Satan is the carnal mind. It is the natural bent of man without the Spirit of God transforming him. That's why the garden failed because it was based on external rules. Don't eat from this tree, only that one. How could a dichotomous decision like that even amount to love and trust one way or the other? Obedience without understanding doesn't produce love. It was a display of love you can only learn the hard way π. Trust only comes from actually knowing God and you can only do that by God's own mercy and Spirit.
@TheApe_Theist True, but faith is an unseen substance operating on a Spirit level. You can't actually use reason to create faith. You can reason about the details OF the faith but faith itself is not self generated.
To show you that you cannot create righteousness by your own works. The carnal mind cannot do it. How else would he teach you that? That's what the law does (and the command not to eat was the beginning of the law command), it stirs up the sin that was in you and dormant until the commandment came, sin revived and I died.
Son, we live in a world that has trashcans, and those trashcans have to be guarded by monsters. Whoβs gonna do it? You? Oscar has a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know, that Oscarβs presence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don't want the truth, because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want him in that can. You need him in that can.
@TevinMacharia I agree. It's very upsetting that polygamy was authorized in the law though, and only for men. My heart broke when I read it, I'm not going to lie.
@Be_Like_JChrist@smithwriting I have met God too. I know him so well that I can tell you eternal conscious torment isn't part of his purview. See the problem with that argument though? We can all make it.
@needGod_net Or we should study the original languages that have been erroneously translated and explained as hell as an eternal conscious torment. Not true.
@sola_chad No, I am taught of God. We are supposed to fellowship and learn from one another but not in a hierarchical context. That has all passed away.