RE: When was evil created?
April 4, 2013 at 1:57 pm
(This post was last modified: April 4, 2013 at 1:58 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(April 3, 2013 at 10:30 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: In Hebrew, the very first letter of Genesis is 'Bet', the second letter, as opposed to 'Aleph', the first letter. This has been interpreted to allude to a back-story. What the back-story actual tells can only be guessed at from later events recorded in the canonical Scriptures. I cannot remember exactly, but I think the creation of angels might be found in the Book of Enoch. That said, New Church doctrine states that angels come from the human race. My favorite Swedenborg quote is, "Anyone can see that God did not talk to a snake." The idea is that God literally talking to a snake is so ridiculous that it should prompt us to get below the surface of the text. For atheists, of course, that's a non-starter.I don't understand what's ridiculous about that, I mean, we're already talking about superfairies as though they -weren't- ridiculous...... anything would seem to be game going forward.
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