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From: jnelson@trwrba.UUCP (John T. Nelson)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: A question about Satan and deception
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Date: Wed, 12-Dec-84 20:39:09 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 12 20:39:09 1984
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	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.

You can't know... unless you are absolutely sure that...

	1)	God has protected the Bible from any corruption
		by Satan.  The one and ONLY source of truth and
		guidence in this evil and satanic world.

	2)	God protects those who originally accepted Jesus Christ
		with an open heart.  Obviously those "awful Catholics"
		corrupted and twisted the word of God in their hearts
		so they were fair game for even MORE twisting by
		the evil one.

	and thus...
	3)	Satan has power over those who are amenable to "the
		other" ways of thinking.

So there can be only ONE true way, and every sect thinks that
they represent it.



			Praise be Strunk and White
			- John