(April 30, 2012 at 12:51 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: No verse says, "The next part talks about a Satan as a personification as a literary device." The rest comes mostly mostly from Swedenborg's 'True Christian Religion' and 'Heaven and Hell', but he does make scriptural references. I'd have to do some digging to cite each of these ideas if you are truly interested.
Oh, some guy wrote a book and said so. OK, then. I fully expect what you will find is he employed wishful thinking to create a more palatable new religion and then used confirmation bias to cherry pick some part of scripture to come up with an obtuse interpretation to justify his act of flat out making shit up.
But if you find anything else, do tell.
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"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
