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PastorAIO:
But the book of John was written in Greek and greek has present tense. Ego Eimi is present tense.

And as it happens, it is Ego Eimi that we are talking about not any hebrew word.


Out of interest then, what point were you trying to make when you quoted 2Sam2:20 about Asahel's statement?

OneJ:
Oga Pastor, In your own words, "it is grammatically incongruous that the reference is to the 'I am' at the burning bush "
.Oga, Pastor, U are so confused & so dishonest that U can't help it but contradict yourself. Again, In your own words " there is the theologically significant use of "I am" that is used to make reference to Jehovah.... He declared his name to be "I am". He didn't say tell them that " I have been" sent you". After your initial denial, U mischievously linked together "I am" in Hebrew to "I am" in Greek. U lied sotayy U come get confusion transmission.

Hebrew language has no present tense. Therefore "I am" , is not a Hebrew word & can never have the same meaning with Greek Ego eimi.. Therefore ,your claim about John 8:58 is built on quicksand,very weak foundation. Besides, John 8:12-58, Jesus never said he is God. Rather, he said he spoke the message that God sent him & also gave proof that he is the son of God.

PastorAIO:
What appears is the tetragrammaton Yod He Vau He in the Old Testament. Nobody knows what the vowels between the letters are. It was a closely guarded secret. And those that are crying Jehovah Jehovah now are just exercising their over active imaginations.

What do you call a supposed child who doesn't even know his father's name?

OneJ:
Again,U refused to admit that U LIED against Mr Charles Russell with your false claims that he committed perjury, when indeed no court of law ever adjudged on it. That link I shared exposed your falsehood.
Now, U done come again with your lies.
Make I help U small... go read the Wikipedia entry about NWT. Some praised it ,others criticised it that Jehovah appeared in the Greek Scriptures instead of kyrios (LORD). That criticism is expected. But U & I, know that "LORD" is a substitute for YHWH (thats Jehovah,Yahweh). & often times ,those passages where direct quotations of the old testament (OT)

For instance, Matt4:4 is a direct quote of Deut 8:3., YHWH is there in the OT, not LORD.

Since Acts28:6 is "a god" then it is fraudulent to change John 1:1 to "God". (In the Greek manuscript it's lowercase "god". It's very clear that the NWT & 14 other Bible versions were more accurate than the popular ones which twist God's word.
The fact remains that NWT is among the best Bible versions available. Many persons I have met, who are not JWs own a copy& they attest that it's the most easy to read & understand. Actually,just like F.W.Franz, U don't need paper qualifications to study & gain understanding of God's word. A Committee of faithful ,God fearing Christians handled the project over many years & to Jehovah's glory, they did well. Shalom.

Hairyrapunzel:
Just the way you guys dubiously put jehovah 218 times in the new testament when it never appears once.

PastorAIO:
unfortunately whenever I respond to these posts I get a ban. I don't know if I'll get another ban now for writing this response. If so too bad. I just take it as a cue that my time on Nairaland is over.

frosbel2:
FALSE.

God promised in Holy Scripture that he will never ever forsake his own People.

"I will be his father, and he will be my son. When he does wrong, I will punish him with a rod wielded by men, with floggings inflicted by human hands. But my love will never be taken away from him, as I took it away from Saul, whom I removed from before you. Your house and your kingdom will endure forever before me[b]; your throne will be established forever.’” - 2 Samuel 7:14-16

"For I am with you and will save you," says the LORD. "I will completely destroy the nations where I have scattered you, but I will not completely destroy you. I will discipline you, but with justice; I cannot let you go unpunished." - Jeremiah 30:11

frosbel2:
FALSE.

God promised in Holy Scripture that he will never ever forsake his own People.

"I will be his father, and he will be my son. When he does wrong, I will punish him with a rod wielded by men, with floggings inflicted by human hands. But my love will never be taken away from him, as I took it away from Saul, whom I removed from before you. Your house and your kingdom will endure forever before me[b]; your throne will be established forever.’” - 2 Samuel 7:14-16

"For I am with you and will save you," says the LORD. "I will completely destroy the nations where I have scattered you, but I will not completely destroy you. I will discipline you, but with justice; I cannot let you go unpunished." - Jeremiah 30:11

frosbel2:
FALSE.

