LOL, that sounds like a christian full of gratitude
whats with the typical religious protestant and their image of the world being in evil hands
allow me to school you in your weak spirituality
hebrews had it right, there is no duality, good/evil, there is only G-D.. G-D gave you "Satan", G-D gave you free will
Satan is but a servant to G-D
And if the world is ending soon, its G-Ds plan that you have ZERO power over...
Throwing my 2 cents into the mix here -- take it with a grain of salt -- this is only from a Christian point of view -- I know its late:
As far as I can tell by reading the Bible- - -God doesn't send people to Hell or Heaven. People make that choice on their own.
This life is a tale of two families -- the family of God and the family of Satan ( aka the Devil ).
The family of God has their eternal 'headquarters' in a place called Heaven.
The family of Satan has their eternal 'headquarters' in a place called Hell.
If you choose to follow God ( Jesus ) - after you die you will spend eternity with the family of God --
in their eternal residence - in Heaven. you stay with 'family.'
If you choose to not follow God ( JESUS ) - you will spend eternity with the family of Satan -
in their eternal residence - in Hell. you stay with 'family.'
Many people say they dont want to go to hell- -- but they do not enjoy spending time with Jesus Christ or
with the family of God ( Christians ).
Here's the rub -- if you don't enjoy spending time with Jesus and the family of God now - - guess what --
if you were to die and go to heaven -- at some point in your heavenly stay ( could take awhile ) --
you would no longer enjoy being with the family of God anymore in Heaven.
You would probably be sad or not as happy as you should.
Just think about that for a few moments and let it sink in.... and also know there is no sadness in heaven.
I also agree with Chopsticks -- The Church oftentimes mixes law with grace and that doesnt work.
Also the Church mostly preaches and teaches law and condemnation-- INSTEAD of the unbelievably freeing GRACE of GOD.
It's all this law stuff that chases people away - do this - dont do this -- act like this -- dont act like this etc.
If people only learned of the true grace ( unmerited and undeserved and free favor ) of God --
they would fall in love with him and never turn back.
When we fix our eyes on Jesus and behold the beauty of our eternal King - -- it changes everything.
Your going to have to explain that one to me
Revelation 13:11-18
11 Then I saw a second beast, coming out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon. 12 It exercised all the authority of the first beast on its behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed. 13 And it performed great signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to the earth in full view of the people. 14 Because of the signs it was given power to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived the inhabitants of the earth. It ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived. 15 The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. 16 It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, 17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name. 18 This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man.[e] That number is 666.
A preterist view of Revelation interprets it as taking place in the first century,
and indeed the Anti-Christ referring to Nero. This is a reasonable interpretation
and one that I am inclined to believe. But, it isn't the most common
interpretation of Revelation - which is one that believes that most of Revelation
has still not occurred (futurist interpretation).
