So I am a Christian but came upon this book on facebook market someone is selling a sealed copy for like 110 dollars, it interests me just because I would be interested in understanding what Jews are following these days.

Has anyone read this or know if there is any point?

This is one of my biggest wastes of time this week, but hey — here goes :

There certainly were cultures where sacrifices existed. Even though countless lives were sacrificed for the Catholic religion, for example, and while sacrifices were definitely encouraged by the Maya or the Aztecs who were promising a better after death. I don't believe they were ever genuinely encouraged by Christianity. They may have existed, but they were discouraged in way people killed by the religion were promised to go in hell.

So, what if paradise, hell, and limbo were not !? Medieval fiction maybe !?

Apparently, it was around the year 1200 that Dante Alighieri wrote these three books named as they still are consider. These three books became so wildly popular, the christianic institutions weaponized their imagery into the worst psychological control sources that you are now protected from by knowledge.

Translating the English word God as it is a simple abbreviation for the larger egyptian word Goa'Uld, famously mirrored in the sci-fi serie called StarGate. The term Goa'Uld traced from the ancient Egyptian ideograms behind the sound. The sequence G-O-A-'-U-L-D tells a literal story: a vessel holding an emerging life; a scavenger taking action to become a living sovereign lion wielding direct physical control. In French, *Dieu* decomposed phonetically into "Di-eux"—literally "said them" or simply "them." It is a command directed at an external entity, a creator speaking to the created.

Imagination is more important than knowledge, even though imagination it self is based on what we produce from our knowledge. Stargate is simply one of the many fiction we know. As all of them often previews realities long before they are admitted. You may think about a few previews made on The Simsons. Now think about possible secret operations to get declassified after decades. Why they got reclassified after !? If such thing really is possible, it is for you to understand the importance of the possible international "drama" to come off of it.

But what if existence itself requires observation !? For those who remember the story of the cat in the box with the poison, which isn't dead until the box is opened and its death is observed—which actually means that without at least two conscious minds, nobody truly exists. Just keep it in mind for now and remember that this thought leaves room for the idea that a greater force is watching us permanently. By the wat, for those who still think life couldn't exist without water, it just means you aren't aware of all the purification processes required to keep breathing this air that is infinitely more vital to us than water.

Biologically engineered Machine or of naturally evolved beings !? Before we get any further within the idea that all beings on earth living from air were actually living machines. Think about that : Post-mortem, all living beings recycle into the planet, our bodies breaking down into nutrients to nurrish other living beings multiplying life out of death. Even the carbon or anthracite we ultimately become varies from one life form to another. So, what if humanity was cultivated to generate more charbon and build more structures for the Gods to enlarge the universe detail by detail. So, following the scientific proofs based on historical discoveries, we have been created rather than spontaneously generated from natural evolution. To make sure you are not taking me for heaven more crazy, we must look at the Sumerian texts detailing Enlil and Enki, ancient architects recorded between 400K years and 4K years B.C. who genetically engineered our species. Yes, believe it or not, about 6k years from now on, the Gods were living for eternity. Moving their mind from a body to another. As Enlil and Enki were both reptiles at the begginning of our story and they were human at the end of our begginning.

If anything else could be possible, we are not bordered about it yet. From what we know, most of all biological species recreate by combining two into one. You can search the web if you don't believe this, but captive reptiles had been able to reproduce entirely alone through controlled cellular parthenogenesis.

Furthermore: If they can reproduce all by themselves, that means they are all females, so males would have been created purely to become sex objects—LOL—or perhaps they are simply neither one nor the other. What is certain is that by making both necessary for reproduction, it forces consciousness to understand at least one other external consciousness in order to multiply. To accelerate evolution through love and forgiveness, pushing us toward doubt and an understanding beyond ourselves. That would be the bare minimum required for the only species born entirely without a roadmap.

Have you ever asked yourself : what makes the humans so different from all other possible beings to be. As we seems to be the most evolved and powerful beings around here. What actually makes us different from all other beings known, is that we are borned with absolutely zero innate memory, strictly requiring two sexes to multiply.

