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Well, yes and no. Depending on who is trying to accomplish what. If I need to tell someone something, I have to do some work to convey my idea, but I need that person's cooperation to at least some small degree if not a lot. If they are uncomprehending or resistant I need to talk to somebody...

This video is 3:43 long, Michael Heiser, Christian Bible scholar, who goes into some explanation of this. How the Rabbis Tried to Explain Away the Two Powers in Heaven

Well, sort of. The communicator and the recipient. Two way street. The recipient needs to listen, consider, ask questions, respond, etc.

Could AI tell us any more about ultimate reality than human prophets have? If so, how would they do so? I always thought that the universal supernatural reality behind religions was almost unknowable, something people only got glimpses of here and there, through a glass darkly, or heard little...

Oh I miss @Cino! I hope we may see him someday again.

I guess I didn't pose this with a clear question - Does anybody here, of any theological background, have any knowledge about the "Two Powers in Heaven" idea that was apparently within preChristian Judaism? It's possible I should move this thread, I may have inadvertently buried it by placing...

The variation comes at least in part because translating from one language to another is not a simple matter of word to word translation. Languages just do not correspond to one another that way, so translators of ANYTHING, religious material or not, make reasoned judgment calls, some...

Fair enough... still, on those occasions when someone does make a translation with those ideas in mind, their translation is critiqued as biased also - I don't know how many times I've run across scorn online from say evangelicals or Catholics or mainline Protestants, towards any of the...

Hmmm..... I think maybe people cannot see the threads that are posted in the general Abrahamic area...and not under one of the three religions represented... but I put it there because it is pertinent to both Judaism and Christianity.

This is a great story! Elton sounds like he was trippin' in more ways than one. It sounds like Chrissie had it together. Also one of those lost in the pond moments - I had to look up wazzock and creche. (I knew manger scenes were called creches, I assumed it meant something different in this...

Sounds fascinating. Does any form of it still exist? Or is it long gone? (I couldn't find it by searching)

Isn't Secret Gospel of Mark that one some think was actually a 20th century forgery/hoax?

https://www.interfaith.org/community/threads/21784/ Two Powers in Heaven

Conversation we were having in another thread made me want to address a pre-Christian idea from earlier Judaism about there being two powers in Heaven The original thread is called - I converted to Jehovah's Witnesses (this is the thread) The idea may later have been regarded as a "heresy" in...

It all reminds me of the concept of Two Powers in Heaven. I should probably start a new thread about that.