Text What makes one religion the absolute truth and the rest a pack of blasphemous lies? Who gets to decide? Who can provide the evidence?
reply to post by Chipkin9
You do. That's your job as a person. You get to nit pick and choose anything you want to. No one is going to make you change your mind. You
already have your mind set on what you want to believe. The so called bible is nothing but ancient manuscripts scattered all over creation and
collected into a book form. Just other people's opinions or revelations.
What is interesting to me is that all of the different people from different places and different times kind of agree with one another on a lot of
things. I just sort it out in my mind and cherry pick what I want to believe. Everybody does that. Read the following that I cherry picked.
Doesn't mean that I am right to you but it does mean that I am right to me. That is for now.
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Reading the 1611 KJV bible I read the following’
Revelation 12:7-9
(7) - And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, (8) - And prevailed not;
neither was their place found any more in heaven. (9) - And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which
deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Ezekiel 28:13-17
(13) - Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and
the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day
that thou wast created. (14) -Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast
walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. (15) -Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was
found in thee. (16) -By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast
thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. (17) -Thine heart was
lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before
kings, that they may behold thee.
Isaiah 14:12 -15
(12)-How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! (13) For
thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the
congregation, in the sides of the north: (14) -I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. (15) Yet thou shalt be
brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
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2nd Peter 2:4- For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved
unto judgment;
Jude 1:6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto
the judgment of the great day.
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All five men agree with the premise of celestial entities that have sinned and I assume that these five accounts refer to the same happening.
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Job 1: 6, 7
(6) Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them. (7) And the LORD said unto
Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
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Note that Job says that Satan was called forth to appear before God and that Satan said that he was walking up and down and to and forth in the earth.
Not on the earth or around the earth or above the earth as some suppose. Would that agree with both Peter and Isaiah as they state that Lucifer
(Satan) and his angels are cast into hell till the final day of this judgment?
Job is considered the oldest of the manuscripts of the Hebrew bible and although his book is not dated, Job is estimated (by Jewish Scholars) to have
existed 600 to 700 years after the flood of Noah. This would put his life at about 1500 to 1400 BCE. Would this suggest that Satan existed in the
minds of the entire Hebrew bible characters?
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To better understand let’s examine this in this manner. 2nd Peter tells me that the angels who had sinned and warred in heaven were cast down into
this earth and in the realm which we call hell. I understand this to mean that they are restricted from using the surface of this earth or the
atmosphere above this earth but that they are imprisoned in the earth. Now Peter does not name Lucifer specifically but does say the word
‘angels’ as referring to the entire group. I would assume that this includes Lucifer.
Scriptures tell us that Lucifer is mentioned only once in the OT and NT. Could it be that Lucifer is still bound in hell just as Jude and Peter tells
us? But then how could this Lucifer tempt Jesus in the NT if he is in hell? We can understand how he afflicted Job because the book of Job explains
that Satan was called forth to afflict him. But was the Satan which was called forth from the earth to buffet Job the same Lucifer who was cast into
hell? Can it be the Lucifer who is bound in hell this very day? Are there more than one Lucifer’s? The bible does not say that Lucifer tempted
Jesus. The bible says that Satan tempted Jesus. But isn’t Lucifer the same as Satan?
Could the problem be with our understanding of just who and what Satan is? Could it be that there are many Satan’s? Could it be that Lucifer is
but a personage who is a Satan? Could it be that the reason Lucifer is not mentioned again is because he is one of many spirits which embraced evil?
In other words Lucifer was a specific entity of celestial substance who was the arch angel with twelve wings compared to all others who had six wings.
This Lucifer is not mentioned as Lucifer after he was cast out of the celestial realm. He was numbered as one of the many Satan’s. Lucifer is not
the progenitor of sin. God is the progenitor of sin and isn’t sin a spirit of force and not an entity such as an angel? It is the entity that
embraces sin and is the practitioner of sin but not the progenitor of sin.
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Let’s take a look at Islam and their explanation of Satan.
The Muslim religion is a branch of Judaic and Christian thought in many ways. Their religion explains that they have two terms in explaining our
Satan. Their first and foremost entity is that of Iblis. Iblis is to the Muslim as Lucifer is to the Christian. Then the Muslims have Shaitan who
is any entity that rebels against their God. In their way of thinking they have only one Iblis who is a Shaitan but they have many Shaitan’s.
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