Posted on 01/03/2008 8:04:03 AM PST by Sopater
the devil is a person???????
was there corruption in the true church, you bet there was, but you don’t leave the true church because of it, you change it from WITHIN...as we did, come on back, we miss you!!!
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From a theological perspective, "person" is a fairly metaphysical concept. The Bible tells us the Satan has a personality and has objectives. Thus he is a conscious, self aware, individual entity and in that respect there is a personhood. If by person you mean a human being, created in God's own image, then no - Satan's not that kind of person. No angel is.
Luther tried to reform the Church from within. That’s when THE CORRUPT CHURCH excommunicated him.
It was really, really difficult to effect change from within when they would rather burn him at the stake than talk with him.
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