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Just as the Christian idea of God is one's opinion.
These ideas were not even my opinion. There were just possibilities.
The idea here is to look at things differently.
Let's say the Bible is the word of God. Well then all we know about God is what he has chosen to tell us. He has told us just how great he is and that he is right and powerful and good. And we are just suppose to take all that as fact because he told us it is. He has told us who is bad, just like the Middle East is telling the world the USA is bad right now and that they are right and good and favored by God. Should we believe them?
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kooka_lives
on September 2, 2004 at 7:47 AM
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Friar__Tuck
Some of these ideas have been around for a long time now. I know for a fact I am not the first to take a serious look at them. And I have been debating them since before Hell Boy's comics came out.
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kooka_lives
on September 2, 2004 at 7:42 AM
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all right fry boy
history IS written by the victors, right?
so Satanis on the losing side, so he's an evil one.
it is interesting, however, how clerics etc can develop an entire mythology out of a few words and passages.
If ol' Satan is so evil, how come he's right there with the "Sons of God" when they're presenting themselves before the LORD (Job 1:6).
LORD & Satan engage in what seems to be a pretty amicable conversation.
The way the book looks, it probably should be placed near Genesis -- all the similar elements are there -- LORD and walking on the earth and such.
it's like a lot of things -- we need a personification of evil -- something on which to place our sins -- something to blame -- "the devil made me do it . . . "
Myth is the parent of disbelief.
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Xeno-x
on September 2, 2004 at 5:53 AM
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That's one opinion...
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cmoe
on September 2, 2004 at 5:19 AM
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What's this?
A "HellBoy"-theology?
I enjoyed watching the film too, but I wouldn't build a whole world-view on that.
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Friar__Tuck
on September 1, 2004 at 8:01 PM
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