God promised in Holy Scripture that he will never ever forsake his own People.

"I will be his father, and he will be my son. When he does wrong, I will punish him with a rod wielded by men, with floggings inflicted by human hands. But my love will never be taken away from him, as I took it away from Saul, whom I removed from before you. Your house and your kingdom will endure forever before me[b]; your throne will be established forever.’” - 2 Samuel 7:14-16

"For I am with you and will save you," says the LORD. "I will completely destroy the nations where I have scattered you, but I will not completely destroy you. I will discipline you, but with justice; I cannot let you go unpunished." - Jeremiah 30:11

frosbel2:
Debate

frosbel2:
Debate

Boomark:
My brother I dey o. Good to see you. How your side?

bowee4u:
SUNDAY SERMON: THE TRUTH ABOUT TITHING


I came across this piece on a Whatsapp page and it so represented my views on tithing that I could have written it myself. Please enjoy the read!

The Trial of Pastor Jones (Author unknown)

Judge: Mr. Jones you have been charged with multiple counts of extortion. Your crime spree covers 20 years and thousands of victims. You have defrauded people out of their money with fear and manipulation, telling them they had to tithe 10% of their income as per the LAW to your Regd. organization (called Church) and that God would bless them if they did. You also told them that if they didn't tithe God would curse them.

How do you plead?

Mr. Jones: I plead not guilty your Honor, I have done nothing wrong. I have only preached what the Bible says. In the Bible Abraham tithed to Melchizedek and God blessed him for his faithful giving. The Bible even says he was rich in silver and gold.

Judge: Is it not true, Mr. Jones, that in Genesis Chapter 13 verse 2 the Bible says Abraham was rich with livestock, silver and gold?

Mr. Jones: Yes, you are exactly right, that's what I just told you.

Judge: Ok, we read about Abraham being a rich man in chapter 13 but it is not until Genesis chapter 14 that we read about Abraham's tithe to Melchizedek. So Abraham was already a rich man before he tithed to Melchizedek, wasn't he?

Mr. Jones: Yes, I suppose you are right.

Judge: So his riches were not the result of his tithe to Melchizedek?

Mr. Jones: No.

Judge: Mr. Jones, you also say God blessed him for his faithful giving. How many times is it recorded that Abraham gave tithes to Melchizedek?

Mr. Jones: Well, just once.

Judge: So the Bible never said that he gave week after week?

Mr. Jones: No it does not.

Judge: Where did Abraham get the things that he gave to Melchizedek?

Mr. Jones: Well the Bible says it was from the plunders of war?

Judge: So you are telling me that he gave from the plunders of war?

Mr. Jones: Yes that's what the Bible says.

Judge: So he basically took things that were not really his in the first place and gave them as the tithe?

Mr. Jones: That is what the scripture seems to indicate.

Judge: Is it recorded that he ever took anything from his own possessions and tithed them to Melchizedek or anyone else?

Mr. Jones: I guess not

Judge: You guess not, you are a teacher and you are only guessing, is it or is it not written that he ever gave any of his own possessions as a tithe to anyone?

Mr. Jones: No it is not written anywhere that I have seen.

Judge: Is it recorded as to what exactly Abraham did give Melchizedek?

Mr. Jones: I believe it says plunder?

Judge: So plunder could be any number of things?

Mr. Jones: Yes, I suppose

Judge: It could have been food, cattle, sheep, the people's possessions or any number of things. It does not say it was all money correct?

Mr. Jones: Yes you are correct, it does not say just money

Judge: As a matter of fact money is never mentioned in that account at all is that correct Mr. Jones?

Mr. Jones: Yes your Honor, money is never mentioned just goods and food and people.

Judge: So there is no way you can say with any certainty that Abraham in fact gave Melchizedek any money at all?

Mr. Jones: That is right.

Judge: I only have one last question for you
Mr. Jones, did God command Abraham to give this plunder tithe to Melchizedek?

Mr. Jones: No, it appears that he did this voluntarily.

