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....And I am wondering if "Angels" are supposed to be people that died and have gone to heaven, where did Lucifer come from? And how did he tempt Adam and Eve in the GOE, if they were the first two?
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3/5/2008 5:46am
I have never heard that Angels were people. The Angels were around before God created the Earth (according to the ancient fables that I cling to because I cannot handle reality). They Served God but Lucifer tried to lead a revolt and got his butt kicked.
He was put in charge of helping man screw up Gods creation. Since Man needs no help sounds like ole Lucifer has got the easiest job around.
3/5/2008 6:34am
Common misperception caused by Hollywood that people die and go to heaven as angels. Angels are created beings of a spirit kind. Read the beginning of Hebrews to see some description of the hierarchy.
3/5/2008 7:01am Edited Date/Time 4/16/2016 6:18pm
[quote="Bonepony":34zluot6]Why would god create an angel that would try to revolt?[/quote:34zluot6]

Myths do stupid things like that. Superman, the guy who can't be killed by a nuclear blast, can be humbled by a rock. The Christian all-loving god needed a fall guy for all of the bad stuff in the universe.
3/5/2008 7:13am Edited Date/Time 4/16/2016 6:19pm
[quote="brent26wood":xnvob5ib]....And I am wondering if "Angels" are supposed to be people that died and have gone to heaven, where did Lucifer come from? And how did he tempt Adam and Eve in the GOE, if they were the first two?[/quote:xnvob5ib]

Watch the Prophecy series. It explains it all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prophecy

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3/5/2008 7:32am Edited Date/Time 4/16/2016 6:19pm
[quote="Trinitite":1axd67d0][quote="brent26wood":1axd67d0]....And I am wondering if "Angels" are supposed to be people that died and have gone to heaven, where did Lucifer come from? And how did he tempt Adam and Eve in the GOE, if they were the first two?[/quote:1axd67d0]

Watch the Prophecy series. It explains it all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prophecy[/quote:1axd67d0]
Thanks.
3/5/2008 8:30am Edited Date/Time 4/16/2016 6:19pm
[quote="Bonepony":2se8egk1]Why would god create an angel that would try to revolt?[/quote:2se8egk1]
Why would God create perfect humans that revolt? Free will
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3/5/2008 9:02am Edited Date/Time 4/16/2016 6:19pm
[quote="Bonepony":h365yiov][quote="jtomasik":h365yiov][quote="Bonepony":h365yiov]Why would god create an angel that would try to revolt?[/quote:h365yiov]

The Christian all-loving god needed a fall guy for all of the bad stuff in the universe.[/quote:h365yiov]

Is it any wonder that christians love george bush? He did the same shit, and they fell for it. Twice.[/quote:h365yiov]

I did not vote for him once. Just sayin.
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3/5/2008 3:43pm Edited Date/Time 4/16/2016 6:19pm
[quote="SteveS":3psdnz8u]Common misperception caused by Hollywood that people die and go to heaven as angels. Angels are created beings of a spirit kind. Read the beginning of Hebrews to see some description of the hierarchy.[/quote:3psdnz8u]

Lots of stuff like that. I always thought the Isrealites fought the Canonites, Battle of Jerico, etc. becuase they had invaded their land or something. You know "evil oppressors".

Turns out Isrealites were nomads and God said "I pick you, go take that land away from those folks, I don't like them". "Oh yeah, kill every man, woman and child while you're at it". Kinda seems like the guys God was talking to had a vested interst in getting info from the man.

It's in the Bible, but they kinda left it out in Sunday school and the movies I saw on the subject.
3/5/2008 3:57pm Edited Date/Time 4/16/2016 6:19pm
[quote="JPT":2jfeaix1] God said "I pick you, go take that land away from those folks, I don't like them". "Oh yeah, kill every man, woman and child while you're at it".
[/quote:2jfeaix1]

The Old Testament God was a bad-ass!

Then, about 2000 years ago, this omnipotent, omnipresent God...

...Changed his mind.
:roll:
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ORIGIN AND CHARACTERISTICS

Many persons have been taught that angels are the departed dead that once lived on earth. The death of the body is said to release an immortal soul that lives on as an angel in heaven. At the funeral of a young ten-year-old girl a Roman Catholic priest some time ago explained, as reported in the New York Daily Mirror: “God wanted another angel and He took Dorothy. Dorothy had been picked by God to remain with her parents just this length of time. Then he called her to serve Him at this Christmas time.”

Is this true? Are angels persons who once lived on earth? Are they disembodied humans? No, not according to God’s Word the Bible. These inspired writings reveal that long before this earth had been prepared for human habitation Almighty God created spirit sons or angels. This is revealed by His inquiry made long ago of his servant Job, which, according to the Jewish Targum, reads: “Where did you happen to be when I founded the earth? Tell me, if you do know understanding. When the morning stars joyfully cried out together, and all the bands of angels began shouting in applause?”—Job 38:4, 7, 1957 Edition, footnote.

God not only created these spirits long before he did man, but he also made them a higher form of life than human. “Angels,” the Bible says, “are greater in strength and power.” And God’s Word explains that man was made “a little lower than angels.”—2 Pet. 2:11; Heb. 2:6, 7.

