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I'll read the book of Job and get back to you on the matter. I personally, find it hard to believe that Satan is a literal being. I wonder what he looks like? Does the Bible say? I mean he used to be an archangel.....so he should be quite beautiful...or I guess his sinful nature made him quite ugly...and are all angels male, like god, or are there some female ones too? And Catholics don't take the bible literally...well now...Catholic is looking better and better....*sigh* I'm so unchurched...and I feel the pressure daily...Oh lord, deliver me from this dilemma! :)
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Eze 28:12 Ezekiel, son of man, sing a funeral song for the king of Tyre and tell him I am saying: At one time, you were perfect, intelligent, and good-looking.
Eze 28:13 You lived in the garden of Eden and wore jewelry made of brightly colored gems and precious stones. They were all set in gold and were ready for you on the day you were born.
Eze 28:14 I appointed a winged creature to guard your home on my holy mountain, where you walked among gems that dazzled like fire.
Eze 28:15 You were truly good from the time of your birth, but later you started doing wicked things.
Eze 28:16 You traded with other nations and became more and more cruel and evil. So I forced you to leave my mountain, and the creature that had been your protector now chased you away from the gems.
Eze 28:17 It was your good looks that made you arrogant, and you were so famous that you started acting like a fool. That's why I threw you to the ground and let other kings sneer at you. Isa 14:12 You, the bright morning star [Lucifer], have fallen from the sky! You brought down other nations; now you are brought down.
Isa 14:13 You said to yourself, "I'll climb to heaven and place my throne above the highest stars. I'll sit there with the gods far away in the north.
Isa 14:14 I'll be above the clouds, just like God Most High."
Isa 14:15 But now you are deep in the world of the dead.
The closest that the Bible comes to describing female angels is in Chapter 5 of Zechariah. Though scripture mentions males primarily, it doesn't preclude the existence of females.
As far as the Catholics, they have their own Bible, different from that used by Protestants. For example, in the Ten Commandments, they split the tenth into two separate commandments so that they could eliminate the second one (which deals with graven images). Also, they reworded the Sabbath commandment, elimanating mention of "the seventh day". The reasons should be obvious. Furthermore, they have a history of tradition which does not align with the true Christian faith.
Yes, the Catholic perversion does sound good to people not really interested in serving the one, true God.