[Pastor Rune Enoe]

Re: New Jesus Lover here

For example in the Garden of Eden. The text states very clearly that a serpent animal spoke to Eve. Even a child correctly interprets this as Satan. Other passages are not so easy.

Of course it was a snake, that's what the text says.

You'll also notice that God cursed future generations of snakes, "thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field" (Genesis 3:14), which would be pretty unfair if the serpent was "correctly interpreted as Satan".

God then told the snake that "upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life" (Genesis 3:14). I'm sure we can agree, that Satan doesn't crawl around on his belly (Job 1:7; 1 Peter 5:8) and doesn't eat dust.

. . . that phrase occurs only one place in the bible, according to my Cruden's Complete Concordance. . .

You use a concordance for checking individual words, not whole sentences.

[hewouldhavepassedby]

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Of course it was a snake, that's what the text says.

You'll also notice that God cursed future generations of snakes, "thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field" (Genesis 3:14), which would be pretty unfair if the serpent was "correctly interpreted as Satan".

God then told the snake that "upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life" (Genesis 3:14). I'm sure we can agree, that Satan doesn't crawl around on his belly (Job 1:7; 1 Peter 5:8) and doesn't eat dust.



You use a concordance for checking individual words, not whole sentences.

In point of fact Cruden's Complete Concordance displays a list of phrases for each word to make it easier to find the instance you are looking for. Refer to ISBN 0-310-22921-9

[Pastor Rune Enoe]

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In point of fact Cruden's Complete Concordance displays a list of phrases for each word to make it easier to find the instance you are looking for.

Does it have a list of phrases where Satan crawls on his belly and eats dust?

Refer to ISBN 0-310-22921-9

Refer to The Holy Bible: King James Version 1611.

[hewouldhavepassedby]

Re: New Jesus Lover here

Does it have a list of phrases where Satan crawls on his belly and eats dust?

Refer to The Holy Bible: King James Version 1611.

Nay, nay.

[hewouldhavepassedby]

Re: New Jesus Lover here

You haven't exactly been well-mannered, lady. I asked you to properly introduce yourself (name, age, location, church, etc) some time ago. Ignoring a Pastor's directive is the same as spitting in Christ's loving face.

O.k. I get the scam. You are really going to a lot of trouble here. Wouldn't it be more straightforward to just set out your viewpoint analytically? Einstein believed in God and so do I.

[MitzaLizalor]

Re: New Jesus Lover here

Hello.

Jesus is very clear how much He loves Christians (but obviously hates everyone else). In the Psalms we read about the joy associated with loving God, such wonderful expressions of His Plan for Salvation grasped by the Psalmists before Jesus' lived here in the world He made, although the world didn't recognise Him of course (apart from the very few). Is that what you mean when you say "pre-Easter Jesus"?

Soon He will be returning.

[Basilissa]

Re: New Jesus Lover here

blah... blah... blah...

Please stop babbling and start repenting, before it's too late (Revelation 21:8)!

[MitzaLizalor]

Re: New Jesus Lover here

Mary Etheldreda
Re: New Jesus Lover here
How very interesting! I do hope you'll share your findings!

Welcome to our friendly forums!

I was looking forward to (I'd better check the actual expression)

My field of study is "pre-easter" Jesus, which is a highly speculative but intriguing area of study.

..pre-Easter Jesus and how The Gospels would be expanded into a field of study. The Words of Jesus are succinct and clear. Perhaps OP has reconstructed Q?

Basilissa
Re: New Jesus Lover here

Originally Posted by hewouldhavepassedby
blah... blah... blah...

Please stop babbling and start repenting, before it's too late (Revelation 21:8)!

There are several points in that chapter for OP to consider. Perhaps by arranging all the letters between Alpha and Omega using an infinite number of monkeys would produce a Levantine "pre-easter" Shakespeare? but Anatolian archæologists are not sanguine I hear.

[Pastor Ezekiel]

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Einstein believed in God and so do I.

Einstein was a Christ-killing joo who is burning in hell at this very moment.