On Nightline, there was a Face Off regarding the reality of Satan. Mark Driscoll was one of the participants. Mark did a great job integrating the reality of the Evil One with a presentation of the gospel. He offered hope in the midst of our personal and societal struggles.
And then there was Deepok Chopra gave a bunch of ying & yang psycho-babble (quoting Freud, but in line with Jung’s work) about how “healthy people don’t need the devil.” Bishop Pearson forsakes his calling based on a false stereo-type. Nice. Another “bishop” denying the teaching of Scripture. I guess we solve the problem of evil by just not thinking about it.
Both of argue against the belief in the devil on the basis of wars- religious wars. just because some nuts believe you can drop the bomb on the devil to destroy him does not make this a reason to deny personal evil. It is a Straw Man argument, fallacious to the core. The devil is not material, can’t be bombed, shot or drugged out of existence. Only Jesus destroys the work of the devil (Hebrews 2, I think), which Pearson forgot to mention when saying Jesus would not be pleased by all that bomb dropping. I’m pretty sure Jesus isn’t pleased with those who think dropping bombs (or flying planes into sky scrappers) is the way to defeat The Great Satan. Now, legitimate governments bearing the sword against those who pose a threat against those they are charged to protect (Romans 13) is another story. But the ultimate solution is only Christ and Him crucified to destroy, among other things, the hate in our hearts and the evils that flow from that.
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