LinksUp wrote:
I see you got a lot of "answers" from people of little to no faith. (Leftists all of them I'm sure.)
1. Satan is a son of God just like Christ, you and I. In a nutshell, at the Great Council Satan was cast out for rebellion and took 1/3 of the hosts of heaven with him. He is a spirit without a physical body. In a word he cannot be killed. Satan is part of the Plan of Salvation for mankind. Without Satan there is no choice. Choice and freedom to choose is essential to the plan. In this life we have the opportunity to choose who we will follow. We can choose to follow Satan or we can choose to follow Christ. If we follow Christ, there is the promise of life eternal and salvation which is eternity with Christ. If we follow Satan there is life eternal, (the Resurrection is Christ's gift to all of us) but your salvation will be a different sort.
2. Have you been reading the articles about Gen Z complaining that adult hood is too hard? They are moving back to their parents basement so they don't have to work or get their feelings hurt. Trials come to everybody, rich, poor, old young. It does not matter who you are or your station in life. Trials will come. The form of that trial is a crap shoot. Nobody knows what will happen. Trials (refiners fire so to speak) will do many positive things for you. How you endure them reveals character and strengthens it. Trials also make you humble, help you appreciate your life and realize that there is a higher power to which you can turn to and discover that it is real. Trials provide you with empathy and a desire to help other people going through what you have. Trials prove to you that you can do hard things in this life and not only survive but come out better for it. Who says that there will only be one trial happen in a lifetime? We have coddled this latest generation. They have not had to personally endure war, poverty or homlessness or loss of employment that prior generations went through. Why do they call the men and women who fought in WWII the greatest generation? Not because they fought in the war. It was because they fought, endured and survived something that was so horrible so we would not have to endure that. Yet here we are, less than 100 years later, after saying "Never again" , genocide of an entire people is the goal of the Middle East and there are kids who do not know anything about history or life cheering them on.
Trials of health are difficult because of the associated pain and suffering. Health trials do not always end up with the person becoming healed. Death is always a possibility. But the same things I said about non-health trials applies to this also. Health trials are also for those around you. Do your loved ones rally around you or do they flee? Maybe your health trial is as much for them as it is for you. Trials reveal character.
If you believe that there is no God, then death is very scary. But if you believe in Christ and his words, then death, as sad as it is, becomes a mere stepping stone to the next realm.
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You are entitled to your opinions and beliefs but they are not proven facts.Is your belief fiction? I think so. The possibility of something we might call god is something that I don't believe is true, but I won't rule out the possibility. The God of the bible I strongly believe is a fantasy. You have as much right to believe as you do as I have to believe what I do. Your belief in no way offends me, but anyone tossing it out there as though it is proven fact does. I'm not sure if that is what you just did or not.