Judge: So are you trying to tell me that because of this voluntary, one time gift by Abraham, that may not have even consisted of money, all Christians everywhere are obligated to bring 10% of their weekly paycheck to a local Regd.Organization-church?
Considering all the evidence I would say you are beyond any shadow of a doubt guilty of deliberately trying to make the scriptures says things they have not said for financial gain.

Mr. Jones: Ok your Honor, I can see how foolish I was to try and use the story of Melchizedeck to try and get the people to tithe money. But there are many other verses that will support my belief on tithing. Jacob said he would give God 10% of everything. I think we should follow his example.

Judge: Let's see what Jacob said. Please read the verse you are talking about for me Mr. Jones.

Mr. Jones: In Genesis chapter 28 starting at verse 20 it says. Jacob vowed a vow, saying, "If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on, so that I come again to my father's house in peace, and Yahweh will be my God, then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be God's house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give the tenth to you."

Judge: You said we should follow Jacobs example, is that right Mr. Jones?

Mr. Jones: Yes that is right, he vowed to give a tenth and we should too.

Judge: Let me point out one thing for you Mr. Jones, Jacob said he would Give God a tenth, ONLY if He blessed him first. So as you said previously, we should follow Jacob's example and tell God that we will only give him a tenth if he blesses us first. Is that right?

Mr. Jones: That is not what I meant.

Judge: What did you mean then?

Mr. Jones: That we should give God a tenth also.

Judge: There you go again, trying to make the scripture say what you want it to say for your benefit. I would also like you to tell me the scriptures that say that Jacob kept his vow with God. I would also like to know where he gave the tenth to because there was no temple or levites to give it to at that time.

Mr. Jones: I can not think of any scriptures that say where or if he ever tithed after his vow.

Judge: It seems fairly obvious to me that Jacob made a voluntary and conditional vow to God. This in no way can be used as a reason to demand others to bring their income to you or any other place.

Mr. Jones: I do have a few more scriptures that I believe will show that we are supposed to tithe.

Judge: You have not said anything yet to convince me one little bit that people are obligated to tithe money to the local organizational institutions -churches and that you were justified in what you were doing. You have taken scripture and misapplied it to your beliefs and for your gain. But in order to be fair to you I will allow you to present more evidence.

Mr. Jones: In the book of Malachi chapter 3 starting at verse 8 it says, will a man rob God? yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, In what have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. Bring ye all the tithes into the store-house, that there may be food in my house, and prove me now with this, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. So you see your Honor, we are commanded to bring the tithes into the storehouse or God will curse us.

Judge: Answer me this Mr Jones, Who was God Speaking to here?

Mr Jones: To the People of Israel

Judge: Can you please read Malachi 2: 1 Please Mr Jones

Mr Jones: Now This command is for you O PRIEST !!

Judge: Did God stop talking to the Priest in Chap. 3, Mr Jones?

Mr Jones: No your Honor!

Judge: Answer me this Mr. Jones, were you aware that God never required anyone to tithe money?

Mr. Jones: No I didn't know that.

Judge: The tithe spoken of here was always edible products never money.

Mr. Jones: Well your Honor that is because they didn't have money at the time so God had them tithe food instead.

Judge: Not true, money is first mentioned in Genesis and Malachi was written hundreds of years later. God had them bring food in so that the levites, the fatherless and widows may eat and be satisfied. The tithe was used mainly to take care of people. Also notice it says in the verse you quoted, that there may be food in my house. The food was the tithe. How do you completely overlook the word food in those verses?

Mr. Jones: I don't know

Judge: I also want you to know that these verses speak to nation under the Old Testament law. As you may or may not know Jesus fulfilled the law, it is no longer binding. Once again you have tried to completely take a scripture out of context and apply it to others for your benefit. Can you give me a single scripture where God changed the tithe from food to money?

Mr. Jones: I do not know of any.

Judge: So if God never changed it from food to money who did?

Mr. Jones: Man must have.

Judge: So far all you have done Mr. Jones, is take Old Testament scriptures out of context and try to apply it to believers under the New Covenant. Is this all the proof you have?

Mr. Jones: I do have a New Testament scripture that will show that Jesus told us to tithe.

Judge: Ok let me hear it.

