And it is a theme woven throughout the bible. As Christians, we are shepherds watching over the flock which are the sheep. Look at the history. David started out as a shepherd and his linage is linked to Jesus. In addition, the story of the birth of Jesus features shepherds. Finally, when shepherds are mentioned in the bible, they are always herding sheep, and Jesus refers to people as sheep in some gospel passages. On this site, all normies are refereed to as sheep.
My opinion we as sheep are ruled by fear. I think Satan’s biggest tool is fear. If he can get us to fear predators we herd together not thinking, just for safety. That is why the Bible teaches so much about fear. The first thing the angels said to the shepherds was “fear not”. That is also why Jesus is the great Shepherd. He defends and protects us.
Good insight, I like this approach. Old philosopher writings about the gospels do link these together, but they've been buried away as part of disconnecting us from wisdom. Luckily, our Lord also said it would be easy for the innocent and children, to understand, and this resonates with that. Trust in Jesus, our shepherd, and fear not.
Unfortunately a lot of people have a herd mentality.
Here's a funny hypothesis for you to enjoy:
All energy comes from God, and is connected to God, but once it is cast in to the crucible of the material world it can be separated and purified and returned to source at the end of the process. (aka good people go to heaven).
However, there are now so many people God has to start promoting lower forms of energy before it's evolved over a long time, so now we get people ensouled with energy that was previously used to animate lower life forms, such as dogs and cats, but also lots of other less intelligent creatures, such as deer and lemmings.
This is why some people are 'old souls' and appear to be born with innate knowledge and understanding, whereas others seem newborn and have characteristics of the animals that their energy was previously used for.
Now, in the animal kingdom, it's a food pyramid, there are a lot more prey animals than predators, so it stands to reason the greater proportion of newly ensouled people have prey animal energy, and prey animals herd together for safety because they lived their lives in fear of the predators.
It may not be true, but it certainly explains a lot ;)
And it is a theme woven throughout the bible. As Christians, we are shepherds watching over the flock which are the sheep. Look at the history. David started out as a shepherd and his linage is linked to Jesus. In addition, the story of the birth of Jesus features shepherds. Finally, when shepherds are mentioned in the bible, they are always herding sheep, and Jesus refers to people as sheep in some gospel passages. On this site, all normies are refereed to as sheep.
My opinion we as sheep are ruled by fear. I think Satan’s biggest tool is fear. If he can get us to fear predators we herd together not thinking, just for safety. That is why the Bible teaches so much about fear. The first thing the angels said to the shepherds was “fear not”. That is also why Jesus is the great Shepherd. He defends and protects us.
Good insight, I like this approach. Old philosopher writings about the gospels do link these together, but they've been buried away as part of disconnecting us from wisdom. Luckily, our Lord also said it would be easy for the innocent and children, to understand, and this resonates with that. Trust in Jesus, our shepherd, and fear not.
Unfortunately a lot of people have a herd mentality.
Here's a funny hypothesis for you to enjoy:
All energy comes from God, and is connected to God, but once it is cast in to the crucible of the material world it can be separated and purified and returned to source at the end of the process. (aka good people go to heaven).
However, there are now so many people God has to start promoting lower forms of energy before it's evolved over a long time, so now we get people ensouled with energy that was previously used to animate lower life forms, such as dogs and cats, but also lots of other less intelligent creatures, such as deer and lemmings.
This is why some people are 'old souls' and appear to be born with innate knowledge and understanding, whereas others seem newborn and have characteristics of the animals that their energy was previously used for.
Now, in the animal kingdom, it's a food pyramid, there are a lot more prey animals than predators, so it stands to reason the greater proportion of newly ensouled people have prey animal energy, and prey animals herd together for safety because they lived their lives in fear of the predators.
It may not be true, but it certainly explains a lot ;)