>>20471
>Pics
Are the Orthodox Allah and the Islamic Allah the same? Just because the same name is given to something, does that mean it is the same? Of course not. Furthermore, Edom was never part of Israel or Judah until the time of John Hyrcanus. You might as well say that the Welsh, Cornish, Scots, and English are the same. Or the Switz. You are drawing a false equivalency here.
>Pagans = kikes
True. This is why paganism is very suspect.
>ELOHIM, plural
God is Triune: Father, Son, Holy Spirit. Also see >Hebrew, Pipul.
>Cain, Other People, Wife
Or more likely, Brother/Sister incest may not be wrong. Via the differentiation between Good and Evil increasing. Or just genetic decay. The Beasts of the Field is an interesting speculation, but probably untrue.
>Hebrew, Pipul
Modern Hebrew is a created language and was never spoken by Israelite or Edomites.
The oldest "old hebrew" Old Testament is 10th century Masoretic. The Septuagint (Greek) which is over 10 centuries older uses Theos(singular). The Dead Sea scrolls indicate that the Greek was being translated into "Hebrew" and are newer by a matter of centuries. I don't know what the Israelites spoke in the first place, but Aramaic and "Hebrew" are definitely not it.
>Others
Angels existed at that time. So did var. spirits. The Beasts of the Field is an interesting speculation, but probably untrue. Also see >ELOHIM, plural.
>>20472
As for you:
THE MIRROR OF MADMEN
I dreamed a dream of heaven, white as frost,
The splendid stillness of a living host;
Vast choirs of upturned faces, line o'er line.
Then my blood froze; for every face was mine.
Spirits with sunset plumage throng and pass,
Glassed darkly in the sea of gold and glass.
But still on every side, in every spot,
I saw a million selves, who saw me not.
I fled to quiet wastes, where on a stone,
Perchance, I found a saint, who sat alone;
I came behind: he turned with slow, sweet grace,
And faced me with my happy, hateful face.
I cowered like one that in a tower doth bide,
Shut in by mirrors upon every side;
Then I saw, islanded in skies alone
And silent, one that sat upon a throne.
His robe was bordered with rich rose and gold,
Green, purple, silver out of sunsets old;
But o'er his face a great cloud edged with fire,
Because it covereth a world's desire.
But as I gazed, a silent worshipper,
Methought the cloud began to faintly stir;
Then I fell flat, and screamed with grovelling head,
'If thou hast any lightning, strike me dead!
'But spare a brow where the clean sunlight fell,
The crown of a new sin that sickens hell.
Let me not look aloft and see mine own
Feature and form upon the Judgment-throne.'
Then my dream snapped: and with a heart that leapt
I saw across the tavern where I slept,
The sight of all my life most full of grace,
A gin-damned drunkard's wan half-witted face.
Yours is the faith of India. Go see what it has wrought.
>Whats your faith?
Panetheistism. Animism. Eastern Orthodoxy.
God is within all things, and whence all things are made. He is not all things. The Universe has a spiritual reality, and a cognitive reality, not just material. All things have spiritual, cognitive, and material existence. Everything has differing presence and existence. Not only angels & daemons, but eregores and fay. Nature does exist, as do ideals and stories, stars and forests are alive. But these things are not to be worshiped. They are fellow beings some hostile, others beguine. All, ultimately, subordinate to God. Just as all things are like, so too are they just as unlike. This allows unity and love of what is not I. A Paradox of Truth.
And if you wish to know why I am Orthodox. Go and read GK Chesterton's Orthodoxy. He was Anglican, then Catholic. But the spirit is the same.
>>20475
Go and read the whole thing. Don't take verses out of context.