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Your comment just spanned 300 years, LOL !
If only everything was so neat and tidy.

That is my point of contention.
Biblically speaking, both Judaism and Christianity acknowledge that other gods do exist, or perhaps I should say other divine beings exist.
Sure, after awhile it was...

Religion does nothing my friend, it is an inanimate thing.
People, now people are just amazing.
They will take even the best of things and find this amazing way to f' it up royally !
Why?
Power.

Not superior, chosen.
When YHWH divided the nations, He kept what WOULD be Israel for Himself.
Israel was yet to be, Abraham was yet to be picked and NEVER forget that ALL nations would be blessed...

False gods yes, but not non-existent gods.
A false god is a god that is not to be worship.
It is clear from passages such as:
http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/6-14.htm...

Lots of horrible things were done under the excuse/disguise of Christianity, just like any other religion OR ideology.
The one constant with bad things being done is that people do them.

People tend to confuse current monotheistic views with that the people of the ANE thought of monotheistic.
Monotheistic jews would have regard ONE creator God, YHWH, and any number of lesser gods (...

Agreed on most points.
The issue with Christians overly "preoccupied" with satan is that, well, people are people.
Some people like to feel important ( "I know the real reason...satan"), some like...

Indeed, there were 3 primary sects:
Essenes, Sadducees and Pharisees and of these, only the Pharisees survived the destruction of the temple in 70 Ad.
Sure there was some crossover between...

I am not a big fan of organized religion myself.
Humans tend to have a "mob mentality" about things and organized anything tends to feed that.
The human being, the singular person, is typically...

uh....the dead can bleed dude, especially when suspended ( ie: crucifixion).
And one of the signs of "gravity bleeding" is water mixed with the blood.
Any person experienced with sword and knife...

I think to assume that roman soldiers were so incompetent as to not know if someone is dead is, well, a huge assumption.
Add to that the account of Jesus actually being stabbed to confirm his...

The symbolism of the second coming of Elijah is a Jewish interpretation, not a Christian one.
No jew expected Elijah to be reincarnated, case in point the account of the transfiguration where Elijah...

Resurrection is NOT reincarnation bro.
I don't know of any versions of reincarnation in which the ORIGINAL body is resurrected.

No, Jesus saying the John was Elijah was not a statement of reincarnation ( no second temple Jew believed in reincarnation), but of prophetic lineage.
Gnostic sects were/are heretical.

RE: Demonic possession and reincarnation.

While the RCC and the vast majority of Christianity ( all of orthodox Christianity really) do NOT endorse the view of souls being reborn, there is no...

I had the pleasure of speaking with an journalist that saw the evidence lockers when I was getting my Masters in Theology a couple of years ago.
They are not available to the public and to get...

Yes, there are archives of videos and such and no, not just anyone can see them and yes, investigative journalist have seen them and Yes, the majority were concluded to NOT be possessions.
Again, no...

The only issue would be that very LITTLE of what qualifies as a sign of possession has to do with the mental state of the person.

Things like speaking in a dead language by a child AND exhibiting...

Fair enough.
I was just pointing out that IF the RCC officially says that it is an posession that the criteria met is so strict that there probably is no natural explanation for what is happening.

TRUE exorcisms are far and few between and there are NO DOUBTS that something supernatural is going on.
The RCC has a VERY strict policy and what is a real possession and believe you me, IF the...

The Exorcist still freaks me out.

You crazy Daoists !
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