A COMMON VIEW OF SATAN

I, Brenda, copied this from another person's Facebook  page.


These are just two short paragraphs of an article written by John W. Ritenbaugh for “The Berean.”  I pray that it helps someone.

  “Satan's influence is worldwide: "We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one" (I John 5:19). His ultimate object is to destroy God, but along the way he also strives to destroy any aspect of God's creation, most especially man. He is doing this through inducing human beings to sin in order to bring upon them the wages of sin – death.
  His basic tool for accomplishing this is by means of his spirit. The driving forces of his prideful, deceitful mind and those of his demon companions are deceit, hatred, anger, competition, and destruction, all encompassed within an overweening pride. People absorb them into their thinking processes, becoming like him in attitude and conduct. These characteristics lodge into human hearts and generate resistance to God, His law, and His purpose.”
  John W. Ritenbaugh

RETHINKING "SATAN"

Here's my take on the previous post on FB about satan....

I agree with this picture...in a way... but there's more to it that the bible and most believers in the existence of a satanic force don't understand. My inner explorations have shown me the big picture.

 There is no satan,  no evil per se, and no one is basically bad.

God is good and everything that is, was made by God. More than that, everything is part of God.  Everything is God and God wants to be FREE... in every part of Itself...free even to choose to be bad.

However, God did create an auto-self-correcting system, whereby when someone believes something that is not God's Truth, then there are negative consequences for believing that...and worse ones for acting on it. BUT , God truly allows everything, but what goes around, comes around.  That's the law. God metes that out and humans should leave that totally up to The Divine aspect of ourselves.

I've been shown that there is a "condition" (I call "It." ) Its sort of like  a software program that CAN be deleted. 

Just now humanity holds as true a lot of untrue, self destructive ideas that came with this currently popular software.

If anyone is harboring one of these untrue beliefs, they might be swept up into the  "It-paradigm."

But no one is basically bad. God is a Within Being--within everyone and everything....and we are totally within God.

 God is not out there, up there, long ago , far away...nor a male father figure.

Many higher spiritual beings are working on eradicating the it-paradigm from human existence. But it has become deeply imbedded in the human psyche.

E.g., Many people believe that killing people in war and for capital crimes is good or at least ok...necessary.

It is not. Killing for any reason is off. Killing as an ok thing ...ever... is part of the  it-paradigm. Hurting self or others is too. Thinking that the end justifies thd means is a major part of the it-paradigm and is way "off."

There are so many other widely accepted off-beliefs. Anything involving force is off.

Love is the way.

Thats how I see this.