Satan’s Lies
Welcome to my Satan’s Lies post where I do my best to expose the deceptions of the evil one. Everyone has freedom to chose whether they will follow God or not. Because we have free will to chose, that should be proof to all souls that there is a God that loves you.
Satan’s Lies
| Deception In Eden Genesis 3:1-5 | Deception Today |
| Ye Shall Not Surely Die | Spiritualism |
| Your Eyes Shall Be Opened | Eastern Religions |
| Ye Shall Be As Gods | New Age Movement |
| Knowing | Gnosticism |
| Good and Evil | Paganism |
Religions
What is Spiritualism?
According to Wikipedia: Spiritualism is a belief that spirits of the dead have both the ability and the inclination to communicate with the living. The afterlife, or “spirit world”, is seen by spiritualists, not as a static place, but as one in which spirits continue to evolve.
Every year people spend billions of dollars on a Pagan tradition known as Halloween. The Bible clearly teaches that the Dead Know Nothing:
Ecclesiastes 9:5 New King James Version (NKJV)
For the living know that they will die;
But the dead know nothing,
And they have no more reward,
For the memory of them is forgotten.
What are the Eastern Religions?
According to Wikipedia, The Eastern religions are the religions that originated in East, South and Southeast Asia and thus have dissimilarities with Western religions. This includes the East Asian religions (Shintoism, Sindoism, Taoism and Confucianism), Indian religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism and Jainism) as well as animistic indigenous religions.
This East-West religious distinction, just as with the East-West culture distinction, and the implications that arise from it, is broad and not precise. Furthermore, the geographical distinction has less meaning in the current context of global transculturation.
While many Western observers attempt to distinguish between Eastern philosophies and religions, this is a distinction that does not exist in some Eastern traditions.
I have been to Southeast Asia and visited Buddhist Temples. I was respectful and took off my shoes when I entered.
What is the New Age Movement?
According to Britannica’s website: The New Age movement is a movement that spread through the occult and metaphysical religious communities in the 1970s and ʾ80s. It looked forward to a “New Age” of love and light and offered a foretaste of the coming era through personal transformation and healing. The movement’s strongest supporters were followers of modern esotericism, a religious perspective that is based on the acquisition of mystical knowledge and that has been popular in the West since the 2nd century ad, especially in the form of Gnosticism. Ancient Gnosticism was succeeded by various esoteric movements through the centuries, including Rosicrucianism in the 17th century and Freemasonry, theosophy, and ritual magic in the 19th and 20th centuries.
What is Gnosticism?
According to Wikipedia, Gnosticism is a modern name for a variety of ancient religious ideas and systems, originating in Jewish-Christian milieux in the first and second century AD. These systems believed that the material world is created by an emanation or ‘works’ of a lower god (Demiurge), trapping the divine spark within the human body. This divine spark could be liberated by gnosis, spiritual knowledge acquired through direct experience. Some of the core teachings include the following:
- All matter is evil, and the non-material, spirit-realm is good.
- There is an unknowable God, who gave rise to many lesser spirit beings called Aeons.
- The creator of the (material) universe is not the supreme god, but an inferior spirit (the Demiurge).
- Gnosticism does not deal with “sin”, only ignorance.
- To achieve salvation, one needs to get in touch with gnosis.
What is Paganism?
According to Wikipedia, Paganism is a term that developed among the Christian community of southern Europe during late antiquity to describe religions other than their own, Judaism, or Islam–the three Abrahamic religions. Throughout Christendom, it continued to be used, typically in a derogatory sense.
Christianity
Christianity is the belief that God sent His Son Jesus Christ to this earth to be a bridge to restore fallen man to God. If you really search the Holy Bible and study the Life of Jesus Christ, you will see that there has been no other human being like Him. He healed the sick, opened the eyes of the blind, opened the ears of the deaf and was able to make the lame walk. He kept His Father God’s Ten Commandments and never sinned. Because of His Perfect Life, His Shed Blood Is What Provides Salvation for All Mankind, not just a chosen few. His Grace extended to you is a free gift. Just accept it and be saved.
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