so long? Some say it was forseen before the foundation of the world! How could he take down others in the celestial world? Clearly he had more powers and authority than a mere rebellious cherub? He is even given the tile "God of this world"? Isn't there only One God?
From the previously fallen "crafty beast" (already evil when he met with Eve) to the reawakening for another reign of deception, evil and destruction after a 1,000 year detention, this devil figure has been tolerated on high! Throughout the Old Testament the devil lives on while sooooo many were killed! In the flood story all the world is drown except Noah and his inlaws, everything on earth killed! But Satan lives on???
Revelation 20:1-3
20 Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. 2 He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; 3 and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while.
7 Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison 8 and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea. 9 They went up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them. 10 The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
I'm curios how others treat this issue?