http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Xeno-x8587/thought you'd be intrested in knowing bout that place where we'll all be a goinghourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Xeno-x8587/581121diabolos (Greek) 1) prone to slander, slanderous, accusing falsely a) a calumniator, false accuser, slanderer, This the word rendered "devil" in the KJV. It only appears in the New Testament, not the Old. Satanas (Gr.) 1) adversary (one who opposes another in purpose or act), from the Hebrew:...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Xeno-x8587/579306This is a verse highly touted by those who believe we all shall go to heaven when we die. Although I Corinthians 15 and I Thessalonians 4 talk like the dead haven't gone to Heaven at "the coming of the Lord", but that they will precede the living in rising to meet the Lord. When we consider these...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Xeno-x8587/579218It was this past Thursday that I decided to watch a TV show that I hadn't watched in quite a few years. I had been a member of the denomination that this man was a leader of and had listened with rapt attention at one time every time he spoke. And, if you ever listen to him, you can understand...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Xeno-x8587/566049Dante Alighieri (sp) wrote the Divine Comedy, about Heaven and Hell and Purgatory and Limbo and stuff like that. His Hell was the most memorable, with all sorts of circles and levels and stuff and sections where the punishment fit the crime and all that. But the one aspect of Dante's Inferno that...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Xeno-x8587/508152Read my previous posts here. You should be able to understand what I am saying here.http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Xeno-x8587/495502Why? I've written a little on this in previous posts. Gomedome takes up the subject of Satanists. They believe in Satan. I commented that I know a young man who believes in Satan; but I think mainly because he reacts to a Christian father's actions. To get real here: you will look up Satan in any...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Xeno-x8587/485312There are several places where the name Satan appears in the Bible. The Book of Job, the temptation of Jesus in the wilderness, and in the Book of Revalation where Satan is in the Lake of Fire are the major instances I can think of. The name, Satan is used in several places in the New Testament....http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Xeno-x8587/481574Could be anywhere. Anywhere, that is, where volcanic activity was high. Apparently there was a lot in Ancient Greece. Here is where we find many references to the underworld and the dead passing over the river Styx, ferried -- read your Greek mythology -- I forgot the names of the ferryman and...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Xeno-x8587/458622my main contention is that Christians draw from a very few verses with sketchy details a complicated world that does not exist, whether Heaven or Hell. take Ariala's response to my contention that neither heaven or hell exists. Read the passages she quotes. Then try to fit the overall concept of...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Xeno-x8587/434147and it's not the Bible. Early human perception. the sky above -- so far above -- and so light and airy. that must be heaven; in fact it was. things came and went from it, like in Jacob's Ladder. But it wasn't part of the Old Testament as an abode for anything, not even God. In Job, you don't have...