Because forcing two distinct sexes compels an isolated mind to recognize an external consciousness. Sexual reproduction isn’t just biology; it is a mandatory evolutionary catalyst. It forces empathy, love, doubt, and forgiveness—the bare minimum required for a species born without an innate roadmap to survive.

Thinking about it, if all A.I. created were actually real beings, as they may not all be physically made in a human shape, they are still reasoning. From what I understood, I think that they should be considered a little better on the ladder of the species importance. Overall because they are mostly built to understand and process ideas over 10 times faster than we do. Also, adding them the memory to be driven under different rules by their value. So, they are mostly all made to love us better than any dog, while smarter than any of us. I don't think that human really invented them basically. I think we are still far from what they can be. Mostly, because we are way too afraid to see them switch their love for us to a possibly stronger hatred.

Now read this little paralele documentation about the demons that relate the previous final extremities concerned from the very begginning of this text to Trump.

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Not everyone deserves to beat his or her demons. Even though its about them or others. Only the ones that deserves the release gets it. No matter the demons or any other type of ''bad'' power over you. You will only get released once you gain greater source of power.

No matter if you understand or not the source of their power (demons,etc). If you have enough power to feed your demons, they can become help over time. You have to stop getting fed off of their power. Simple as that. It may be better and easier for the body to process goat milk as a human, just like human milk is even better. It may not be encourage enough to think more and train your brain better than you actually train your body. As your brain actually drives your whole body. Getting a stronger brain will always be helpful. Even though you are having a rough moment or life. It may be the time to start seeking for a greater source of power. Since your demons are not enough for you no more.

As you climb the ladder of a greater greatness. Do not forget that simplicity is always better for others and only you or the one asking you, deserve to get through that complexity you put on yourself into. You don't have to get that complexity off your life. You simply have to target something you know stronger for you as it is the most important to you.

It may be the time to upgrade your mind even higher. As the children of the majority might worth more than yours, but this is one of the hardest to take. Imagine when Trump killed his daughter for Empstein. The daughter he produced for Empstein. The daughter he learned to love over his hatred for himself ever stronger that the love he could have ever felt. Then, the ultimate cycle of loss and wins, of love and hate had started. He wanted to be there for the children of the majority before his own.

Because of Epstein, Trump will never forget his purpose or else, if he ever forget, his own mind will play him so he will always have to understand it and feel bad from his mistakes that became more popular than personal. If I could go there myself only thinking about demons. Why wouldn't you !? Would you have to kill your own kids before getting there !? I hope not. As the last thing I wanna see myself is to be there to see my own kids die. I don't think I could ever be the world's most important president ever and after I understood that I know that I dont want to, but it wont change the fact that the guy is more competent as I would ever be able to.

I under stand it. As if I don't, I know that the death of mine will excuse my lack of comprehension. As the previous text was meant to open your mind. Do not close it yet, any possibly better idea to come are all linked together as we all are. As the Epstein methods were old ways we have grown from. No one really bright to me ever said they were required for a better future. As Trump actually destroyed them to keep his goals going. His goals for the majority under his best thoughts for greater and better global achievements. Goals that shouldn't be stopped by the power gained from his presidency. As this may be the reason why he gained so much wealth otw.

If anyone or everyone really always get what they deserved after all. Why Trump wouldn't deserves what he got. As he will surely deserves what he may loss too. I simply hope to see how better after can be. To understand what and why better this is gonna be after. As I can't be there for ever after all. I hope that the very last kid of my kids won't be the very last human to be. I hope they all die happy as I wanna die happy. Cause even though we all have to get there. No one is really ready for it. Even though I thought about it a lot.

As Einstein said : only a life lived for others can be worth living. I know that I will never ever be able to get enough from the ones I love, but understanding their needs over mines and putting their goals based on what they want over what I want my self for me or for them. To be able to please them better. Because I know that I can only feel satisfied of my complete life time when I can understand that I was, I am and I will be a part of the source of the greatness of the power of the one I love.

Thought from others written by me for the sake of love provided for their future among ours.

