Success or Folly
Suppose Satan is successful.
Suppose that God is dead! Is that to anyone’s advantage? God is Existence and
even Satan knows that. Why would Satan even want God dead? He doesn’t; he
merely wants God’s glory for without God there is nothing existing to rule nor
anyone to worship.
Satan, or Lucifer, was an angel of the
order of cherubim. He was created by God but iniquity was found in him. Because
of that, he was cast out of Heaven. Cherubim were created to serve God by
guarding the way of the Tree of Life. Thus, they were created to ensure that by
only one gate does anyone enter the walls of heaven. Daa Being natural walls, and not made by hand, a “hedge”
around Heaven is envisioned. dab Rather
than serve God, Lucifer had his own ideas! Dac
For
thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my
throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the
congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
I will be like the most High.
Lucifer
– “the morning star”, desiring to be Satan – “the adversary”, has one ambition:
to be like God. His plot is for mankind and the angels to serve him as they
should serve God. That goal is reinforced by the temptations of Christ: The
temptations were (1) hedonism (hunger and satisfaction), (2) egoism (might), and
(3) materialism (wealth); or the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, and
the pride of life as noted before. Satan offered to share power with God, not
kill him. Thus, diminishing God and elevating Satan is the motive in wounding God. Dad
Satan doesn’t want to kill God
because God is Existence. Without existence, again, there would be no one to
serve him, and no abode for Satan to rule. Killing
God is then displacing His authority, or Satan taking His throne. What
would existence be like if God truly was dead?
God created in six days, then He
rested. Because God is Almighty, creating
didn’t take all day. God thought, spoke, and powered (Father, Son, and Holy
Spirit) it, and it happened. God did each event in one specific day but each
act of creating was surely timeless since God is not bound by physical laws and
time. E=mc2 is essentially Creating
is bringing forth material in lightening speed! Einstein defined God’s
omnipotence, and accepted that it all began with God: dae
I
believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what
exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human
beings.
It seems that Albert Einstein
believed in the Creator God but not a personal God. In other words, he saw God
in the creation but denied him as Ruler. That is what Satan wants mankind to
believe, but to do that, God must be denied as the Creator. Since Einstein, scientists
deny God’s Existence entirely. That just makes dethroning God much easier and less
“bloody”. Someone cannot be killed who does not exist!
What would happen if “Existence”
failed to exist? In other words, what
it be like without God? Likely, Creation would be reversed: Mankind would be the
first to go since Adam and Eve were created last. Following that would be the
disappearance of the animal kingdom from land, sea and air. Next the cosmos
would disappear and soon after the world with it’s water and land. Then even
light would turn into darkness, and lastly all matter and the void which surrounds
it would cease to be. God was there in
the beginning and without Him there would be no “thing”. Satan doesn’t want
that. He wants “things” but he doesn’t want God to be God. The motive is not
really what is thought to be hatred. “Hatred”,
then, is diminishing God, and Him being sub-servient to His creature.
To pull off the mutiny, Satan deceived
mankind into believing that they are “as gods”. Daf Self-esteem is role-playing the act created by
the Serpent. It is not the self which
mankind is to esteem, but God. Self-esteem is mankind diminishing God by thinking
they are elevating themselves. Fools we are! Jesus said that “You must be born again,” then told how by using
the example of the serpent on a pole. dag To be “born again” means to lift up God as the self is lowered.
Ironically, self-deprecation or meekness is the how to keep the way of the
Lord. Ironically, by becoming a servant to God is how to inherit the world, Dah
and if God nor the earth exists, what is there to inherit?
Satan wants to be the master,
replacing God. Ironically, he has deceived mankind who makes him master. Dai
Diminishing God is serving Satan as mankind thinks they are serving themselves.
Obeying the law of sin rather than the Law of God is diminishing God. daj If
that is unclear, mankind has been duped! Just as most people deny the unborn as
living beings, fools deny God’s identity. God is a living God but He is treated
as if he doesn’t exist. It is God’s Spirit which Satan attempts to kill, and
men do the killing (attempted) for him!
Thus far, mankind has not killed
God! They thought they killed Him on the cross but His death made Him even more
alive. On the other hand, since then, mankind and Satan have become more determined.
God’s Flesh – called Jesus – is proof-positive that God lives. Life without God
would be bleak because life of all types would cease to exist. It would be gone
with the universe and the space which God created for His creation! Satan doesn’t
want God all the way dead, and wise people desire to keep God alive. That is done in the heart! Dak
Deists, get over it; you cannot diminish
God. Atheists, get over it; you cannot
kill God!
Daa
Holy Bible; Gen 3:24.
Dab
ibid; Job 1:10.
Dac
ibid; Isa 14:13-14.
Dad
Wikipedia; “Temptations of Christ”.
Dae
http://www.spaceandmotion.com/albert-einstein-god-religion-theology.htm
Daf Holy Bible; Gen 3:5.
Dag
ibid; Numbers 21:8.
Dah
ibid; Mat 5:5.
Dai
ibid; Mat 6:24.
Daj
ibid; Rom 7:25.
Dak
ibid; 1 Cor 6:19.
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