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UNIT76
fwiw, the recording is about 70 megabytes
"seed of the serpent race", Rev. William Potter Gale
as bizarre a source this is..
..there is a rosetta stone in there
not that it makes any of their own material seem credible
in that it exposes deeper layers of other related pickle factories
confucious say: attempt to create big distraction sometime only serve to draw attention to problem
Kashai
Ok so here is the story in brief....
God tell Adam not to eat of the fruit from the tree of knowledge and evil. One day he does and God shows up demanding why Adam did that. Adam explains that Eve told him it was ok and Eve blames a Snake which it was explained earlier was possessed by the Devil.
God responds by punishing Adam and Eve but God also punishes the snake, why????
The snake was possessed by Lucifer (in the story) so why does God take away. Not only the possessed snakes legs off but also, the legs every other snake on Earth???
What did all the snakes on Earth do wrong???
Any thoughts?
Kashai
reply to post by Fromabove
The word serpent is synonymous with snake...
en.wikipedia.org...(symbolism)
It was an animal that was involved in something it really had nothing to do with. Unless one considers a cultural philosophy of the time related to animism. I am offering that during the period in question the masses practiced animism. To some extent through-out cultures in the world then, certain animal spirits were related to the underworld and evil, while others animals were not.
All animals are animals and are sacred, their spirits have both positive and negative elements.
Do you agree?
Kashai
One way of looking at it is that there was no other guy.
Just people who thought sacrificing a human was the correct thing to do.
I mean in relation to the "final solution", do you feel that Hitler thought he was doing the wrong thing?
Humans do not do the wrong thing because they acknowledge it is wrong. Serial killers do not kill people because they think they are doing the wrong thing, from their perspectives. What is presented in Genesis is pretty much abusive to the species involved, presents little value in respect to the species as an animal spirit.
As in that same regard are Wolves from a perspective.
Kashai
reply to post by undo
"according to the sumerian-akkadian texts"
According to the Toltec all animals have positive and negative aspects.
Any thoughts?
undo
overanocean
I am interested that you have brought up the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
If I remember , they haden't actually eaten from the tree of life yet, I often wonder if the tree of life is a description of the Messiah.
ah but they already had it as copies of elohim, but when they became human as a result of dna modification, the whole approach changed and we see things like "you will surely die"
they'd never died before. neither had the adam females and males that had been originally created in an earlier verse who were copies of elohim.
Kashai
reply to post by Fromabove
The word serpent is synonymous with snake...
en.wikipedia.org...(symbolism)
It was an animal that was involved in something it really had nothing to do with. Unless one considers a cultural philosophy of the time related to animism. I am offering that during the period in question the masses practiced animism. To some extent through-out cultures in the world then, certain animal spirits were related to the underworld and evil, while others animals were not.
All animals are animals and are sacred, their spirits have both positive and negative elements.
Do you agree?
They pollute the Bible with other teachings from earthly deities and religions. In essence, they do not want God at all in their lives, and they do not want the children of God on the earth with them.
Kashai
What did all the snakes on Earth do wrong??? Any thoughts?
Blue Shift
Kashai
What did all the snakes on Earth do wrong??? Any thoughts?
The snake in a tree is a symbol representing the old Hebrew fertility goddess Asherah, who was known as the "Mother of Gods." They had a bit of marital strife once Yahweh decided that he was going to be a single god again, and there were naturally some hard feelings. The snake in the story is Yahweh trashing the image of Asherah. Like disparaging your ex-wife.
The people at the time it was written would have recognized the reference.
Between the 10th century BC and the beginning of their exile in 586 polytheism was normal throughout Israel;[9] it was only after the exile that worship of Yahweh alone became established, and possibly only as late as the time of the Maccabees (2nd century BC) that monotheism became universal among Jews.[10][11] Some biblical scholars believe that Asherah at one time was worshiped as the consort of Yahweh, the national God of Israel.[10] There are references to the worship of numerous gods throughout Kings, Solomon builds temples to many gods and Josiah is reported as cutting down the statues of Asherah in the temple Solomon built for Yahweh. Josiah's grandfather Manasseh had erected this statue. (2 Kings 21:7) Further evidence includes, for example, an 8th-century combination of iconography and inscriptions discovered at Kuntillet Ajrud in the northern Sinai desert[12] where a storage jar shows three anthropomorphic figures and an inscription that refers to "Yahweh … and his Asherah".[13][14] The inscriptions found invoke not only Yahweh but El and Baal, and two include the phrases "Yahweh of Samaria and his Asherah" and "Yahweh of Teman and his Asherah." [15] There is general agreement that Yahweh is being invoked in connection with Samaria (capital of the kingdom of Israel) and Teman (in Edom); this suggests that Yahweh had a temple in Samaria, and raises a question over the relationship between Yahweh and Kaus, the national god of Edom.[16] The "Asherah" is most likely a cultic object, although the relationship of this object (a stylised tree perhaps) to Yahweh and to the goddess Asherah, consort of El, is unclear.[17] It has been suggested that the Israelites might consider Asherah as a consort of Baal due to the anti-Asherah ideology which was influenced by the Deuteronomistic History at the later period of Monarchy.[18]
Further evidence includes the many female figurines unearthed in ancient Israel, supporting the view that Asherah functioned as a goddess and consort of Yahweh and was worshiped as the Queen of Heaven.[13]
Asherah poles, which were sacred trees or poles, are mentioned many times in the Bible.
Blue Shift
Kashai
What did all the snakes on Earth do wrong??? Any thoughts?
The snake in a tree is a symbol representing the old Hebrew fertility goddess Asherah, who was known as the "Mother of Gods." They had a bit of marital strife once Yahweh decided that he was going to be a single god again, and there were naturally some hard feelings. The snake in the story is Yahweh trashing the image of Asherah. Like disparaging your ex-wife.
The people at the time it was written would have recognized the reference.