Hutch said:
Do you think that the 'creation' of Satan was catalyzed by 'Gods' desposition of idol worshipping, and that Satan is merely the theological embodyment of why christians refuse to accept polytheism? Do you think that 'The Beast and his image' and 'the beast and the false prophet' as described in your previous post are strictly in reference to other Gods and idols of such Gods? i.e. Believe in the one 'true' God; if you have any ideas to the contrary all that results is eternal suffering in hell with the demons that you mistook as Gods...
Luke 18
18:15 Now people were even bringing their babies to him for him to touch. But when the disciples saw it, they began to scold those who brought them. 18:16 But Jesus called for the children, saying, “Let the little children come to me and do not try to stop them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. 18:17 I tell you the truth, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will never enter it.”
Food Sacrificed to Idols
1 Corinthians 8:
8:1 With regard to food sacrificed to idols, we know that "we all have knowledge."Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. 8:2 If someone thinks he knows something, he does not yet know to the degree that he needs to know. 8:3 But if someone loves God, he is known by God.
8:4 With regard then to eating food sacrificed to idols, we know that "an idol in this world is nothing," and that "there is no God but one." 8:5 If after all there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords), 8:6
yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we live, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we live.
8:7 But this knowledge is not shared by all. And some, by being accustomed to idols in former times, eat this food as an idol sacrifice, and their conscience, because it is weak, is defiled. 8:8 Now food will not bring us close to God. We are no worse if we do not eat and no better if we do. 8:9 But be careful that this liberty of yours does not become a hindrance to the weak. 8:10 For if someone weak sees you who possess knowledge dining in an idol's temple, will not his conscience be "strengthened" to eat food offered to idols? 8:11 So by your knowledge the weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed. 8:12 If you sin against your brothers or sisters in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. 8:13 For this reason, if food causes my brother or sister to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I may not cause one of them to sin.
being idol in heaven is standing apart from God, in darkness out of the light. but they are no longer an idol in darkness for they are against theyselves.