10-10-2025, 10:31 PM
I believe in god. My quest is to figure out what god is. I also there is a being that is referred to as Satan, he is the one who tests our worthiness, he tempts us, he tries to get us to believe in lies, he tries to make us believe wealth and prestige are what we should be focusing on. I figured long ago to just say no to his temptations. I don't need to get rich, because my name is Richard so I am already Rich. I do not desire more than I need, but do occasionally like to treat myself to a want..just to feel normal in this society.
Satan has not been bothering me much, I respect his job as a tester of worthiness and believe he may actually be testing people to help god identify if they are worthy of gods kingdom. I do not know if the being delivering the test of our rightiousness should be considered bad. I hope I pass satan's tests, but know that not many people who pass will get into heaven...sounds like they are only taking a hundred forty four thousand....I think I have less chance in getting in heaven than winning the powerball without buying a ticket. But I do feel better if I try to be a decent person and follow the ten commandments fairly well, to me it is more how I will feel about my life here when I die, I do not want to have any regrets because of bad things I have done. I know, bad people will probably not have any regrets of the bad they did, but it would bother me if I felt I was bad. I also know that I am not perfect, and I doubt if I ever could be, living in a society where telling little white lies is promoted to be social, makes it hard to be totally honest.. Telling the truth or what you believe is the truth can make you into a social outcast nowadays, and that is the way it is. But trying to deceive god is impossible, and if you tell him you are trying to become better, hopefully god will understand.
Nobody is perfect, and I am certain I am not even close to perfect because I will usually not talk about my belief in god to others unless directly asked. I am not fond of religion though, some churches are pretty decent, others are so so. I do have to say, we had bible study once a week usually with a couple of older Jehovahs, and their beliefs are not so different than other religions, and I know a lot of good decent Catholics. Most Churches have a majority of good people, but they always seem to have some that are not legitimate Christians. I also know some Jewish people, and they are good people. I know some muslims that are good people too, but they are not the overzealous ones, they don't seem to be real devoted and strict, not a threat to us. But there are quite a few Muslims out there that hate Americans and I do not see eye to eye with those kind of people who believe that if you are not with them you are their enemy.
The hindu religions seem interesting, and I kind of studied some of them over the years on the net. Not sure how to rate those, most are half way decent I suppose, and I see some similarities to Christianity in some. In one, Sanat Kamarie is the one who delivers the test of rightiousness and if you pass the test you can go to Shambala...Satan and Sanat have the same letters in different orders, and Santa is also one who supposedly grades our worthiness when we are kids. So with reading about satan and those other two beings, I tend to think that Satan is the tester of our rightiousness, he does that in Job and with Jesus too.
So, I will keep pondering on these beings but doing so I started questioning the reality of the reality we live in. Seems like this reality was created by people long ago and presently, people who want us to get personal gains from us. People who want to control everyone. They control us by our belief in their deceptions...like the value of gold and stocks.....playing the stock market is gambling on people's beliefs in a stock...not in it's real worth. I would rather believe in God than in people benefitting by us believing in things not real.
Satan has not been bothering me much, I respect his job as a tester of worthiness and believe he may actually be testing people to help god identify if they are worthy of gods kingdom. I do not know if the being delivering the test of our rightiousness should be considered bad. I hope I pass satan's tests, but know that not many people who pass will get into heaven...sounds like they are only taking a hundred forty four thousand....I think I have less chance in getting in heaven than winning the powerball without buying a ticket. But I do feel better if I try to be a decent person and follow the ten commandments fairly well, to me it is more how I will feel about my life here when I die, I do not want to have any regrets because of bad things I have done. I know, bad people will probably not have any regrets of the bad they did, but it would bother me if I felt I was bad. I also know that I am not perfect, and I doubt if I ever could be, living in a society where telling little white lies is promoted to be social, makes it hard to be totally honest.. Telling the truth or what you believe is the truth can make you into a social outcast nowadays, and that is the way it is. But trying to deceive god is impossible, and if you tell him you are trying to become better, hopefully god will understand.
Nobody is perfect, and I am certain I am not even close to perfect because I will usually not talk about my belief in god to others unless directly asked. I am not fond of religion though, some churches are pretty decent, others are so so. I do have to say, we had bible study once a week usually with a couple of older Jehovahs, and their beliefs are not so different than other religions, and I know a lot of good decent Catholics. Most Churches have a majority of good people, but they always seem to have some that are not legitimate Christians. I also know some Jewish people, and they are good people. I know some muslims that are good people too, but they are not the overzealous ones, they don't seem to be real devoted and strict, not a threat to us. But there are quite a few Muslims out there that hate Americans and I do not see eye to eye with those kind of people who believe that if you are not with them you are their enemy.
The hindu religions seem interesting, and I kind of studied some of them over the years on the net. Not sure how to rate those, most are half way decent I suppose, and I see some similarities to Christianity in some. In one, Sanat Kamarie is the one who delivers the test of rightiousness and if you pass the test you can go to Shambala...Satan and Sanat have the same letters in different orders, and Santa is also one who supposedly grades our worthiness when we are kids. So with reading about satan and those other two beings, I tend to think that Satan is the tester of our rightiousness, he does that in Job and with Jesus too.
So, I will keep pondering on these beings but doing so I started questioning the reality of the reality we live in. Seems like this reality was created by people long ago and presently, people who want us to get personal gains from us. People who want to control everyone. They control us by our belief in their deceptions...like the value of gold and stocks.....playing the stock market is gambling on people's beliefs in a stock...not in it's real worth. I would rather believe in God than in people benefitting by us believing in things not real.