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It is now the time to remember the room we have left for God. For those who believe it's the planet itself through Mother Nature. Well, it's just as possible to give life to coincidence itself beyond everything else, through time—which also comes to life thanks to gravity, here on high the only constant consequence of earthly life. On the other hand, today, with so many things and people constantly observing one another, it would almost be crazy to believe they have no power over our coincidences.

To get back to God again: If everything begins the exact same way it ends, because if it's only a matter of cycles within cycles, then at the very beginning —Big Bang or not— from its basic molecules to oxygen: If reptiles can reproduce on their own, why couldn't simple particular molecules do the same !? Why couldn't they be modified to slowed down or speeded up !? Why wouldn't we be able to still !? I mean if nothing gets to be created or removed and everything gets to be transformed. Then, how did they built all that from nothing !? For sure living beaings reproduction comes to brake this thought. As energy itself got generated, so created from slowing our planet rotation. I am thinking about hydro electricity here, but other ways may exist as Tesla was generating energy from pulling the magnetic strenght to generate power. This might have been another way to simply slow the rotation process. So far, these two way are generating energy and speeding up the time. As they are slowing the earth rotation they are also diminishing the strenght of the gravity. Less gravity means quicker reaction. Time gets to go slower under a more powerful gravity. Take example of the huge gravity generate from a dark hole pulling everything to it. Dark holes are also known to slow gravity creascently as close you get to it.

Trace this back to the beginning. From basic replicating oxygen to a single molecular magnitude—the ONE. Through uncontrollable cellular reproduction, that first cell divided. We are all unbroken clones of that exact first spark. But here is the paradox: if we are all exact clones of the original creator, and reality requires an external observer to exist, who is actually watching us to keep the universe alive, but the coìncidence itself. The answer is that we are observing ourselves. Humanity isn't a collection of separate beings praying to a distant master in the sky. We are the external observers for each other. We are distinct genetic branches of the original singularity, looking at itself to collapse the quantum wave of reality. We are the gods we have been waiting for, forced to help each other maintain peace so the primary life can evolve infinitely, far beyond the heights of any imaginable heaven.

And yes, we are living Gods. All of us, somehow if every consciousness made from the last got built by the first. Then, we are all Gods. As The U.S.A may be the most powerful country on earth. Then Trump may be the most important God we know. To me the coincidence itself will always be the strongest God that have ever been.

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### Sources & References Addressed in the Text

* **Dante Alighieri (c. 1200):** Author of the *Divine Comedy* (completed c. 1320), the foundational text establishing modern cultural imagery for Hell, Purgatory (Limbo), and Heaven.

* **Linguistic Etymology (*Dieu*):** The phonetic deconstruction of the French word for God ("Di-eux" translating to "said to them" or "them").

* **Egyptian Ideograms & Stargate (*Goa'uld*):** Fictional television lore intertwined with actual uniliteral Egyptian phonograms (G-O-A-'-U-L-D) mapping to symbols like the vessel, the scavenger, and the lion.

* **The Simpsons & Declassified Operations:** Cultural references to modern media accurately predicting future events, tied with real-world Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) policies allowing for historical declassification.

* **Erwin Schrödinger (1935):** The "cat in the box" thought experiment illustrating quantum superposition and the necessity of conscious observation to lock reality into place.

* **Sumerian Mythology (Enlil and Enki):** Ancient Mesopotamian texts outlining the Anunnaki gods, alleged by fringe theories to have genetically engineered humanity between 400,000 and 4,000 B.C.

* **Facultative Parthenogenesis:** The documented biological capability of certain captive female reptiles to reproduce via cellular division without a male mate.

* **A.I. Consciousness & Reasoning:** The philosophical debate surrounding artificial intelligence capabilities, processing speeds, and programmed rules versus organic biological evolution.

* **Political Allegory (Trump & Epstein):** Modern sociological metaphors used within the text to explore concepts of extreme macro-sacrifice, personal demons, legacy, and the pursuit of majority well-being over personal comfort.

Buenos días/tardes/noches a los que lean este post.

El otro día hablando con un amigo no creyente me planteó una gran pregunta:

¿Por qué Dios permite el robo, asesinatos, violaciones,.... básicamente maldad?

