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Why did God use terms similar to what is common among pagan nations when the message has a totally different meaning?

Remember that God intended to reveal the meaning of these symbolic terms to His loyal servants who will teach others! Daniel 12:9-10

So to keep the boundaries between light and darkness in tight God used terms that even though Satan's agents read the message they won't find out it's real meaning since they will read without the spirit of God which Jesus promised as an helper that's going to assist true believers! John 16:12-13

In the world of false religions the common belief is that there will be another punishment after death whereas death is the capital punishment for sin {Romans 6:23 compare to Genesis 2:17} while the sinner has fully paid for his sins at death {Romans 6:7} false religions teaches that they will continue living in torments after all they cannot die completely as Satan told them! Genesis 3:4

Therefore when God used terms like lake of fire false religions say God will or has prepared a place where He will continue to torment people forever whereas the lake of fire means completeness in death where there is no hope of resurrection! Revelations 20:15

Jesus presented everything to John using SIGNS which is not to be sealed because the end time is closer than ever that's why Jesus said:

“Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this scroll, for the appointed time is near. Let the one who is unrighteous continue in unrighteousness, and let the filthy one continue in his filth; but let the righteous one continue in righteousness, and let the holy one continue in holiness" Revelations 22:10-11

This means it's only those having pour hearts and clean hands {Psalms 24:3-4} that will be favored to be among God's chosen ones who will understand this message just as Daniel wrote in his book! Daniel 12:9-10

So after the death of Christ's first century disciples Satan's agents started claiming Christians and took their falsehood to most places forcing it on people {Matthew 13:25} but in our own time Jesus returned and started revealing the sacred secrets to faithful people (Sheep) in order to separate them from false religionists (goats) Matthew 25:31-33

Today all the religions apart from Jesus' true disciples are claiming there is a place where dead people will go and suffer after death but true disciples of Christ are saying death is the wages of sin!

After the rebellion in the garden of Eden God said to Satan:

"I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring. He will crush your head, and you will strike him in the heel.” Genesis 3:15

So when God instructed the Israelites to stay away from all the nations and focus on His commandments it was to protect them from contamination regarding false informations that Satan and fallen angels are spreading through their words and actions. Leviticus 19:31; 20:6-7; Deuteronomy 18: 10 -12

Now why did God use symbolic terms as if the dead are alive in the Bible book of Revelations?

God revealed something similar to Daniel but the Jewish prophet became worried because it's like God is using terms that totally differs from what this prophet knew through the study of God's laws.

So Daniel said to God:

Now as for me, I heard, but I could not understand; so I said: “O my lord, what will be the outcome of these thing?" Daniel 12:8

But God answered His righteous servant:

“Go, Daniel, because the words are to be kept secret and sealed up until the time of the end. Many will cleanse themselves and whiten themselves and will be refined. And the wicked ones will act wickedly, and none of the wicked will understand; but those having insight will understand" Daniel 12:9-10

This means there is no way anyone can understand the terms God used in this book until the time of the end when the true worshipers of God will be given the spirit of understanding to interpret the message.

In fact Peter the apostle said even angels in heaven can only look into this messages {1Peter 1:12} but they can't understand it not until God used His holy spirit to open the seal for His loyal worshipers to grasp the meaning! Revelations 6:1

So why did God use terms that's similar to what is common among pagan nations when the message has a totally different meaning?

To be continued...

PapaNnamdi:
Education makes one dumber than it enlightens
Don't believe what you read, find out yourself, question the definition

So if education makes people dumb then is it illiteracy that brings wisdom?

My guy information is what we all need and you must test every information you get to be sure if it's the truth the word SOUL simply means a living being so once you see any creature that runs away from danger know that it's a SOUL!🙂

There is a secret God kept away from all wicked people it's the judgment that He purposed for evildoers. Right from the beginning God told Adam:

“From every tree of the garden you may eat to satisfaction. But as for the tree of the knowledge of good and bad, you must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will certainly die.” Genesis 2:16-17

Satan told Eve:

“You certainly will not die" Genesis 3:4

From that day Satan has continued to promote the idea of life after death so as to keep mankind in the dark. After he succeeded in making other spirit sons of God (angels) to join him in his rebellion against God all these demons works as one group to promote Satan's lie regarding the condition of the dead.
Jesus said:

“Every kingdom divided against itself comes to ruin, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand." Matthew 12:25

So all demons are working towards this idea to promote life after death and since it's only Israel that God revealed Himself to all other nations throughout the earth believe that something survives our dead body!

