Man's long history has often glossed over man's wrongdoing, but in Scripture we find even people like King David's sin exposed.
So, besides the humble good we find examples of the haughty bad, and even some very bad ones repenting
Good point about Satan as not being the mentioned serpent, but we know a serpent does Not talk, so what caused the speech ?
Jesus identified serpents at Matthew 23:33; John 8:44 Not as talking animals but the devil as their father.
John the Baptist exposes such people as vipers at Matthew...
To me the ' totalitarian regime ' of Scripture is what is said at 2nd Cor. 4:4 about Satan and also at Rev. 12:12,9
Sinner Satan is responsible for today's toxic 'air' , so to speak, - Ephesians 2:2 B
Please keep in mind the modern-day definition of theocracy is; rule by clergy or by clergy class
That is Not biblical theocracy, rather it is the God-ruled Kingdom government as found at Daniel 2:44; Daniel 7:13-14,18; Psalm 72:8,12-14
Jesus as King of God's Kingdom government will usher in...
" Beyond the mist of myth and legend is a place not far from here " - Damh the Bard
To me, the 'myth and legend' is all of the man-made political failures of Man dominating man to man's hurt, man's injury
Beyond this political mist the place that is Not far from here is the soon coming...
With evolution? Not compatible
More than hundreds of different religions because mankind can trace its religious family tree back to the Tower of Babel
As the people migrated away from Babylon they took with them their religious mythologies and ideas and spread them world wide into a greater...
The actual animal 'snake' did Not do the talking rather it was that notorious 'snake-in-the-grass' Satan the Devil
Sinner Satan easily could have used that serpent in the same way a ventriloquist uses his dummy - Genesis chapter 3
I find the Bible is chock full of human knowledge with its examples of ups and downs and why
Yes, there are many books based on religious philosophy
Turn on the TV and we see the pitch to always keep coming back returning for more new religious self-help books
That example does Not make the...
To me the Bible can be explained (by topic and subject arrangement) and the Bible is always being reproduced ( in many languages )
Since the Bible does Not change it is reliable and useful as to what happened and what is going to happen - 1st Thess. 5:2-3
Pilate asked ," What is truth ? " but he was speaking about 'truth in general'
Whereas, as I said Jesus taught confidently about 'religious truth' as found in Scripture
Agree, for many it is what feels good is truth, peer-group truth, team-players group, please authorities group, etc.
Progress...
.... and with backing the United Nations can be strengthened to surprisingly turn on the religious world
Jesus forewarned us that his followers would be hated - Matt. 10:22; 24:9 B
I suppose one could say that could include both Jesus' genuine followers and those proving false to him - Matt...
Yeah.. that's Jesus, We know what we know, And we know what we don't know.
We know what Jesus thought and what Jesus knew, and we know what we don't know is who will be a figurative sheep or goat at the soon coming time of separation as taught at Matthew chapter 25
We know there is going to...
Why do you say Nimrod is a myth ______________________
Mankind can trace its 'religious family tree' back to its base with Nimrod and the Tower of Babel
As the people migrated away from there they took with them their religious practices and ideas and spread them world wide into a greater...
But the universe did Not come from nothing - God used His spirit - Psalm 104:30 - to create the invisible and visible realm of creation
Thus, God supplied the abundantly needed dynamic energy to create both the what we see and can't see