Absolute faith. Doubt and faith can not be together, just as Christ and Satan can not agree. You will continue to mock wonders too great for you to understand, and say it is we who do it.
What is Satan's goal? Ever since the fall of him and the angels, it was to undermine our faith, to create doubt in our hearts, to doubt God's word that will utimately lead us off his path.
Faith in God is like walking a path. When we walk that path sometimes we doubt and stray from the path. Some for seconds, some for long periods of time, and some never come back.
People can call God unfair, and doubt his actions and question why he does certain things, not trying to fully understand why he does what he does. And even if they do as said, without recognising the basic fact that the Bible is God's revelation to men, our study of it is doomed to failure.
Without faith, our understanding is dull and our eyes blinded. I can honestly say, Satan's hold over me is now gone. He has not made me doubt, nor stray. I am dead to sin. This does not mean I can no longer sin, but I am dead to it's power. I still sin, that us obvious everyone does. But just because I have emotions and everything does not give me the right to do what God has told me now to do.
God did not create us with our sinful nature, curiosity, but not sin. We were perfect when he first created us. But God told Adam and Eve, do not eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge. But Satan came to them in the form of a snake, told them 90% truth, but then told them, "you surely will not die". He told them what part of it was "good" for them, but left out the part that would affect everyone in the world.
They said, "How wonderful it would be to become wise!" And they ate it. That was the first fall of man, and God punished them in many ways for their sin. But nobody became wise, if anything they became fools, and even the first people not long after Adam and Eve started to mock God and denied his existence. Hence, the flood. But God has put up a rainbow, so whenever we see rain, of any sort, we would be reminded of his promise to never again flood the world.
Of course, the rainbow has now just been set aside by science as reflections of light, like Christmas has Christ removed from it, Easter, and Good Friday. All these things people will change and leave God out of everything.
Things, which are all effects of doubt. It is doubt in God's word that brought about chaos to begin with. He said to Adam and Eve, that if they ate the fruit they would surely die. Satan tells them otherwise, and they believe him. And who gets all the blame? God of course, not Satan for being the one who lives only to make sure everyone goes to hell.
Doubt, is Satan's primary weapon. And when we fill our hearts with doubt, we become his weapon. |