That is why you can't find any religion or tradition that doesn't have something to do with the spirit of the dead. They may not directly talk of worshiping the dead but they do so in subtle ways like praying for their dead ancestors.

In some Eastern Cultures it's believed that some dead people are in a place of bliss or elevation while some are placed in a degrading condition or in torment.
While many doesn't care whatever their religions teaching but continued to play along some have decided to trash faith in the supernatural completely and still others chosen to promote this idea due to hatred for those who have hurt them one way or another. So Satan and his demons now have what they can work on to spread the idea that people don't really die rather death is just a means to leave the body and continue somewhere else!

But what did God's word have to say about the condition of the dead?

There is hope for whoever is among the living, because a live dog is better off than a dead lion. For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing at all, nor do they have any more reward, because all memory of them is forgotten. Also, their love and their hate and their jealousy have already perished, and they no longer have any share in what is done under the sun. Ecclesiastes 9:4-6

God's word continues:

Whatever your hand finds to do, do with all your might, for there is no work nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom in the Grave, where you are going. Ecclesiastes 9:10

So going by God's word Adam and all his descendants are completely dead when they cease breathing just as God said in the beginning {Genesis 2:17} the energy that keeps them alive returns to God who supplied it and they return to dust from which God formed Adam! Ecclesiastes 12:7 compare to Psalms 104:29

If this is the case then what is the meaning of so many things found written in the Bible book of Revelations?

To be continued..

Meedon:
I ain't funny. Your religion did worst in the book of Revelation.

Surely you are joking!😂

This is what is written in that Bible book of Revelations:

A revelation by Jesus Christ, which God gave him, to show his slaves the things that must shortly take place. And he sent his angel and presented it in SIGNS through him to his slave John. Revelations 1:1

So Mr Muslim Revelations were written in symbolic terms not literal therefore whatever you read in that Bible book you need someone to TEACH you just as Jesus commanded his disciples to TEACH interested persons {Matthew 28:20} it's not something you just pick up and read thinking you can understand it easily.

Now back to your Allah.

What has your Allah achieved in the midst of it's worshipers?🙂

Meedon:
The opinion that I hold can only be recognized by humans who are in touch with reality, not those living on fantasies or depending on a book written to rear humans, animals and serve as food source and nutrition to their makers. Tueh tueh and tueh

A religion that tag neighbors as "infidels" and it's god is threatening people with a place of torment you call "HELL"

Guy you are really really funny!😂

Rega99:
you won't understand, let the person I quoted reply me. Thank you

Wise response!🙂

PapaNnamdi:
That's not true
There are beings without souls, they are called vessels, or placeholders,
The controllers of this world use them to set pieces, And can place or swap souls within them when deemed necessary,

Check your dictionary meaning of that word SOUL!

But if you've been following philosophers i'm sorry you will only find yourself more confused you won't be of help to anyone regarding knowledge and wisdom neither can you be helped. 🙂

Meedon:
Peace loving worshipers or hypocrites who are encouraged by the same Yahweh to be self centered, care about alone oneself, indulge in atrocities etc.
He even encouraged them to give birth to more children to continue the circle of wickedness on earth.

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Meedon:
From light to darkness. She made a wrong decision. May Almighty Allah guide her back to the light.

Your personal opinion about the Gods others worship doesn't add up, it's time to talk about what your Allah has achieved among it's worshipers!🙂

GuyWise101:
Nna mehnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn. I am one the people that started this journey of awakening, I didn't know what I was doing then now it's spreading like wild fire in Africa.

GuyWise101:
Nna mehnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn. Awoken Africans

Jesus said:

"and because of the increasing of lawlessness, the love of the greater number will grow cold." Matthew 24:12

Surely when one gets tired of the world's degrading morals and insecurity such a person will no longer want to hear anything about God. So the natural love humans had for God in all cultures and traditions has grown cold in the hearts of a greater number and you are just one out of that greater number.

Jesus concluded saying:

But the one who has endured to the end will be saved.

And
And this good news of the Kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come. Matthew 24:13-14

So just as the saying goes "when the going gets tough the tough gets going"

Only those having strong hearts and the desire to solve the puzzle will remain in God's love! Romans 8:35-39

Salvation is for the strong not fearful or faithless! Revelations 21:8🙂

PapaNnamdi:
He is saying the truth,

There is no soul in humans because we are all souls including animals anything that can move, eat, reproduce and die is a soul!

