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Vampires? Werewolves? Skeletons? Fairies? This is the place for chat about legends, myths, and other stories that mankind has made to explain the unexplainable
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The Bible speaks about spirit beings who while being evil, at times appear
unto men as angels of light. God warnes us not to dabble in the occult.
The Bible states that there are angels(spirits that serve God), and demons
(spirits which rebelled against God). Demon spirits at times appear to
men in different forms. When they appear unto men they are never for their
good.Ie their main motives upon the earth are to subtilly turn humans from
"New" ideas supposedly given by UFO's or angels, always go against the
clear and true Word of God which is found in the Bible.
The Bible is your only defense in terms of knowing the good from the evil.
Don't be fooled. Spirits are very subtle.
]So, your saying that demons are trying to turn us away from UFOs and such? In that case is god trying to let us learn from UFOs?
The problem is that the Bible was written many centuries ago and has been filtered by translation several times. So it is incredibly difficult to get at the original true meaning (the counter argument would be that God had the Bible written to always be clear and timely, which is still hard to interpret without "professional" help of a minister/priest/etc.). So whether UFO's are good or bad (or just neutral, or in need of enlightenment, etc.) is largely a matter of interpretation of the Bible rather than having a chapter devoted to UFO's.
an additional problem, even if you could get the 'original edition' of the Bible and read it in the original language, would be the cultural distance between us and the author/authors of the Bible, making it easy to misinterpret
Yeah. The Bible is even harder to pin down than the Constitution. ;)
You should get someone who has read the bible several times and offers many non-opionated analysis's of it... :) (dan) (if oyu get it) (probably not)
I *have* a Bible, and one of these days I might do some analysis of it. I grew up with an ordained minister for a father (who had already joined the private sector after deciding religion wasn't that great a career), so I can do some pretty good commentary on Christianity & how it works...
God only knows what the first Bible actually said! (hehehehehehehe).
Amen.
Even if you read the origanal bible, there were so many authors you couldn't get a clear picture, so it is very easy to misinterpret.
I think the oringinal musthave been very metaforical and it got missinterprited along the way. <Eldrich remembers God's last words to his creation and smiles>
I wish Dylan would come back and answer my question, that could get interesting
what last words?
We appologise for the inconvinence. You oviously didn't finish the hichhiker's gide trillogy.
sorry what is that anyway?
what is the hitchhiker's guide trilogy?! YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TRILOGY?!
sorry
<Eldrich say "hmpf!" and promptly faints>
RETURNING RAPIDLY TO THE TOPIC... <orinoco clears his throat>
What was the topic? Dylan started the item, I was interested (and of course he didn't come back), we started talking about the bible and then started drifting <Eldrich knows his history!>
Did adam and eve have navels?
and why do men have nipples?
is that a biblical question, Mr. E?
<sigh>
because men have some female hormones in them
That's probably not true, but since I don't have a better reason I won't comploain.
r it is ture, but it's also irrelevsant
Oh well.
what were we talking about again??
Long story, *very* long story
Mythology
God, the bible, complaints U know.
Okay, lets talk about Ghosts. What causes you to become a ghost? Taumatic death is what I've heard, or unfinished buisness. Would someone who belives in Reincarnation become a ghost? If they had unfinished buisness why not just pop up later and finish it off? What DU U think?
I've heard both versions. The one I am most inclined to belive (were I to belive either) is the "unfinished business" version.
The problem is what exactly defines "unfinished business"?? Unless you knew the exact day and time that you were going to die and had planned for it flawlessly I can't imagine NOT having "unfinished business".
Well, I would suppose that not just anything would do. It would propaply have to be something like communicating a vital message or something like that. There's always the "cursed to walk the earth for all eternity" version or the "curse until X is accomplished" one.
I personally believe in guardian angels and such, but do you think ghots are good or evil?
<kain has been roleplaying too long> In the real world, kain, things are not that simple. I'm not sure about ghots, but ghosts would most likely resemble their living selves
whell, that's deoends on what you call a "ghost"
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