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originally posted by: GmAndre
Some people say that there is going to be a time for Humanity when "The devil is going to be cast into the lake of fire" and peace nad love and blah blah are gonna come again to Earth.
Uh@!
I am here to offer different story.
First line: You cannot evolve the whole humanity egregore, as a being. You are a being, but humanity is structure. Potato cannot learn to play soccer!
Second line: Casting the devil into the lake is very specific act, achieved by humans - yes, not animals, plants, super-humans or other natural evolutional grade.
Third line: The devil, like all the dozen basic emanatons of God is neutral, nescessery, beutiful servant.
Forth line: No, nobody burns in fire, this is only the cheap allegory, of the process of letting go the field of activities that are represented by the devil.
Fifth line: Yet, you cannot KILL the devil in yourself. He will be always be there, you just stop seeing through his eyes, thus he is abandoned by you. He looses your attention, and thus he suffers left alone in his own(old) lake(field) of fire(desire). He suffers, because you left him, but this is sufferng only from your new viewpoint. In reality he does not suffer at all. He smokes his pipe.
Sixth line: Did you forgot when you were a beast and you had to loose Helen and embrace the Devil in your current form? Do you think she does not suffers? Its all the same now, and will always be.
Seventh line: And get that phantasmagoric idea that humanity can ascend in likehood of a being. They both follow the same law..,THE law, yet they are not the same things.
Do not be deceived for MANY will come in my name and say they are christ[anointed] and deceive many.”
this is very beautifully put.
originally posted by: tikbalang
God/Jesus is Love
Devil is our instincts
We as an animal are given by Mother Nature two feelings, love and fear..
You decide whether you can be an animal living in peace in society or a human in denial..
Sixth line: Did you forgot when you were a beast and you had to loose Helen and embrace the Devil in your current form? Do you think she does not suffers? Its all the same now, and will always be.
Helen is the sate of evolution which equals the animal kingdom.
Transtheism is a term coined by either philosopher Paul Tillich or Indologist Heinrich Zimmer referring to a system of thought or religious philosophy which is neither theistic, nor atheistic, but is beyond them.
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Nathan Katz in Buddhist and Western Philosophy (1981, p. 446) points out that the term "transpolytheistic" would be more accurate, since it entails that the polytheistic gods are not denied or rejected even after the development of a notion of the Absolute that transcends them, but criticizes the classification as characterizing the mainstream by the periphery: "like categorizing Roman Catholicism as a good example of non-Nestorianism". The term is indeed informed by the fact that the corresponding development in the West, the development of monotheism, did not "transcend" polytheism, but abolish it, while in the mainstream of the Indian religions, the notion of "gods" (deva) was never elevated to the status of "God" or Ishwara, or the impersonal Absolute Brahman, but adopted roles comparable to Western angels. "Transtheism", according to the criticism of Katz, is then an artifact of comparative religion.
originally posted by: NOTurTypical
a reply to: ZoeEleutheria
Nice theory, except what Jesus said in the text is that people would come claiming to be Him, they will claim to be either the Messiah, or Jesus.
His words are recorded in 3 of the gospel accounts. And He prophesied correctly, history is littered with examples of people claiming to be Jesus.
originally posted by: NOTurTypical
a reply to: ZoeEleutheria
Nice theory,
except what Jesus said in the text is that people would come claiming to be Him, they will claim to be either the Messiah, or Jesus. His words are recorded in 3 of the gospel accounts. And He prophesied correctly, history is littered with examples of people claiming to be Jesus.
And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? 4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.