Janosky:

Hosea 12:3-4 is in your Bible.
Oga,read & study until you stop deceiving yourself.

He is expecting his fellow Churchians to come arguing not knowing most of them have noticed the truth is unbearable no matter how many they are with their contradictions!😂

Meedon:
Why is your own God right and my own wrong? On what basis for you base your assumption?

Guy you are incapable of reasoning!

There is no sense in looking for ways to accuse others while trying to hide your own blunders.

Back to your question.

The title GOD connotes SUPREME BEING so if your God can't organize worshipers so that observers are able to see how effective your God is then that is no god at all.
Jehovah promised to organize his own worshipers and make sure they become the first global family of peace loving worshipers {Isaiah 2:2-4} something that has never ever happened on this planet before {Isaiah 52:15} and they will speak the same language of peace throughout the earth! Zephaniah 3:9

That is what Jehovah (Yahweh) promised and fulfilled through the action of His true worshipers.

Now tell me what your Allah has achieved in the midst of it's worshipers!🤔

correctguy101:
Even you sef shock abi?
Hiccups catch me immediately..
Lwkmd 🤣🤣🤣

Islam is all about brainwashing.

Just imagine someone going about with fury claiming a God is evil for supporting a nation against others but at the same time in his own religious book it's written that Pharaoh (King of Egypt) is fighting against God's people (Israelites)

Yet he keeps saying that God is evil even when his own God claim to be the same as the Bible God!😂

Meedon:
Check your Bible oga

About your satanic god you said:

Meedon:
Whatever he says is ultimate, no need beating around the bushes

Whatever my God says is the best there is so your wailing is misplaced!🙂

Meedon:
Your God that is a jealousy God. Imagine jealousing your own creatures.

You need help!🙂

Meedon:
Whatever he says is ultimate, no need beating around the bushes

Says who?
No wonder you are so bitter expecting worshipers of the true God to exchange insults with you!😟
So there is a God whose atrocities should not be brought to book but then you are crying all over the forum saying another God committed atrocities.
Just look for ways to format all the rubbish infused into your head because the true God is reasonable that's why His own worshipers are ever ready to explain whatever anyone needs to know about His deeds.
But any god that tolerates no questions is Satan not the true God that's why your people are easily brainwashed to go about killing their neighbors and even themselves!🙂

Meedon:
No one can question the Almighty God. Not you infidels kafri

Surely you've been seriously brainwashed!😂

So your own Allah shouldn't be questioned but you can go about asking questions about other Gods shey?

You are a blatant liar and you shouldn't be allowed in the midst of sane people because in the Quran Allah claimed to be the same God you are accusing as Yahweh so go and see a psychiatrist fast!😟

Meedon:
I shall no more insult Yahweh.

Insulting Yahweh has helped you a lot!

If not due to your hatred for Yahweh it's going to be hard coming in contact with me.

So instead of giving up why not find out exactly what is happening?

Back to the question:

What did Allah say about how Israel was rescued from Egypt in the Quran?

Some people thinks everyone around them have no brain!😂

Paulscholari:
I think these your analogy is somehow faulty, because

If you say those that were here before that created the edifices you named Budapest architecture et al, have left to heaven because they were of higher consciousness, and those that were left behind being forced to reincarnate over and over, are the ones populating the earth, how true can that be with the current population explosion We understand that the world keep increasing in population

Okay let's say in the former world they are about 500,000. Then 50,000 were awakened into higher consciousness and left to heaven, to remain 450,000, the latter were wiped off and the custodians decided to reincarnate them, how come from 450,000 we are now seeing Billions of souls all over.

The figures are just for analysis purposes.

Let's say I have 400,000 souls with me, I sent the first two, male and female. They mated and bore 5 children, hope you realize that I'm going to send more 5 souls into those bodies, to be left with 399,993 souls left, so it's decreasing not increasing.

As such we can't ascertain or justify that the population figures in the first world tallies with what we have now hence we would have seen their imprint all over the world....selah

Meedon:
Is the Israelites more special human beings than the Egyptians?

But what did Allah say about how Israel was rescued from Egypt in your Quran?🙂

Ourtruth247:
Not every human on earth has a soul.

So there are soulless people around us shey?
This is real comedy!,😂

blueAgent:
Did the Bible say Adam and Angels have the divinity or fullness of the Godhead dwelling in them?

