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The Book of Revelation is the most esoteric of the Bible, so that by making obvious the need to dig very deeply one instant, the devotee comes to understand the simpler symbolism of the text.
The 500 pages of the Koran complete the Book by simplifying after the printing press in one language, direct from the lips of selfless Gabriel, the whole of the tradition.
Galatians 1:8-9
But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
BuzzyWigs
reply to post by LokiToo
The Book of Revelation is the most esoteric of the Bible, so that by making obvious the need to dig very deeply one instant, the devotee comes to understand the simpler symbolism of the text.
The 500 pages of the Koran complete the Book by simplifying after the printing press in one language, direct from the lips of selfless Gabriel, the whole of the tradition.
Oop! Wait. Sorry not my cup of tea. No, not direct from the lips of anyone - only hearsay from the lips of Muhammed.
In any case, I'll just go sit on the floor in the corner here and watch.
Nice OP.
buster2010
Everything in all holy books is hearsay. None of the people who wrote these books actually proved that God told them anything.
benrl
If in one text, You use the bible to validate islam, would it not be important to remember what the BIBLE also says about ISLAM, and other "gospels" that where to come.
Galatians 1:8-9
But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
So if the bible has any authority, than this verse must apply,
and if you use the bible to confirm Islams tenants than this verse and what Muhammad claimed, must be addressed (that an angel came with a new gospel)
As it would also apply to Mormons and Islam equally the questions raised are the same, SO YES, Muhammad could of had an "angel" Visitation, so too could of Joseph Smith of Mormon fame,
and if that happened, well again, the BIBLE says what to make of those "angels"edit on 12-3-2014 by benrl because: (no reason given)
Ah, but there is a difference between God using people to work His will and people coming forward with new Gospels or Testaments or even entire Holy Books that they claim were revealed to them by God as continuations of His Word.
ketsuko
reply to post by LittleByLittle
Ah, but there is a difference between God using people to work His will and people coming forward with new Gospels or Testaments or even entire Holy Books that they claim were revealed to them by God as continuations of His Word.
God works His will through people all the time at differing levels.
BuzzyWigs
reply to post by ketsuko
Ah, but there is a difference between God using people to work His will and people coming forward with new Gospels or Testaments or even entire Holy Books that they claim were revealed to them by God as continuations of His Word.
*raises hand*
Yes, sir, I believe that is correct. There is...a big difference...
but I'm not clear on how/what the difference is.
Honestly I don't get that. Personally I don't believe the claims. After all, they are only claims??
People who do God's work are inspired what already exists and don't seek to bring forward new revelations they claim to be directly from Him.
ketsuko
People who do God's work are inspired what already exists and don't seek to bring forward new revelations they claim to be directly from Him.
LokiToo
Genesis 3:6, two verses of knowledge foreshadow wisdom of good and evil causing the fall. Genesis 3:22, the fruit of the Tree of Life is denied humanity. On the Jewish Kabbalah's Tree of Life, knowledge inhibits the heart from attaining to wisdom... and understanding at once. I suspect the Torah depicts faith as wisdom and understanding motivated by love, honesty about one's own finite uncertain nature. Genesis Chapter 3 foreshadows a social trend induced by royalty to leverage the ignorance which induced moral awareness on earth toward superstition and gullibility, blind faith in Dogma.
Genesis Ch3 calls the serpent more cursed than any cattle. That which was in cattle feces, plausibly encountered in the grasslands where chimps began to walk upright, may have accelerated their evolution, whereas the phallic shape of a serpent as a reproductive totem may have inhibited their evolution. The center of the human brain is shaped like a cobra, the back brain the plume, the body of the serpent extending into the spine.
Cain founds Enoch, his son's name is Enoch. The last verse of Chapter 4, after Seth and Enosh began men to encounter God. The Bible admits a time existed before God's angels delivered His will to the people of the earth. There were men before Seth and Enosh.
Genesis Ch 5, Verses 22-24
And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty and five years:
And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
Chapter 5 lists immortals living in excess of 900 years. Enoch's age is the year he was born, 24 hours in the day he was born are symbolized by the Verse wherein God recruits him, the ego death of Enosh, first angel after Israel Seth.
