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@Manonfire63, if this is the basis for your theology about Satan, there are way too many "may have beens" of speculation to make any real conclusions about the devil and the demons. In fact, if you make Socrates part of its foundation, it will fail anyway. I suggest that you stick to the Bible...

Free will isn't really free. We are either born slaves to Satan and sin or we become God's children who are made willing to follow God's will by the Holy Spirit's influence through Jesus' death and resurrection's power to follow him. Notice Paul's description of our situation as unbelievers...

Here is John's take on the Antichrist: 1Jn_2:18 Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour. 1Jn_2:22 Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the...

Give us the exact Scripture references and quotes to which you refer about Elijah, please, @grumix8.

All the prosperity in the world will not gain anything in it if they have not accepted Jesus as the Messiah and the Triune God of the whole Bible.

Paul says something similar in Ephesians 2:10, where his says that we as true believers are God's "workmanship," that is, his work of art: Eph 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

The Bible teaches that God made the universe; he shines his divine nature through it to reveal his greatness; and he inspired the Bible as his revelation of himself to us, which acts as his lens showing his will and ways like eyeglasses. We need to use the Bible's principles to enlighten us in...

All true believers are saints, according to the Apostle Paul, who addressed them as such in his letters.

I have had a lot of questions over the years, but when I get to heaven, I will be so overcome with adoration when I see him that I won't want to ask them.

Every historical event in the Bible is an actual event; they are all true! Lot seems to be sitting at the city gate to invite travelers into his house in order to protect them from the gay predators in Sodom.

I sympathize with your old age, though I have other symptoms of mine, @Frankj!

Amen, @Nic!

@brightfame52, you post way too much to which people can respond. Try to summarize one of your points with a couple passages. Then, maybe we can respond.

Now, I get why you have a distorted view of God, when I look back over your posts, @Planet1246. Your Catholic education did not help you come to grips with the hard realities of life in contrast to the hope we have of heaven. Is that right? If so, they should have introduced you to the Book of...

God isn't "monstrous"; he is just. As the Creator of every human creature, he rightly requires obedience and exacts the correct punishments, that is, eternal separation from his loving presence for human rebellion. Show me where in the Bible God shows you what you say he is. Of course, he also...

What "issues"?

@NewCreation435 and @Frankj, I'm especially interested in the words "speculated," "theory," and "Revelation 33:13." I prefer sticking to the givens of Scripture and interpreting the cosmos in its light rather the other way around.

As an author, I ask God every day which direction my writing should go that day. He then pops ideas into my creativity to guide my writing. I don't hear his audible words except in the Bible as I read it.

Yeah, we more than likely have different sins from the one we are talking about, but we might hide ours better than they do. I heard someone say that we need to always realize that when we point one finger at someone else, we have three others pointing back at us.

When you read the whole chapter (the context), you see that the one speaking is wisdom, which the Bible defines as the ability to apply God's Word to our daily lives. The New Testament defines wisdom as Jesus, who enables us to use the Bible correctly for our lives (1 Corinthians 1:28-31): 1Co...