It says in the Bible that God created man in His Image which is good and pure without sin but that He gave man free will. Those that follow in His ways are as angels or heavenly and saintly people while those who oppose and deny and rebel against God commit satanic deeds so are called Satan...
Why would Bahai think that God needs to create Satan, for that one to exist?
Do Bahais think God created evil, so that it does exist?
Satan means Resister, or Opposer. It is a title given to the chief opposer of God.
The Bible describes the chief rebel angel as Satan (Resister / Opposer) the...
1 John 5:7-8 (continued)
The doctrine of Godhead, as taught in Matthew 28:19 KJB, is revealed all throughout the King James Bible, a small sampling:
Matthew 28:19 KJB - Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy...
A) Some verses in the Bible can be taken figuratively. Satan in control might "spiral things out of control"
Ah, but that's the problem, right there.
I find persons are in the habit of deciding what a verse should mean without taking into consideration, the rest of scriptures, and by doing so...
I would think of more importance than you rebuking the devil, is to ask yourself what is going on in your life or what are you doing in the first place which is allowing the devil into your life and the opportunity to manipulate your circumstances.
"The Bible does not give Christians the...
Makes sense to me.. and really its less than a two week walk from Egypt to Canaan.
I don't see the end of the world in Daniel or Revelation.
If it weren't so bloody confusing, there wouldn't be such controversy.
They (probably) grow out of the belief that Jews must go through cycles of purification. You can see glimmers of this in the story of Moses and the songs and the warnings of Moses. Its in the Pentateuch that Israel will go through these cycles where it keeps the Torah and prospers, then due to...
Even if you do connect it "who is like god" said to Satan may Jehovah who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you.
Jesus is a copy and reproduction of God from the beginning.
Read it in the Hebrew.
Punch in Google:
Zechariah3:2 in hebrew text analysis and read it from the original language. Jws don't believe Jude is a parallel to Zechariah.
Let me see if I can follow with the ^ above ^
Zechariah 3:1-3 ( vision # 4 ) says the angel of the LORD and Satan, so it's the LORD God speaking through the angel to Satan. - Zechariah 3:5-6
The rebuke of Zechariah3:2 is in connection to Jude 1:9
I don't see the Tetragrammaton (YHWH ) used in any of those verses.
Certainly it was an 'angel of the LORD' (YHWH) who spoke - Zechariah 1:12 - in those 8 visions -
Zechariah chapters 1 to 6. So, the angel spoke for the LORD (YHWH)
Sorry, but none of those links you have listed, included Enoch "giving" prophecy.
Jude was very specific with naming Enoch as the one giving that prophecy, and yet Jude doesn't tell us that he got it from non-canonical source.
The books (Enoch, Jubilees, etc) were very popular and influential...
Thank you for bringing to my attention about where did Jude 1:14 get his source or sources.
Enoch prophecy - the LORD comes with ten thousands of His saints or holy ones.
Try:
Deuteronomy 33:2
Daniel 7:10
Zechariah 14:5
Hebrews 12:22
Compare Jude 1:9 with:
Exodus 23:20
Exodus 32:34
Exodus 33:2...
Thank you Christina83 for a very civil reply. :clap
Ill start off with the number 40, in biblical times that was a number but not always literally 40, it ment quite a while or quite a bit. It is also known that over a 1300 ish year span of its evolution into todays form, the last author...
According to the Bible itself, about 40 men from diverse walks of life shared in writing the rest of the Scriptures, resulting in the collection of the 66 books, or subdivisions, of the Bible. However, these men did not consider themselves to be the real authors of the Bible. One of them said...
Alrighty then, I'll do it, (sighs):
1 Chronicles 21:1
And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
1 Chronicles 21:1-3 (in Context) 1 Chronicles 21 (Whole Chapter)
Job 1:6
Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan...
I didn`t respond to Zechariah3:2 because I am in agreement.
The word for Satan is the same as the verse I quoted in 1 Chronicles 21.
The issue is not the use of the word but what the word means.
So even if I assume you`re correct (which I don`t) it really doesn`t matter because if you are...