• Angels and demons

    From Jcurtis@VERT to NIGHTFOX on Wednesday, May 21, 2025 13:56:41
    Are you saying any eyewitness accounts of aliens should be assumed to
    be false?

    Nightfox

    In the Bible they're called angels and demons. They don't need
    spacecraft to travel. They have interdimensional access.

    Demons like to fool people. The accounts may be real, though inaccurate
    about the source.


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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Jcurtis on Wednesday, May 21, 2025 15:10:55
    Re: Angels and demons
    By: Jcurtis to NIGHTFOX on Wed May 21 2025 01:56 pm

    Are you saying any eyewitness accounts of aliens should be assumed to
    be false?

    In the Bible they're called angels and demons. They don't need spacecraft to travel. They have interdimensional access.

    Demons like to fool people. The accounts may be real, though inaccurate about the source.

    I don't think we should assume angels & demons from the bible and extraterrestrials are the same thing..

    Nightfox

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  • From Jcurtis@VERT to NIGHTFOX on Wednesday, May 21, 2025 18:12:10
    I don't think we should assume angels & demons from the bible and extraterrestrials are the same thing..

    Nightfox

    In the Bible, God tells us what we need to know. No mention of aliens in spacecraft.

    Demons are real though.

    Mark 5:1-20.


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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Jcurtis on Wednesday, May 21, 2025 19:07:58
    In the Bible, God tells us what we need to know. No mention of aliens in spacecraft.

    Demons are real though.


    There's a lot that the bible doesn't mention. The bible doesn't mention automobiles - does that mean they aren't real?

    Nightfox

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  • From Jcurtis@VERT to NIGHTFOX on Wednesday, May 21, 2025 22:43:26
    There's a lot that the bible doesn't mention. The bible doesn't
    mention automobiles

    How do you know, have you read it all? Few do.


    does that mean they aren't real?

    Mankind survived thousands of years without cars. Jesus didn't need one
    to change the world.


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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Jcurtis on Thursday, May 22, 2025 09:36:35
    Re: Angels and demons
    By: Jcurtis to NIGHTFOX on Wed May 21 2025 10:43 pm

    There's a lot that the bible doesn't mention. The bible doesn't
    mention automobiles

    How do you know, have you read it all? Few do.

    I haven't, but I think it's safe to say the bible didn't specifically mention automobiles, computers, the internet, and other things we have from today..

    does that mean they aren't real?

    Mankind survived thousands of years without cars. Jesus didn't need one to change the world.

    True, and that's aside the point.

    Nightfox

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  • From Jcurtis@VERT to NIGHTFOX on Thursday, May 22, 2025 11:40:51
    Mankind survived thousands of years without cars. Jesus didn't need one t change the world.

    True, and that's aside the point.

    There are no aliens. But there are demons who like to fool people.


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  • From Jcurtis@VERT to NIGHTFOX on Thursday, May 22, 2025 11:40:51
    I think it's safe to say the bible didn't specifically mention
    automobiles, computers, the internet, and other things we have from
    today..

    The Bible is prophetic. That means God can see the future. What we have
    today is powerless against His judgment. Forseen and foretold.


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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANTIR to Jcurtis on Thursday, May 22, 2025 15:25:23
    Jcurtis wrote to NIGHTFOX <=-

    Mankind survived thousands of years without cars. Jesus didn't need one
    t
    change the world.

    True, and that's aside the point.

    There are no aliens. But there are demons who like to fool people.

    Wow, the Koolaid is strong in this one.



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  • From Boraxman@VERT/MSRDBBS to Jcurtis on Friday, May 23, 2025 07:57:00
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    I think it's safe to say the bible didn't specifically mention
    automobiles, computers, the internet, and other things we have from
    today..

    The Bible is prophetic. That means God can see the future. What we have today is powerless against His judgment. Forseen and foretold.

    How do you reconcile us having free with with God being able to see into the future?

