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Originally Posted by Trapped
Long story short: it's nonsense no matter how you cut it.
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An even longer story short, it's Gnosticism.
By equating Satan to sin to flesh and soul you effectively make everything about man evil absolutely, including thought. So all you're left in doing is disassociating yourself from all of the above and just embracing "spirit" (which really is code for ambiguity). That way a leader can get you in a suggestible state and define things subjectively as they go.
*It should be noted that the leaders themselves are spiritually deceived and controlled. Satan's the real enemy.
Gnosticism is one of the two false gospels that caused problems for the early church in scripture. The other being legalism or imposing the Law onto Christians.
Legalism is salvation through works. Gnosticism is salvation through special knowledge, or high-peak truths.