RE: Good Faith Media: Global Christian Population to reach 3.3 BN by 2050.
July 30, 2023 at 4:02 pm
(This post was last modified: July 30, 2023 at 4:36 pm by Bucky Ball.)
(July 30, 2023 at 2:54 pm)Nishant Xavier Wrote: Nobody believes in talking snakes, you Silly Militant Atheist. How many times I've to explain that is a Metaphor for Satan?
Funny they get to cherry-pick when they need it to be a "metaphor".
There is no Satan. The concept came from Babylon, and was used as well as mistranslated in the Bible.
It's nothing but an ancient childish concept used to explain why thing go wrong.
See Dr. Elaine Pagels (Princeton) "The Origins of Satan".
"Ante Luciferum, genuite". Lucifer was the "daystar". "Before the daystar I have begotten thee" (YOUR Christmas liturgy.) The planet Venus I think ??
Isaiah 14:4. In 2 Peter 1:19 "Until .... the daystar arise in your hearts," the word is literally, "light-bringer." It is applicable, therefore, not only to the planet Venus, seen as a morning star, herald of the dawn, but to the sun itself, and is used here as a title of our Lord. The light-bringer is not the devil.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell 
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