    Ive read and heard many interpretations but I'm wondering about yours. If we truly can change our ways, then the future is not determined until we make our choice, and therefore God cannot know. If God knows our choice, then we have no
    choice, and from where come responsibility?
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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Boraxman on Friday, May 23, 2025 09:54:28
    Re: Re: Angels and demons
    By: Boraxman to Jcurtis on Fri May 23 2025 07:57 am

    Ive read and heard many interpretations but I'm wondering about yours. If we truly can change our ways, then the future is not determined until we make our choice, and therefore God cannot know. If God knows our choice, then we have no
    choice, and from where come responsibility? e

    "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice" - Rush, "Freewill"

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  • From jimmylogan@VERT/DIGDIST to Nightfox on Friday, May 23, 2025 11:33:09
    Nightfox wrote to Jcurtis <=-

    Re: Angels and demons
    By: Jcurtis to NIGHTFOX on Wed May 21 2025 01:56 pm

    Are you saying any eyewitness accounts of aliens should be assumed to
    be false?

    In the Bible they're called angels and demons. They don't need spacecraft to travel. They have interdimensional access.

    Demons like to fool people. The accounts may be real, though inaccurate about the source.

    I don't think we should assume angels & demons from the bible and extraterrestrials are the same thing..

    What other explanation? Creatures that 'evolved differently?'
    This assumes you have the worldview that man evolved and
    wasn't created...



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  • From jimmylogan@VERT/DIGDIST to Gamgee on Friday, May 23, 2025 11:33:09
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    Jcurtis wrote to NIGHTFOX <=-

    Mankind survived thousands of years without cars. Jesus didn't need one
    t
    change the world.

    True, and that's aside the point.

    There are no aliens. But there are demons who like to fool people.

    Wow, the Koolaid is strong in this one.

    I may not see eye to eye with Jcurtis on everything, but I
    agree with this point too. There is no proof that they
    come from another planet, but they do come from 'not on
    this earth.'



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  • From jimmylogan@VERT/DIGDIST to Boraxman on Friday, May 23, 2025 12:44:01
    Boraxman wrote to Jcurtis <=-

    The Bible is prophetic. That means God can see the future. What we have today is powerless against His judgment. Forseen and foretold.

    How do you reconcile us having free with with God being able to see
    into the future?

    Ive read and heard many interpretations but I'm wondering about yours.
    If we truly can change our ways, then the future is not determined
    until we make our choice, and therefore God cannot know. If God knows
    our choice, then we have no
    choice, and from where come responsibility?

    You sound like my son. :-) He calls it the illusion of choice.

    Personally, I see it as God is outside of time, space and
    matter. Therefore He is the same yesterday, today and
    tomorrow.

    You and I don't know what will happen tomorrow, nor what
    decisions we will make, but He does. Does this mean we
    don't have a choice? Not at all! From our perspective,
    we haven't made the choice yet. But from His perspective,
    it's already happened.

    So if it's 'already happened' how can it change? It can't.
    So how can it be a choice? Because TO US it hasn't been
    made yet.

    Foreknowledge is NOT the say as predestination. If God
    DECIDED for us, we would have no choice. But He doesn't
    decide for us, but He does KNOW what we are going to
    choose.


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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to jimmylogan on Friday, May 23, 2025 13:48:09
    Re: Re: Angels and demons
    By: jimmylogan to Nightfox on Fri May 23 2025 11:33 am

    I don't think we should assume angels & demons from the bible and
    extraterrestrials are the same thing..

    What other explanation? Creatures that 'evolved differently?' This assumes you have the worldview that man evolved and wasn't created...

    I just don't know why we'd assume that extraterrestrials are angels & demons. I mean, we humans aren't angels & demons. Why would beings from another planet be?

    And if you believe in evolution, naturally they'd have evolved differently on another planet. Or if you believe in creation, they'd be another one of God's creations.

    Nightfox

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  • From Jcurtis@VERT to BORAXMAN on Friday, May 23, 2025 14:39:57
    The Bible is prophetic. That means God can see the future.

