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originally posted by: deadeyedick
a reply to: AlephBet
so you say elohim created everything?
that yahwey elohim is yahwey after eve?
originally posted by: AgentShillington
originally posted by: AlephBet
originally posted by: AgentShillington
a reply to: deadeyedick
The proof is in Genesis, according to the book, Yahweh is the creator of all things. If that is so... then it only stands to reason that Yaweh created the Snake.
Not the creator. He formed Adam (not created). He made the snake (made is a different word than create). He formed Eve and planted the garden. Nothing there that says create. That word create is used for Elohim in Genesis 1. Elohim is Father and Ruach Elohim is Mother. After the fall in Genesis 3, Yahweh Elohim loses his Elohim. Just Yahweh in Genesis 4.
Are you kidding me right now?
ויקרא אלהים ׀ לאור יום ולחשך קרא לילה ויהי־ערב ויהי־בקר יום אחד׃פ
Or maybe Acts, if the Hebrew doesn't agree with you.
Ἀθηναῖοι δὲ πάντες καὶ οἱ ἐπιδημοῦντες ξένοι εἰς οὐδὲν ἕτερον ηὐκαίρουν ἢ λέγειν τι ἢ ἀκούειν τι καινότερον.
Both of these are the original languages of the text and place Yaweh as the sole architect of creation.
originally posted by: AgentShillington
originally posted by: deadeyedick
a reply to: AlephBet
so you say elohim created everything?
that yahwey elohim is yahwey after eve?
Elohim is a generic term in Hebrew. It's like saying "God" or "Gods" it is both plural and singular.
For instance, "Zeus, Thor, and Shiva are Elohim." is a proper sentence, and "Jesus is Elohim" is a proper sentence.
originally posted by: AlephBet
originally posted by: AgentShillington
originally posted by: deadeyedick
a reply to: AlephBet
so you say elohim created everything?
that yahwey elohim is yahwey after eve?
Elohim is a generic term in Hebrew. It's like saying "God" or "Gods" it is both plural and singular.
For instance, "Zeus, Thor, and Shiva are Elohim." is a proper sentence, and "Jesus is Elohim" is a proper sentence.
Not correct. EL is the Father. Yahweh is the Son. Ruach Elohim is the Mother. When it says, "Let us make man in our image," it is speaking of the Male/Female aspect of the One God. The image mankind was made in is BOTH male and female. Yahweh split the image by shedding Adam's blood. This is the first sin.
originally posted by: AlephBet
originally posted by: AgentShillington
a reply to: deadeyedick
The proof is in Genesis, according to the book, Yahweh is the creator of all things. If that is so... then it only stands to reason that Yaweh created the Snake.
Not the creator. He formed Adam (not created). He made the snake (made is a different word than create). He formed Eve and planted the garden. Nothing there that says create. That word create is used for Elohim in Genesis 1. Elohim is Father and Ruach Elohim is Mother. After the fall in Genesis 3, Yahweh Elohim loses his Elohim. Just Yahweh in Genesis 4.
originally posted by: AlephBet
a reply to: Abednego
The bottom line is that we don't know. We can't know. This is beyond our own scope of experience. We can only speculate, which is what I do. No sense in giving my life and soul over to an entity before I know what I'm getting myself into. Duplicity does not enter my mind, so I am not after reward or wanting to avoid judgment. As I see it, the Lord created the mess. Mankind is simply his tool and mode of operation. If it's something other than this, then the word does a poor job of expressing it to us. I choose to wait until I am informed.
We will never know as long as we stay in this form. The only way to know is by dying. And in dead we will see the truth. That we were created by an All Mighty spiritual being, or we are just a genetic experiment by aliens, or we are just been used as a battery to keep a giant computer alive etc...
If you find no sense in giving your life and soul to whatever entity, then you have no faith (religiously speaking).
You choose to wait (you will die waiting without knowing). Either way you will be rewarded or punished.
originally posted by: AlephBet
a reply to: Abednego
It all depends on who you listen to. In the end, the truth is inside us all. It won't be found outside. Outside is the light revealing the inside. Inside is the light revealing the outside. The inside holds the truth of both. We never lacked the truth. We only lacked the keys to knowing it. Those keys are hidden to the detriment of the ones in the conspiracy against the true God.
It's not a trick. Light reveals what it hits. I have no control of what the light reveals. The individual heart is seen either way.
originally posted by: AlephBet
a reply to: Abednego
The bottom line is that we don't know. We can't know. This is beyond our own scope of experience. We can only speculate, which is what I do. No sense in giving my life and soul over to an entity before I know what I'm getting myself into. Duplicity does not enter my mind, so I am not after reward or wanting to avoid judgment. As I see it, the Lord created the mess. Mankind is simply his tool and mode of operation. If it's something other than this, then the word does a poor job of expressing it to us. I choose to wait until I am informed.
originally posted by: deadeyedick
YES we can know. It is called faith.
originally posted by: Blue Shift
originally posted by: deadeyedick
YES we can know. It is called faith.
Faith is the opposite of knowledge. Faith is believing in things for which you have no proof. Once you have proof (externally confirmed and verified knowledge), then faith is no longer necessary.
originally posted by: Abednego
But I think that acquiring knowledge does not mean that I'm losing faith.
originally posted by: Blue Shift
originally posted by: Abednego
You don't need to have faith that if you jump into the air you're going to fall back down, do you? You know that you will. And most people who are not you (and therefore not subject to your possible delusions) will agree that you will indeed fall back to the ground. Everybody agrees. Everybody knows. Nobody has to pray or hope that if they jump up they will come back to the ground. No faith required.