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Originally posted by PuRe EnErGy
Gnostically speaking, the answer to your question is that our creator; that is the one commonly thought of in the KJV of the Bible is Lucifer, and indeed if you follow gnostic scripture and other older and "heretic" texts/scriptures you'll find that they believed that we were created by an "ignorant" god one who did not know where he came from hence he thought he was the only one God, where the creator of the ignorant God hast not claimed he is the only God, although due to the deficiency of the ignorant God, we have had to live out imprisonment in the flesh while this ignorant God learns through us, since he has set his ignorance/confusion upon us who you could claim "is" us, although it is not us because we are superior "technically" superior to the ignorant God, and it is through this "sacrifice" of our imprisonment and our freedom to live in "his" ignorance that will liberate him, once he has learned his own deficiency, through us. We are what we seek, look within.
Since it is unclear precisely how the antecedent of the first premise of "Epicurus"' argument entails the consequent, later philosophers have offered refinements such as:[2]
1. God exists.
2. God is omnipotent, omniscient, and perfectly good.
3. A perfectly good being would want to prevent all evils.
4. An omniscient being knows every way in which evils can come into existence.
5. An omnipotent being, who knows every way in which an evil can come into existence, has the power to prevent that evil from coming into existence.
6. A being who knows every way in which an evil can come into existence, who is able to prevent that evil from coming into existence, and who wants to do so, would prevent the existence of that evil.
7. If there exists an omnipotent, omniscient, and perfectly good being, then no evil exists.
8. Evil exists (logical contradiction).
Pantheism is the view that the Universe (Nature) and God are identical.[1] Pantheists thus do not believe in a personal, anthropomorphic or creator god. The word derives from the Ancient Greek: πᾶν (pan) meaning "all" and θεός (theos) meaning "God". As such, Pantheism denotes the idea that "God" is best seen as a way of relating to the Universe.[2] Although there are divergences within Pantheism, the central ideas found in almost all versions are the Cosmos as an all-encompassing unity and the sacredness of Nature.
OK i never knew that was the name of that idea and that is cool, if a pantheist says that god is a word to describe the universe, wouldnt it be true to their word that the things we are finding out about the universe, have been occuring, and will be occuring, no matter the level of details we personally and collectively unravel, they are not changing the scope of god, the unravelers are...
As for the vortex of possibilities regarding ways to behave as a group of humans existing together, can you not say that we have found that working together for the good of all, (even if a single human being is the most greedy,selfish, other people hating thing) he knows it is better to cooperate with the community, tribe, or society for his own good, he will receive benefits of established systems, and get his hands on the technology and medicine the interactions of the good willed over time has produced
what i guess im getting at is society is not a given, and your life is not a given, it had to be willed into existence by much energy and inspiration and at times can be fragile.
To the idea of the good and loving way the universe would see best that humanity would live I think is something over time men have unraveled
I dont know exactly what to say I guess this arguement is about weather we can ignore starving humans, opressed and suffering men, women, and children in distant lands or our own backyards, If life is meaningless or dispensible, so if one should find himself in a good one he must take advantage of everything he can to make it better and best..
or wheather there is great hope, or meaning, or value in helping all and doing good to all, and having the insight to realize that in some time soon technology and medicine will reach to great heights, further connecting and advancing the lives on this earth, and then or before then, maybe it would be best to have all souls enlightened with information of goodness and love towards one another in order to not collapse the high rung that era would occupy on the ladder of history.
Originally posted by esqONE
Here is my theory.
you know how people say the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing us he didnt exist?
are they joking? thats not even a good trick, the best trick you could do was convincing people they are worshiping god, when they are infact worshiping the devil. just look at all the crazy stuff hes done, but god works in mysterious ways, yeah OR hes the god damn devil.
Originally posted by St Udio
Lucifer is the Prince of this mundane Planet,
its his domain
and God is the adversary
when he treads on the Earth as Jesus or any of the inspired men like John the Baptist & others.
Lucifer being the Prince of the Power of the Air...i.e. nature and the various Kingdoms (plant/animal/etc)
which in all practical terms makes him the 'God' of this material world...
Jesus and Mohammed and Buddah, et al... are temporary interlopers on Lucifers' turf !
they occasionally slip by, but Lucifer pretty much enjoys the competition and toys with them for awhile,
but Lucifer will always prevail.
..because this is his level and correspondence...the other God has his other dimension called 'Heaven'...
just whom is the one 'stealing' souls?
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That seems to be the religious fanatics and assorted Christan charlatans.
Lucifer is getting a twisted hate campaign leveled againt him...
Well in a world of hundreds of millions of religious lunatics, it is unsurprising.
is the OP listening ...hey, just think about it...The Biblical God and Allah are vying for your earthly life,
Yes the propagndists of these two invented devils want to imprison your minds.
Lucifer just wants you to enjoy the pleasures of living...not to sacrifice one's own hedonism
to forfeit your afterlife to servitude and forced slavery in eternally praising that Biblical God of Heaven.
wow what a eternity !?! to look forward to for Christians and those of the Hebrew faith
..."your afterlife to servitude and forced slavery in eternally praising that Biblical God of Heaven" How pathetic. Further evidence that religious fanaticism produces a slave mentality; the sooner you leave for your life in eternal Biblical and Islamic heaven, and cease and desist from preying on the psycholgically vulnerable the better.
His Imperial Satanic Majesty
Lucifer
edit on 5-5-2011 by Lucifer777 because: Text was not blasphemous and diabolical enough; not enough Christian flesh and blood consumed. Not enough Christian virgins deflowered & sacrificed,
Yes of course; especially the Biblical deity; he is a real sadistic human hating bastard (his parent's were not married).
Originally posted by Akragon
reply to post by Lucifer777
Yes of course; especially the Biblical deity; he is a real sadistic human hating bastard (his parent's were not married).
Im not understanding the parents not married part
Originally posted by Akragon
reply to post by Lucifer777
Yes of course; especially the Biblical deity; he is a real sadistic human hating bastard (his parent's were not married).
Im not understanding the parents not married part
A bastard (also called whoreson) in the law of England and Wales is a person whose parents, at the time of his birth, are not married to each other.