Posted on 04/11/2023 8:25:49 PM PDT by Morgana
Having other gods would be pagan, I think.
The modern movement seems to be a singularity of paganism and Gnosticism, because Gnosticism is trying to leave to flesh because the flesh is evil and the spirit is good.
This is why liberals argue that there is no excuse for not doing the so-called right, as they define it, even if it takes your life. That’s why they hold white people responsible for the actions of white from 300 years ago and why we should be punished for the past because our ancestors didn’t do the right thing, even if that right thing would have wiped out entire peoples.
He’s using the term loosely, I believe. If he’s a Christian of any knowledge, he knows that there is no other God but the Lord they God.
But he’s using it in the same sense the Bible uses the term, god. The Bible doesn’t mean actual gods, but demons and people who think they control things, which would include other people.
Until God brings things to a close, the WEF believes they are gods.
There was an ancient demon that was referenced in some Persian religious texts that would come in rape you nightly and apparently would convert you to unearthly desires, unnatural appetites, and other filthy things. Apparently this demon was attracted to certain types of psychological weaknesses in people. Does make you wonder though if something is going on like this, these people could be attached to something and they don’t even know.
Please learn Hebrew and Greek instead of only depending on modern English translation.
Wrong. There is one Jehovah God, creator, but many “little g” gods, elohim
Supernatural beings but who dont have the characterists of Jehovah.
Many verses in the Bible about this.
Read Michael Heiser, the Unseen Realm
The Bible uses the term god in more than one context, one of which is Jehovah. The other context are the powers that are permitted to control this earth and man until they are replaced by Jehovah.
Allah akber!
You are right!
Bible verse reference:
2 Corinthians 4:4
“In whom the god of this world
hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.”
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Also, “prince of the power of the air”
Ephesians 2:2
“Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to
the prince of the power of the air,
the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
many names for this being.
dragon, Lucifer, son of the morning, angel of light, Satan, Prince of Tyre, etc. . . around 40 or so names for this angel.
Fisto
huh???
Deut 32:17 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new [gods that] came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.
Deut 32:18 Of the Rock [that] begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
I was hoping that you snagged the Jonathan Cahn vide. Great video that covers even more evil spirits.
Salude!
He’s using the term loosely, I believe. If he’s a Christian of any knowledge, he knows that there is no other God but the Lord they God.
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Doesn’t God implicitly acknowledge the existence of ‘other gods’ in the First Commandment?
There is only one God (big "G") Creator, but there are many wanna be gods (spiritual beings) described who seek worship.
A great book on this subject is Michael Heiser's "Unseen Realm."
The most detestable thing to God is worshiping other gods (idols)
The Jewes set their course with God when they did not fully erradicate all the people worshipping other gods in the promised land.
LOL! AKA Faust's Muhfisto.
Even the commandment, "There shall be no other gods before me," is an admonition to refrain from worshiping these "gods" (and a de facto admission that they exist).
Metaphorically, yes.
You have the Lord thy God.
Then you have any people or objects that may lead you astray from God. Those things that can lead you away from God are gods. They can be inanimate things like money, or a person like a politician who leads you astray or a fallen angel that you obey.
What God is saying in the First Commandment is that He is first on all things. When you obey Him, you are worshipping Him. If you allow something to come between your obligation to obey and you do that instead, you have placed a god in front of God.
So, if it’s Sabbath or Sunday morning and you should be in church, but you choose to go to work instead, you’ve made your work a god. Sometimes it can’t be helped. But it is when it becomes a habit, or an excuse so you don’t have to obey that you’ve taken your act of worship from God and have placed it on something or somebody else.
And idols aren't just little clay, wood, or metal figurines. As Paul tells us, they are indwelt by very real spiritual beings (gods, little "g").
And these spirit beings are still around. See Ephesians 6:12. These are "principalities," "powers," "rulers of the darkness of this world," "spiritual wickedness in high places.”
Pretending they don't exist is like living in a make-believe fairyland. Not believing doesn't make them go away.
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