How did Satan deceive the whole world?

[Floatingaxe]

I think it must have been easy to decieve them. People are some of the stupidest things on the planet. And they hate truth.

You seem to hate the world, and people in general. Where is this coming from? Who has hurt you? Why are you not healed? Do you know Jesus? He is your answer to a bitter, depressed spirit. Come to Jesus, find life abundant!

[tdrehfal]

Any ideas how this could be?

BB613

By offering secret knowedlge or gnosis; gnosticism. These are directly related to the occult world. Some knoweldge is good, but being

intimately familiar with some knowledge is bad. It should always be noted that the scripture says thus: In the day you eat thereof

ye shall surely die. It does not say: In the day ye eat thereof, I shall surely kill you. Mixing lies with truth is the best way to deceive.

The statement made by the serpent in Genesis is partial truth, twisted into a lie. It's true that you would have knowledge of good and evil

once eating of the tree, however, it's not true that you would become like God in the false image presented by the serpent. This destroys

mans relationship with God because it was based on intimacy and love from the beginning, I believe. We see ads on television

and have responsible parents that tell us cigarettes are bad. Unfortunately since many adults smoke, smoking looks adult, and

many kids take to smoking because in their mind it's 'adult'. Yet noone coughing in the morning after years of being addicted

to it will tell you that smoking is 'cool' or 'adult'. Satan would say to the kids: These adults that smoke are just trying to keep

you from being like THEM, and enjoying what THEY do. This is obviously false, because the adults telling you not to smoke

are trying to protect you in the same way God tried to protect in the Garden. But you will become addicted to smoking once

you 'eat of the tree' of being intimately familiar with it by doing it. There seems to be a direct relationship between knowledge

and pride as well. As people acquire more and more knowledge, lots of people have a tendency to look down on others as

being stupid and think of themselves much more highly. Knowledge and Wisdom are nto the same, either. I can have tons of

knowledge and get into an accident because of I was driving drunk, no matter how smart I may think I am, I made the unwise

choice of drinking and driving. Satan uses every tactic available for evil. Music is a huge one. So is television. He's also capable

of performing lying signs and wonders. We should never be too impressed by signs and wonders because any spiritual being

could perform what is seemingly miraculous to a human. Fire from heaven does not impress me. Making gold out of nothing

does not impress me. There is one thing that cannot be replicated however, and that is a changed heart brought about by

being spiritually born again into Christ's kingdom. If you can take a drug addicted murderer and change his heart into a loving

compassionate person who puts others before themself, THAT'S IMPRESSIVE.

[Joshua-777]

Ok, Lets see satans logic,

Say the color of my shoe is Black, well what If I wanted to lie to you about the color of my shoe, and didn't want you to know what color it is, How many lies could I say to you to hide my shoe's true color?

Now you see satans logic, There is one truth, and one God, but by the evil in mans heart, and the flesh, we search everywhere for truth except God, Now everywhere that there is not God, satan can and will use for a lie, now with billions and billions of lies, and one truth, lets see, The whole world could easily be decepted, The truth is in Jesus Christ, those who do not accept Jesus Christ do not know truth.