Well, I like what this guy said the first time. Like he said, the Bible tells us that Satan is the father of death. From the time of Adam and Eve to the Revelations vision of Death riding a pale horse, death is always associated with Satan. So, it just seems like pure ignorance to me for men to blame God for death.
All the four horsemen of the apocalypse (War, Famine, Pestilence and Death) were servants of Satan. Pretty much the same sources of sorrow were recognized by Gautama Buddha, by the way. So, when men blame these things on God, they do little more than show their ignorance.
I don't kow anything about these higher teachings of Jesus, and I really don't care to know them. If they were all that important, he'd have taught them to everyone. Instead, he shared them with only a select few. So, it's not important to me.
However, I am always concerned that men seem to go out of their way to make excuses about the affairs of men. Knowing that the world of man is finite and limited, why would we strive to make excuses for men, like saying that certain things/ behaviors are natural when they are not observed in nature. Being the smartest of all the beasts, men can rationalize anything... but it is still just a rationalization, not necessarily truth.
Like, I'm studying with some Jehovah's Witnesses one day. I'm very liberal and I'll study the Word with just about anyone of any faith.
** But, then they told me that the "heart" always misleads us, and that the "mind" is the path to understanding God, that the mind must be "trained" to reason. I'm sorry, but it just did not feel right to me. Not only does the Bible never say anything like that, but the training of the human mind sound awfully close to the idea of brain-washing to me.
** See what I'm saying? God talks to us through our heart, not through our reasoning minds. Like, it was Moses' reasoning mind that responded with doubt when God told him to go to Egypt and free those slaves. Thought it what creates doubt and insecurity.
** What do I expect, though? The Jehovah's Witness faith started here in these United States in the 30s, after the Depression. Only twisted Americans would come to the conclusion that the reasoning thinking mind is more important than the heart that automatically feels love. It takes no thought to automatically smile when you see a newborn baby, for that is a heart response.
Men give too much consideration with this mortal and material world. They make excuses for unnatural things, like those strange people that somehow think sheep are closely related to men (or women, as the disgusting mind would tell it).
This other guy tells us that Satan twists the truth, and I agree with that. Satan would have us think that every unnatural thought/ act is natural. He would twist the way we think in every way possible.
Why does he do this? To separate us from the divine, be that divine the beauty of nature or the mystery of the infinite cosmos/ universe or the universal mind or the collective consciousness or the Almighty God. He does what he can to keep us from heeding that soft and precious voice that would guide us to be better people and better denizens of this natural world around us.
You want to see Satan in action? Look at your car, the factories and the over-population of man all over this world. These are the works of Satan, for this world could exist better and longer without man than it can with him.
Man was made with free will and the logical capacities to make choices. Unfortunately, this was exactly what Satan needed to turn us against God.
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