devil
 

anyone belive in the devil? note my number of posts.............

William Rogers..........

Howdy All,
If Flip Wilson believed in the devil I guess there is one:D

I believe people do evil things.

B

No - A lack of God

Re: devil
 

Don't swat -- er, I mean sweat it -- just forget the whole thing and go read a nice, relaxing William Golding novel.

Re: Re: devil
 

Oh Lord.

Bill Wilson, who became famous as the founder of AA, wrote that we were mistaken to personify God and Devil. He said we should look at it like electricity, an unexplanable postive and equally unexplanable negative force. It was ultimately our choice which one we plugged into.

Only if there's a Christian God, and the jury is still out on that one.

The gods made me answer a couple of posts so this thread no longer suffers from 1666 whew that was a close one.........

William Rogers..........

Its odd that when a person imagines strange creatures as being real, we call them "insane", except when they imagine them as some part of a mystical system, then we call them "religous".

the east calls forces of evil (ignorance, greed, hatred)- mara.
you can personafy it-Mara the devil, but this is not needed.
personifying feed ignorance.
demonic beings-physical, mental-come and go without end.
nothing special.

Devil & God- a sad, sad joke on the world.

don