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Originally Posted by YOhio
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What is interesting to me is I asked my brothers and sister at the our family Christmas party what they remember as far as Satan and Jesus and the war in heaven.
All of them remember being taught Jesus and Satan being favored higher than any of the Fathers other children. They remembered being taught that each presented a plan to the father. Jesus's plan was accepted and Satan was ticked and took 1/3 of the host of heaven into rebellion. Adam, another favored son led the 2/3 who approved the plan.
It has really come as a surprise to me that some now say our belief is that Satan was just another one of the children of God and that is why we mention him as Jesus's brother and for no other reason.
What we were taught must not be taught now or mentioned much. The younger people at the party really didn't know much or have an opinion on how favored Satan was.
It seems a lot of things that were taught in my youth and early 20's have fallen by the wayside and are no longer taught as our beliefs.
It is my hope the honor code will someday fall to that fate.