    How do you reconcile us having free with with God being able to see into the future?

    Prophecy guides us to life. We are not puppets. Maybe it bothers
    atheists but I don't see a problem.


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  • From Boraxman@VERT/MSRDBBS to Jcurtis on Saturday, May 24, 2025 13:03:41
    Re: Re: Angels and demons
    By: Jcurtis to BORAXMAN on Fri May 23 2025 02:39 pm

    The Bible is prophetic. That means God can see the future.

    How do you reconcile us having free with with God being able to see into t future?

    Prophecy guides us to life. We are not puppets. Maybe it bothers
    atheists but I don't see a problem.


    I'm not particularly bothered by it. Just trying to understands someones moral framework and how they understand the implications of what they are saying.

    If God KNEW that Adam and Eve would disobey, and it could not have been otherwise, I find it immoral to still place blame on us and our evil. Especially since God made us and the universe, and is omnipotent. This circle doesn't square.



    But this is why I don't believe, and to me, the Old Testament is just a collection of Jewish history and myths and allegories and stories.

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  • From Boraxman@VERT/MSRDBBS to jimmylogan on Saturday, May 24, 2025 11:21:00
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    Boraxman wrote to Jcurtis <=-

    The Bible is prophetic. That means God can see the future. What we have today is powerless against His judgment. Forseen and foretold.

    How do you reconcile us having free with with God being able to see
    into the future?

    Ive read and heard many interpretations but I'm wondering about yours.
    If we truly can change our ways, then the future is not determined
    until we make our choice, and therefore God cannot know. If God knows
    our choice, then we have no
    choice, and from where come responsibility?

    You sound like my son. :-) He calls it the illusion of choice.

    Personally, I see it as God is outside of time, space and
    matter. Therefore He is the same yesterday, today and
    tomorrow.

    You and I don't know what will happen tomorrow, nor what
    decisions we will make, but He does. Does this mean we
    don't have a choice? Not at all! From our perspective,
    we haven't made the choice yet. But from His perspective,
    it's already happened.

    So if it's 'already happened' how can it change? It can't.
    So how can it be a choice? Because TO US it hasn't been
    made yet.

    Foreknowledge is NOT the say as predestination. If God
    DECIDED for us, we would have no choice. But He doesn't
    decide for us, but He does KNOW what we are going to
    choose.

    This is a problem that is discussed in physics as well, whether the
    universe is deterministic and whether a deternistic universe allows
    free will.


    Foreknowledge does mean that your choice is set, before it is made,
    before it is considered. If I know that you are going to eat Corn
    Flakes for breakfast on the 30th of January, 2027, then it removes the possibility of you making any decision which does not result in you
    eating those Corn Flakes. Foreknowledge of every event, removes every possibility. There is only one possibility, the future that is known.

    It still is reasonable to act as if we have choices, after all, our
    choices are influenced by what happens to us, but this creates a bit
    of a conundrum. If we indeed only have one path, who set that path?

    For us mere mortals, we can attribute responsibility to each other,
    because there is not other candidate. But if a Deity was the first
    Prime Mover, then responsibility lies there. Then we have
    predestination.

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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANTIR to jimmylogan on Saturday, May 24, 2025 08:29:28
    jimmylogan wrote to Gamgee <=-

    Mankind survived thousands of years without cars. Jesus didn't need one to change the world.

    True, and that's aside the point.

    There are no aliens. But there are demons who like to fool people.

    Wow, the Koolaid is strong in this one.

    I may not see eye to eye with Jcurtis on everything, but I
    agree with this point too. There is no proof that they
    come from another planet, but they do come from 'not on
    this earth.'

    More mumbo-jumbo word salad garbage.



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  • From Jcurtis@VERT to BORAXMAN on Saturday, May 24, 2025 12:00:31
    God KNEW that Adam and Eve would disobey

    Atheist misconception.


    I find it immoral to still place blame on us and our evil
    this is why I don't believe

    Atheism will never stop evil. God will though. As prophesied.


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