Mr. Jones: Jesus said in Matthew 23:23 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone. See Jesus said we should be tithing.

Judge: Let me ask you a question, who was Jesus talking to?

Mr. Jones: The scripture says the Scribes and Pharisees.

Judge: Are you a scribe or Pharisee?

Mr. Jones: Of course not.

Judge: Jesus also said in that passage, you have left undone the weightier matters of the law. Are we under the law Mr. Jones?

Mr. Jones: No.

Judge: Why not?

Mr. Jones: Because Jesus fulfilled it.

Judge: When did Jesus fulfill the law?

Mr. Jones: When He was crucified.

Judge: So the law was still in effect until Jesus death?

Mr. Jones: That is correct.

Judge: I think you know where I am going with this don't you?

Mr. Jones: Yes your Honor. Since Jesus had not yet been crucified and the law was still binding the Pharisees were required to tithe because it was part of the law. Once the law ended, tithing ended also.

Judge: I want you to take a look at that verse again. Also tell me, what were they tithing?

Mr. Jones: The scripture says it was mint, dill and cumin.

Judge: Is money mentioned?

Mr. Jones: No it was not.

Judge: Once again it was edible products that they were tithing, not money. Do you have anything else you would like to say?

Mr. Jones: If people only tithed edible products like the scripture says, then how would the church survive? We have our mortgage payment, utility bills, staff salary and a host of other things that we have to pay each week. We depend on the money from the people.

Judge: By "church" you mean your organization isn't it Mr Jones ?
-The need does not justify the means. In other words, just because you have all these debts does not give you the right to twist and manipulate scripture and cause people to give under fear of being cursed by God to meet your needs. Does It Mr Jones?
In closing, let me recap a few things for you Mr. Jones.
-The tithe was never money;
-The tithe was an Old Testament law, which is no longer binding. When it was binding the tithe was used to take care of people, not buildings.
- We are under a new covenant now.
Paul instructs the Corinthian believers how they are to give. He says in second Corinthians chapter 9 verse 7, Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver. So each believer is supposed to give as he or she has determined in his or her heart.
If they determine to Give 10% well and good, If they keep aside some every week to meet this more better.If you are trying to make people give under the threat of being cursed or any other reason even blessing, you are wrong. Someone can not give cheerfully if they are being forced to give. If 'your church can not survive on freewill offerings maybe God is not part of your church at all.
Mr Jones, do you intentionally put your people under a Curse or a Bondage?

Mr Jones: Of Course not !!

Judge: Can you Read in context Gal 3:10-11: For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them ....
AND
Gal 5:1-4 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage....

Mr. Jones: I never realized all these things, I have always been taught that we had to tithe money to the local church and that is what I have always taught. I can see now that I was completely wrong. I did not study the scripture for myself, I only took mans word for it.
Yes ' am guilty. I will not teach this error anymore.
Sentencing....... All Arise .....

Boomark:

PastorAIO:
Do you realise that what you call that 'whatever hebrew' is the name of God? So if you are distancing yourself from Hebrews why must you carry their deity and their holy book on your head only to end up insulting it by calling it 'whatever hebrew'

PastorAIO:
You were not consistent with the bible when you said the world would end in 1914, then in 1918, then 1925 and then some other dates and then 1975 etc. What does the bible actually say?

Matthew 24
36 “But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son,[a] but the Father only.

PastorAIO:
I don't know where you find all these your straw men that you're attacking.



What has the level of my inspiration got to do with anything? Did Moses write the last 8 verses of Deuteronomy? If you can answer that then you'll have no need to go on again about Moses' authorship of the Torah.





Are you so desperate that all you can attack is one straw man after another? Straw can't feel anything so you are only compounding your frustration. Take purgatory matter to those you heard about purgatory from.



More straw.




If they didn't forget it then how come you don't know it. Why can't you just go and ask them since they kept it for you?



The bible is all over the world no thanks to distorters and mistranslators like your JW ogas who have got you so brainwashed and filled with terror.
Fake NWT peddler.



And yet more Straw. Why don't you go to the pentecostals and the Church Fathers to table your complaints? Did you see me collecting tithes, or are you so discombobulated now that you don't know who you are seeking to attack anymore so you are just lashing about attacking everyone and everything. Look, this is me, I'm here. My words are here on NL. If you want to attack me, come this way.