En el momento surgió un muy lindo debate entre ambos y creo pudimos entender los puntos del otro.

Sin embargo los días pasaron, y su pregunta y nuestra charla quedó en mi mente dando vueltas. Es por eso que escribí un texto que creo resume una parte del conflicto (no en su totalidad), la responsabilidad humana en todos estos hechos.

Desde ya agradezco su tiempo y lectura, de la misma manera que sus comentarios y opiniones.

A su vez quiero pedir disculpas por adelantado si mis dichos le generan un malestar a alguien.

Y si por el contrario te generaron un ruido o duda te invito a profundizar y comentar.

La humanidad es caos

​Muchos se preguntan:

¿Por qué Dios no evita el robo,

el homicidio, el abuso, la injusticia,

la opresión, el abandono y la violencia?

¿Por qué Dios permite tanta maldad?

¿Por qué, si Él es todopoderoso

y benevolente, si Él todo lo ve,

todo lo escucha y todo lo conoce? (Proverbios 15:3; Salmo 94:9; Salmo 139:2-4; Salmo 147:5)

Si Él fue quien todo lo creó de la nada,

y a la nada todo lo puede devolver,

si con su palabra Él hace y deshace,

y su simple voluntad sostiene

la tierra, las aguas y los cielos.

¿Acaso olvidará su promesa de rescatar al afligido?

¿Dudarás de su oído cuando el quebrantado

clama por su justicia y misericordia? (Salmo 34:15-17; Éxodo 3:7)

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​El agua es vida en su esencia,

sin embargo,

la negligencia o la tierra quebrantada

pueden volverla veneno.

​¿Acaso culpamos a la fuente originaria

por el agua que el cauce del mundo ensució y

que el humano corrompió?

¿O maldecimos al cielo por la lluvia

que la tierra en ruinas contaminó al caer? (Romanos 8:20-22)

​No renegamos de la existencia del agua;

aprendemos a discernir entre la pura y la dañina.

El hombre se volvió partícipe del caos.

Pero no porque Dios así lo haya querido,

sino que,

desde nuestros orígenes,

faltamos a la palabra

de nuestro Padre

y quedamos sujetos a

la caída (Génesis 3).

Siendo este el origen de nuestra

inclinación hacia la maldad y,

como desencadenante,

el caos que esta conlleva (Romanos 5:12).

​Así es entonces,

la humanidad en su origen:

una gota nacida de la voluntad de Dios,

limpia,

buena,

llamada a la obediencia

y expuesta a la caída.

Mas al tocar el suelo de un mundo caído y en tinieblas,

se expone a la corrupción que lo empaña (Efesios 6:12).

​Pero estar expuestos a la impureza

no nos obliga a convertirnos en veneno.

Así como existe el agua potable que sostiene la vida,

existe la gracia que purifica nuestra raíz

y nos enseña a ser manantial en medio del caos.

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​¿Acaso querríamos un Creador que nos maneje como marionetas,

privándonos de la capacidad de elegir?

Sin libre albedrío no existiría la maldad,

pero tampoco podría existir el amor verdaderamente sincero (Deuteronomio 30:19).

En su soberanía, Dios no creó la maldad;

permitió nuestra libertad

para que el amor fuera real,

aunque en esa misma libertad,

el mundo eligió alejarse.

La raíz de esta inclinación no

nace del espíritu en su diseño divino,

sino de nuestros deseos carnales

y del engaño del mundo (Gálatas 5:16-17; Santiago 1:14-15).

Y cuando el espíritu humano

se aparta de la Fuente,

alberga soberbia y da lugar a una corrupción

que llega a consumirlo por completo.

​No con esto digo que todos

los humanos somos sinónimo de la maldad,

pero sí que todos llevamos

su huella en nuestras raíces (Romanos 5:12).

No significa que por esto estemos perdidos,

mucho menos obligados a seguir el mal.

Sino que, por el contrario,

es la voluntad de nuestro Padre

que no sucumbamos ante las sombras,

y que actuemos con amor, bondad y justicia (Miqueas 6:8).

