Hashem, Kodosh Baruch Hu (The Holy One, blessed be he) did indeed create the world male and female. Satan, the accuser, works for G-d. His district attorney, you might say. It is he who understands how much a man or woman has fallen to the temptations of the Yetzer Hara, the evil inclination. Even as Satan made Job's life Hell, he did it with permission from G-d to see if Job's virtue was genuine or only a result of good fortune.
Anyway, a deity pleased by suicide is a pretty bad choice for a long-term investment.
I do wonder about that drag queen though. If she was one of you guys and if I sensed that. I wasn't very religious back then (actually I was taking the first few steps to returning to my Judaism) And I was in the middle of that place, dressed as a girl myself, so I was hardly in a virtuous local. Yet, even I was repulsed. Not sure I ever felt anything that "off" in my life.
This distinction though -- an adult who becomes transgendered can be motivated by erotic thrill. I get that. A child doesn't get that kind of motivation, though. And a parent to do that to a child against that child's will... pretty horrific. But there's a disconnect. The adult made a choice. The child... it was done to them. It's hard to classify them both as the same thing.
Not sure my point is clear, even to myself here.
I guess our foundation is that Abraham was not to sacrifice Isaac, and others did not get the memo.
LOL. That's one of the funniest mistruths I've heard from a christian.
Even as Satan made Job's life Hell
satan wasn't 'given permission' or 'told to torture' Job like you say. my religious brethren believe the prince is allowed do such things when your christians lose faith in your god. You can lose faith in actions, but still appear faithful in words - and vice-versa.
Not sure I ever felt anything that "off" in my life.
I've experienced it too. Either their rituals for power (cannibalism, rape and sacrifice primarily) worked or you felt what a deer feels when there's a wolf close-by.
A child doesn't get that kind of motivation, though.
This is incorrect, children can be conditioned to feel or not feel most things adults can - think there aren't children who enjoy murder? sex? think again.
And I agree that it 'messes them up', sometimes I think about what my life would be like as a Buddhist, if I lived in a monastery and didn't have the parents I have.
I guess our foundation is that Abraham was not to sacrifice Isaac, and others did not get the memo.
throughout history ever conflict has had those on our side and those on yours. Adam was a victim tricked by Eve, who was tricked by lucifer - cain fell under the sway of the prince and murdered his brother, etc. etc.
if god and lucifer exist, and the biblical miracles and anti-miracles are all true, then jesus almost certainly existed and did miracles - fulfilling the prophecies.
anyway you are following your god and seek righteousness, so you're basically a christian anyway
But back to it.... did I sense something real that night? Or was it my imagination? Or maybe I should just let it go. Might be better off not knowing.
I don't know. he was definitely one of us, normal people don't give off those vibes unless they are. don't know if he was blessed and you experienced demonic influence, or if it was natural fear of the predator.
The Jewish-Christian debate over the identity of the messiah -- whether it was Jesus or is still yet to come -- hasn't changed over the years. Christianity (and by extension, Islam) is a tool used by G-d just as everything else. Both took the world by storm, informing far more people about the oneness of G-d than Judaism has on its own. These days, religious Christians and Jews tend to have more in common than either with their own secular coreligionists.
I suspect you have a different definition of "blessed" than I do. Hmm. Guess it's a good thing I trusted my instinct, either way.
Hashem, Kodosh Baruch Hu (The Holy One, blessed be he) did indeed create the world male and female. Satan, the accuser, works for G-d. His district attorney, you might say. It is he who understands how much a man or woman has fallen to the temptations of the Yetzer Hara, the evil inclination. Even as Satan made Job's life Hell, he did it with permission from G-d to see if Job's virtue was genuine or only a result of good fortune.
Anyway, a deity pleased by suicide is a pretty bad choice for a long-term investment.
I do wonder about that drag queen though. If she was one of you guys and if I sensed that. I wasn't very religious back then (actually I was taking the first few steps to returning to my Judaism) And I was in the middle of that place, dressed as a girl myself, so I was hardly in a virtuous local. Yet, even I was repulsed. Not sure I ever felt anything that "off" in my life.
This distinction though -- an adult who becomes transgendered can be motivated by erotic thrill. I get that. A child doesn't get that kind of motivation, though. And a parent to do that to a child against that child's will... pretty horrific. But there's a disconnect. The adult made a choice. The child... it was done to them. It's hard to classify them both as the same thing.
Not sure my point is clear, even to myself here.
I guess our foundation is that Abraham was not to sacrifice Isaac, and others did not get the memo.
LOL. That's one of the funniest mistruths I've heard from a christian.
satan wasn't 'given permission' or 'told to torture' Job like you say. my religious brethren believe the prince is allowed do such things when your christians lose faith in your god. You can lose faith in actions, but still appear faithful in words - and vice-versa.
I've experienced it too. Either their rituals for power (cannibalism, rape and sacrifice primarily) worked or you felt what a deer feels when there's a wolf close-by.
This is incorrect, children can be conditioned to feel or not feel most things adults can - think there aren't children who enjoy murder? sex? think again.
And I agree that it 'messes them up', sometimes I think about what my life would be like as a Buddhist, if I lived in a monastery and didn't have the parents I have.
throughout history ever conflict has had those on our side and those on yours. Adam was a victim tricked by Eve, who was tricked by lucifer - cain fell under the sway of the prince and murdered his brother, etc. etc.
Well, you'll have your doctrine and I'll have mine. I'm not expecting conversions here.
And again, I'm not Christian. I'm Jewish.
But back to it.... did I sense something real that night? Or was it my imagination? Or maybe I should just let it go. Might be better off not knowing.
if god and lucifer exist, and the biblical miracles and anti-miracles are all true, then jesus almost certainly existed and did miracles - fulfilling the prophecies.
anyway you are following your god and seek righteousness, so you're basically a christian anyway
I don't know. he was definitely one of us, normal people don't give off those vibes unless they are. don't know if he was blessed and you experienced demonic influence, or if it was natural fear of the predator.
The Jewish-Christian debate over the identity of the messiah -- whether it was Jesus or is still yet to come -- hasn't changed over the years. Christianity (and by extension, Islam) is a tool used by G-d just as everything else. Both took the world by storm, informing far more people about the oneness of G-d than Judaism has on its own. These days, religious Christians and Jews tend to have more in common than either with their own secular coreligionists.
I suspect you have a different definition of "blessed" than I do. Hmm. Guess it's a good thing I trusted my instinct, either way.