Dear Ron, I certainly am not a biblical scholar, but I certainly use my Strongs a lot to be sure what the English relates to is what the original GOD INSPIRED text actually said. Jesus uses Father over and over. Father here is 3962 in Strongs, simply meaning parent.
God is Jesus's Father, like my father was my father. I look just like him, in fact. Just like my father. I rather assume Jesus the human manifestation of God looks rather like the one on the Throne, who made us in "their" or "our" image. I sure think we will all look alike, and Father God will not actually be something from startrek, or an alien. I'm not trying to be facetious here, either.
To make it even easier to understand, and I'm too tired to pick the exact scripture, John records, I believe, that Jesus said to probably his best friends and constant companions, John, James, Peter and John, that why did they keep asking Jesus what God looked like. He told them, "you see me, you have seen the Father."
Am I missing something here? It seems clear to me a clean piece of glass pane. Jesus looked like God will. Jesus looked like us, only I am sure more wondrous than any of us have ever seen another human look, and therefore, we look like God too.
I must say that your concept of Satan being in on creation opens a celestial can of worms beyond belief. I do know that in Rev. 10 the angel that apparently decides when it is time for Jesus to return and wind things up, the scripture says that during the time of the 7th angel the Mystery of God will be finished.
Lest we think that mean when Jesus returns, or something equally symplistic to keep us from thinking, mystery is 3467: musterion "der. of to shut the mouth"; a secret or "mystery" (through the idea of silence imposed by initiation into a religious rite).
Personally, I interpret that to mean we will know things now they didn't know then, because like Daniel said, the book is sealed until the end time in many aspects.
Is anyone else aware the entire mother goddess devil worship and all of the surrounding horror and rebirth we experience today, that if you trace all of the root words back and back and back and look up the counterparts in mythology, that you find the that mother of Gaia is Eve? Eve IS the mother goddess the pagans worship even today. I realize this sounds off the wall, but when I found it to be true I was physically stunned. I t All of this, by the way, in 2000 of the most incredible facts book. The Titans the devil-based Greeks worshipped in mythology are actually humans that bred with Eve, according to classical mythology, which is nothing but the study of satanic religion's spread on earth. The Titans were then the quaisi- parents of the greek gods and then the roman gods, and their different pagan temples were all replaced by....yup. Heavy stuff.
It leaves much to ponder, and it seems sometimes that I'm supposed to ponder these matters for reasons I myself don't understand. Perhaps to have more to pray about than just the little hangnail that is bothering me, or pray that my friend's new car loan goes through on schedule.
I try not to post anywhere, as I try not to start too many actual discussions with anyone unless I know them well, as discussions quickly go as far afield as this has. So be it.
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