The Lord of Dreams

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xyUSJ33mEs&feature...

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Is the Devil just a non-physical conceptual non-entity that serves mainly to represent all the Evils of the Material World in a metaphysical way?

Not just in R&S, but maybe in real life too?

Or, y'know, heat, cold, rain, drought, whatever maybe awful type of environmental conditions we might or might not be having...

Not just in R&S, but maybe in real life too?

Was Psalm 104 written by a real King David of Israel, or was it "borrowed" from the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten's Hymn to Aten?

What follows is a comparison of Akhenaten's Hymn to the Sun (Aten) and Psalm 104 from The Bible, purportedly written by David hundreds of years later:

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... open the Bible to Psalm 104, the great manifesto of God's all-encompassing power, and read how He created grass for cattle to eat, and trees for birds to nest in, and the sea for ships to sail and fish to swim in:

Bless the Lord . . . you who coverest thyself with light as with a garment . . .

Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters; . . .

He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and . . . the trees

Where the birds make their nests; as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.

The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; . . .

(As) the sun ariseth, (the beasts) gather themselves together . . .

There go the ships: there is that leviathan (whale), whom thou hast made to play therein.

And then among the remains of Amarna culture you read the Hymn to the Aten, purportedly written by Akhenaten himself, which says:

When the land grows bright and you are risen from the Akhet (horizon) and shining in the sun-disk by day, . . .

All flocks (are) at rest on their grasses, trees and grasses flourishing;

Birds flown from their nest, their wings in adoration of your life-force;

All flocks prancing on foot, all that fly and alight living as you rise for them;

Ships going downstream and upstream too, every road open at your appearance;

Fish on the river leaping to your face, your rays even inside the sea. (trans. James P. Allen)

The similarity is simply astounding. Comparing these passages, who could argue against some form of cultural exchange moving from Egypt to Israel—and, given the chronology, we must suppose the sharing took place in that direction—how can we avoid the conclusion that the ancient Hebrew who wrote Psalm 104 has somehow borrowed from Akhenaten's Hymn to the Aten?

http://www.usu.edu/markdamen/1320hist&ci%E2%80%A6

More comparisons, other translations, arguments, and verifications can be found here:

http://www.palmyria.co.uk/superstition/a%E2%80%A6

http://meafar.blogspot.com/2010/09/psalm%E2%80%A6

http://kemet.250x.com/psalm104.html

Was Psalm 104 written by a real King David of Israel, or was it "borrowed" from the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten's Hymn to Aten?

What follows is a comparison of Akhenaten's Hymn to the Sun (Aten) and Psalm 104 from The Bible, purportedly written by David hundreds of years later:

Quote

... open the Bible to Psalm 104, the great manifesto of God's all-encompassing power, and read how He created grass for cattle to eat, and trees for birds to nest in, and the sea for ships to sail and fish to swim in:

Bless the Lord . . . you who coverest thyself with light as with a garment . . .

Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters; . . .

He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and . . . the trees

Where the birds make their nests; as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.

The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; . . .

(As) the sun ariseth, (the beasts) gather themselves together . . .

There go the ships: there is that leviathan (whale), whom thou hast made to play therein.

And then among the remains of Amarna culture you read the Hymn to the Aten, purportedly written by Akhenaten himself, which says:

When the land grows bright and you are risen from the Akhet (horizon) and shining in the sun-disk by day, . . .

All flocks (are) at rest on their grasses, trees and grasses flourishing;

Birds flown from their nest, their wings in adoration of your life-force;

All flocks prancing on foot, all that fly and alight living as you rise for them;

Ships going downstream and upstream too, every road open at your appearance;

Fish on the river leaping to your face, your rays even inside the sea. (trans. James P. Allen)

The similarity is simply astounding. Comparing these passages, who could argue against some form of cultural exchange moving from Egypt to Israel—and, given the chronology, we must suppose the sharing took place in that direction—how can we avoid the conclusion that the ancient Hebrew who wrote Psalm 104 has somehow borrowed from Akhenaten's Hymn to the Aten?

http://www.usu.edu/markdamen/1320hist&civ/chapters...

More comparisons, other translations, arguments, and verifications can be found here:

http://www.palmyria.co.uk/superstition/akhenaten.h...

http://meafar.blogspot.com/2010/09/psalm-104-and-a...

http://kemet.250x.com/psalm104.html

... like Michael, Gabriel, Azezel, Raphael, Azrael, etc.

Do you suppose that the ancient pre-Biblical Yahwistic priests might have thought of them as being sort of like lower-ranking gods at one time?

I was in my 20s at least. I was surprised, shocked even, to learn that Jews believed the Sabbath to be on Saturday. I can't remember that anybody ever actually -told- me that Sunday was the Sabbath, it was just always implied, and seemed to be "universally" understood among Christians.

Our Christian Sunday school teachers taught us the commandment that says to remember the Sabbath Day, and to keep it holy. I'm guessing that, just like me, most of the other kids in the class just assumed that they must be talking about Sunday.

Did our Sunday school teachers themselves know that Saturday was the 7th day? Did they think that Monday was the first day of the week, even though the first day of the week on the calendar is Sunday?

How many thousands of Christians, do you suppose, have gone to their graves, believing for their whole lives, that Sunday was the Sabbath day of the 10 commandments?

What about paintings and statues of Mary and Jesus, and such things?

If your answer is Protestant, please state the denomination(s).

Christian prayer involves Christians communicating directly with God, in order to praise Him as He demands, and sometimes to ask for favors from Him. Most if not all non-Charismatic Christian denominations endorse this practice, as an essential part of their teachings, and the Charismatic Christian denominations do likewise.

Talking in tongues involves Charismatic Christians communicating with God through a slightly different method. Non-Charismatic Christian denominations denounce this as false teaching.

Why? Both of these religious practices are supported by slightly different Christian interpretations of the Bible. Both assume that two-way communication or communion with God is possible, so why do non-Charismatic Christians believe that one practice is "truth" but the other is a "false teaching?"

Another question is, why can't non-Charismatic Christians show the same respect for Charismatic beliefs as they ask non-Christians to show towards their own Christian beliefs?

Fall on your knees and praise the All-Father before it's too late!

Or would he be able to get off on the "I was just following orders" defense strategy?

The Catholic one has more chapters in it... does that make it truer?

Or will the entire Universe become Hell when Christ returns to Earth?

Genesis 1:26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness,..."

Who does He mean by "us?" Whose likeness does God mean when He says, "our likeness?" Why doesn't He just say "My" likeness? Why aren't the words "us" and "our" capitalized?

Genesis 3:22 And the LORD God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever."

To whom is God speaking? Does he have peers? To what group of godlike beings is he refering?

The Sacrifice of Jesus on the Cross, it is said, means that modern-day Christians don't have to follow all the Old Testament Laws about offering animal sacrifices and what to do with the blood afterwards and not having sex when you're on your period and such things.

Is this Good?

Why, or why not?