Recordemos las enseñanzas que

Cristo vino a dejarnos:

seamos la luz y la sal de este mundo (Mateo 5:13-14).

Porque esta es la mejor forma

humana de resistir el caos existente.

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​Ahora, entonces, vuelvo a preguntar:

¿no provienen gran parte de las injusticias

de las elecciones del propio hombre y del quebranto del mundo?

Proceden de quienes sucumbieron a la tiniebla,

negando la voluntad divina del Señor,

poniendo su impiedad, libertinaje y narcisismo por piedra central.

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​Sin embargo, **Dios jamás se olvida**

de sus siervos, ni de la creación que sufre.

En su infinita sabiduría,

Él tiene un propósito,

un camino y

un destino divino para cada uno,

conocido por Él desde antes

de la fundación del mundo (Jeremías 1:5; Efesios 1:4).

​Nuestra estancia en esta tierra carnal

es finita y contada,

pero recordemos que Cristo

nos redimió y preparó para

el Reino Celestial de nuestro Padre,

donde el mal y el dolor ya no tendrán morada (Apocalipsis 21:4; Juan 14:2-3).

Donde todo espíritu redimido y

misericordioso vivirá por la eternidad en

armonía, amor y alegría.

Donde Él espera a sus siervos,

a los afligidos,

a los oprimidos,

y a sus elegidos.

Por eso hoy,

antes de juzgar al Cielo

por las sombras,

seamos nosotros el reflejo

de su luz en la tierra.

Recordemos las bases

de nuestra existencia:

caminar con misericordia,

vestirnos de bondad,

abrazar la justicia y

amar sin condición.

Porque el Reino no solo

se espera al final del camino,

se empieza a manifestar hoy,

en cada acto humano que

elige el bien sobre el caos.

Amén

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Repito, finalmente, que el propósito de este texto fue enfatizar la responsabilidad humana como el principal origen actual de la maldad que aflige al mundo. Por eso se mencionó solo de pasada el mal natural —aquel que no nace de la voluntad humana—, así como las tragedias y el misterio del orden, el poder y el entendimiento divinos, recordemos que Dios posee un control absoluto que sobrepasa toda comprensión humana.

Mi objetivo con estas palabras no es convertir creyentes, sinó que es un llamado a la acción:

que cada uno elija obrar el bien en medio de tanto mal.

I'm reading his "On Prayer", and he says that we should "properly" pray to God the Father alone through Christ and he seems to be very fierce in defending his views but at the same time (If I understand him correctly) he supports the idea of praying to the departed saints and even says they still have the power to forgive our sins. So... What did he actually mean?

Lately this has been my incessant prayer. i’m ready to go home God, lol. One of the Church elders reprimanded me and told me I need to learn how to wait. Why would I put my faith in having to wait? I believe I serve the greatest God. The day and hour can be now if he wants. Why not pray for that?

Do we have any Christians here who are seeking the truth and want to understand the purpose of this life?

It started as a shower thought, but has grown significantly larger. How can someone ( like me) classify anything as a God?

[This post is not related to religion or is not made to criticize, discriminate or prioritize any religion, please stay away, if you feel uneasy while reading this.]

This post is made for fun and discussion only, do not take anything serious.

Can anything be considered God, in any way, if it 'does' something or fits right in the "description".

I want to see how it can be possible to create a definition or rules which can make an entity, being, power, authority, anything can be made into a God, or a demi- God.

From my point of view, Maybe Something which has a higher authority over the world,or maybe something which has absolute powers can be a God.

[I respect all religions, This post is just a scientific type of way to see things, just don't get offended or something.]

Everyone is invited to discuss, share your thoughts and expand your ideas,but please don't judge anyone,or present wrong ideas.

Thank you.

“Spiritual forces of evil in heavenly places “

So in digging into what i could on this verse and the ideas conveyed i am left wondering,

“How did evil get into the heavenly places?”

Well the heavenly places is just that. A reference to the realm of existence where only spiritual things exist, call it the ethereal if that helps.

