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Most people are not cut out for heaven. It's just not their cup of tea.

Διάβολος in Greek can be used for a person but more in pejorative. Just as in English we say 'better the devil you know than the devil you don't know". In the NT it's used mostly for spiritual adversaries that manipulate man towards sin. This is seen in the ending of the Lord's Prayer where...

In democracies people vote for their interests. One person's interest may be opposite their neighbor's, etc. Only ex-pat communities tend to agree politically because their common interest is what benefits their national and ethnic ties. As the article itself points out. You can't expect even...

This can be a serious problem. I attended a large church which had a huge gymnasium and a smaller space used as an auditorium upstairs. I never remembered them renting it out for strictly secular use. Aside from church dances and church seminars and church affiliated societies holding functions...

People who believe in soul sleep or espouse something similar to it, do so by not understanding the ancient semitic and eastern Syrian tradition concerning the composite nature of man. When St. Paul spoke about the Spirit, Soul and Body of man, as did Aphraates, St. Ephraim the Syrian, and St...

I just want to clarify that the words triad and trinity are identical. Triad ( τριαδος or τριάδας ) is the Greek word for trinity. Trinity is simply the Latin transliteration for triad (trinitas). I have not read through this entire thread but some early posts speak of the so-called Athanasian...

They put it to work through investments which allow entrepreneurs and start ups with access to capital. Most wealth is lost by the 4th generation. The Astors were the richest people in the world, today some of them are homeless. Whether Warren Buffet who has pledged his entire fortune to...

Lol, this thread is too funny. Even the concept of " just war", genocide, axis of evil, are modern terms unknown just a few hundred years ago. If you were on the victorious side in war, God was on your side if you lost you were being punished for the tribes transgressions. The only semblance...

You do realize John the Baptist is literally called "angel" in Mark 1:2 ??? Which is my response to the OP where the angel of the Lord is literally called Satan (adversary) in the Balaam story. They are generic terms used in a broader fashion. I agree with the OP, that in the primitive OT texts...

Mik, Your not understanding at what I'm saying in my previous posts. I don't believe that evil spirits are an effluence from God although in certain texts of the OT they are portrayed as such (1Samuel 18:10). The OP is saying that satan was a generic term for adversary or accuser not a...

I never said that Satan as a distinct being was known in the Torah. My argument is depending on the texts, many early OT texts do not even recognize angels as distinct spiritual beings neither. Hence evil and holy spirits proceed out of God as an effluence or sometimes certain men or a fire are...

I think this is a weak argument of the author when taking the Job account. This satan of Job 1:17 makes clear that he simply wanders and goes "to and fro" . There is no evidence he is a member of some divine council that presumably had their "offices" in [third] heaven. In fact I should be...

No big deal. No need to ponder it even. But if your a Christian you acknowledge his existence everytime you recite the Lord's Prayer.

There is no belief in spirit messengers(angels) in Genesis neither. The only spirit creatures mentioned in Genesis are cherub which are non angelic. God is in plural Elohim reflecting the pagan culture that permeated. The 3 angels that visited Abraham at the Oak of Mamre are described as 3 men...

I live in a part of NY where a run down house sells for over 300k and annual property taxes are in excess of 10k. This is why moving abroad is a serious option

I think KaleVA means like the o.01% of the offspring of the wealthy. The young socialites that live abroad and party and hook up and vacation on daddy''s fortune. Look at me I'm a single blue collar worker whose basically an idiot. I Work 6 days, yet I can retire and live work-free for atleast...

You don't need to worry because all this automation will not make anyone unemployed The OP is considering a time when we live like the "Jetsons" and have mechanical servants and Robots are made by other Robots and their microchips are made by machines with artificial intellience and self...

Yes but with either interpretation or whatever interpretation since we are not 100% sure of the context it was said, the magazine cover and/or its intent reflects this prophecy of this elder that what starts in Russia will end in America.

I heard of this book but never read it. But does this book also say there was a time when angels as we know them didnt exist in the OT? For example names for angels such as Michael and Raphael are first found in Daniel probably for good reason as names signified Gods within a heirarchial...

Its irrelevant what verb or noun is used to describe this 'Adversary" or "Accuser", call him Satan, Devil, Lucifer, Diabolos, Belzebub, evil one, (son of) perdition, serpent, Apollyon, Moloch, or whatever. Demons were popular in judaism from the 3rd century BC to about the 2nd century AD as...