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Not all "Satanists" believe in the real Satanic Bible and in the Devil himself so much as just self-glorification.
[To get into heaven] you need to do two simple things: Accept Jesus as your savior and live a good life according to the Bible
The commandment in the New Testament Gospels, wrapped up, is to deliver people to Christ. John wrote in the last book, Revelation, something along the lines of "Let him who is holy stay holy, and let him who is evil stay evil" (not word-for-word, sorry, just off the top o' my head). So basically, if you can save someone, go.* But if he absolutely does not want to pursue Christ, just let him go.
From what I'm hearing it's impossible to live a good life if you don't become Christian, which sounds like total nonsense. There's a large different between what one thinks is good and a more objective definition of good.
One of the major issues that non-Christians have with this argument is that the Bible has been used to justified many acts that our modern culture would consider inhumane.
[People do harm in the name of religion] because it has the "punishing factor". Most religions believe that it is not in the hand of men to punish others, but their supreme being.
The Bible wasn't written all at once man... anyway the old Testiment kinda goes over the beliefs of christianity before Jesus. Sacrafices of lambs to for sins, cept priests got corrupt and the sacrafices lost the original meaning. Hence Jesus coming.
Right and wrong is in the eye of the beholder, some people thinks its not wrong to steal, maybe some think its not wrong to kill. If we could get into heaven by leading a "good" life then it would be open to the worst of the worst... long as they thought they were good.
Also interesting is that this contradicts the idea put forward by the Bible: that good and evil are a higher standard created by a god. So how can you suddenly say that people decide what good and evil are when the Bible clearly points out otherwise?
So how can you suddenly say that people decide what good and evil are when the Bible clearly points out otherwise?
@PopeJohnPaul_II: The term "Satanist" is not as strict as you may think. Some Satanists use the tag to show their self-glorification and don't even believe in Satan whatsoever.
, I'm not judging whether it's right or not nor did I think you were saying whether it was right. I was pointing out that it's a logical impossibility to believe in a god that decides what is good and evil while also believing that people independently decide what is good and evil unless you also believe that what god is is decided by the people (which is not the way the Bible is usually interpreted).