Harmonious
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Thank you kindly.
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A bloodthirsty god?
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I think this is an ancient, primitive, barbaric myth comparable to say the Gilgamesh.
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and still happens now.
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Exactly. Assuming the existence of this particular creator, that is. Another good reason not to assume that.
btw, I don't find killing your son to somehow vicariously atone for the sins that people are supposed to have inherited from their distant ancestor eating the wrong fruit to be particularly loving either.
Uh.... Gilgamesh describes a man who has sex with animals, and then given a human prostitute so as to become as a human. On the surface, this and other parts can point to the same kind of barbarism.
Then again, the Bible doesn't call the "sons" of the children of God soulless, and in fact, they aren't even human at all; they were giants, and were already wiped out by the flood. So the "myth" that Green Kepi spoke of doesn't even exist.
Heneni
Miss Independent
For starters, IF god said go kill such and such, they would appear dead to the isrealites and even to their own people, but they are not dead to god.
Secondly, god seemingly organised the 'beating' of the Isrealites on a few occasions as well, so at least that doesnt mean he was unfair.
The wages of sin is death, for everybody anyway. The bible did not say, natural death necesarily. Death now or death later, no difference, what you get for sinning is death.
If the wages of sin is death, then god has the power to decide when death should be, like for any of us, he is the one that decides when the time is up, and when payment for sins is due.
However keep in mind that god is able to awake anybody from their death sleep and send them back to earth, which is what I believe he does. So all of us, at one point in time, have been on the 'other side' of the isrealites, and we were also at one point been 'an isrealite'. So we have actually had experience in being the instrument of justice, and the one on which justice was excecuted.
However, after jesus all that changed. He came to bring life. So then. Justice was served with jesus, for jew and gentile alike. Now, the wages of sin does not have to be death. Back then, as david said, the dead went to sheol, the place of the dead, to sleep. After jesus, when you die you dont have to go to sheol, the place of the dead, sort of like a holding place, but instead you go to paradise, (not heaven) where abraham and moses and the rest of the children of god are. Infact I believe that when Jesus was raised from the dead, so were you, and you were translated out of the kingdom of darkness (sheol) and into the light(paradise). Which means, your spirit was taken to paradise. It is from here that you are incarnated back onto this planet.
I'm pretty sure Jayhawker wont understand but perhaps somebody else does.
Secondly, god seemingly organised the 'beating' of the Isrealites on a few occasions as well, so at least that doesnt mean he was unfair.
The wages of sin is death, for everybody anyway. The bible did not say, natural death necesarily. Death now or death later, no difference, what you get for sinning is death.
If the wages of sin is death, then god has the power to decide when death should be, like for any of us, he is the one that decides when the time is up, and when payment for sins is due.
However keep in mind that god is able to awake anybody from their death sleep and send them back to earth, which is what I believe he does. So all of us, at one point in time, have been on the 'other side' of the isrealites, and we were also at one point been 'an isrealite'. So we have actually had experience in being the instrument of justice, and the one on which justice was excecuted.
However, after jesus all that changed. He came to bring life. So then. Justice was served with jesus, for jew and gentile alike. Now, the wages of sin does not have to be death. Back then, as david said, the dead went to sheol, the place of the dead, to sleep. After jesus, when you die you dont have to go to sheol, the place of the dead, sort of like a holding place, but instead you go to paradise, (not heaven) where abraham and moses and the rest of the children of god are. Infact I believe that when Jesus was raised from the dead, so were you, and you were translated out of the kingdom of darkness (sheol) and into the light(paradise). Which means, your spirit was taken to paradise. It is from here that you are incarnated back onto this planet.
I'm pretty sure Jayhawker wont understand but perhaps somebody else does.
Quaint. Drivel and ignorant, but quaint ...Back then, as david said, the dead went to sheol, the place of the dead, to sleep. After jesus, when you die you dont have to go to sheol, the place of the dead, sort of like a holding place, but instead you go to paradise, (not heaven) where abraham and moses and the rest of the children of god are. Infact I believe that when Jesus was raised from the dead, so were you, and you were translated out of the kingdom of darkness (sheol) and into the light(paradise). Which means, your spirit was taken to paradise. It is from here that you are incarnated back onto this planet.
I'm pretty sure Jayhawker wont understand but perhaps somebody else does.
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For starters, IF god said go kill such and such, they would appear dead to the isrealites and even to their own people, but they are not dead to god.
Secondly, god seemingly organised the 'beating' of the Isrealites on a few occasions as well, so at least that doesnt mean he was unfair.
The wages of sin is death, for everybody anyway. The bible did not say, natural death necesarily. Death now or death later, no difference, what you get for sinning is death.
If the wages of sin is death, then god has the power to decide when death should be, like for any of us, he is the one that decides when the time is up, and when payment for sins is due.
However keep in mind that god is able to awake anybody from their death sleep and send them back to earth, which is what I believe he does. So all of us, at one point in time, have been on the 'other side' of the isrealites, and we were also at one point been 'an isrealite'. So we have actually had experience in being the instrument of justice, and the one on which justice was excecuted.
However, after jesus all that changed. He came to bring life. So then. Justice was served with jesus, for jew and gentile alike. Now, the wages of sin does not have to be death. Back then, as david said, the dead went to sheol, the place of the dead, to sleep. After jesus, when you die you dont have to go to sheol, the place of the dead, sort of like a holding place, but instead you go to paradise, (not heaven) where abraham and moses and the rest of the children of god are. Infact I believe that when Jesus was raised from the dead, so were you, and you were translated out of the kingdom of darkness (sheol) and into the light(paradise). Which means, your spirit was taken to paradise. It is from here that you are incarnated back onto this planet.
I'm pretty sure Jayhawker wont understand but perhaps somebody else does.
Lack of understanding is not the problem, Heneni. The problem is that this is silly, antiquated mythology that makes no sense.
At the very least, Heneni should get the mythology right rather than reducing it to simplistic nonsense.
Only if you look at it as a silly, antiquated mythology.
However, if you want a non-mythological way of saying what was trying to be said, read Tao Te Ching. From what I've read, the teachings in there are pretty much identical to Jewish and Christian philosophy.
And am I the only one who understood what Heneni was talking about? 'Cause I understood it perfectly.
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I strongly disagree, and I think most Christians would disagree as well.
I understood him just fine.
Heneni
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Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.
-Jesus
-Jesus
Kcnorwood
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Examples? I cant think of any accept maybe revelation?
Matthew 24:50-51 The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. 51He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 10:21 Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death.
Here a real kicker....
Matthew 5:17 Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.
Which pretty much means the laws in the OT still hold true.
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Heneni
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Where is the sword have you seen it. He is not talking about a physical war.