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jredden92
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I believe Buddhism talks about our thoughts/ego being Maya or the tempter. Is there a christian denomination that also believes this is how you should interpret Satan? Like a buddhist christian.
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Elias
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Your thoughts and ego can be at odds with God (satan literally means opponent), but your thoughts and ego are not actual Satan/Lucifer/The Devil.
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jredden92
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I can see how my way of thinking about this can become extreme because then you might start thinking you are posessed by the devil.
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Elias
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Exactly. Remember, actual devil possession is rare and unlikely. Have you looked up/listened to sermons by excorcists about spiritual warfare? I would highly recommend it. Fr. Chad Ripperger has excellent sermons on this topic I think you would enjoy.
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edward_george1
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Given the posting history of the OP, who indicates that he’s trying to learn the faith and is very confused about a lot of things, I’d recommend that he get into the basics first and not go for the more advanced stuff. Fr Ripperger might be a bit much for him right now. He still needs to work out just basic catechesis.
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jredden92
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Yes I feel very confused and at odds with what I’m supposed to believe. I will keep going to confirmation classes and hopefully they can help clear some of this up.
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Vico
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Catechism of the Catholic ChurchI believe Buddhism talks about our thoughts/ego being Maya or the tempter. Is there a christian denomination that also believes this is how you should interpret Satan? Like a buddhist christian.
395 The power of Satan is, nonetheless, not infinite. He is only a creature, powerful from the fact that he is pure spirit, but still a creature. He cannot prevent the building up of God’s reign. Although Satan may act in the world out of hatred for God and his kingdom in Christ Jesus, and although his action may cause grave injuries - of a spiritual nature and, indirectly, even of a physical nature- to each man and to society, the action is permitted by divine providence which with strength and gentleness guides human and cosmic history. It is a great mystery that providence should permit diabolical activity, but “we know that in everything God works for good with those who love him.”
538 The Gospels speak of a time of solitude for Jesus in the desert immediately after his baptism by John. Driven by the Spirit into the desert, Jesus remains there for forty days without eating; he lives among wild beasts, and angels minister to him. At the end of this time Satan tempts him three times, seeking to compromise his filial attitude toward God. Jesus rebuffs these attacks, which recapitulate the temptations of Adam in Paradise and of Israel in the desert, and the devil leaves him “until an opportune time”.
540 Jesus’ temptation reveals the way in which the Son of God is Messiah, contrary to the way Satan proposes to him and the way men wish to attribute to him.244 This is why Christ vanquished the Tempter for us : "For we have not a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tested as we are, yet without sinning."245 By the solemn forty days of Lent the Church unites herself each year to the mystery of Jesus in the desert.
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PuerAzaelis
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In Buddhism and in much mysticism one of the adversaries is the mind itself. I think in Christianity my rational mind or ego is more of the gift of my soul which I have received from God.
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