Leo Volont
Registered Senior Member
Satan: Seducer not Trickster
I would like to point out another instance of Protestantism’s moral inversion, that is, how they cling to Evil while supposing all Goodness and Light is a trick of Satan sent to fool them. Not that they can be blamed for being frightened to listen to any True Divine Revelation, for, you see, Paul has placed a Curse upon them. If you consult Galatians 1:8 you will see that Paul pretends to call down the Curse of God upon even “Angels from Heaven” who would contradict his peculiar message. So, ‘Christians’ who have made Paul their God are quite in a bind. They must believe in Paul or be Damned if they don’t.
However, it would do Protestants well to consider that Christ already discussed this issue of what to believe and why to believe it. Refer to Luke 6:44 and Christ tells us that we can discern between Good and Evil by examining results and effects – that we would know the Tree by its Fruits. Paul, not being a disciple of Christ or even familiar with His Teachings, offers no Criteria for Truth, but only a blanket assertion that if it does not agree with what Paul had told them, then the Curse of God would be upon them for even considering it. You would think that if anybody wanted to raise Curses to protect the Truth then it would have been Christ, but He tells us only to reject Evil and appreciate the Good. He assumed, however wrong subsequent events have proved Him to be, that we would be able to distinguish the difference.
Also, we have a story from out of Christ’s Ministry which shows that Christ was most emphatic about His insistence that People be able to recognize the Things of the Spirit by their evident Good Merits. It is in Mathew Chapter 12. He heals a man by casting out his demons. The Pharisees then accused Christ of working wonders with the power of Satan, just as modern Protestants accuse the Saints today. This is where Christ issues the Warning concerning the “blasphemy against the Holy Spirit” – the Sin that cannot be forgiven. It is Christ telling us in almost absolute terms that Satan cannot counterfeit Good. If we see Good, then it is Good. When Christ tells us it is a Sin to say that Satan can even seem to do Good, it makes it clear that Satan is capable only of Evil. A bad tree cannot force out Good Fruits. Darkness and Light do not mix. Goodness and Evil have chosen their Sides and they do not cross the line.
So, what is it exactly that Paul was committing in Galatians Chapter 1 when he was veritably placing the Curse of God on even the “Angels of Heaven” who would contradict him, except that very Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit? And then what of 2 Corintheans 11:13 and 14 where Paul claims that Satan is an Angel of Light and accuses all of the True Apostles appointed by Christ Himself of being false and deceitful. Is this not a moral inversion? Spewing such insanity, why would anybody believe this crazy Paul, except that he gives everybody an excuse for throwing out The Law and living in continuous ‘forgiven’ Sin.
Besides, even if Paul were correct, then why would Satan try to sell himself by communicating Goodness and Righteousness and by doing acts of Goodness and Righteousness? Would this not be the same as criminals giving all of their money away to fool the police. Yes, that would be a clever trick and would fool anybody, but to what end? Satan becoming Righteous would lose his War by that very Righteousness. Christ expressed this same logic in Mathew 12, that Satan has no interest in betraying or dividing his Evil.
Isn’t it more likely that Satan would not so much wish to trick us, but rather that he would attempt to seduce us with the wiles of Sin and Greed, just as he tried to Tempt Christ in the Wilderness. Satan did not pretend to be Good, Noble, or Righteous but only to be able to provide Christ with every worldly desire. Certainly that is what Satan trades in. And it works. Have not the Conservatives of the Religious Right gained a majority by appealing to Greed and the Power of World Conquest. Their Campaign Manager might as well been Satan straight from the Wilderness.
So what have we learned? We now know that when we see Goodness and obvious manifestations of Holy Grace, we are to take them at face value rather than risk the Blasphemy to the Holy Spirit, the unforgivable sin. How can we apply this knowledge? Well, we can consider that the Catholic Church has set in place institutions which encourage Righteousness and attempt to curtail Sin, and that it still receives, documents, verifies and disseminates Revelations from Heaven, given through Angels, Seers ( the modern equivalent to the Ancient Prophets) and the Apparitions of Our Lady the Blessed Virgin Mother of Christ. Opposed to the Catholic Church is its enemy, the Protestant Churches that teach the Rejection of the Law, and that all sins are automatically forgiven for believing that Christ did not come to be Messiah but came only to be murdered – a Doctrine given to them by Paul whom they deify as having written the Word of God. And it is this same Protestant Church that claims that God has effectively died – that there has been absolutely no Divine Revelation since last their God Paul put pen to paper.
Let’s look at the Fruits. Catholicism gave us our Civilization and all of our spiritual and moral values. Protestantism brought us the wave of barbarism that is destroying that Civilization, having reveled in the murders of hundreds of millions of Catholics, and which still appeals to demons of War, Sin and Greed, and provides a Religion that in its rejection of all Spiritual Practices and Mystical Ways is rather better described as Nihilistic Materialism. So the next time we hear a Protestant accusing all and sundry “Angels of Light” of being Satanic, maybe we should wonder who is trying to fool whom.
