Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.7 9/23/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!nsc!chuqui From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuqui[The Time Traveller]) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: A question about Satan and deception Message-ID: <2073@nsc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 14-Dec-84 01:40:35 EST Article-I.D.: nsc.2073 Posted: Fri Dec 14 01:40:35 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 15-Dec-84 00:21:42 EST References: <320@pyuxd.UUCP> <1179@trwrba.UUCP> Reply-To: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuqui[The Time Traveller]) Organization: Callahans Lines: 27 Summary: > > 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"... > 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. There is only one thing that cannot be deceived. It can be ignored, it can be pushed away, it can be hidden, and yelled at, and misinterpreted, but your conscience cannot be decieved. You may not admit it to yourself, you may choose to ignore it, but there is a part of you that knows when you do evil. This is the Jiminy Crickett in everyone of us, the voice of God that in every one of us. The great works of religion aren't the voices of God, they are the tools that allow us to refine that little voice, and the voice cannot be deceived by any force or being. -- From behind the bar at Callahan's: Chuq Von Rospach {allegra,cbosgd,decwrl,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!chuqui nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA The evil that men do lives after them; the good it oft interred with their bones. So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus hath told you Caesar was ambitious... And Brutus is an honorable man