Comments on: Functional AntiChrists.

By: Butterfly Flower

Mon, 24 Feb 2014 02:03:00 +0000

The earliest known existing “Serpent in the Garden” story is the one involving the Mesopotamian snake/merman God Ea. The Mesopotamian Earth Goddess was Ishtar.

There have been theories suggesting Ea is Yahweh, since their names have a similar etymological root. However, that is a coincidence. The God in the Bible isn’t a belligerent drunk merman.

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By: Bobbye

Mon, 24 Feb 2014 01:52:00 +0000

Reading comprehension?

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By: Bobbye

Mon, 24 Feb 2014 01:50:00 +0000

The only reason the God who created me in His image would not/could not speak to me is if He did not in fact exist. There is no other reason. What would that person be but a ‘functional atheist’? And that is exactly the kind of person all to common in churches. It is exactly the kind of persons that Jesus had His harshest criticism of.

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By: Butterfly Flower

Mon, 24 Feb 2014 00:04:00 +0000

Ah, so you’re one of those folks.

As a former Near Eastern studies major, I’m all too familiar with the theories that conflate the ancient Mesopotamian sea-snake God Ea, with Yahweh.

While the argument makes sense from a linguistics standpoint (Yah is the Hebrew approximation of the word “Ea” – meaning something along the line of “almighty lord/master”), said theory falls apart when one compares Biblical scripture to Ancient Mesopotamia mythology.

Ea is a belligerent alcoholic sea-snake/merman [?]. In Ea’s most famous tale, he got blasted during a dinner party and drunkingly transferred all his divine God powers to the goddess Ishtar. When Ea recovered from his hangover and asked for his powers back, Ishtar refused to return them. Ea never got his power back. (Meanwhile, Ishtar crowned herself Goddess of the Earth, and crowned her husband Thammuz the God of Corn. Than their marriage fell apart, Ishtar separated from Thammuz….until she murdered her-ex in a fit of jealousy when she caught him partying with other women.)

Bobbye, If you want to beleive God is a powerless merman with a serious drinking problem, go right ahead. I’m not going to insult your faith. However; the religion you’d be practicing isn’t Christianity. You would not be worshiping the God described in the Bible. (However, the jury’s still out on the Devil being a divorced goddess that kills innocent men for the evulz).

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By: Wiless

Sun, 23 Feb 2014 23:17:00 +0000

Oh, and so God spoke as directly to you as He did to Abraham and Jacob (not Joseph, it was Jacob renamed Israel; learn your Scriptures!), and He said, ‘Bobby, from now on, you’re Bobbye!’. Right…
We have the Holy Spirit indwelling in us if we are believers, and we have God’s Word. But gifts such as speaking in tongues have ceased, and anyone who believes God is speaking words to them outside of Scripture today is a nutbar. If you think that God is speaking to you today face to face as He did with some in Bible times, you’re a nutbar, too.

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By: Bobbye

Sun, 23 Feb 2014 21:17:00 +0000

Abram’s name was changed to Abraham by God, Joseph was renamed Israel by God. Becoming a new creation in Christ is all about a direct link to God. I am sure you are very familiar with these Scriptures, some of which this blog has recently quoted. Jesus had the same controversy with the Judeans.( John 8:55)
It is sad that most people who go to church believe that God never speaks to individuals personally. That of course means that fellowship with the Father and the Son can not exist. It’s only religion.

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By: Wiless

Sun, 23 Feb 2014 19:32:00 +0000

Oh, really? Most people are named by their parents, not by God.
Tell you what, since I see no point trying to use reason, or bothering to quote Scripture to someone who apparently has a direct link to the Almighty, why don’t you ask Him yourself, not only why He gave you that name, but where in His Word you may find such truths expressed?
I’m through talking to you.

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By: Bobbye

Sun, 23 Feb 2014 19:19:00 +0000

Earth Mother religion is as old as history. It is basically the Genesis story but with the Serpent as the giver of knowledge and wisdom to the Woman who is the Earth-Mother.Serpent is the good guy, God is the bad guy.

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By: Bobbye

Sun, 23 Feb 2014 19:12:00 +0000

” that’s God’s plan for the species created in His image, us”

Where did female attributes come from? Use the bible please. Who is this female Wisdom in Proverbs that is so highly praised? God Himself gave me the name Bobbye, and with that spelling. I guess in your book that makes God dumb?

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By: Wiless

Sun, 23 Feb 2014 00:15:00 +0000

That only happened because men weren’t stepping up to the plate; the book of Judges explains that; an extraordinary circumstance, not meant to be normative. Men are meant to rule, and women to follow: that’s God’s plan for the species created in His image, us.
‘Christian’ should be capitalized thus.
And your parents misspelt ‘Bobby’, which, even for Roberta, has that shorthand, not with an ‘e’ at the ed. Ugh.

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