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(snip) Satan is an evil spirit. ?That is all he ever was. Wasn't he a goodie until he got too big for his boots and cheesed off the chief? Now it's baddie all the way, apparently. That's right as far as it goes, but there is more to the scenario. Satan, or Lucifer as he is called at this level of development, was among or perhaps the most intelligent of God's spiritual beings. Lucifer realized that there were options for doing things outside God's will, but he was not sure what the consequences would be. Lucifer had no other spirits leading him into this realm, but just kept thinking about it and finally decided to explore it. God knew from the beginning that this would happen, and had a solution to the problem already worked out. Obviously it wouldn't work for God to have placed any kind of restrictions upon Lucifer, because it would surely be only a matter of time before another spiritual being got into the same _frame_ of mind. If God shut them down when they came into this _frame_ of mind, it would be only a matter of time until all His spiritual beings had been shut down. God's solution to this problem was to let Lucifer go ahead with all he could muster and explore this form of rebellion in every way he could think of. The only restriction was that Lucifer was not allowed to completely destroy God's creation nor his created beings. We're getting into the last chapters of this program, and the going may get pretty rough in the very near future. I do believe, however, that Lucifer/Satan will eventually concede, repent and turn away, volitionally, from his agenda and when he does, God will forgive him. God is not willing that any should perish, and God is omnipotent. If this is the way it all works out, Hell will exist, but it will be an empty set, mathematically speaking. Gordon Satan is a son of perdition.
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On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 20:45:27 -0700 (PDT), rbwinn <
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wrote in alt.atheism: On Jun 6, 5:14?pm, Smiler <
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wrote in message - Show quoted text - Well, the difference between fiction and truth is that Harry Potter did not depart from a train station in London to go to the wizard's school. ?There was no Harry Potter. ? However, Jesus Christ did go to the synagogue at Nazareth and read from the book of Isaiah.
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rbwinn <
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wrote in message - Show quoted text - Well, the difference between fiction and truth is that Harry Potter did not depart from a train station in London to go to the wizard's school. ?There was no Harry Potter. ? However, Jesus Christ did go to the synagogue at Nazareth and read from the book of Isaiah.
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On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:24:48 -0700 (PDT), rbwinn <
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wrote in alt.atheism: ... No, the Biblical account seems all in order to me. ?There is a ramp built by the Assyrian army over the wall at Lachish. ?There is a tunnel from Gihon spring to the Pool of Siloam exactly where three books of the Bible say it is. ?People can go to Israel and see both of these things today. ?So what is the problem that atheists see with Hezekiah's tunnel and the earthen ramp over the wall at Lachish? So, your argument tells us that the Trojan war happened exactly as Homer tells us because we found physical evidence that Troy existed. Thank you. I have not said a word about the Trojan war. ? ?You seem to be trying to put words into my mouth. You implicitly said that every single mythological document is true if it is supported by some fact. You have told us that you do not have standards of proof, that is your choice, but the consequence is that your argument forces you to accept every claim about every god in the world. I did not implicitly say anything. You don't even understand what you write then. Every post you make mocks God and proves to the rest of the world that the Bible is a joke. Maybe you are a very good Loki, trying to make Christians look like fools. He's making an excellent job of it, too. We should make him the 'poster boy' for atheism. This is what religion does to your brain and your integrity. Smiler, The godless one a.a.# 2279
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... I can't believe you don't get this.... I just can't believe it... maybe if we sat face to face with some blocks or something.... I dunno..... *weep*- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - No, the Biblical account seems all in order to me. ?There is a ramp built by the Assyrian army over the wall at Lachish. ?There is a tunnel from Gihon spring to the Pool of Siloam exactly where three books of the Bible say it is. ?People can go to Israel and see both of these things today.
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