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Ive seriously thought about taking up reading The Satanic Bible so that I may further my studies in Christ. I feel that if I learn it as well as our Holy Bible it will help me better witness to the lost and satanists.

I know a lot of Satanists @ Diabloworld.com and it hurts me everyday to go on there and see, post, and talk with these lost people.

What do you guys think I should do? Would It be a good idea to read that Book (of Evil)
 
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Quote[/b] (ToJ | Dead_Aim @ June 29 2003,12:10)]Ive seriously thought about taking up reading The Satanic Bible so that I may further my studies in Christ. I feel that if I learn it as well as our Holy Bible it will help me better witness to the lost and satanists.

I know a lot of Satanists @ Diabloworld.com and it hurts me everyday to go on there and see, post, and talk with these lost people.

What do you guys think I should do? Would It be a good idea to read that Book (of Evil)
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No....
 
hrmmm...wow, that's very dangerous

now, I know eon or mustard or somebody will say we're being closeminded and should broaden our fields...

but i think that reading the satanic bible..wow..

i didn't even know they HAD a bible...what the heck is it? that's really scary....

aliester crowley and all them, i know nothing about satanists...man, that's scary

i think you should seek Kidan's advice..he is very well-read..

edit ---> btw, i'm praying for you, and i suggest you to pray as well =D
 
hehe..to be honest, i have no idea what you should be doing..only the Lord does =D keep praying about it, and keep reading responses from more informed people
 
First definatly pray!!!! I think if you want the best tool to wittness to satanist, it is the bible, also God will give you the words to speak but wait for his anointing, becase he may not have called you to witness to them, and whenever we do anything outside of God's plan we usualy wind up the ones who need a witness. But above all pray and read the bible. The word of God is Living, it will show you what you need. Not sure if you know what i mean by anointing. An anointing is a Blessing from God, basicaly a Go ahead, that you should venture into somthing. Wait on God and he will lead you on right paths.
Take care and God BLess
Rand NobleBlade
Paladin
 
What is this, Call of Cthulhu? I am a very strong believer that whilst Ignorance might be bliss, knowledge is power. I guess you have to decide who you want to be. It seems you want to be a warrior for Christ, and as everyone knows the mightiest weapon on the battlefield is intelligence.

If your faith can be shaken by reading a book or a website, then perhaps your faith needs to be stronger, or you need to find a new path anyway...

Eon
 
The Call of Cthulhu? Chilly documentation...freakier still was his/its abstract involvement in Dunwich. Or was that Shub-Niggurath?

Yes. Read it. By all means.
But you know, watch out. There are such things as spiritual forces. And most of them are really, really, really, reeeeeally un-nice.

Rand, the problem with witnessing to anyone who doesn't believe in God using the Bible is this: they don't believe a word it says. Secondly, ever read Mere Christianity? Or The Case for Faith? Or The Case for Christ? All books that help you to support Christianity WITHOUT resorting to the Good Book at every step of the way.
CS Lewis probably said it best (though I'm probably going to misquote him horribly...sorry Clive): (summarized) "It's allright to look into the occult, but it's dangerous to have an infatuation with it." Or something like that. Basically, you can be interested in it, but don't get obsessed with it. Me? I like studying the occult...but it's bad to really get sucked into to, because one day, you might not want to come out of it.
So a half-cent there, and the next 1.5 come here: read it, learn it, discuss it. Those guys believe it. It is their dogma. Just be sure that you don't get obsessed with it.
Prayer is always good in preparation and as you go along.
 
It's really hard to have a meaningful dialogue with a group of people when you don't understand their dogma - especially if you believe them to be capable of dangerous behaviour.

<looks around>

<small voice> I mean, I'm HERE aren't I?


