Introduction
This paper gives the information about the Satanic Church, Occult. This paper includes the background of the Satanic Church, their practices, doctrine and beliefs. This paper clears the readers that it is the one of the cult groups who follows the principles, doctrine beyond the theological term.
History/Background of
Satanic Church
The First
Satanic Church is an organization founded by Karla LaVey on
October 31, 1997, in San Francisco, California, that is dedicated to LaVey Satanism as
codified by Anton LaVey in The Satanic Bible. The church's stated mission
is to carry on the inheritance of Anton LaVey through "the study of
Satanism and the occult sciences”.
The bible says that
he is a very real personage of spirit is called Satan. It says that he is the
serpent of old and that he is out to deceive the whole world. (Revelation 12:9)
so the devil is real and he has a strategy to bring each of us to destruction.
The bible warns us: (Ephesians 6:11, 12)
Satanic Church Beliefs:
o Prayer is
useless; it distracts people from useful activity.
o Ritual killing
(of humans or animals) violates satanic principles. Blood drawn from a victim
is useless. Victims are killed symbolically, not actually.
o They practice
with joy all the seven deadly Christian sins (greed, pride, envy, anger,
gluttony, lust and sloth)
o If a man smites
you on one cheek, smash him on the other.
o Do unto others
as they do onto you.
o Engage in sexual
activity freely, in accordance with your needs (which may be best realized
either through monogamy, or by having sex with many others; through
heterosexuality, homosexuality or bisexuality; using sexual fetishes as you
wish; by yourself or with one or more consenting adults).
o Suicide is
actively discouraged.
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They believe Heaven and Hell do not exist.
Satan’s Ancestry
Young
people are getting more involved in satanic activities than ever before. Drug
abuse, sexual abuse, seeking new kinds of energy and personal control through
satanic activity. They believe that Satan will give them power or dominion over
their lives and over the lives of those around them. They immerse themselves in
heavy metal and acid rock music. Some of the
Groups? AC/DC, Iron maiden, Black Sabbath, Anthrax, Mega Death, Metallica
etc. Black Metal music is not just ordinary music.
Satanic Symbols
It is incredible what occult jewelry young
people are wearing, such as earrings or medallions of the inverted pentagram,
the upside-down five pointed star with the goat’s head in the center. It is
truly a Satanic Symbol. The peace symbol, the inverted broken cross, has become
a symbol that Satanists are now wearing the up-side down cross of Christ with
broken arms. Signifying the defeat of Christianity.
Occult
The term “Occult”
comes from the Latin term occults, which refers to hidden or secrets things. It
refers specially to the incursion of a fourth dimension, a spirit realm, into
our three-dimensional world. It
is estimated that 50 to 60 million Americans are involved in some form of
occult and read their horoscopes every morning to see what they should do that
day and in Nepal too. People are
involved in all type of the occult: fortune-telling the use of tarot cards,
palmistry, and numerology. Some of the occults are mentioned below:
Astrology
The largest of the
occult today is astrology, which is based upon the supposed 12 houses of the
Zodiac and based upon the time of our birth. The position of the planets, the
stars, the sun, and moon which are used to calculate future events and cycles
of good or bad, based upon the astrologist’s interpretation.
Spiritism
It is also called
channeling, in which a channeler is taken over by a controlled spirit bringing
some new age wisdom.
Fortune- telling
God speaks clearly
about the area of fortune-telling. Modern-day prophets and prophetesses claim
to predict the events to come in your life and in nation. But God in His word
gives us two tests to determine a true prophet. First one test is in Deuteronomy 18:20-22, so we should
testify if it is true or not? So the
Hebrew prophets of Old Testament were 100% accurate when they spoke from God,
or they were stoned to death. God warns us of this in Ezekiel 13:3,
6-9 Second test is Deuteronomy 13:1-5
Conclusion
In this way, Jesus warned us about the last days, we would see the coming of many false prophets and false Christ. Satan is finite created being, a mere fallen angel. Satan is liar, that is the lie that got Lucifer cast out of Heaven. The Satanic Church & Occults are Cult group, This group encourage to love Satan and Satanism. This cult group is against the Bible. So do not make the mistake of considering God and Satan as equal or almost equal. Satan is not equal to God. God alone is OMNISCIENT, OMNIPOTENT, OMNIPRESENT, HOLY AND RIGHTEOUS.
Footnotes:
Ron Carlson, Ed
Decker, Fast Facts on False Teachings
(America: Harvest House Publishers, 1994), 246.
Ron Carlson, Ed Decker, Fast Facts on False Teachings (America: Harvest House Publishers, 1994), 238.
Ron Carlson, Ed
Decker, Fast Facts on False Teachings
(America: Harvest House Publishers, 1994), 241-242.