Originally posted by Ghost in the Machine
reply to post by tinfoilman
Your right if your looking at it with a christian view point. Try reading the bible as a story book instead of a guide of faith. Then tell me what you
think of it..
It is 'story'. Hebrew Scripture is a story of a people and their God and
thier interaction through history. The Bible is not simply one book, but
a collection of books, a library, each written by a different human author,
different literary styles; Historical, myth, hymns, lengends, advice, wisdom, poetry, etc. We must allow each type of writing to be what it is.
To debate the significance of the Bible without any knowldege of what
it conveys in absurd.
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Originally posted by halfoldman
reply to post by Ghost in the Machine
The entity of Lucifer, Satan and so forth gets scant mention in the Bible.
There is no description of a horned Satan - instead it describes Satan as very beautiful (an angel of light).
Actually the fall of Adam was because of women (EVE).
That is then also exactly how women were treated in that faith.
In fact, for most of it they didn't even officially have "souls" to be saved, and even now they occupy secondary roles.
Yoy can probably blame a fascination with the devil on our reptilian
brain stem.
As for Genesis, if it bagan with the words 'Once upon a time' instead of
'In the beginning', we wouldn't have this problem. The temptation in
Gen, concerns the temptation of the Israelites to the fertility cult religions
of Babylon, (symbolized by a serpent), during the exile. This is when Gen aquired its final form, the form we now have.
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Originally posted by Ghost in the Machine
Greetings.
Upon pondering biblical creation, I came across a thought which wouldnt pass. If Satan was able to do the impossible and bring sin into heaven. Does
that mean that there is a chance that he may do the impossible again and defeat God at his own game? 
And yes, I've heard that arguement before about God needing an opposition to balance everything out or that Satan's fate is already set becuase it
says so in the bible. But yet the bible does not seem to give an explaination about how sin was able to enter such a perfect place like
heaven.
Happy Posting  You forgot Calvary...
God rendered the knockout punch the day Christ died for us. 
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