YES!
That's why Paul said Jesus and Adam are EQUAL regarding our existence Adam is the one who brought us into the dying condition and it's only a perfect being who is not a descendant of Adam that can redeem us. 1Corinthans 15:45
So any angel is qualified to redeem us if such an angel is willing, they are all perfect sons of God that's what Jesus as one of them came to do!

According to the scriptures Jesus has always loved humans from day one! Proverbs 8:31

Meedon:
You know Yahweh was just stubborn. He didn't not want to respect the Almighty God that is why he destroyed many things and humans.

Who delivered the Israelites from Egypt?
Yahweh or Allah?🙂

AkinwaleJJ:
And who told you others aren't talking to their spirits?
Are you seeing their minds or you must be the one to tell them how they should talk to their spirits?😂

Deadi bodi get accident yeepa!
Confusion breaki boonu yeepa!

Ourtruth247:
Yes. Our souls get memory wiped when we die. Our wiped souls get put in the body of a new born baby and we repeat the cycle over and over, endlessly.

Earth's population has been increasing so how many souls are there now?
If souls are brought back into another body then how come the increase in population?🤔

lawani:
If I ask any question, there are 256 possible answers. That is more than a Yes/No session. It is research. Yes/No queries can however come in handy as would be expected.
I don't have spirits. I have one spirit that owns me. If I ask it a question it will check the 24 incarnations it has access to for answer and if it requires reactivating a deleted incarnation it will do so with support from relevant spirits. It can also get information from other spirits
What is research to you?
Yes spirits don't like monkeying around. They want you to genuinely seek.

At last you done cast with all your lies.

Ó mà ṣe ọ!🤔

Penguin2:
You don’t come to me with Socratism.

Every Christian should know the concept of Original Sin. It’s the foundation of Christianity and the reason Christ came in the first place.

So, he either admits to know Original Sin and defines what he understands of it and then ask my understanding of it too or he should simply admit he doesn’t know what Original Sin is, at which point there will be no need to continue having theological discourse with him since he lacks the basest of basic knowledges.

Only Jesus died for mankind so all prayers to God should be made in Jesus name only!

Penguin2:
If as a supposed believer who is trying to lecture me on the right theology of Christianity, you don’t know Original Sin, then you have no reason to be talking to me nor was I even supposed to reply you in the first place.

That's the right way to TEACH you since you don't understand what you are saying!
Through rhetoric questions you will know exactly what you supposed to do.
So don't run away answer him and learn Catholic Church emerged through pagan traditions of Rome there is no correlation between Catholicism and the Christian faith of the first century!🤔

Meedon:
Talk true. The nature of Yahweh no the confused you, upon all the atrocities committed by him in the bible and all the nonsense happening today even in this 2st century.

Where is Allah?
Can't Allah overthrow Yahweh and make things right?
Guy according to your Quran Allah claimed to be the same God who fought against pagan Pharaoh in support of His own people nah.
So if your Quran lied which i want to agree with you that Allah and Yahweh aren't the same then what happened to Allah all these while as in where was Allah when Yahweh was committing all these so called atrocities?🙂

chimex38:
Fair enough on Jesus but I don't agree yet.
On Paul, but why reference to Matt 18:20? that's kind of selective bias.
Anyway,
So with reference to Paul and your interpretation and connection down to Matt 18:20 my understanding is:
it's not that you can't pray for someone. But it must be with fellow believers in a group?

I feel it's important to enlighten you so you won't think this is hatred.

This is the principle guiding prayer!

Note all cited Bible verses.

Each human is an image of God {Genesis 1:26} so we all supposed to have equal rights regarding direct communication with our heavenly father but due to Adamic sin we became unworthy to such a glorious relationship! Romans 3:23

So the Israelites with whom God entered into a covenant {Exodus 19:5} had a partial connection which isn't yet fully guaranteed until the coming of the Messiah (Christ) Deuteronomy 18:18-19 compare to John 4:25-26

But once anyone become a believer in Christ Jesus the connection becomes fully intact {John 1:11-12} that is why Jesus told those who believe in his words to pray directly to God alone in their closet {Matthew 6:6} since they are now God's children through faith in Christ Jesus.

The major reason why Christians pray as a group is to beg God for a group action that they want to embark on like boldness to preach together so once they come together and pray in line with what Jesus commanded them which is certainly according to God's will {1John 5:14} Jesus will be present through the holy spirit! Matthew 18:20

So there is no scriptural backing for one believer to ask for another believer to pray for him the only thing you can say is one person leading the prayer for the two not one praying for another!