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- From: I3150101@dbstu1.rz.tu-bs.de (Benedikt Rosenau)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: Was Jesus the Anti-Christ?
- Message-ID: <16B63C852.I3150101@dbstu1.rz.tu-bs.de>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 13:14:40 GMT
- References: <cscope.727987530@camelot>
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- In article <cscope.727987530@camelot>
- cscope@camelot.bradley.edu (William Twentyman) writes:
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- >
- >
- >Matthew 12:22-28
- >
- > Then they brought him a demon-possessed man who was blind and mute,
- > and Jesus healed him, so that he could both talk and see. All the
- > people were astonished and said, "Could this be the Son of David?"
- > But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, "It is only by
- > Beelzebub, the prince of demons, that this fellow drives out demons."
- > Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them, "Every kingdom divided
- > against itself will be ruined, and every city or household divided
- > against itself will not stand. If Satan drives out Satan, he is divided
- > against himself. How then can his kingdom stand? And if I drive out
- > demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your people drive them out? So then,
- > they will be your judges. But if I drive out demons by the Spirit of
- > God, then the kingdom of God has come to you.
- >
- >This passage poses two possibilities, either Jesus was an agent of God, or
- >Satan. Jesus's quote clearly implies that he is an agent of God, but what
- >if the reverse were true? If Jesus were an agent of Satan, he could simply
- >appear to be divided against evil. This would result in people believing
- >he was an agent of God and actually draw people away from God. If Satan
- >were more interested in gathering souls than in leaving a few demons around
- >to torment people, he would be making an enormous profit.
- >
- >This has been one of my biggest problems with Christianity, the possibility
- >that it was a ploy by Satan to draw people away from God. Can anyone see
- >any flaws in my logic? Anything I may have missed?
- >--
-
- The NTsays that one should judge things by their fruits. When I look at
- Christian religion I see only one conclusion possible.
-
- It is an interesting ploy in discussions to ask Christians if with all
- this evidence of disgusting standards in the OT and the NT as well, as
- long with that line, if they can prove from within the system if their
- god is not evil.
-
- I haven't met one who could.
- Benedikt
-