Hm...interesting views.
Lust is wrong. Lust toward your wife does not exist. That is love. When I get married I'm going to want to nail my wife's brains out because I love her and I want her to feel that pleasure.
The whole masturbation thing has been brought up before in the thread called "Christianity and Penis Enlargement: Can they co-exist?" or whatever it was called. My views on masturbation can be read there.
The Bible is a unit. To take only part of it and ignore the rest is not possible for intelligent people that know what the Bible contains. To say one part is false is saying the whole thing must be discarded.
God created Satan, yes. And gave him a free will. Satan chose to rebel against God, so God separated Satan from Himself. Satan is now the 'prince of darkness' or whatever you want to refer to him as. There is no evil in God. There is no good in Satan. God allowed Satan to make a choice. He made his choice. God did not put lust into our hearts. Satan did, but we allow him to. We also have free will. You don't have to allow yourself to think sinful thoughts. But don't blame it on God when you do. He gave you the choice. You should have chosen better.
God made us in His own image. In the garden of Eden, Adam and Eve chose to mess that up. We are no longer completely in God's image. God is capable of hate though. A righteous hatred of sin. That is all.
Metal Ed, you are missing the point. God ALLOWS everything to happen. He does not CAUSE it to happen. You cannot blame it on Him. Sin is the product of our own unwillingness to act in the way in which God would want us to act. Its about free choice. God tells us, "You can either do it My way, the right way, or you can do it your way, the wrong way. It's your choice."
Before you start attacking the Bible and God and my beliefs, why don't you learn about what you're fighting against. In order to make a decent argument, you need to know what you're talking about.
I will be glad to discuss Christianity with anyone who will be open-minded about it. Sounds odd coming from a Christian, yes? Well I've found that people that are truly open minded are the ones that come to a realization that Christianity is THE way. It is closed-minded people who don't want to hear our views. I will also be glad to listen to any opposing religious views, but be prepared for me to try to prove you wrong
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John