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July 2019

Satan's Bible (Part II)

7/29/2019

 
​But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds
of them which believe not...
II Corinthians 4:4-5

What I am writing here is serious business...
The Devil is a murderer who searches for souls to steal. In Saint John’s gospel account, Jesus is quoted as saying with regard to the Devil, “He was a murderer from the beginning... He is the father of lies” (John 8:44).

In his defense of the Satanic Bible, this man quotes author Anton LaVey, who wrote, “You cannot love everyone; It is ridiculous to think you can.” And, “The Satanist believes you should love strongly and completely those who deserve your love,” which I believe is a summation of the letter writer himself on LaVey’s teaching about love.

The Christian Bible, however, states that “God is love.” It reads, “Beloved, let us love one another: for God is love; and everyone that loves is born of God. He that loves not does not know God; for God is love” (I John 4:7-8). In addition, the Bible also declares that “God so loved the world” (John 3:16). This meaning, Creator God loves all humankind. Christ Himself teaches we are to love our neighbors and to do good even to those who mean us harm (Matthew 5:43-48).


My question, therefore, to the letter writer is, How do you determine who deserves your love, and who does not? How, along the same line, can you determine who has earned the right to be loved by you? If my love has to be earned by doing right by you, what would happen if at some point I did you wrong? Would your love turn to hate?

Under LaVey’s concept of human love, I would have to work at not only earning your love, but keeping it, as well. Such a love would then be reduced to performance. Whereas, a Christian’s love for another is to continue even if a brother or friend sins against him, and even if he sins and messes up more than once.

In the Holy Bible, the apostle Peter wondered about this very same thing. He asked Jesus, “How often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Seven times?” Then Christ replied, ‘I say not seven times, but seventy times seven” (Matthew 18:21-22).

D. B.​


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