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Originally posted by Neo Christian Mystic
reply to post by John Matrix
About Satan and the beasts being tortured, do you know what the exact meaning of the word Basanizo translated torture is? It means to test gold with Touchstone, a black silica based mineral used to test the purity of gold.
So a more correct translation of Revelation, where this word comes to surface, will be that while in Hell, Satan and the beasts will be tested and tried for their knowledge. In other words, God throws them into Hell to see if they are the real maccoy so to speak. Perhaps he does it to see if Satan's inventions will make it in upto 7000 degrees Kelvin. We sure need such technology in the future, and Satan is all about technology.
Like I just said in another thread, nothing's as it seems. The bible is a riddle. Even the wisest of men can't comprehend it fully, but you do ey?
Originally posted by sirnex
reply to post by John Matrix
Let's be honest with ourselves JM, if that were true then there would have been no reason for Lucifer to word what he said in the manner that he said, talking of a physical death. You can beat around the bush and word play as much as you please, but when read in context it does appear to state a physical death as a cause for eaten of the fruit.
Originally posted by John Matrix
In fact, a 4 year old understands the simplicity of the Gospel message....yet the same confounds those who trust the wisdom of this world....people such as yourself.
Originally posted by John Matrix
Adam and Eve did begin to die that day. Adam lived for some 930 years....talk about a slow death!!
Death entered into the world through Adamic sin.....cells began to die that day.....and His spiritual state did suffer a death that very day.
Originally posted by Neo Christian Mystic
Originally posted by John Matrix
In fact, a 4 year old understands the simplicity of the Gospel message....yet the same confounds those who trust the wisdom of this world....people such as yourself.
If you can put forward the fouryearold who is able to explain why Jesju had to die for his or her sins, then be my guest. Not only do you lie and explain advanced linguistic mechanisms with football without as much as opening a book or analysing a sentance, claiming the Holy Spirit.... Well, if I hadn't felt sorry for you I might start calling you stuff, like you do, here in public and in my u2u inbox. "Jesus" would be very proud of you....
[Reg-42] When Man disobeyed God, and took the Fruit of the Tree into his Body, which brought the Nature and Power of the Stars and Elements into it; this is not to be considered, as that single Act of Eating, but it signifies as much as if he had said; By eating this Fruit, I desire to come within the Influences of the Stars and Elements, and to be made sensible, and feeling of the Good and Evil that is in them.
[Reg-43] Therefore, small as the Action seems to be at the first View, and of a very limited Nature, it was his refusing to be that, which God created him to be; it was his express, open, voluntary Act and Deed, by which he chose to fall into this outward World, in the Manner we now are in it.
[Reg-44] Therefore it was not the mere eating of a Fruit, that brought Adam's Misery upon him, but it was the eating a Fruit, as his chosen Means of entering into this World.
[Reg-45] God himself was not angry at all, or at a small Act of eating a Fruit, and so in Anger turned Man out of Paradise, into a World cursed for that Sin. But Man freely and voluntarily chose, against the Will, and Command of God, to be in the World in its cursed State, unblessed by Paradise; For he chose to enter into a Sensibility and Feeling of its Good and Evil, which is directly choosing to be, where Paradise is not; for nothing that is in Paradise, can be touched, or hurt by anything of the outward World. Therefore the first State of Man was a State of such Glory, and heavenly Prerogatives, as I have above related; and his Fall, was a Fall into, or under the Power of this outward World.
[Reg-46] (16.) If it be also further asked, What sufficient Proof there is, first, that the Likeness and Image of God, in which Man was created, signified thus much, that Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, each brought forth their own Nature in him, and in him saw themselves in a creaturely manner? And then, secondly, that by the first Sin, this Birth of the Son of God, and Proceeding of the Holy Ghost was extinguished and lost in the Soul of Man? It may be answered, that these great Truths stand attested by undeniable Evidence of Scripture.
[Reg-47] First, from the Means and Manner of our Redemption. For there is nothing that can so fully, and justly show us the true Nature of our Fall, as the Nature and Manner of our Redemption. And it seems highly suitable to the Wisdom of God to let the first, be but in part discovered, till the latter showed and proved itself in an undeniable Manner. And this, no doubt, is the Reason why Moses is suffered to write no more of the Nature of the Fall of Man, or what it implied, than he has done. Because the Time for a plain Insight into that Matter, was not then come, and it was to lie as much a Secret, as to the true Nature of it, as the Nature and Manner of our Redemption then did; which was then only obscurely declared, by an Enmity between the Seed of the Woman, and the Seed of the Serpent.
