Blues Man
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Buddhists know that suffering is part of life.God made the devil and god is perfect and incapable of making mistakesFirst global victory of the devil was the proud separation of church and state.
The second global victory of the devil is public schools.
Once you don't get the news that there is a Christ, or you reject Him, even if under peer pressure, your life will no longer be anything but running up a down escalator.
What better way to implement universal slavery than making you believe that it is your government that is God. Jesus rejected this in the desert.
But Stalin of the Soviet Union said that "the antichrists are the real enemies of socialism and we believe that we have to fight a real struggle against real enemies".
On which verses do you base this argument? If all of the above is correct at all times, then it is only your free will that causes the problems.
And that leads to the paradox that your free will does not come from God. The further away you are from God, the bigger problem free will is. You may propose that the devil is a result of your free will. But then God created the devil only in the sense as God created Mona Lisa when Michelangeo painted it.
Alternatively, the perfection of God is a function of the distance away from God. You have to compensate for that distance with your free will. Since public schools invert the free will and give it to the devil, you are not compensating for the distance but making it worse.![]()
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God created Lucifer then cast him down. God is a perfect all powerful being who could have snapped his fingers and wiped Lucifer from the universe but he didn't did he?
He intentionally left Lucifer alive because he likes to torment his creations.
This may be true and leads quickly to a version of the neo Cathar movement.
And also it leads back to the original question of all religions, why is there suffering and how do we stop it.
If God cast the devil down then it means God put a distance between Himself and the devil. And indeed, the longer the distance between God and a sybject, the lesser is God's grace and the greater is suffering. The devil is the fastest point away from God . The devil is infinitely evil and replaces infinite grace with infinite suffering. Furthemore, as the grace of God is a force of attraction the closer you get to god, also the evil of the devil is a force of attraction the closer you get to that, like a black hole that swallows up light.
and the devil cannot be infinite if he is a creation of a god that is supposed to be infinite.
Good and evil are human constructs and do not exist beyond the that
We don't know if good and evil exist beyond humanity or not, but there are signs that suggest that they do.
In either case, evil makes us suffer. Suffering may be a part of life, but what secular non religious education brings about is not simply suffering but a slew of many people who invent and inflict suffering on others, because they don't believe in a higher power or because they think evil is fun. Both beliefs are constructs of the devil, derivative of secularism.
And are you saying that the Buddhists believe that the soul is not infinite?
right and wrong, good and evil are human constructs.
and as I said suffering is part of life.
no magic being is going to change that. and lots of people don't believe in a higher power and they do not do anything to inflict suffering on anyone.