@FBM,
Quote:Nobody can know another's inner state, including intent. There's not much else we can do but go by their stated intent. Following your line of questioning, how do you know that Jesus was of God and not sent by Satan to deceive the masses into a false belief system?
Because the ratio of people who do good in Christ's name far outweigh the bad who kill in his name...Where as with Satanism, with their core beliefs, saying things like the number of the beast is either 666 or 616, whatever Christians feel fear from whatever particular number they do, is the number we will use...tells me that Satanism, is evil, and Christianity, is much more good than bad indeed...If you have the majority of Christ followers killing in the name of Christ, than being good honest people it would be easy to see that their is no plausibility to this religion whatsoever...and as far as I am concerned, scared of Christians or not...there is absolutely no doubt the number who do horrific things in his "supposivly name" are almost an infinite small percent compared to ones who follow and obey Christ faithfully....it is still at least a percentage too high, but these wicked ones do not know any living God whatsoever...and the ones who do good actions, and embrace Christ, should show, that Christ's message was about Piece<Love<Acceptance<Mercy<Forgiveness<Patience<dicipline etc....