Don't shoot the messenger. I am only a messenger. The Greek scholars, people like Mantey, whom your ogas in deception like to quote, have warned you to stop twisting their scholarship and to even stop mentioning their names and quoting their books. If you want lessons in Hebrew and Greek then go to these people, Mantey and Metzger etc. Don't come and attack me. I'm just sharing the information that they are appalled by you and your JW ogas. Lying scheming deceivers.





You can read the bible, in fact I advise it. but not the lying deceptive NWT bible that has been twisted to fit your nasty ideologies.

PastorAIO:
My words are consistent with someone who does not take the bible to be Infallible.


Truthislight, and all JWs, your words and acts are not consistent with someone who claims that the bible is infallible.

PastorAIO:
this is what that Pedophile, Charles Taze Russell has to say about the Bible, compared to his own 'Scripture Studies'.


Sept. 15, 1910 issue of Watch Tower, p. 298, Russell writes: “Not only do we find that people cannot see the divine plan in studying the Bible by itself, but we see also that if anyone lays the 'Scripture Studies' aside, even after he has used them, after he has become familiar with them, after he has read them for ten years – if he then lays them aside and ignores them and goes to the Bible alone, though he has understood his Bible for ten years, our experience shows that within two years he goes into darkness. On the other hand, if he had merely read the 'Scripture Studies' with their references and not read a page of the Bible as such, he would be in the light at the end of two years, because he would have the light of the scriptures.”

He is saying that you'll get the truth in his own writing only, but if you read only the bible you'll be lost.

Yet you JWs have the gall to say that you hold the bible in high regard as written by God. Hypocrites. Parasites.

You now want to accuse me of not being a bible worshipper as if it is a new discovery when I'd always spoken openly about what the bible is to me. Hypocrites and parasites.

You mistranslate the bible in order to twist it to fit your man made ideas and then start to somersault and duck when I ask you a simple question about the meaning of Ego Eimi in english. Pedophiles and Lying Hypocrites!!

The world should be warned about you.


You claim bible in the presence of the world but deep inside you carry all sorts of unbiblical doctrines and twist and lie on the bible to accomodate your nasty pedophile doctrines.

PastorAIO:
I stand by everything I say here. This has always been my position.

We say that the 5 Books of Moses were written by Moses because Talmudic tradition tells us so. Yet the books of Moses were not Autographed. The last 8 verses of Deuteronomy give clear evidence that at least in it's entirety the Torah could not have been written by Moses. That is not to say that it could not contain Moses' writings.

PastorAIO:
It is stupid, I repeat, Stupid, to say that the truth is contained in a text when Texts are so subject to varying interpretations. This is further compounded by the fact that the text must first be translated from an ancient language. This give too much ample room for it to be manipulated by abusers and child molesters like Charles Taze Russell and his JW followers.

PastorAIO:
The evidence of such manipulations is clear even with the issues discussed in this thread like the meaning of Ego Eimi in english.

PastorAIO:
I say that I don't trust a text as an authoritative purveyor of Truth. Yet I read the bible and seek insights from it, as indeed I do with all that is around me,

PastorAIO:
And now as for the redundancy of the bible .... I would not go so far as to make it redundant but I set out my objective a while.

1)This notion that the Bible is some special inspiration given by God and esteemed above every other inspiration in existence is crap.

I can get more spiritual edification from observing a painting or listening to a song than any biblical passage can offer.

2). I think it is utterly stupid to claim that the Truth, ultimate Truth, is embedded within a Text.

3) The elevation of the bible to some sort of 'constitution' of Christianity is effected purposely to detract away from the Authority of the church so the Protestant reformation can take place.

4) the substitution of reading the bible as the central Christian practice instead of the actual practice of its ethical and sacramental tenets is a cause of much irreligious activities.

5) I hate the spread of mendacity and extolling the bible as an historical and scientifically factual book is the highest peak of mendacity.


There's more. It let's digest that one first.

PastorAIO:
I'm just getting started. I admit that I'm actually doing my ongoing investigations at the moment so it is a work in progress, however I can be updating you guys with new expositions as and when I discover it.

