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Originally Posted by Sheltiedad
If I view this as a sine wave with everything above zero as God and everything below zero as satan... then what is the point of us even existing if we are just puppets flatlined at zero and everything above or below the flatline is an outside influence?
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That's what my brother asked after he graduated from Texas A&M.
I believe the difference is that, in my personal experience and I can only speak for myself, at a weak point in my life temptation came my way and walking close to it I could feel my soul dying and struggled to get out. I could feel old habits, thoughts and words rising up that I thought were dead. Very scary experience. I won because the Lord was on my side. I don't know why. I'll have to ask Him someday.
I think during the strong struggle I went through I was trying to figure out if Satan was doing this to me or was it my flesh. Sometimes it felt like both at different times and sometimes it felt totally flesh and sometimes it felt totally Satan.
I can have more compassion on people that are running a little slower in the race for life. At some point, on the road, you're going to have to make a choice. Do I look back or keep going? What is it worth to my life?
So, having said that - I have no choice. He holds the words of life. That would be my point. I must make Heaven. I can feel His presence. He talks to me in strong ways and I cannot deny He is real.