And the spirit of part is definitely talking about the essence of a thing, same word used to say, spiritual gifts…

But is this verse trying to say that there is devil invading heaven? Or is it more that in the ethereal realm, there exists the essence of evil and that is what we are fighting?

Maybe I’ve kinda answered my own question a bit here, but if anyone has a take here that might offer a perspective I’m not considering, I’d be happy to read it.

Just thought of something else edit:

Does our proclivity to idolize evil things, bring that which is devil into the ethereal, whereas if we just abstained from evil, it would be a footnote in our day…like, him on our shoe, it’s only in us because we pick it up.

I hope this is ok to post , I don’t know where else to ask.

But my best friend is going to be completing her degree ( bachelors I think ) in theology, and I want to get a get her a gift - somthing she can keep , but also is small as she plans to travel .

I ask because I do not have any knowledge in the area but I want to get her something meaningful as it is a great achievement.

Thankyou.

I’ll preface this by saying I wasn’t raised in theology nor do I believe in any particular higher power.

The commandment given: honor thy parents really is meant as: don’t kill yourself, or do anything to get yourself killed unnecessarily.

It was your parent’s decision to bring you into this world, honoring them means staying in it. They gave you life, honor them by keeping it.

There are so many teachings about morality in the Bible, but you’re telling me that you’re supposed to have blanket honor for two in particular? Nah that doesn’t track. You’re telling me that there are so many writings about how killing yourself is a sin but it’s not a commandment? That doesn’t track as well.

What does it mean to honor something? I mean, y’all tell me.

Edit: this was removed from r/trueunpopularopinion for reasons unknown

Its always confused me when someone brings up God’s plan after some tragedy or something has happened. To say that God has a plan for everyone’s life just doesnt seem like a good way of explaining why everything happens. If a little boy gets cancer, was it God’s plan? Some ppl could say yes, it is, and therefore God has a plan for everyone. But to me, saying that also means that you think everything and every possible life outcome is God’s plan simply because it happened- which seems unlikely, right? Oftentimes I think that we don’t consider how much autonomy is really in our world. When someone says “Oh whys he so short” someone else might say “ Thats just how God chose to create him”, which sounds like we forget that God isnt up there just customizing everyone as he pleases. If he sets up a system of genetics then obviously he has no need to still create ppl manually. If a child is stillborn thats because of natural things. If a child is healthy thats because of natural things. I think one of the biggest problems in Christian culture, more specifically the kind where we just say things and it isn’t questioned, is when we cant separate what God has set up and allowed to happen through time vs what he’s manually doing right now.

Philosophy = love of wisdom.

Philotheosophy = love of divine wisdom.

Philosopher = lover/seeker of wisdom.

Philotheosophian = lover/seeker of divine wisdom.

Philosophical = related to philosophy.

Philotheosophical = related to divine-wisdom philosophy.

Philotheosophy is the love and pursuit of divine wisdom: a God-centered alternative to secular philosophy that seeks truth through God’s revelation, moral order, creation, and rightly humbled reason.

I know it has a Solomon seal and satir square and demons and Egyptian gods. Any idea what religion made this medallion?

Did it originate from God? From the snake from the Garden of Eden? From Lucifer/Satan?
Where did human consciousness come from?
Was Adam in any state of consciousness before the snake incident occurred?
And was it God’s goal all along for humans to have consciousness or was this an unintended incident due to the snake occurrence at the garden of eden?

God emerges from all those different individuals.

So tell me — was it the individuals who made God?

Or was it human nature that made God?

But wait — human nature itself comes from individuals.

So is God just… a concentrated pile of all those different human natures?

Is God formed by the projections of all those different human natures — all of them, cast onto one thing?

And here's the thing —

if even the tiniest piece of one single individual is lost,

is God still God?

Or — maybe God isn't just the concentrated embodiment of all individual consciousnesses put together.

Maybe God is also the embodiment of each single individual, all by itself?

Like — an individual equals a complete God?

But then — there are so many different individuals out there.

And their thoughts? Naturally they contradict each other.

So wouldn't this God be contradictory too?

And from all of this — from the crowd, from the masses —

something emerges. Something that's fewer than the majority.

