There are two sides to every story, and I would at least listen to Satans side, so as to make an unbiased decision. Given that the Genesis account says that Satan was truthful with regard to Adam and Eve becoming "like God", I would at least consider the offer, although I might or might not actually accept it.
If SATAN could offer you something desireable, would you accept it?
by JH 30 Replies latest jw friends
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Warlock
If it was possible for Satan to offer you something desireable, knowing that God wouldn't approve of it, would you accept it anyways.
What if he was lying to you?
Warlock
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daystar
warlock
If it was possible for Satan to offer you something desireable, knowing that God wouldn't approve of it, would you accept it anyways.
What if he was lying to you?
Who? God or Satan? My experience has been that both are equally likely to lie. "This generation shall not pass..." "for in that very day, you shall die" "the wages of sin are death", etc., ad infinitum...
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Warlock
Daystar,
Who? God or Satan? My experience has been that both are equally likely to lie. "This generation shall not pass..." "for in that very day, you shall die" "the wages of sin are death", etc., ad infinitum...
I don't want this to turn into a huge spiritual discussion, but you deserve my thoughts on these points:
"This generation". There will be a generation that will see "the end" in spite of the WTS interpretation.
"for in that very day you shall die". Adam did die within a day, if we believe that for Jah "1000 years is as one day".
"the wages of sin are death". Well, we do die, don't we?
Warlock
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nvrgnbk
Maybe God and Satan are different personalities of the same schizophrenic entity.
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chelleadam
There is nothing he could possibly offer me that I want. I have everything I want through my Savior, Jesus Christ. I'm not interested in anymore of Satan's lies.
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gaiagirl
I actually don't buy into the whole "fallen sinful human race" idea as an explanation for why we die. Humans are no more "built to live forever" than any other animal. All animals, at least those which are multicellular, eventually die. What sin was the rest of the natural world supposed to have committed as an explanation for why they die? Science has a better explanation, in that as cells are replaced, errors are made in the replication. When cells are replaced enough times, eventually, enough of these replication errors add up so that the body cannot function any longer. The beauty of this explanation is that it can be tested, and it explains why both animals AND humans age and die, without invoking some supernatural cause.
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golf2
"You can dance with the devil but you can't lead." 1 John 2:16, "...everything in the world - the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the showy display of one's means of life - does not originate with the Father, but originates with the world."
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Brother Apostate
Nope. Not even if he offered me his cheerleaders:
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FlyingHighNow
Uh hum, JH, how do you know you haven't done it already? Maybe you've accepted many desirable things from the Devil. In the words of Judy Tenuda the Love Goddess, "It could happen!!!"