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When was evil created?

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When was evil created?
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RE: When was evil created?
April 4, 2013 at 4:00 pm
Quote:Both Jesus and Peter quote from sources not found in the canon. Much has been lost.

Or the people who invented them quote from those sources. Odd that they have been "lost." Apparently, they weren't very important.
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RE: When was evil created?
April 4, 2013 at 5:45 pm
(April 4, 2013 at 3:47 pm)Faith No More Wrote: Is a talking to a snake really any more ridiculous than a Jew coming back from the dead? Why is one self-evidently ridiculous while the other isn't?
I guess that just depends on your perspective, to some extent. In direct response to your question, the Genesis accounts do not shout "this is history" in the way the Gospel accounts do. Moreover, Scripture itself points to the Genesis accounts as allegorical calling them 'dark sayings of old'.

"I will open my mouth in a parable : I will utter dark sayings of old, which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us." Psalm 78:2,3

“I have also spoken to the prophets, and gave numerous visions; And through the prophets I gave parables." Hosea 12:10
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RE: When was evil created?
April 4, 2013 at 5:52 pm
The gospel accounts scream "this is history"? Whereabouts? When they're describing the zombie plague, or when they're telling us about magic man?
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RE: When was evil created?
April 4, 2013 at 5:55 pm
(April 4, 2013 at 5:52 pm)Rhythm Wrote: The gospel accounts scream "this is history"? Whereabouts? When they're describing the zombie plague, or when they're telling us about magic man?
They self-profess to be history, like the beginning of Luke.
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RE: When was evil created?
April 4, 2013 at 9:23 pm
Ah, okay, okay. So, bit like the Necromicon or the Havamal?
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RE: When was evil created?
April 4, 2013 at 10:30 pm
(April 4, 2013 at 9:23 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Ah, okay, okay. So, bit like the Necromicon or the Havamal?
And just where did you find a copy of the Necronomicron? They're pretty rare.
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RE: When was evil created?
April 4, 2013 at 10:33 pm
About as rare as the gospels, yeah..lol.
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