The Godhead is rather quite different from the three prime gods of Hinduism. But that is a different debate all together.
I agree, considering it is three forms of God in Christianity, while I believe it is a lot more in Hinduism (actually, I think Hinduism offers an unlimited amount). Been a few years since I looked into it, but there are three prime gods, representing creation, maintenance and destruction (could I be bold enough to claim that it relates very well to Christianity, if you grant Satan the role of destruction - of course, he'd have to be considered a deity), plus Krishna whom walked the Earth (like Jesus Christ). After that the list goes on with more gods that represent each their values. Anyway, let's not stray off-topic.
If you say at any point: "I am God" then you are indeed claiming those things.
If I had said at any point that I am your God, I would be claiming your God's (or god's) identity, etc. However, all I've said is that a deist Satanist would claim to be his own God (or his own god, depending on his views). I do not consider myself to be God, a god nor Satan. I am a mortal being of free will, with full responsibility of my actions.
no....not really...You are most welcome to prove me wrong of course!
Prove your understanding.
Then...I believe I will go so far as to say...you don't understand God. Because my understanding of God comes from God himself. Just like it does to every Christian, who is actually born again and saved.
Your understanding, is that you were enlightened by God himself, which is common among most Christians. However, there are a lot more varieties between you than you could possibly fathom without discussing it with all Christians. God might have told you a different story than what he told John Smith. I know a lot of Christians, and none of them are the same. There is only one thing they agree completely on; that God represents love.
Because I don't interpret him as You, Me, or any other mortal fallible, death riddled, sickness riddled, sin riddled, conflict riddled, mistake riddled, selfishness riddled, loveless, faithless, kindness less, dis-compassionate, poor in morals, man?
I'm perfectly okay with that.
No, I do not interpret the Christian God as me, or any of what you have described above. He is kind, he loves, he forgives, and he is everyone. He denies pleasure, freedom and responsibility, he represents a life-style where everything is going to be fine in the end, no matter what you do, as long as you feel remorse (and pay a priest so you can tell him about it).
Vosty, yes I am a human indeed. Never tried to impose anything else. I am mortal. Neither do I believe I am important.
A Satanist that views himself as God, views only himself as God, though he would not expect anyone else to agree that he is their God, only his God.
Satanists take care of their own life, value their own benefits. We have a responsive code of conduct where we shall
do unto others as they do unto you.
Also, more clarification on the God discussion from our leader (and the story around the quote), taken from Wikipedia:
In The Satanic Bible, Anton LaVey describes Satan as a motivating and balancing dark force in nature. Satan is also described as being the "Black Flame", representing a person's own inner personality and desires. Satan is seen as synonymous with the nature and even, metaphorically, with certain conceptions of a supreme deity or God.
In his most important essay, "Satanism: The Feared Religion", the Church of Satan's current leader Peter H. Gilmore states:
“ Satanists do not believe in the supernatural, in neither God nor the Devil. To the Satanist, he is his own God. Satan is a symbol of Man living as his prideful, carnal nature dictates. The reality behind Satan is simply the dark evolutionary force of entropy that permeates all of nature and provides the drive for survival and propagation inherent in all living things. Satan is not a conscious entity to be worshipped, rather a reservoir of power inside each human to be tapped at will. Thus any concept of sacrifice is rejected as a Christian aberration—in Satanism there’s no deity to which one can sacrifice.[11] ”
Satan is said to appear in mythology and literature around the world as a trickster, rebel, and Figure seeking the destruction or slavery of man. Figures such as the Greek Prometheus are said to perfectly exemplify the qualities of Satan, the prideful rebel.[12] Satan is seen as the powerful individual who acts regardless of what others might say.[13] Also, the word satan is derived from the Hebrew for "adversary" or "accuser" (ha-satan). Thus, combining the traditional rebellious imagery associated with Satan and other relative deities, together with the etymological aspect of the word itself, Satanists claim to be adversaries of mainstream behavior which they define as "herd conformity", seeing it as stifling to individuality, creativity, and progress.[14]
Satanists do not believe that Satan is a god; rather, the function of God is performed and satisfied by the Satanist him/herself. That is, the needs of worship, ritual, and religious/spiritual focus are directed, effectively, inwards towards the Satanist, as opposed to outwards towards a God.
LaVey proposes, instead, that if all gods are creations of humans, worship of an external deity is worship of its creator by proxy. He suggests, then, that the rational Satanists should instead internalize their gods and therefore worship themselves; hence the Satanic maxim, "I am my own god."[15]
It follows that Satanism shuns the idea of belief in all other deities as well. Belief in any such externalized deities is generally considered grounds for excluding someone as a Satanist, and devil worship in particular is considered nothing more than a misguided inversion of Christianity, the practitioners of which being regarded as devil-worshipers, instead of Satanists
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