Is Satan Real?

[goodlife]

What do you think, satan is not real,he is just symbolic.

Or satan exists,but he has little interest in mankind.

Or satan is a powerful spirit creature who exerts great influence on mankind.

Because each has its supporters.

[janbee]

Yes he's real. I used to be married to him !!

[berniecuddles]

lol jan xx

[ludwig]

A kid at my old school said he'd actually seen Satan once. He was later diagnosed with schizophrenia end eventually jumped in front of a train.

[jomifl]

He is as real as god.. and far more effective...

[wolf63]

A friend used to have a posh pedigree cat called Lucifer. He was very well named .

[AlwaysConfused]

Satan and God are our conscience. Satan is our guilt and God is ones morals.

[goodlife]

Do you see an senseless violent world, regardless of man trying to stop it.

Do you see the environment being relentlessiy being destroyed.

Do you see the diseases increasing,regardless of man trying to stop it

World events also testify that there is an evil power at work, manipulating humans to their injury.

For what other reason do human governments fail to promote peace? What else would cause people to hate and slaughter one another? Appalled by the carnage and death in a civil war.

Some have said: “I don’t know how this could have happened. It is more than hatred. It’s an evil spirit that is using these human beings to destroy each other.

The Bible says who is behind the present trouble at Rev 12 9_ So down the great dragon was hurled, the original serpent, the one called Devil and Satan, who is misleading the entire inhabited earth;

Devil worship may be the farthest thing from your mind, and yet the fact is that the majority you here are actually on the side of Satan and the demonic angels.

[vulcan42]

goodlife, why are you so concerned, Don't J Ws look forward to death?

[scorpiojo]

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[mibn2cweus]

//He is as real as god.. and far more effective...//

I always found them to be indistinguishable from one another . . . much like those who preach their existence.

[whiskeryron]

Yes he is very real & leading the forces of evil in Iraq & Syria

[Old_Geezer]

Some seem unable to accept that a mind is capable of seeing benefit for self or even interest in either deeds considered "good" or "bad" without outside influence. To them should be asked what sways their proposed angels and demons to do "good" and "bad" things, and so on ad infinitum.

Those who do not "buy into" this "a demon made me do it" concept are not on any imagined "force of evil" and labelling them as such isn't very persuasive, at least not in a modern sophisticated society.

[mikey4444]

Like birdie...no...next question please !

[goodlife]

_Geezer Did you ever see a bird or an insect fly? Before you answer, define more exactly what mean by “see.”

For instance, many people, when they see a bird, notice only a beautiful array of feathers. But a cat, seeing the same bird, may see a good dinner. Then again, a farmer seeing a bird, say a swallow, might see a sign of the approach of spring. So “seeing” can mean much more than just receiving an image on the retina of the eye.

With this in mind, consider another aspect.
What did Jesus say that his faithful followers should do after seeing the meaning of all this evidence? Keep it to themselves like a secret society? Be afraid to tell it out for fear that might not like it and might oppose and persecute?

No; but after Jesus had foretold the preliminary evidence by which to prove that the kingdoms of this world had entered into their “time of the end” and that God’s kingdom for a righteous new world had been born in the heavens, Jesus said to his inquiring disciples: “And this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come.” (Matt. 24:14)

[kvalidir]

No Satan isn't real imho, he's a figment of the imaginations of people who buy into the beliefs of the Abrahamic religions.

[sandyRoe]

He's all too real. And isn't it a measure of his great success that he's managed to convince so many intelligent people that he doesn't exist?
I weep sometimes thinking of the people living lives steeped in sin who don't realise there is a price to be paid some day for all their debauchery.

[Old_Geezer]

No, you define what you mean by "see" since you are the one referring to the act; and seem to suggest I may not have. Unsure what it has to do with demonic entities anyway.

It a measure of religion's success that it's managed to convince so many people that such things might exist. Better to weep for those who fear retribution for being that which they were created as.