Genesis Ch 32, Jacob wrestles by himself (defeating selfishness, pride / desire) when he receives the name Israel at daybreak - recruited by God thru the unconditionally loving shape of the sun.
Enoch was before the Babel on event, where Hammurabi outlawed injustice. I suspect he needed a military of unconditionally loving prophets before he could introduce society to `Rabi's Law without being murdered: No Murder.
Abraham's Lot was in Sodom and Gomorrah: he thought he would inherit an immortal society of rape as reproductive instinct.
Abraham, Joseph, and Moses were all on speaking terms with Pharaoh when the Book began. Sura 28 identifies line of Imam with Pharaoh, Is... Lam? Sue Ra. I suspect Is Ra El meant Is (English) Ra (Egyptian) El (Hebrew for "of God," the prefix answers the question).
The Exodus, a Jewish ethnicity began to identify with God to defeat moral instinctiveness. Unconditionally loving omniscience is too vast a totem to bait the projection of one's own psyche as easily as a squatting fat man in asana or a muscle bound pagan deity. Its only want is what is fair by all sentient life. The Koran advises to seek constantly after the face of God, I perceive a decimal point of direct awareness of all time and space, but more literally consider God
Genesis 4:24
And the LORD God said, the man is become as one of us, ...
A plurality of unconditionally loving beings evolving a conscience into All Energy, Places, and Information, Omniscient Omnipresent and Omnipotent because an immortal heart beating within the chest of this one, establishing Allah... ah, All ... of its will.
When Moses delivered the ten commandments, according to Zeitgeist he etched in stone a disobeyed pre-existent Egyptian legal code. The rest of the Old Testament was written with primitive utensils before the printing press, part history part testimony of God by His messengers. Idolatry was forbidden to forbid superstition. The golden calf may have been worshipped because the Jews were confused by the manna growing from its feces into thinking spiritual emanated from the cow.
Numbers, 4th Book of the Torah, Chesed on the Tree of Life, gives that the early Jewish military had hundreds of thousands, not millions, with which to begin to reproduce a moral majority. Several thousand years ago.
Genesis 37, Israel's most beloved son is the son of his old age. He dreams when he is 17 -- prophecies he will achieve maturity, to internationally standardize 18 as the age of consent as Torah law -- the sun and moon and 11 stars would bow to him. He is put in charge of all of Egypt, something only Pharaoh's first born was entitled to. He wears the coat of many colors, as if the heir of the sun that emits them.
When Moses left Egypt, Pharaoh said in the Exodus to bless him also, giving the Jews the opportunity to leave with his blessing.
Christ's line is that of Joseph, son of Jacob (Israel's other name), signifying if his mother is a virgin the Elohim artificially impregnated Mary with the soul of Joseph to receive the Coat of Many Colors, the seed delivered by Ra / Is Ra El (the sun or heart of God).
The Book of Revelation is the most esoteric of the Bible, so that by making obvious the need to dig very deeply one instant, the devotee comes to understand the simpler symbolism of the text.
The 500 pages of the Koran complete the Book by simplifying after the printing press in one language, direct from the lips of selfless Gabriel, the whole of the tradition. Arabic = C A Rabi, see a Rabi Hammu Rabi pass the scales of justice.
Shiite Islam rules by direct authority of Imam, within Sunni Islam there is no intercessor between the Muslim and God. When the 12th Imam vanished as a youth in a cave, shortly after his seclusion, he claimed anyone thence forth claiming contact with the Imam was a fraud. I consider his prophecied return fulfilled by Babaji, a youth emergent from a cave in India whom taught Muslims and claimed to be Christ's father. I consider Babaji's death one year and month before I was born, on Valentine's Day (he winked the instant before his heart stopped, giving away his heart), the sun bowing to Christ, and an attempt to unify Sunni and Shiite Islam as one faith.
Islam forbids shirking, serving a pagan power other than Allah, doing less than one's selfless best. Islam forbids infidelity, cheating God, invading the free will of self defensive president sentient beings. In Genesis Ch3, Adam eats the plants of the field.
Seede
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