I would like to point out another instance of Protestantism’s moral inversion, that is, how they cling to Evil while supposing all Goodness and Light is a trick of Satan sent to fool them. Not that they can be blamed for being frightened to listen to any True Divine Revelation, for, you see, Paul has placed a Curse upon them. If you consult Galatians 1:8 you will see that Paul pretends to call down the Curse of God upon even “Angels from Heaven” who would contradict his peculiar message. So, ‘Christians’ who have made Paul their God are quite in a bind. They must believe in Paul or be Damned if they don’t.
However, it would do Protestants well to consider that Christ already discussed this issue of what to believe and why to believe it. Refer to Luke 6:44 and Christ tells us that we can discern between Good and Evil by examining results and effects – that we would know the Tree by its Fruits. Paul, not being a disciple of Christ or even familiar with His Teachings, offers no Criteria for Truth, but only a blanket assertion that if it does not agree with what Paul had told them, then the Curse of God would be upon them for even considering it. You would think that if anybody wanted to raise Curses to protect the Truth then it would have been Christ, but He tells us only to reject Evil and appreciate the Good. He assumed, however wrong subsequent events have proved Him to be, that we would be able to distinguish the difference.
Also, we have a story from out of Christ’s Ministry which shows that Christ was most emphatic about His insistence that People be able to recognize the Things of the Spirit by their evident Good Merits. It is in Mathew Chapter 12. He heals a man by casting out his demons. The Pharisees then accused Christ of working wonders with the power of Satan, just as modern Protestants accuse the Saints today. This is where Christ issues the Warning concerning the “blasphemy against the Holy Spirit” – the Sin that cannot be forgiven. It is Christ telling us in almost absolute terms that Satan cannot counterfeit Good. If we see Good, then it is Good. When Christ tells us it is a Sin to say that Satan can even seem to do Good, it makes it clear that Satan is capable only of Evil. A bad tree cannot force out Good Fruits. Darkness and Light do not mix. Goodness and Evil have chosen their Sides and they do not cross the line.
So, what is it exactly that Paul was committing in Galatians Chapter 1 when he was veritably placing the Curse of God on even the “Angels of Heaven” who would contradict him, except that very Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit? And then what of 2 Corintheans 11:13 and 14 where Paul claims that Satan is an Angel of Light and accuses all of the True Apostles appointed by Christ Himself of being false and deceitful. Is this not a moral inversion? Spewing such insanity, why would anybody believe this crazy Paul, except that he gives everybody an excuse for throwing out The Law and living in continuous ‘forgiven’ Sin.
Besides, even if Paul were correct, then why would Satan try to sell himself by communicating Goodness and Righteousness and by doing acts of Goodness and Righteousness? Would this not be the same as criminals giving all of their money away to fool the police. Yes, that would be a clever trick and would fool anybody, but to what end? Satan becoming Righteous would lose his War by that very Righteousness. Christ expressed this same logic in Mathew 12, that Satan has no interest in betraying or dividing his Evil.
Isn’t it more likely that Satan would not so much wish to trick us, but rather that he would attempt to seduce us with the wiles of Sin and Greed, just as he tried to Tempt Christ in the Wilderness. Satan did not pretend to be Good, Noble, or Righteous but only to be able to provide Christ with every worldly desire. Certainly that is what Satan trades in. And it works. Have not the Conservatives of the Religious Right gained a majority by appealing to Greed and the Power of World Conquest. Their Campaign Manager might as well been Satan straight from the Wilderness.
So what have we learned? We now know that when we see Goodness and obvious manifestations of Holy Grace, we are to take them at face value rather than risk the Blasphemy to the Holy Spirit, the unforgivable sin. How can we apply this knowledge? Well, we can consider that the Catholic Church has set in place institutions which encourage Righteousness and attempt to curtail Sin, and that it still receives, documents, verifies and disseminates Revelations from Heaven, given through Angels, Seers ( the modern equivalent to the Ancient Prophets) and the Apparitions of Our Lady the Blessed Virgin Mother of Christ. Opposed to the Catholic Church is its enemy, the Protestant Churches that teach the Rejection of the Law, and that all sins are automatically forgiven for believing that Christ did not come to be Messiah but came only to be murdered – a Doctrine given to them by Paul whom they deify as having written the Word of God. And it is this same Protestant Church that claims that God has effectively died – that there has been absolutely no Divine Revelation since last their God Paul put pen to paper.
Let’s look at the Fruits. Catholicism gave us our Civilization and all of our spiritual and moral values. Protestantism brought us the wave of barbarism that is destroying that Civilization, having reveled in the murders of hundreds of millions of Catholics, and which still appeals to demons of War, Sin and Greed, and provides a Religion that in its rejection of all Spiritual Practices and Mystical Ways is rather better described as Nihilistic Materialism. So the next time we hear a Protestant accusing all and sundry “Angels of Light” of being Satanic, maybe we should wonder who is trying to fool whom.