Although the aliens DID get a bit gropey with him.
Posted on 08/20/2009 12:04:03 PM PDT by Nikas777
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Where do people get the idea that Satan and his demons rule over a Kingdom of Hell like God and his angels rule over a Kingdom of Heaven?
after the first sentence I realized it wasn’t a joke...and the bible talks about “angels” impregnating women (doesn’t it?). oy. should I read this? it’s awfully long...
Quite right?
Everyone knows that flying saucers come from Eric Cartman’s butt.
powerful-delusion alert.
Could be they take Jesus' word for it:
Mat 12:26 If Satan drives out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then can his kingdom stand?
Although the aliens DID get a bit gropey with him.
Er...Saul Alinsky?
Its all part of a well rounded education.
Where do you get the idea he doesn’t?
Certainly you have a point that Scripture doesn’t per se indicate that he does as typically envisioned.
He’s on a very short leash.
However, Scripture also indicates that within his boundaries and roles . . . he has authority.
So, it’s not a tooooooooo far fetched conjecture.
From the same place they get the idea that...
1) Adam and Eve bit into an apple, causing them to be cast out (the scriptural record is silent on the KIND of fruit),
2) angels have literal wings (ornamental or symbolic figures such as Cherubim and Seraphim are rendered with wings, but actual angels are not recorded as having wings),
3) there were three wise men (the number of GIFTS recorded was three, but the number of wise men is not mentioned) who...
4) visited the baby Jesus in the manger (he was actually a "young child" by then and living in a "house". The shepherds "came with haste and found ... the babe". The wise men came later.)
...etc. etc...
The written word does not corroborate many traditions.
Thanks.
Will get to it by and by.
DCP, You are welcome to ping the “A” list.
Thx.
I had these links in my Hard Drive and seeing as there are Freepers into this I posted.
I've long enjoyed scifi and things like this, but I somehow missed Mr. Howard Menger's space music and space potatoes. Of course, they'd be spelled with an "e," lol.
Did he ever try to recreate this space music? Bet it really does sound like a theremin, Moog's synthesizer, lol. Too perfect a fit for it not to. Moog lived out his later years in spacey Asheville, NC ... fitting again, lol. That place has become what has got to be the neo-Pagan, Wiccan capital of this country, supposed "vorteces" and all that.
I’ve spent some time studying the antediluvian world that was purportedly dominated by such beings in a few Biblical and extra-Biblical texts. Enoch I reads like science fiction in and of itself, when dealing with these hybrids. It’s not as wacky and isolated as people seem to believe. The land of Canaan was occupied by their descendants. Goliath of Gath, whom David slew, was one.
The New Testament was written not as history but as testimony and some parts were not elaborated on because it was assumed people knew what a Magi was and where they came from. Magi came from Rome's deadly enemy - Parthian Persia. They were the Holy Men of the Zoroastrian faith.
Jesus is said to have had royal blood which means his cousin St. John the Baptist was also of royal blood - something that makes men rally around a person. And being of royal blood does not really mean you had to be rich, etc.
Taken in that context, King Herod is informed at Zoroastrian envoys from Rome's eastern enemy the Parthian Persian empire have arrived after hearing about the birth of a son from a group that claims royal ancestry.
If Jesus belonged to a group like that then they would have had allies in the Jewish community in Babylon and Persia and they sent word of his birth.
The Persian Shah arranges for a diplomatic mission to cause his Roman enemies problems. Herod attacks this group as traitors. St. John the Baptist's family flee to the wilderness. Herod assumes the family of Jesus wil try to escape to Persia so sends word to the guards at the Persian/Roman border.
Instead, Jesus' family flees to Egypt where there are no border checks and where there is a large Jewish community to hide in.
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