Heresy In The Church?

 1. Heresy in the Church. A disconcerting phenomenon these days is how so many churches & denominations are opting for a ‘No-Satan Theology’. So, without trying to glorify the ‘king of darkness’, I must in all sincerity stress where such movements are going skew by showing that Satan is an adversary that actually exists for Christians to reckon with. For instance:

♦ Jesus never lied [John3:12; 8:46].

♦ The same Jesus who said there is God and a Heaven, also said that there was a Hell and a Satan. If we want to throw out the doctrine of Hell and Satan, we must be consistent and throw out the doctrine of God and Heaven too. [Matthew5:22,29,30; 10:28; 11:23; 16:18; Luke12:5].

♦ If not Satan, who did Jesus see fall from Heaven like ‘lightning’? [Luke10:18].

♦ If not Satan, who entered Judas on the night of his betrayal of Jesus? [Luke 22:3].

♦ If not Satan, who  beguiled Eve to sin in the Garden of Eden and tempted Jesus in the wilderness? [Gen3:1-5; Matt-4:1].

♦ If not Satan (among others) who is it that will be thrown into the Lake  of Fire in the Book of Revelation? [Revelation19:20; 20:10,14,15;  21:8].

♦ If not from Satan, where do ‘demons’ come from?  [James2:19; 1Corinthians10:20,21; 1Timothy4:1].

♦ If the existence of Hell, Satan and demons have to be interpreted metaphorically, then we must be consistent and interpret the existence of Heaven, God and angels also metaphorically ... a change in policy which will render the Holy Scriptures theologically impotent, redundant and doctrinally obsolete in Evangelical Christianity (exactly what Satan and his hordes of demons want!).

2. God has probably created Satan with a specific purpose.  Also referred to as the Destroyer, Satan was created to destroy. This is borne out in Scriptures like John1:3; John10:10; Isaiah54:6. It is also no coincidence that both Judas Iscarioth and the Anti-Christ are referred to as the Son of Perdition. [Revelation17:8,11; 2Thessalonians2:3; 1Timothy6:9; John17:12].

3. Do the math.  When Jesus told the Pharisees that their ‘father’ was the ‘Devil’, was He lying? [John8:39-45]. If so, in that case (a position that I definitely do not hold) then Jesus Christ Himself would be the worst of liars in all of history.q

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