The Gods--All of them! (Religion)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Sunday, December 05, 2010, 22:50 (5102 days ago) @ David Turell


> > If you find no common thread throughout the Bible then I would suggest you reread it. Genesis 3:15 specifically is talking about Christ, Son of Man, (Her Seed) and Satan and his demons (Your(His)seed). Satan bruised Christ's 'heel' by his temporary physical death, and Christ will bruise his 'head' by his permanent destruction outlined in revelation. That is the ultimate overall narrative of the Bible. Everything else is a setup for those events. The forming of the nation of Israel from which Christ was supposed to descend from, to his ministry, to his death and resurrection, to Armageddon(sp?). 
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> Sorry to break in but Genesis 3:15 in the Masoretic text is discussing Eve's relationship with the serpent. Is the KJ version so different that Satan and Christ can be extracted from it?-In fact, in the ancient near-east, Serpents were not evil--they were symbols of wisdom, hence how the Staff of Moses was a Serpent. Christian re-interpretation of Judaism is how we got our Devil. -Hell, Satan as the root of all evil, are both fabrications based on Jewish mystical theology. -Especially the Apostle Paul; the early Christian church was hell-bent on differentiating and removing themselves from the Jewish people and theology in order to separate themselves after the failed Jewish Revolt against Rome. Reinterpretation is what we inherited from the Church. They adapted the Zoroastrian Ahriman as Satan, and tried to interpret the entire OT as the ultimate culmination ending in Christ. -One needs only read ancient Jewish commentary (such as the Zohar) to realize exactly how different Paul's (and hence our own) interpretation really was.

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"