Eon
 
Then you must explain to me, how then, so many Chinese converted to Christianity when people like Hudson Taylor (Brit extraordinaire) packed their bags and headed over there to preach to them but ran into assorted troubles, however though they converted many to Christianity?
Dogma wasn't really understood of them then, and now: no religion is allowed in China! How do you explain to someone on their own grounds what they do not know if YOU yourself do not know their beliefs? It seems to me Christianity and several other followings are able to be preached and taught without extensive knowledge in others' beliefs.
Of course it's unwise to venture out as such, but when you do...what is it, then, that occurs when another drops their faith of a lifetime for Christianity?
As for Satanists being dangerous...debatable. SOME certainly, just as SOME Christians are dangerous, and SOME atheists are dangerous. Worshiping Satan doesn't grant you dominion over the servants of hell automatically...or ever at all. It's just voicing your allegiance to Satan (though it is written in Scriptures that whoever is against God is with the Enemy (Satan) already. And that the world is ruled by Satan, and all are his toys until they die to this worldly flesh and come to Christ.
Danger of the Satanists is debatable, again.
 
Well, I'm not familiar with how Christianity was preached in China, so I can't speak intelligently on that subject. However, in Japan it was as an end result of a rather extensive program to understand the customs and the language of the Japanese people. It's certain that the Jesuists found understanding the Japanese to be central to their success in promoting the Christian faith.

The central point of the Christian faith - its point of critical distinction - is the belief that only by being a Christian can you go to the good part of the afterlife, and that being anything BUT Christian leads to death and Hell. When you add that to the sheer amount of money the church is willing to spread in promoting its faith, its unsurprising that it finds a foothold in the poor and credulous. The Catholic church used the promise of salvation for cash to snare the lords in Europe - teaching that God favoured them above the Peasants meant that the church was throwing its whole weight behind the status quo. Of course, the idea that a better life awaited the faithful servant if he didn't rock the boat in THIS one was also an idea that the Lords were in favour of the church teaching.


Eon
 
Oh. Customs and languages yeah! I highly doubt that any man speaking a language different your own will understand Jesus died for him. Or something like that.
Taylor did the garb, he did the customs, he did the language of China. He was ridiculed for it a lot by his peers for getting so into them and even prevented from courting his wife by her caretaker because she didn't approve of his "dress and queer actions."
So yeah.
Well...the thing about Catholicism is how much it strayed from actual Biblical and New Testament teachings, which is why I find it so hard to believe that so many are in its ranks: it's so preposterous to listen to them speak and beg. They're the richest body of religion in the world I'd assume. EVERY stinking church they build is like a temple. Humongous. There's this on in San Franciso I think that offers 100k burial places underneath it. Our Lady of Something (matter of fact, I would say she's Our Lady of the Sewerpipes, Our Lady of the Stratosphere, Our Lady of an Antarctic Iceberg, Our Lady of the Platypus, Our Lady of Waspstings, Our Lady of the Caterpillar Pupa, Our Lady of Omnipotence, basically). I forget its name.
The Catholic Church is not overly credible to me. The fact that many churches in today America (non-denomination, Baptist, Episcopalian, Catholic) are so rich is of no surprise: they start out as "non-profit" organizations, meaning they take what free money they get to get started and then pay another branch of themselves the remaining money and then start preaching good things to those who tithe to rake in the cash. Then comes the 20k rings, the 100000 sq.ft. manors, the 200-acre campgrounds, et cetera.
And of course, the Feeding the Starving Children of Abyssinia begins right after that, followed by Feeding the Poor of NYC.
 
I've read it.

While there is no reason NOT to read it (provided you do so prayerfully) there is also no need to know it as well as the Bible.

Remember that in our quest to spread the gospel, that we are to become all things to all people (which includes learning about their beliefs) yet at the same time, we should watch what we are taking into our minds/souls.  

While yes it is harder to convert someone (or have a meaningful dialogue) without at least a basic understanding of their belief system, a number of satanists don't have a basic understanding of their belief system, and proclaim the worship of satan just to be an attack against there Christian parents.  

I don't have an exact understanding of your walk with Christ and the strength of your faith (so I won't blindly make a recommendation as to whether you read or not read it) so talk to your pastor or youth pastor about your desires and of course pray about it.
 
Indeed. However, I found that Satanists are very different from how I imagined them - they seem to me to be simply Humanists with a scarier name.
 
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