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NASB | Ephesians 2:2 in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Ephesians 2:2 in which you once walked. You were following the ways of this world [influenced by this present age], in accordance with the prince of the power of the air (Satan), the spirit who is now at work in the disobedient [the unbelieving, who fight against the purposes of God]. |
Subject: Believing in the Bible and E.T.'s |
Bible Note: I'm sorry you have been deceived by the new age movement. They have blinded you to the scope of God. I don't see how UFO's support the new age movement, this is a faulty assumtion on your part. Reality is God's creation and if God has seen fit to populate his universe with many other people's, it is not your place to deny this. How does the exsistance of aliens decieve us? Is your vision of God sooo limited that there is no room in his heart for other people's? Is he not great enough to be a close family with both us AND aliens? You offer scripture that God wants to be close with us as proof that he could not be close with others. Do not covet God's love, this is a sin. Only God is allowed to be jelous. As to the red shift, you have simpley miss-interpreted the evidence. It simpely says that all things are moveing away from all things, that does not prove we are the center of the universe by any means. It simpley says the universe is expanding in all directions. We are not even in the center of our own galaxy. I hear fear of the occult in your words. I feel sorry for you that your understanding of reality is so tiny and limited. I often pray for the wisdom God would grant for my fellow man. I will need to redouble my efforts in that. Does it say in the Bible that Jesus has been no where else? Does it say that mankind is the ONLY one Juses has died for? Is it beyond God's power to reserect Jesus an infinate number of times? How can you pretend to know the mind of God? This message to you I believe is from God, that you should trust in his wisdom and not deny the reality he has created and said is good. I seek only to serve my creator and not to decieve you but rather to open your eyes. God has given mankind a good enough brain to understand a small part of his creation, it would be folly not to use it as best we are able. Is it sin to use a GPS, or drive your SUV? NO! Is it sin to travel to the moon in a rocket ship? Of course not! Then why do you assume that just because they come in what seems like wierd ships to you, aliens are evil? Does the Bible ever claim to be the complete knowledge of God? What does the bible say about GPS, cell phones, flu shots, rocket ships, nuclear reactors, M1A2 Abrams, the internet, T.V., or video games? Ohh not in there? Hmmm they must be evil then! That is a silly thought. Are these things miracles? No. But they are not evil either. In reality God rewards us (in earthly terms anyway) for useing our brains the best we are able to. Does this bring glory to man? No! It simpley brings more glory to God that such wonders are possible by the hands of mere men who trust the reality of God. It is silly folly to resist God's wonder and try to dim his light! Trust in him that he knows more than you, that he has not seen fit to share his entire wisdom with you, and that all things are in his hands! I believe the Jews of the time of Jesus thought much like you do now. They denied Jesus because he was diffrent from what they expected. They thought they knew all they needed to about God, and fell from his grace for it! Love God no matter how diffrent he truns out to be! God would be no less glouriuos to me if we were the center of the universe, can YOU say the same if the exact opposite turns out to be true? |