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I agree that we need to exhaust all UN-grandiose possibilities. But if even "modern man, aren't able to do" such accomplishments, then what un-grandiose possibility is left?
Originally posted by jiggerj
Whether we want to attribute something to a god or an alien, we must first exhaust all UN-grandiose possibilities. We are in awe of what man was able to accomplish thousands of years ago, mysteries that we, the modern man, aren't able to do. Well, just six hundred years ago the gun was invented. Tell me, if the knowledge of gun-making and mixing of gun powder vanished, how many billions of people today would know how to create these things?
Okay, but you are not addressing my Bible quotes or my conclusions I draw from them.
Originally posted by babybunnies
I'm not convinced that all gods were aliens.
Ancient peoples used the idea of a "God" to explain anything that they didn't know where it came from.
Originally posted by ThinkingHuman
1) “shepards”: Governments make themselves appear benevolent but really serve the interests of the powers that have absolute control over them.
Th 5:2 “Jehovah’s day is coming exactly as a thief in the night. Whenever it is that they are saying: “Peace and security!” then suddenly destruction is to be instantly upon them.” Mt 6:9 Our Father in heaven, your kingdom come, on earth,
2) “Jesus”: Religious myths are being used to manipulate us into serfdom.
1Cor 16:2 “Let each of you set something aside in store as he may be prospering, so that… I shall send to carry your kind gifts to Jerusalem.” Mt 10:34 “Do not think I came to put peace upon the earth, I came to put, not peace, but a sword. For I came to cause division.”
3) “God”: Aliens created our civilizations by controlling our governments and religions.
Eph 2:19 You are no longer strangers and alien residents, but you are fellow citizens of the holy … God. Ez 1:19 When the living creatures rose from the ground, the wheels also rose. Wherever the spirit would go, they would go. 2:3 He said: Son of man, I am sending you to the Israelites, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against me. 1Cor 1:8 You (men) have already begun ruling as kings without us (God’s apostles).
Originally posted by windword
reply to post by NOTurTypical
Again, the metaphor seems to goes over your head.
Lambs are food. Lambs are sacrificed. Jesus is the shepherd who leads the lamb to be sacrificed and the lamb, who we are to follow.
Originally posted by ThinkingHuman
Originally posted by NOTurTypical
Why would a shepherd lead a lamb to slaughter?
Because it is used as a sacrifice, not for its meat or wool. This is not something they want to talk about because lamb means child-sheep, and sheep means people. They are rreferring to sacrificing human children.
Originally posted by ThinkingHuman
Nope, Alexander would not have been able to conquer the entire known world by age 30 just by abusing people. He will get stabbed in the back by his body guards long before having millions of square miles. How could he even control that?
Originally posted by lonewolf19792000
Nope, just men seeking power and willing to abuse anyone and everyone, even murder them to achieve it. Just men doing what they have always done.
Originally posted by NOTurTypical
Originally posted by windword
reply to post by NOTurTypical
Again, the metaphor seems to goes over your head.
Lambs are food. Lambs are sacrificed. Jesus is the shepherd who leads the lamb to be sacrificed and the lamb, who we are to follow.
That's not the metaphor the authors were aiming at whatsoever. A good shepherd sacrifices himself for the flock, leads them to good pasture lands and water, and protects them from harm from predators.
Originally posted by NOTurTypical
reply to post by windword
How is it selfish to protect a sheep from wolves and heyena? Or to lead them to green grass and water in an arid climate?
Originally posted by NOTurTypical
reply to post by windword
I already specified the section under the subheading "history". It's against the T&C to post more than a paragraph of text.
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And I don't fail to get anything. You are wholly ignorant to what a shepherd is and what he does. And that ignorance manifests is a total failure to understand the reason Christ uses "good Shepherd" as a metaphor for Himself.
en.m.wikipedia.org...
Shepherding is one of the oldest occupations, beginning some 6,000 years ago in Asia Minor. Sheep were kept for their milk, meat and especially their wool. Over the next millennia, sheep and shepherding spread throughout Eurasia. Henri Fleisch tentatively suggested the Shepherd Neolithic industry of Lebanon may date to the Epipaleolithic and that it may have been used by one of the first cultures of nomadic shepherds in the Beqaa Valley.
In many societies, shepherds were an important part of the economy. Unlike farmers, shepherds were often wage earners, being paid to watch the sheep of others. Shepherds also lived apart from society, being largely nomadic. It was mainly a job of solitary males without children, and new shepherds thus needed to be recruited externally. Shepherds were most often the younger sons of farming peasants who did not inherit any land
And again, the sheep's owner would have the sheep for that reason.
You're confusing the owner with the shepherd who's job was to protect the sheep and lead them to the pasture and water sources. Sacrificing himself and his wants and desires in the process.
How do you know this? What did Alexander inspire them with? Even with two people backing him, How can he send armies thousands of miles away and they still murder and die for him? It seems more likely that "out of sight is out of mind", especially in those days. I have not yet heard or read a rational explanation that passes the "smell test".
Originally posted by lonewolf19792000
he was an inspiration to his warriors, and he had Ptolomy and Selucid backing him. He was also loved by his people.
Do you not agree that the term"sheep" is used allegorically to mean humans?
Originally posted by windword
Sheep were used by humans for food, sacrifices and clothing.
That is why I am saying they make themselves APPEAR benevolent. When the time is here, they always prove to be what they are, tyranny. If you want to call the one that has absolute control over the governments “God”, that is what it is.
Originally posted by Deetermined
God's day hasn't come yet. The system we have will be replaced by God's when then the timing is right.
1) “shepards”: Governments make themselves appear benevolent but really serve the interests of the powers that have absolute control over them. Th 5:2 “Jehovah’s day is coming exactly as a thief in the night. Whenever it is that they are saying: “Peace and security!” then suddenly destruction is to be instantly upon them.”
If he causes division, then is he not the evil one? Clearly, by doing this he is deceiving. Deceiving us into choosing “good”. How does that give us “free will”? No free will but serfdom.
Jesus is God. He came for many reasons and one of them was to bring division to force people to choose between good and evil.
2) “Jesus”: Religious myths are being used to manipulate us into serfdom.
He is not talking about strangers. Ep 2:22 “You are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his spirit.” We may disagree on the interpretation, but what he says is, When God “inhabits” us (his “dwelling”) we become part of his “household” and thereby we are no longer foreign (or alien). The same is true the other way around, God is foreign (or alien) to men until they provide the dwelling.
KJV of Ephesians 2:19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
3) “God”: Aliens created our civilizations by controlling our governments and religions.
The term "aliens" is only used to describe foreigners and strangers in the Bible.
And the Bible supports them to do just that. It says that even if the master is unreasonable, the slave must not complain. (sorry I could not find the quote)
The Bible talks about the "principalities of darkness" who reside in high places that are still trying to lead our governments and people astray
I am doing exactly the same thing as your priest in church, use a few verses to prove a point.
Originally posted by honested3
You are just taking a bunch of "scary" verses out of context and piecing them together so that it seems apocalyptic or whatever. This doesn't make sense, this is how new denominations are started which cause division.