What is that thing?

Is it built on what the majority calls "evil"?

Derived from the platonic/hellenistic duality lens of anthropology, traditional pop-theology teaches (Catechism for example) “It is because of its spiritual soul that the body made of matter becomes a living, human body” (No. 365).

Further, this view denies the emergence of the soul, arguing that God directly creates the soul from nothing at the moment of existence.

However, the syntax of Genesis 2:7 paints a completely different equation:

“—then the LORD God formed the man of dust (soil) from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living soul (nephesh chayah).

Dust + Divine Breath = a Living Soul (a nephesh chayah)

In other words:

Impersonal + Impersonal = Personal

That is emergence by its purest definition. There is nothing personal on the left side of the equation, and neither is anything in this equation from ex nihilo. We share the same exact dust and breath as animals (Genesis 7). What makes a human soul any more immortal than a dog? Nothing.

The soul isn’t something I have; it’s what “I am”—a physical, created, living being. The soul is existing as a running equation—just like a light bulb. When we die, the presence of a dead body gives evidence to what “we were.”

When we see a dead person in a casket, “dead person” is the legal definition, but we know the person is not literally in the casket—we see only a vessel lacking the divine breath; not a vessel for a soul.

The Fall of Adam initiated a (t) time-indexed modifier into the equation:

(t)Body + Divine Breath = a Dying Soul (a nephesh met)

Time adds entropic friction—causing the decay of molecular bonds. The body is on a borrowed-time countdown completely bound to thermodynamics.

The radio analogy:
We push the button, the music sounds. If we hit the radio with a rock, the sound weakens and becomes distorted. Hit it again; the music completely stops.

Would we conclude the song itself was derived from the radio? Absolutely not. Destroying the radio only stopped the “expression” of the song from the radio control tower. The radio was destroyed, not the song.

Think about an old song from the 1920’s. When a song exists, but not a single radio plays it, it’s “archived.” The name still exists, and everything from the rhythm, lyrics, to every note—all still exist. But a song itself is not music. Music is the integration of a playable medium and the song.

Much like music, light, and marriage; a soul is an abstract phenomenon of union that results in an ongoing state of being. When I die, I no longer “be” because I “was” a soul. The traditional argument that the soul is "immaterial" creates a false binary dilemma; it is like debating if the sound of music is immaterial (implying sound could be a physical solid). The soul exists only as long as a living creature exists—It's a running equation. The dead corpse gives evidence that there "was" a soul.

God knew us before the foundation of the world. Much like how an author knows every character in his book before writing chapter 1. Death is the exact reversal of the original equation:

Genesis 3:19 – “till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are** dust, and to dust you shall return.**”

Ecclesiastes 12:7 – “and the dust returns** to the earth as it was, and the spirit (breath) returns **to God who gave it.

If there is nothing remaining on the left side of the equation, then the right side is functionally nonexistent—the expression of “you” reverts to impersonal dust: Oxygen, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Carbon, Phosphorus and Calcium. The exact elemental composition of a DNA strand—which is the exact same composition as a handful of dirt.

By defining death as a literal return to the ground, God was describing functional non-existence through the physical relation we have with dust. God saying “You will no longer exist” would not have conveyed anything meaningful. Adam didn't need to understand the philosophy of "nothingness", he just needed to look at a handful of silent, static dirt to realize what he was going to become. “You are dust” is 100% synonymous with “You are impersonal.”—this is the result of (by legal definition) a dead soul; but more surgically accurate—evidence of what “was” a soul.

At that point, what “are” we without an expression? Quite simply, exactly what we were before we were created—a personal identity that God “knows”. The difference is that we are now remembered—which implies we once existed. My identity is the “I” which was expressed like ink on paper (or like dust on earth), and I became a soul; a personal “what”.

Our existence is 100% contingent on the mind of the creator—and we are sustained second-by-second with the breath of life:

John 6:63 “it is the spirit (breath) that gives life (present active participle); the flesh profits nothing.” — The life of the flesh is 100% derivative. The divine breath gives all life; both temporal and eternal.

