Is "god" of the Old Testament Satan?
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This is a presentation by Bill Donahue, the creator of hiddenmeanings.com. He discusses yahweh, the "god" of the old testament, as Satan. Bill also talk about the origin of some of these ideas as developed by Persian writer Mani (of Manichaeism).
Mani
Mani, an Arsacid Iranian by birth, lived approximately AD 216–276 and was born in Babylonia, which was then within the Sassanid Empire province of Asuristan. According to the Cologne Mani-Codex, Mani’s parents were members of the religious sect of Elcesaites. The primary language of Babylon (and the administrative and cultural language of the Sassanid Empire) at that time was Eastern Middle Aramaic, which included three main dialects: Judeo-Aramaic (the language of the Talmud), Mandaean Aramaic (the language of the Mandaean religion), and Syriac Aramaic, which was the language of Mani, as well as of the Syriac Christians. "Mani" is a Sanskrit name used in all three Aramaic dialects and therefore common among their speakers. Mani composed seven writings, six of which were written in Syriac Aramaic. The seventh, the Shabuhragan, was written by Mani in Middle Persian and presented by him to the contemporary King of Sassanid Persia, Shapur I in the Persian capital of Ctesiphon.
Mani began preaching at an early age and was possibly influenced by contemporary Babylonian-Aramaic movements such as Mandaeanism, and Aramaic translations of Jewish apocalyptic writings similar to those found at Qumran (such as the book of Enoch literature). With the discovery of the Mani-Codex, it also became clear that he was raised in a Jewish-Christian baptism sect, the Elcesaites, and was influenced by their writings as well. According to biographies preserved by Ibn al-Nadim and the Persian polymath al-Biruni, he allegedly received a revelation as a youth from a spirit, whom he would later call his Twin (Aramaic Tauma (?????), from which is also derived the name of the apostle Thomas, the "twin"), his Syzygos (Greek for "partner", in the Cologne Mani-Codex), his Double, his Protective Angel or ’Divine Self’. It taught him truths which he developed into a religion. His ’divine’ Twin or true Self brought Mani to Self-realization and thus he became a ’gnosticus’, someone with divine knowledge and liberating insight. He claimed to be the ’Paraclete of the Truth’, as promised in the New Testament.
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"god" the divine Liar
The behavior of God in Eden is most peculiar. Eden is the pivotal moment in earth’s history because what happened there set the stage for future events. It also gave an opportunity for someone to take over, educate and develop the human race for their own purposes.What people have been taught is a lie and it goes AGAINST biblical scripture, logic and common sense. If one studies the bible carefully they will realize that it does not reflect that the Serpent was evil and trying to deceive the human race.
The ancient writings of the bible reveal a lot of information as to what went on 6,000 years ago in Eden. Through logic and common sense we can show that those ancient writings of the bible reflect the end result which we all can see plainly in the modern world.
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