Mark Nutter <manutter51@alethian.org> wrote in
yjk---:
GOD/Jesus teaches us do right despite circumstances.
We do have absolute right and wrong values.
Justice will be served at the end all issues.
So men say, but again, justice must be based on truth, and truth is 100%
consistent with itself--unlike the stories men tell about Jesus. Jesus
taught men to follow the stories of a pagan prophet named Zoroaster. Is
that the right thing to do? Why should men today follow ancient Persian
myths?
yjk---:
No.
Jesus said follow Him and His way only.
And yet Jesus himself is following the teachings of Zoroaster, without
apparently realizing it. Zoroaster was a pagan Persian prophet who
began a religion in which there is a good God, aided by angels, fighting
against an evil deity, aided by devils. This good God, according to
Zoroaster, would one day raise all men from the dead, and judge them,
sending those who had served Him to heaven and those who hadn't to Hell.
yjk---:
Everyone came from somewhere.
Where was Zoroaster come from and who taught things he/she knows?
None of those ideas existed in original Judaism, but during the
Babylonian captivity, the Jews came in contact with this religion, and
some of them (Pharisees) adopted these doctrines as their own, while
others (Sadducees) held on to the older Judaism, without the angels,
demons, and resurrection and so on, as the New Testament itself
records.
Notice that there is no "devil" in Genesis 3 for instance--the "bad guy"
is a talking serpent, not a demon. Later writers, who accepted
Zoroaster's teachings, call the serpent "the devil," thus interpreting
the serpent symbolically rather than literally, so that they could make
the story fit what Zoroaster taught. But the older Judaism had no
angels, devils, resurrection, heaven, or hell. There was only the
grave, Sheol, where all men went and their thoughts perished, as it says
in Ecclesiastes.
Jesus, of course, didn't realize that he was following a pagan addition
to the Jewish faith, or he would at least have said something to imply
that Zoroaster had some kind of special commission from God to introduce
mankind to the ideas of heaven, hell, demons, angels, resurrection,
judgment, and so on. But Jesus never even gave any indication he knew
Zoroaster was the prophet who came up with these teachings. He was only
human, and he was fooled just like everyone else.
yjk---:
I cannot talk well especially all directions.
Let me focus on one issue at a time.
In Old Testament time, devil, demons, fallen angels were not primary
issue for salvation.
That time the world was ----filled---- with false gods. The god of
this and god of that. Even god of insects.
So GOD focus on foremost important issue that there is no gods beside
HIM. Temporary HE received blames of all the good and evil happening
in the world. But GOD gave us the clues that evil force exist
throughout the OT Bible through HIS prophets.
GOD sent Jesus to revealed true ways of HIM
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