Is Satan a real being?

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Yet again I've come to look around a supposedly Christian forum only to find members stating there is no Satan or spirit world despite everything the Bible says!
Why do so many people deny Satan is a real evil being?
 

NotmebutHim

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Ohh I know Satan is a real being and I know there is a spirit realm that we humans don't fully understand.

Ephesians 6 is a good passage to read.

:cool:
 

Nehemiah6

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Why do so many people deny Satan is a real evil being?
1. Some people simply cannot handle the truth.

2. Some people hate the truth.

3. Some people prefer denial to reality.

4. Some people refuse to believe the Bible, and that it is actually God's revelation to man.

5. Some people attack the Bible and Bible doctrines.

6. Some people think they are too *enlightened* to believe this rubbish.

7. Some people are plain afraid of Hell but do not obey the Gospel.
 

Blik

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Lots of pagan ideas have influenced the Christian church ever since the Romans killed so many Jewish Christian leaders that ex pagan men became Christian leaders. It is the reason we worship on the day the pagans worshiped their gods, they changed gods but not days. It is the reason the Christian celebrations follow pagan days and the seven feasts celebrating God's salvation is ignored as only fleshly celebrations. Paul believed in the feasts as it tells us in
Acts 18:21 But he took leave of them saying "I must by all means keep this coming feast------.

When God led Paul in telling us to not follow the fleshly commandments like fleshly circumcision and special diet because of the new covenant, because Jews were following the fleshly commands leading to the spiritual ones and ignoring the spirit of the lord, because pagans didn't identify their gods with their nationality any longer so Jews didn't need to be set apart, then the Christians sort of threw out the baby with the bath water. They needed to be told to obey in the spirit.
 

Nehemiah6

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Lots of pagan ideas have influenced the Christian church ever since the Romans killed so many Jewish Christian leaders that ex pagan men became Christian leaders.
So are you suggesting that the biblical doctrine about Satan is simply a pagan idea?

You have not responded to the OP.
 

Adstar

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Yet again I've come to look around a supposedly Christian forum only to find members stating there is no Satan or spirit world despite everything the Bible says!
Why do so many people deny Satan is a real evil being?
Because they fear satan and want to believe anyone who preaches that satan does not exist.. They embrace the deception and live in a delusion..

Of course satan /devil / exists and is a spirit..

As for Christian forum issue.. No one has a Christian detector device able to identify false Christians and block them from entering a forum to push their wonky doctrinal beliefs.. So in any ""Christian forum"" you are going to run into Jehovah's witnesses, catholics, mormons, seventh day Adventists and wonky individuels who will be pushing what ever it is they have been decieved with.. It's up to the person visiting forums to take what ever they here and conpare it with the Word of God..
 

Blik

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So are you suggesting that the biblical doctrine about Satan is simply a pagan idea?

You have not responded to the OP.
Scripture is breathed by the Lord and because it is about the spiritual world and we are in the flesh you can spend a lifetime learning from it and each day would bring you closer to true reality.

My response is that people insert many pagan ideas into Christianity, not just the pagan idea of who and what Satan is.
 
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SpoonJuly

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Yet again I've come to look around a supposedly Christian forum only to find members stating there is no Satan or spirit world despite everything the Bible says!
Why do so many people deny Satan is a real evil being?
STUPIDITY!
 

Nehemiah6

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My response is that people insert many pagan ideas into Christianity, not just the pagan idea of who and what Satan is.
Since we find Satan from Genesis to Revelation, you are now suggesting that the Bible is a pagan document. How foolish.
 

JaumeJ

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Yet again I've come to look around a supposedly Christian forum only to find members stating there is no Satan or spirit world despite everything the Bible says!
Why do so many people deny Satan is a real evil being?
It is an open forum much like the world in so many ways.
 
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Scripture is breathed by the Lord and because it is about the spiritual world and we are in the flesh you can spend a lifetime learning from it and each day would bring you closer to true reality.

My response is that people insert many pagan ideas into Christianity, not just the pagan idea of who and what Satan is.
but do you believe Satan is a real being?
 
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Paul later said:
The Letter to the Gentile Believers
…Acts 15:28It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond these essential requirements: 29You must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.”
Not a word about feasts.
It is an open forum much like the world in so many ways.
I asked a simple question that every Christian should be able to answer.
 

JaumeJ

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Yet again I've come to look around a supposedly Christian forum only to find members stating there is no Satan or spirit world despite everything the Bible says!
Why do so many people deny Satan is a real evil being?
Look for those who believe God, and avoid those who do not. God bless you always..
 

JaumeJ

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A few words to the wise should be sufficient. I could not possibly go into the multitude of variations in this age, time will not permit. You know what I have replied, and what I have replied covers all.
 
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SpoonJuly

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So your response says you believe Satan is a stupid myth - and GOD and Jesus are liars?
You asked why do people deny that Satan is real ---
I told you why people deny that Satan is real--

I said nothing about Satan being a stupid myth.
 

Aerials1978

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Yes, Lucifer, demons, devils, principalities, unclean spirits are all real. Do you know is really disturbing, all of these beings know the value of humans to God. Much more than us humans do. That’s why they seek to destroy our relationship with our Father.
 

Nehemiah6

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So your response says you believe Satan is a stupid myth - and GOD and Jesus are liars?
What he said is that refusing to believe that Satan is real is plain stupidity. And there is a lot of stupidity all around us.
 

posthuman

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Yet again I've come to look around a supposedly Christian forum only to find members stating there is no Satan or spirit world despite everything the Bible says!

where did you find this?
who said those things?