[Reg-48] But when the Seed of the Woman showed itself to be the Son of God, the Second Person of the holy Trinity, united to our human Nature; then the Nature of our Fall, and what we fell from, and what was the Seed of the Serpent in us, manifested themselves in the same Degree of Certainty. And therefore it is very unreasonable to hold, that we ought to say no more of our first State before the Fall, of its Dignity and Perfection, and what was lost by the Fall, than what is openly and expressly declared by Moses. For as it seemed Good to the Divine Wisdom to conceal the Mystery of our Redemption and Salvation for many Ages, and to let Moses only discover it under a Declaration of a Serpent-destroyer; so there was a Fitness, and even Necessity, that the Nature and Degree of our Fall should be kept in the same Degree of Secrecy, then only to be discovered with a sufficient Degree of Plainness and Certainty, when our Redemption and Salvation came plainly to be laid open. The Religion of the Jews was suited to that State of Things and Times in which they lived; neither the Mysteries of the Creation, nor Redemption, were then discovered; Things past, and Things to come, had then only their Figures, Shadows, and Types.
Originally posted by sirnex
reply to post by John Matrix
Oh how JM likes to see what he wants. Read further in the book of Genesis, from the original lie of God to the punishment of man and woman, never is it mentioned that man nor woman would live eternally in physical form. In fact, God banishes man and woman from the garden of Eden lest he also he fruit from the tree of life thus having immortality and knowledge of good and evil. Your argument is devoid of any logic as your just cherry picking thing's out of context. We can also quote God as stating that man is mortal but never do we see God stating that man was once immortal. In fact, it isn't even until after the flood does God put a lower limit on how long man and woman would live.
You really do need to take my advice.
I believe Adam and Eve were created in a perfect state and placed in an eternal paradise.....not a physical world that can be seen with our human eyes....but a spiritual realm or hyper-dimension.
It was not God who punished Adam and Eve....they punished themselves when they decided to leave their firstly created state to experience this physical realm.....they were warned not to....but did not yield. So on that day they lost their eternal created state. They separate themselves from the Divine nature of God.
The plan of redemption....the mystery of the ages....is to bring that Divine nature back to mankind by making us partakers in the Divine nature through a spiritual rebirth. God made this possible through Christ.....but man has free will.......man can accept or reject redemption and the gift of eternal life.
The Divine nature cannot be separated from the Father, Son, or Holy Spirit.....but it was separated from those created in the image of them.
Now I ask you.....what is wrong with Humility, Meekness, Patience, and Love? For these are the very Christ of God which we are to follow, seek after, imitate, and place out faith in. These become the conduit in us through which the Spirit of God works, and through which we grow in spiritual knowledge, wisdom, and by which we are enlightened and ascend.
Anything, that is contrary to the Divine nature, and which distracts mankind from it.....is EVIL.
If you must stoop to such a low down despicable method of arguing a point, then I must conclude that you know damned well you are defeated.
Originally posted by sirnex
Well, what you believe goes against scripture. The Garden of Eden is described as a physical place with physical entities and even describes the physical location with landmarks on our physical Earth. Your beliefs do not coincide with the word of God. You are essentially admitting that you do not fully one-hundred percent believe what God has to say on the matter in his own book.
John, may I ask you something... Do you speak for God or is he allowed to speak for himself?
Actually, you should be asking yourself that very question, for it is you who fails to show any of those qualities in which you claim to uphold so highly. You lack understanding of not only what you preach, but also of your own self. Yet, you decide to show pride and arrogance when others point out this flaw of your own doing. You lack any real patience and humility in any sense of the word as you are so quick to automatically demand that those who argue against you are inherently wrong regardless of how much evidence is put before you.
Then Jesus is evil,
Like I said, if Satan is in your life, and if he is your enemy, you are not of God, and certainly have not learned anything from what Jesju taught us.
1. Revelation 2:24
But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden.
Mathew 13:24
24Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:
25But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
26But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.
27So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?
28He said unto them, An enemy hath done this.
“Blessed are you when MEN persecute you…”
And I demonstrated to you (several times) that Evolution is Satan's ultimate conspiracy and fraud.....It's a lie that is designed to defraud mankind of the redemption God has instituted and offers us.