It was written by an ancient version of Microsoft.

It demands how you look at it, since it was written by humans. So do you regard humans as God? Then it was written by God. Do you regard humans as Satan? Then it was written by Satan.

I can't really say that God just lets Satan do everything. I mean miracles do happen in the world. I guess its just easy to make evil rather than good and evil actions do take our attention more often than good actions. I mean, you can just see it in the news. If its bad, its like "full attention". If its good, its like taken for granted.

Sigh......in this age of modernism, free will leads to threads like this. Some people believe what they want to believe.

Christianity has bigger fish to fry. Satanism is adopted by rebellious people who rejected a Christian upbringing. This isn't a recognized religion and therefore not a threat.

Yup, very obvious.

Q: Who wrote the bible?
A: Humans

Q: How do you konw?
A: It says so in the Bible.

It's so obvious!

Nope, i believe it was written by Jack Cousteau

...I guess it's technically a possibility...but something tells me if Satan had a plan to create a book to distract people from God, he'd probably wouldn't go so far out of his way to make himself look like the bad guy.

I think there are a few things worth pointing out about the initial post, however.

Nearly all historical scholars agree that Jesus existed. The huge divide obviously exists over whether he is really God or not, but it's an almost unanimously accepted view that Jesus, at the very least, existed as a human. So it's highly doubtful that Satan would have simply "invented" him.

There's also records of a person known as "the Christ" being the foundation of "Christianity," written by Tacticus, an ancient Roman historian. One could assume with a good bit of confidence that this person would be Jesus.

I believe there were some writings by Josephus, another Roman historian, which specifically mention Jesus and his name...but I'm a little rusty there so I'd have to go check to make sure.

At any rate...

Deism is simply the belief that God exists but simply lets the natural laws of the world run its course. It's not so much abandonment as it is a hands off approach.

Jehovah's Witnesses believe that 144,000 people will actually serve Jesus, and that the rest of the believing crowd will spend eternity in some other paradise that isn't quite as connected. So everyone who believes is technically saved, it's just that the holiest people (or whatever classificiation is used to qualify for the 144,000) will be more intimate with God.

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Nah, he's just corrupted most religions. He knows how sheeple we can be far more than we could even comprehend.

It's the biggest case of chinese whispers I know of.

There's no stopping the masses though.

Most people thought The Da Vinci code was factual.

Whoever wrote the bible has to be "satan". What kind of narcissistic brute would intentionally trick people into believing that drivel? That book is causing wars throughout the world and preventing the continued progress of man. Has done for many years.

The sooner basic logic supplants all religions the better off mankind will be.