Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: A question about Satan and deception Message-ID: <320@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Sat, 8-Dec-84 14:23:09 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxd.320 Posted: Sat Dec 8 14:23:09 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 9-Dec-84 03:47:22 EST Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 20 Here's a question: ... (... or two) If Satan is so good at deceiving people into false beliefs (i.e., those who adhere to other "wrong" systems of belief), how can you KNOW that what you have experienced is "real" (i.e., as you would like to believe), when it might really be the manipulations of Satan? Hasn't your own introduction of Satan into the fabric of your belief system made your whole set of beliefs suspect? Remember, you can't use the Bible as evidence here. Many of those that you feel are deceived by Satan (e.g., Ken Nichols mentioned Catholics) use the Bible as their source, so your use of it would be equally suspect. (This question was originally directed to Ken Nichols, hence the "you"s all over the question. Take "you" to mean each one of you who would like to answer the question. By the way, don't complain that this belongs in net.religion.christian, not because I'm "anti-subgroup" in general, but because our administrator won't create it here. So, don't complain to me...) -- "Send the recording back into the medium." Rich Rosen pyuxd!rlr