The devil is everywhere

[FreeEnergy]

..."since the only power acting anywhere is God, the devil simply cannot exist as a force acting in opposition to God's expression through Spirit. Therefore, there really is no devil. There is only the manifestation of falsely held beliefs within our minds, which produces that appearance of some sinister invisible force, or being, acting in our lives. To blame unpleasant conditions and circumstances on the devil, or anyone else, is a way of avoiding responsibility for our own experience of life." http://www.religiousscience.org/ucrs_site/philosophy/faq.html#08


..."There cannot be a Law in the Universe which demands evil, lack, limitation, and the experience of unhappiness, to provide shades to magnify Its glory. Therefore, the mystics have taught that evil has only the power to destroy itself; that it is not God-ordained. From the viewpoint of Reality, it is an illusion, but it is not denied as an experience. It is an experience all have had. The great have not failed to recognize the appearance of evil, but they have separated the appearance from the reality. They have done away with evil as a cosmic entityâ€"NO DEVIL, NO HELL, NO TORMENT, NO DAMNATION outside of one’s own state of thought; NO PUNISHMENT outside of that which is self-inflicted, through ignorance; and NO SALVATION OUTSIDE OF CONSCIOUS COOPERATION WITH THE INFINITE. Heaven and Hell are states of consciousness." http://www.rsintl.org/teaching/faq.asp#salvationsinevilhell


..."We do not say that we cannot sin; what we say is, that we do sinâ€"or make mistakesâ€"and are thereby automatically punished AS LONG AS WE CONTINUE TO MAKE MISTAKES; but bondage is not real to the Universe and sin is not real to God. This does not mean that we can do whatever we wish, with disregard for the consequences; nor does the fact that we are punished for our mistakes mean that there is an evil power in the Universe; it does mean that there is an immutable Law of Cause and Effect running through everything. We are not punished for our sins but by them. Sin is its own punishment and righteousness is its own reward!" http://www.rsintl.org/teaching/faq.asp#sin

[christo4_99]

FreeEnergy,
i agree with your explanation,which does not attempt to reduce things down to a God which talks to people in a literal sense...it is the attempt to reduce God down to something comprehensible and to conceptualize existance into symbols and whatnot which i do not agree with the "look here,worship this" ...the ancient religions likened gods to humans and gave them human traits and what they considered to be godlike traits,and the "bad" gods were created also with human traits...people pointing the blame finger to the devil these days is just an attempt to shift responsibility from the men that perpetrate evil to a "common enemy" of mankind,when in the end we have to realize that man is his own enemy at the gate armed with conquest,fear,hatred,greed,lust and immorality.

[FreeEnergy]

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http://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/som/index.htm
http://www.websyte.com/unity/title.htm

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[Cap-Z-ro]

The devil you say!


No one knows what is and what isn't.

But personally speaking the devil is a little too fanciful a concept...even though life can be cartoonish at times.

From my observations, it appears as though what ever is responsible for our creation is acessable to us under certain conditions...like when a mother gains super human strength when her child is in danger.

Maybe its a brain frequency thing.

Regards...

[PYRODIN123321]

Pointless conjecture, white or black pick your side, but hope that one will never conquer the other, to do so would end the game of our existance I think, no matter which one prevails the game is still over when one wipesout the other.