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yup, ideas don't arise from empty spaces, good image .. looks
fine without checking, but your comment aroused me .. lol, Rule 34 ..
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to link a few ..

Briboy- I'm in awe of how much
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this one reads easier the 3rd time .. lol ..

We perceive evil as greater than a mere moral ignorance. We perceive
it as transcending the individual and possessing unity of purpose and
force. Over the centuries, the expression of these perceptions has
formed a tradition that posits a principle of evil and accords it
personality.

Hebrew-Christian thought developed this tradition most fully. The
tradition, a complex blend of diverse mythological and philosophical
elements, bears the following marks: (1) It is alive. Perceptions of
evil continue to occur to individual minds. The bleeding soldier,
the crippled child, the old woman in the devastated village, the
murdered hostage, these are not abstractions, but real people who
truly suffer. Personifications of evil also persist, even in the
materialist world of today, as the revival of interest in exorcism
and possession testifies. (2) Because the tradition is alive, it
goes on develloping through time. The movement of the concept is
continually being reinforced and modified by new formulations.
(3) Because the tradition has not yet reached its focus, no final
definition of the Devil is now possible. It is possible, however,
to offer a definition of the Devil as conceived at the time of the
New Testament.

The most important development in the tradition is the shift from
monism in the direction of dualism. Monism posits one divine
principle; polytheist monism teaches that the many gods are
manifestations of that principle. The God is a coincidence of
opposites, responsible for both good and evil. This ambivalence
is manifested in two ways: (a) each individual deity may be
ambivalent, as is the God himself; (b) two deities representing
opposite principles, such as Horus and Seth, may be paired.

The first clear departure from monism occurred in Iran, where
Zarathustra's followers posited two principles, each independent
of the other. One was the good god, the god of light; the other
the evil god, the god of darkness. In Iranian dualism, both
principles were spirits. Another dualism appeared in Greece,
asserting an opposition between spirit and matter. These two
dualisms -- Iranian and Greek -- united in late Jewish and
Christian thought; the result was an association of the good Lord
with spirit and the Devil with matter.

The third departure from monism appeared among the Hebrews. The
early insisted that Yahweh was the only manifestation of the
divine principle: their god became the God. They wanted their
one god to be all good as well, however, and so they implicitly
and unconsciously separated the evil side of the God from the
good side, calling the good side the Lord and the evil side the
Devil. But as the essential principle of their religion was
monotheism, however, they had to stop short of positing two
separate principles. That left the evil spirit, the Devil, in
an anomalous position. On the one hand he was the author of
evil, and his existence relieved the Lord of direct responsibility
for many of the evils of the world. On the other hand, he was
not an independent principle but the creature and even the servant
of the Lord. This anomaly led to an implicit tension between
monism and dualism. The Devil, who was not prominent in the Old
Testament, gained stature in the Apocryphal, Apocalyptic, and New
Testament literatures. Far from being a mere accretion of
peripheral superstitions, the Devil has his genesis in the God
himself. He is a counterpart, a doublet of the good Lord. He is
the shadow of God.

The shift from monism toward dualism was paralled [sic] by a shift
in theodicy. In most of the ancient religions, theodicy was
implicitly expressed in mythology. But Greek philosophical
thought, and the Jewish and Christian writers influenced by it,
sought a rational and explicit theodicy. The philosophers
formulated a rational conception of moral law that was applicable
to all intelligent beings. This permitted a rational and moral
definition of evil. In mythology evil had been vaguely defined;
philosophy now made the distinction between moral and natural
evils and defined the Devil's role in both.

To what extent was the Devil responsible for the evil in the world?

Egyptian thought, positing a perfect cosmos, needed not theodicy.
In Mesopotamia and Canaan, and among the early Greeks and Hebrews,
something was felt to be wrong with the world, and this evil was
variously ascribed to evil spirits, to ill choices of human free
will, or to the inscrutable will of the deity. Dualism radically
changed this theodicy, freeing the God from responsiblity for evil
and assigning it instead to an independent and hostile spirit.
Both late Hebrew and early Christian thought were caught in the
tension between monism and dualism. Insisting on monotheism, they
left the God with at least partial responsibility for evil; tending
to dualism, they shifted much of the blame onto the Devil.

The relationship of demons to the Devil has always been somewhat
blurred

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.. yup, easier the 3rd time, must read more of .. Horus must come later, i mean in the article .. lol ..

I mean it's possible Jesus could be an updated Horus. It's possible.
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Anyway, there are more than 10 mythical Jesus prototypes .. darn, was going to bring these 10 images out as they are peaceful, but
kept getting the page is not responding message .. OOOOOOOOOOOOO awwwwwwww oooooooooooo .. is interfering for sure
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-christ-like-figures-who-pre-date-jesus/
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.. i'm dumfounded Horus is hardly mentioned on the board .. was sure there were more .. or, has a demon had them disappear .. lol ..