Ok: I could kill someone or commit suicide, to prevent someone from killing me. Kill or be killed, right?
Ok: I could kill someone or commit suicide, to prevent someone from killing me. Kill or be killed, right?
If you are a thing, then you "can't" do a lot of things. If you are not a thing, then you ultimately can't make someone else do some thing, or not do some thing, and if you try then it is you doing that thing. Yes? A strong worded example: God can NOT make you sin, and God can NOT make you NOT sin. Do you think I error? Do you think that is a presumptuous statement?
By saying that God can prevent someone from killing, I mean that God can quite literally do that prevention, which is not the same as making someone willfully NOT kill. When God is doing this, you can quite literally hand a mortal enemy a gun, or a knife, and there is absolutely nothing that they can do to harm you. Whereas, I could spend my entire life trying to prevent others from killing me, and will have removed from this life as a result.
The distinction is the profound difference between a man, and God. A man can kill a man, but what man can kill God, taking him away from another man? A man can kill, and afterwards do nothing more to that person. Whereas God can kill, and afterwards do more. A power above all definitions of power.
If your definition of kill is such that Jesus was never killed: similar case, different lingo.
Prayer? I do not regard pray-ing for someone else to do a thing, as doing that thing. Do you?
According to scripture . . . King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
According to scripture . . . King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.
Seven is an interesting number in mythology. This number appears all over in almost every religion. But here are the first mentions of seven and the association with demons, devils, etc.
Egyptian Cosmology:
After the murder of Osiris, Isis was taken prisoner by Seth and put in a weaving house. As she sits and weaves the mummy wrappings for Osiris, Thoth liberates her and advises her to find a hiding place for her young son Horus. Isis wanders, looking for a hiding place from Set, carrying her baby son in her arms. For her protection Thoth sent seven scorpions to go in front of her.
Sumerian Cosmology:
The majority of Sumerian deities belonged to a classification called the Anunna (“[offspring] of An”), whereas seven deities, including Enlil and Inanna, belonged to a group of “underworld judges" known as the Anunnaki
It is quite feasible to find the number seven, later in Christianity, to represent seven demons of which Jesus expelled from Mary Magdalene, this action could represent the ridding once and for all of older Pagan deities and Goddess worship . . . but this may be going too far out on a limb.
Nope, "as above, so below" is a Hermetic phrase signifying that what is the macrocosm is also the microcosm. Such as the orbits of planets (macrocosm) can be seen in the orbits of molecular structures (microcosm).
Atheism really is the delusion.
I do not give sway to the ambiguity of the word 'with', coming from both the words 'para' and 'meta'.
Same ambiguity. I do not think that is what Jesus said.
Jesus is not a thing, neither are you, and neither is God.
We empower this god, not the other way around.
Being this is a thread on Agnosticism, I would have to say that I, nor you, would know for sure if there is a god/ one faith / one religion and one source.