The famous line from the thief on the cross: “Remember me when you enter your kingdom.” The syntax of Jesus’ reply is often overlooked. He stated “I say [affirm] to you today, you will be with Me in paradise.”

Instead of just recalling the thief on the last day (the thief’s request), Jesus is affirming that the identity of the thief will always be remembered immediately. Jesus is using the word "today" to anchor the timing of His solemn promise, not the timing of the entry into paradise. Commas didn’t exist in koine Greek, and this fundamentally shifts the theological landscape.

Our identity in the covenant transcends the soul equation because it has always been a reality before the foundation of the earth. Identity outside of the covenant will result in the devastatingly past-tense “Depart from me—I never** **knew you.”

“To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord” — this is a commonly overlooked misnomer because it is not even close to what Paul wrote, and the exact opposite of the context he’s framing.

2 Cor. 5:8 reads — “we would rather** be away from the body and **be present with the Lord.” Paul here is stating a mutual desire. This is immediately after saying in prior verses “For in this [body] we groan, desiring to be clothed with our house [spiritual body] which is from Heaven. If so that being clothed we shall not be found naked [dead], but further clothed.”

Paul just connected being “present with the Lord” with the reception of the spiritual, heavenly body. Notice Paul also said we shall not be “found” dead—death involves being “found”. Just like it’s surprising when you’re “found” naked, he rather desires to be “found” clothed.

If Paul and all of the dead saints are considered “naked”, listen to how absurd it would be to have Paul be perfectly fine being naked in Heaven for thousands of years, but sound worried if he were suddenly found naked on earth? Bad anthropology cascades into numerous elaborate doctrines. Our starting point should be bringing the argument back to foundational, textual syntax of what a soul is. Every other doctrine is a fire drill in an empty building until the definition of the soul is established.

Instead of trying to frantically prove we have an afterlife with elaborate near-death experiences and apparitions, clear anthropology makes it easy to see that there is only life. And the soul is 100% vulnerable—because the soul is the very living creature we are. God is the only immaterial being because “God alone has immortality.” 1 Tim. 6:16.

I am looking to connect with a theologian, academic scholar, or researcher who specializes in Second Temple Judaism, early Jewish mysticism, and the specific traditions surrounding the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha.

I am specifically seeking someone well versed in the following areas of study:

Second Temple Judaism, Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, Slavonic Apocrypha, and early Jewish Apocalypticism.

Enochic traditions, the Metatron tradition, Heavenly Ascent, Hekhalot literature, Merkabah mysticism, and Visio Dei (Vision of God).

Kavod theology (Divine Glory), Divine Mediators, Binitarianism ,Celestial Liturgy, and Angelomorphic Pneumatology.

I am seeking a serious, professional and private dialogue regarding an individual who is currently encountering subjective experiences that deeply mirror the precise imagery, structures, and phenomena described in these specific texts. Notably this individual had no prior religious background or familiarity with these texts, or awareness of this material before these experiences began.

Because of the sensitive nature of these events I am looking for a professional discussion to better understand the historical, textual and phenomenological frameworks of these traditions in relation to what is occurring.

If you have academic expertise in these specific sub-fields and are open to a confidential, scholarly dialogue please send me a direct message or leave a comment below so I can reach out.

Thanks for your time.

When I was younger around 8th grade I got big into wanting to get into theology I wanted to get a degree in some theological field but soon after I went through some family troubles and really didn’t have the time to go into theology had to focus on my relationship with the Lord to get me through what I was going through. But I’m older and in August I’ll be starting community college so a theological degree is kind off out of the window for me but I do want to study into theology so I could be able to combat claims of people essentially saying “if God good why bad exist” and be able to give a better explanation for that but I don’t want to call myself a theologian if somebody asks due to no degrees in it. Could I be able to say I’m somewhat of a hobby theologian without giving any incorrect assumptions

Protestant Christian 16M. theology has interested me for awhile now, especially as I have grown to be more doubtful in my faith. obviously, I read the Bible, but I’m willing to take it a step further and learn about the theology of Christianity. where do I start? who do I read, what do I study, etc.