Not only were angels made superior to humans, but even among themselves there are various ranks or classifications. First in position is Michael the archangel, whom the Scriptures show is none other than the Word, or Chief Spokesman for God, who became the man Jesus Christ. (Dan. 12:1; John 1:1; Rev. 12:7) Then there are seraphs, whom the prophet Isaiah saw attending Jehovah in a vision of His temple. (Isa. 6:2, 6) Also described in the Scriptures are the cherubs, representations of whom were placed on the ark of the covenant housed in the Most Holy compartment of the wilderness tabernacle and later in the temple built by Solomon. (Ex. 25:18-22; 1 Ki. 8:6, 7; Ps. 99:1) And, finally, there is the great body of angelic messengers.
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3/5/2008 4:37pm Edited Date/Time 4/16/2016 6:19pm
[quote="Bonepony":34noywr9][quote="zookrider62":34noywr9][quote="Bonepony":34noywr9]Why would god create an angel that would try to revolt?[/quote:34noywr9]
Why would God create perfect humans that revolt? Free will[/quote:34noywr9]


We're just pawns in a galactic game of chess?[/quote:34noywr9]


More like an ant farm.
3/5/2008 7:53pm Edited Date/Time 4/16/2016 6:19pm
[quote="JPT":2pqwek6m][quote="SteveS":2pqwek6m]Common misperception caused by Hollywood that people die and go to heaven as angels. Angels are created beings of a spirit kind. Read the beginning of Hebrews to see some description of the hierarchy.[/quote:2pqwek6m]

Lots of stuff like that. I always thought the Isrealites fought the Canonites, Battle of Jerico, etc. becuase they had invaded their land or something. You know "evil oppressors".

Turns out Isrealites were nomads and God said "I pick you, go take that land away from those folks, I don't like them". "Oh yeah, kill every man, woman and child while you're at it". Kinda seems like the guys God was talking to had a vested interst in getting info from the man.

It's in the Bible, but they kinda left it out in Sunday school and the movies I saw on the subject.[/quote:2pqwek6m]

Only thing I'd really take issue with there is the "I don't like them" part. It was generally more along the lines of, "They are evil," "They worship other gods," etc. when He spoke of the current inhabitants of the Promised Land (all the "ites") More often, though, He referred to them as "your enemies."

The Israelites had originally come from the general area they were being given by God in the Promised Land, but had ended up in Egypt during famine. The people they were driving out had been among them before, or had moved in during the meantime.

The promise to give them the land had been made long, long before.
[quote:2pqwek6m]The LORD our God said to us at Horeb, "You have stayed long enough at this mountain. 7 Break camp and advance into the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the mountains, in the western foothills, in the Negev and along the coast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the Euphrates. 8 See, I have given you this land. Go in and take possession of the land that the LORD swore he would give to your fathers—to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—and to their descendants after them."[/quote:2pqwek6m] Deut 1:6

Since God considered the land as belonging to the Israelites from His command, anyone living there, any king established there, would be the enemy of the Israelites.
3/5/2008 8:32pm
The Angels take the pennant this year! God's baseball team...the Raiders are his football team.
3/6/2008 5:24am Edited Date/Time 4/16/2016 6:19pm
[quote="Bonepony":1xx2lutv][quote="zookrider62":1xx2lutv][quote="Bonepony":1xx2lutv]Why would god create an angel that would try to revolt?[/quote:1xx2lutv]
Why would God create perfect humans that revolt? Free will[/quote:1xx2lutv]


We're just pawns in a galactic game of chess?[/quote:1xx2lutv]
? Im not sure I follow, if we have free will, then we do our own thing, correct? If I said why did angels/humans revolt, because of predestination, wouldnt that make us pawns in his chess game?
3/6/2008 5:25am Edited Date/Time 4/16/2016 6:19pm
[quote="BobbyM":16pwtmoh]The Angels take the pennant this year! God's baseball team...[b:16pwtmoh]the Raiders are his football team[/b:16pwtmoh].[/quote:16pwtmoh]
Oh no, if thats the case, many will certainly lose faith in god.
3/6/2008 7:23am Edited Date/Time 4/16/2016 6:19pm
[quote="Bonepony":2q6d3llf][quote="zookrider62":2q6d3llf] Im not sure I follow, if we have free will, then we do our own thing, correct? If I said why did angels/humans revolt, because of predestination, wouldnt that make us pawns in his chess game?[/quote:2q6d3llf]

Let me try a different tack: Why do you think god created us?[/quote:2q6d3llf]
Wanted to create something in his image
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3/6/2008 9:21am Edited Date/Time 4/16/2016 6:19pm
[quote="zookrider62":11lij4z2][quote="Bonepony":11lij4z2][quote="zookrider62":11lij4z2] Im not sure I follow, if we have free will, then we do our own thing, correct? If I said why did angels/humans revolt, because of predestination, wouldnt that make us pawns in his chess game?[/quote:11lij4z2]

Let me try a different tack: Why do you think god created us?[/quote:11lij4z2]
Wanted to create something in his image[/quote:11lij4z2]
yep,looks can be decieving.our brains are screwed up
god got disgusted with us and said i'm out of here.you can have all the "free will" ya want.........
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3/6/2008 9:25am
Amazing how Corndog's girlfriend types in the exact same style and manner as Corndog himself
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3/6/2008 10:01am Edited Date/Time 4/16/2016 6:19pm
[quote="flarider":rzxxvx1t]Amazing how Corndog's girlfriend types in the exact same style and manner as Corndog himself[/quote:rzxxvx1t]
so now you're a stalker. he tells me what to say and I type it .
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3/6/2008 10:07am
You're a bad liar
and bad at covering your style and tracks
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3/6/2008 10:12am
and you're a bad stalker.quit stalking us,get a life.
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3/6/2008 10:13am Edited Date/Time 4/16/2016 6:19pm
LOL..."us"

Give it up
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3/6/2008 10:18am
We just made a complaint to the moderator.you're obessed,go away
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3/6/2008 1:43pm
complain all you want, missDragQueen

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