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Autowrench, thank you for the opportunity to allow me to speak my faith, perhaps in the future we can speak some more.
Originally posted by autowrench
reply to post by WarminIndy
Autowrench, thank you for the opportunity to allow me to speak my faith, perhaps in the future we can speak some more.
Any time, friend. You are probably the only Christian in this forum that understands me, and I appreciate that more than you will ever know. I wish all Christians were like you, instead of being so judgemental and condemning to everyone. Bless you, WarminIndy.
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Originally posted by I Want To Believe
reply to post by autowrench
Ah ok I understand a bit better now I've read your post a bit more closely. You are concluding that the God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob, YHWH, is in fact a alien or mythical creature and that He is not the true God but rather some other unknowable female deity is 'god'. So the reason this unknowable deity is female is because men have nipples therefore women were created first? That's your reason? Has is occured to you that perhaps women have nipples because men in fact were created first? What is your evidence to back up these claims of yours other than a few links that wont answer my questions?
Everyone has a right to their own faith and belief system. I'm just questioning yours to better understand it. What makes your unknowable demale deity god rather than the God of 3 billion people give or take?
As I said before, I am not here to convert anyone to what I believe, what I am here for is to ask questions. To learn things. That is the whole and complete purpose of this thread, to ask the question and and see the answers that people come up with. I want to know what everyone thinks. Is that so wrong?
I think your confusion comes from the fact that you are a heretic in that you think Jesus is the same person as the god-like character in the Old Testament. I say, heretic, because of your not accepting that Jesus is a unique individual, which is fundamental to Christian theology.
I didn't say i didn't agree with his loving side, but he has a wrathful side too and the worlds going to find out what he is like when he's pissed soon enough. Next time Jesus comes he's coming for blood. Once as the savior and last as a conqueror.
I would suggest you keep talking and of course writing, such as you already are.
Unless we open ourselves up to take a leap of faith as a single humanity, we will never achieve anything greater than life and death.
When will we wake up. When will the spirit wake up?
Maybe the spirit is here but the world wont listen.
Maybe the world is listening and the spirit isn't talking.
we shall see...
It was the same old stuff, judgement and warnings of hell fire and damnation.
I'm not including Enki, Enil, and Marduk. I don't know what you mean by research but if you mean reading books, I do that and from the recognized authorities on the subject, like: Day, Smith, and Cross. There is an old interview with Cross made into an ebook that you can download free from Biblical Archaeology Review by giving them your email address, and you can see who the guy is and what he knows, and you should be encouraged from that to buy several books by him and also by the ones he quotes, being John Day and Mark S. Smith.
Do the research, YHWH, El, Enki, Enil, Marduk, and Jehovah are all separate Beings. You simply cannot bunch all of the Ancient Ones into one neat little package and call it "God." This is not logical.
Israel’s creation stories are not directly copy their neighbors, but they come awfully close.
Many souls are lost to the darkness because they care more about finding favor with other humans than they do about finding favor with God who created all things. This is not to say we should not love all other humans, but with a love that is from Holiness, a love that cares deeply about their souls , more than their egos.
Originally posted by cloudyday
reply to post by autowrench
Have you thought about this possibility? I'm sure you have heard of the inter-dimensional being idea. What if these creatures think it is in their self interest to keep humans ignorant? What better way to keep us ignorant than to periodically disguise themselves as ghosts or angels or saints or goddesses to encourage superstition and religion? Then they can sit back and laugh at us.
I do concede the point that some hebrew legend is similar to egyptian legend but that can be easily explained by the Isrealites captivity in egypt. I too am a student of history and myth and am a very skeptical person by nature but I am having a hard time finding the correlation between these legends and your point.
To my knowledge there was no warring, marriage or dragons mentioned in the hebrew creation stories or at least what I've read of them.