>>7895793According to the Bible, Satan and The Most High are one in the same. Or, at the very least, they operate as a good-cop, bad-cop duo. Two sides of the same coin. If the Calvinist worldview is preferred, Satan is God's tool.
>I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. -Isaiah 45:7In the New Testament, "Jesus was led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil." He was made to be tempted before he could begin his ministry. If Jesus is to be our example, the Tempter is intrinsic to our alleged salvation.
>>7895795Indeed.
>>7895804You're misconstruing the Hollywood euphemism of selling one's soul to the Devil for a real spiritual contract. If you actually worked with guiding spirits, demons, whatever you want to call them, you'd know that they don't change the rules of the game. In some ways, life becomes even more of a trial. What changes is the Operator's conscious awareness of how the "game" really works. As for what happens after this life is over, that's the initiate's prerogative. There is much that can be done to ready oneself for what comes next, but only when the mind is open to the existence of those realities.
>>7895812Children need to grow up. Stop being little bitches, afraid of empty threats about eternal suffering.
>>7895854A very thoughtful description of Lucifer.