RE: Why are you (still) a Christian?
September 14, 2023 at 12:50 pm
(This post was last modified: September 14, 2023 at 12:55 pm by Bucky Ball.)
(September 14, 2023 at 10:29 am)Data Wrote: Divine means god, deity, or something like it. It can be used in the same sense as holy or sacred, which basically means "belonging to." The Hebrew el and it's variations (elohim, etc.) mean god or gods coming from a root word which means strong. Anything and anyone can be a god/goddess. So, the Bible, Hebrew/Greek scriptures refer to mortal men, inanimate objects and spirit beings (angel, for example, meaning messenger) as gods. Divine. The heavenly host are angels, seraphs, cherubs. Jehovah God's army.
Exactly. The Witch says she saw "elohim" arising. You didn't even look at this did you ?
"The medium says that she sees "Elohim" "arising" (she uses "elohim" in plural, but the apparition becomes singular in Saul's response) from the ground, using the word typically translated as "god(s)" to refer to the spirit of the dead. This is also paralleled by the use of the Akkadian cognate word "god" in a similar fashion."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_of_E...ed%20me%3F
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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