PastorAIO:
LOL!! Oboy, you funny o! Real comedy sketch.... I bow.

Are you looking for the Acronym in English?

Abeg what is the first letter of Ehyer in Hebrew Language. and what is the first letter of tetragrammaton YHWH.


Eh'yer = I am = אֶֽהְיֶ֖ה ( from Hayah הָיָה)

ה = He

The tetragrammaton is יְהוָ֞ה . Again the first letter is Yod. Followed by ה = He

And an acronym is not necessarily strictly only made up of the first letters.

PastorAIO:
Lol!!

Add the reference to where I said the things that you are claiming, otherwise it is just more of your deceitful JW tactics

PastorAIO:
You can research all you like, but once you can admit that Chapter 34 was not written by moses, and chapter 34 is a part of the torah, then it follows that the Torah, in it's entirety, was not written by Moses.

Very simple, really. And it's not a matter of opinion, it is a glaring fact.

PastorAIO:
Lol!!

Add the reference to where I said the things that you are claiming, otherwise it is just more of your deceitful JW tactics

PastorAIO:
The point is simple. We know that Chapter34 was not written by Moses. Chapter 34 is part of the Torah. So therefore the Torah, at least in it's entirety, was not all written by moses. Some redaction has taken place and Chapter 34 is a glaring example of that.

PastorAIO:
Lol!!

Add the reference to where I said the things that you are claiming, otherwise it is just more of your deceitful JW tactics

PastorAIO:

Moses was a writer. I am a writer. Napoleon the great also wrote. So what?

Moses wrote the law. So what?
The book of Exodus etc which contained the law is not written by Moses. Why? Because these books report moses' death. Moses cannot write about what happened to his body when he died.
Perhaps moses' writings were inserted into the books but that doesn't make them written by Moses.
The fact that the book reports moses' death trumps anything you can say to prove moses wrote it.

PastorAIO:
Lol!!

Add the reference to where I said the things that you are claiming, otherwise it is just more of your deceitful JW tactics

PastorAIO:
Truth is light


To Seth also a son was born, and he called his name Enosh. At that time people began to call upon the name of the LORD.
Gen 4:26

PastorAIO:
Lol!!

Add the reference to where I said the things that you are claiming, otherwise it is just more of your deceitful JW tactics

PastorAIO:
Hello, I get your drift very well and I say that you drift is the wrong drift.

Okay, you are making the big, and wrong, assumption that Moses wrote Genesis. That is a tradition that is man made. In the same Books of Moses we can read an account of Moses' death. How is that possible?

But even if we were to allow that obvious error, how do we account for Genesis 4:26.

In gen 4:26 we are told clearly and explicitly that at the time of Enosh was when people began to call on the name Yahweh.

So the name Yahweh was in use from the time of Enosh according to this passage.

PastorAIO:
Lol!!

Add the reference to where I said the things that you are claiming, otherwise it is just more of your deceitful JW tactics

PastorAIO:
Avestan Influences on Judaism:

1) History is a battle between the forces of Light versus the forces of Darkness. One day the sons of Light will eventual win and History will be culminated.


2) The final redemption will be brought about by a Messianic figure known in Avesta as the Saoshyant. This teaching influenced Jewish Eschatological Messianism. Till today it persists amongst the Persian people, though Islamic, as the belief and expectation of someone called the Mahdi.

3) Universalism. For the first time the Avestans introduce an idea of God that is not tribal but rather their God is a god of all people throughout all of history. Anybody that gets right with Ahura Mazda and strives for the Light against Darkness (through Word, and thought and Deed) will be saved.

4) Belief in an after life. Originally Judaism didn't believe in it and even during the time of early christianity it is obvious that not all jews believed in the resurrection of the dead, it was mainly the pharisees and a few other sects like christians.

5) Linguistically the Jews borrowed appellations like 'King of Kings, and Lord of Lords' from the Persians

6) The christians too borrowed the notion that the main fields of battle between Light and Darkness is in the 3 realms of Words, Thoughts, and Deeds. In other words, what you say, what you think and what you do will manifest the battle between good and evil.