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   XPost: alt.christnet   
      
   On Wed, 2 Jul 2014 23:33:58 +0100, "Alex W."  wrote:   
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   >On Tue, 01 Jul 2014 18:29:27 GMT, walksalone wrote:   
   >   
   >> BruceS  wrote in news:louriv$rp1$1@dont-email.me:   
   >>   
   >>> On 06/30/2014 05:00 PM, bilgat@m.nu wrote:   
   >>>> On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 18:47:04 -0600, BruceS    
   >>>> wrote:   
   >>   
   >> whole lotta snippin goin on.   
   >>   
   >>>> well if you want my opinion >>> beliefs> god is actually satan..... they are actually the same being,   
   >>>> maybe with MPD or something to that effect. but as far as I know   
   >>>> satan never murdered any humans and god murderd countless millions.   
   >>>   
   >>> That differs from my understanding, which is that the Judeo-Christian   
   >>> belief system has myriad magical persons who could qualify as gods,   
   >>> and only the three-for-one special are considered a single person.   
   >>> Satan appears to be distinct from the outset, and in opposition to   
   >>> Jehova. Sure, Satan comes across as a nicer, saner, and less   
   >>   
   >> Actually, Satan, or more properly, hasatan is und El's supervision.  Read   
   >> the book of Job which some say is a morality play.  It is not until the   
   >> return from the Babylonian vacation that he is not considered a direct   
   >> flunky of the GOTD, & no longer held in high esteem but the elohim, or   
   >> council of the gods.   
   >> Under xianity, he is not even the same deity.  They further modified the   
   >> Zoroastrian version & elevated him to a direct power instead of a flunky   
   >> of god.   
   >> Ref:   
   >> Dictionary Of Deities And Demons In The Bible   
   >> PG 726-732   
   >   
   >This process of reinvention took a long time.  In the   
   >Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta on the island of Torcello,   
   >Venice (Italy, not California), one whole wall is covered   
   >with an 11th century mosaic of the Last Judgment.  There,   
   >Satan figures as an integral part of the overall judgment   
   >and punishment process.  So at least until the 1100s, he was   
   >not the Great Adversary he is potrayed as today but a   
   >necessary and accepted functionary in god's grand   
   >bureaucracy.   
      
       Even though he was cast out of Heaven and he and his army will be cast into   
   the lake of fire you want us to think he's still somehow part of God's grand   
   bureaucracy. How are we supposed to think both things are true? Provide your   
   evidence.   
      
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