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- Devil: from the Greek "Diabolos" = opponent (free translation from "satan") - Satan: Hebrew for "accuser" (Job 1.6): the angels defend men, satan accuses them. - Angri Mainyu: opponent of Spenta Mainyu in zoroastrism, cfr: devil vs. Holy Spirit - Beelzebub: Baäl-Zebub = "Lord of the flies"...

Tantra exists in both hinduism and buddhism. It's a school that focusses on meditation by using sex. If you have sex in the correct way, it will bring you in contact with the goddess Shakti. It's a kind of spiritual eroticism, or erotic spirituality.

The Old Testament is very violent, but the New Testament has a message of non-violence. Mt 5.39: "If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also" Mt 5.44: "Love your enemies"

There is a fragment in Numeri where the Israelites won a battle against the Midyanites. They took possession of their cows, their sheeps and their daughters. Notice that the cattle is mentioned first. In those days, women were regarded as a possession. It's terrible when people take these...

It's very exceptional, although it exists in Ethiopian christianity.

African religions have twin gods too. The left is always the evil one. Or was it the right?

These are the origins of monotheism: 1480 BC: Moses: YHWH 1350 BC: Ahen-Aton (useful to Aton): Aton 600 BC: Zarathustra: Ahura Mazda Abraham, who is usually placed around 2100 BC, probably wasn't a historical figure. He was invented afterwards, as the common forefather of all jews. Moses was...

There are two books of Enoch: the Ethiopian and another one. I read the Ethiopian one. It describes the visit of Enoch to hell and heaven, a bit like Dante's Divina Commedia. It also talks about the fallen angels. They were the "sons of God", seduced by the "daughters of men". They came down...

There are some interesting myths about the origin of the universe. Greek myths say that there was Chaos. The Chaos split into three parts: heaven, world and underworld. Heaven fell in love with the world and started raining on it, to make it fertile. Out of the union of heaven and earth came the...

There are a lot of influences from paganism (= Germanic and Celtic polytheism). E.g.: Hella was the goddess of the underworld, the christmas tree. There are great myths about God and Saint Peter visiting the earth. These must be copies from older germanic myths.

Witches definitely come from polytheistic religions. Otherwise, it's a kind of syncretism between christianity and remnants of popular, polytheistic beliefs.

The 3 books "Dao-de-jing", written by Lao-zi around 550 BC.

Of course a lot of things in Exodus can't be taken literally, like the splitting of the Red Sea. But still, there are such a lot of geographical details and we know that there was a Hebrew emigration somewhere in that period. I'm convinced that Moses really existed and that the Ark of the...

Jesus announced a non-physical guide, being the Holy Spirit. He visited the disciples on Pentecoast.

Jesus called him "Abba", meaning "Father".Moses called him "YHWH", meaning "I am who is". According to a jewish tradition, it's forbidden to pronounce this name, so they call him "Adonai", meaning "Lord". In the Hebrew texts, theses two words are intermingled to "Ya-Ho-Wai-H": YHWH with the...

Interesting about Zoroastrism is the fact that it influenced several concepts in judaism and christianity. -Ahura Mazda = Wise Lord = God -7 Amesha Spentas = 7 angels in Job1 -Spenta Mainyu = Holy Spirit -Angri Mainyu = fallen angel = satan

The Holy Book is the Avesta. It was written in Pahlavi, an Indo-European language related to modern Persian. It contains: -the Gathas: 17 hymns probably by Zarathustra himself, around 600 BC. -other sacred texts: written in the next several centuries.

Traditionally, historians place him around 1250 BC, under pharaoh Ra-Moses II ("given birth by Ra"). Their arguments are very weak. If you use the Bible dates, Moses lived around 1480 BC, 480 years before Solomon started building his temple. Although 480 can be symbolical (12x40), I believe that...

The Hyksos are a very mysterious people. They were semitic and ruled parts of Egypt between 2000 and 1500 BC. An old theory says that they are the Hebrews, but most scientists don't accept that anymore.

Genesis says the four rivers had a common well, but the Tigris and the Euphrat don't have a common well.