Toymods Car Club Inc: The Outhouse => ghost (not this s*%t again)

Toymods Car Club
www.toymods.org.au

F.A.Q.

Home

Members

Toymods » The Outhouse » *ghost (not this s%t again) Show:** Today's Posts :: Show Polls Email to friend

Author

Topic

bubbles
Forums Junkie

Banned user

Location:
Liverpool NSW
Registered:
March 2004

Re: ghost (not this s*%t again)

Mon, 15 August 2005 04:42

river wrote on Mon, 15 August 2005 13:44

Hi,

Ahh yes, Armageddon.

As mentioned the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran in 1947 have offered much information in regards to beleifs, customs, rituals, politics, philosophies and traditions of the pre-Gospel and Gospel eras in Judea.

A fundamental beleif was that the universe contained two cardinal spirits of Light and Darkness. In their respective contexts Light represernted truth and righteousness, whereas Darkness depicted evil and perversion. The balance of one against the other in the cosmos was settled by celestial movement, and people were individually apportioned with a degrees of each spirit as defined by their planetary circumstances of birth. The cosmic battle between Light and Darkness was thus perpetuated within humankind, and between one person and another.

God was held to be the supreme ruler over the two cardinal spirits, but for a person to find the way to the Light required following a long and arduous path of conflict. Such a path culminated in a final weighing of one force against the other at the Time of Justification - later called the Day of Judgement. It was thought that as the time drew near, the forces of Darkness would gather in strength during a Period of Temptation. People would naturally be subject to this testing process. Those who followed the Way of the Light thus sought to avoid the impending evaluation with the plea "lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil".

In Revelations 16:16, the great final war between Light and Darkenss (Good and Evil) is forecast to take place at Armageddon (Har Megiddo) - that is at the height of Megiddo, an historically important Palestinian battlefield where a military fortress guarded the plains of Jezreeel, south of the Galilean Hills.

The War Scroll (one of the many Dead Sea Scrolls) describes in detail the foreseen struggle between the Children of Light and the Sons of Darkness at the great battle of Har Megiddo. The tribes of Isreal were to be on one side, with the Romans and various heathen factions on the other. It was to be a violent mortal combat between Light that was Israel and the Darkness of Imperial Rome.

In later times, the basic notion behind this ancient concept was adapted and adopted by the emergent Chruch of Rome. The perceived battle of Har Megiddo was removed from its specific location and re-applied on a world scale, with Rome (the hitherto Darkness) usurping the Light in its own favour from the day when Emperor Constantine placed himself at the head of Christianity.

In order that the rule of the Catholic bishops should prevail, it was decreed that the Day of Judgement had not yet come. Those who thereafter obeyed the revised principles of the Roman Catholic Church were promised the right of entry into the Kingdom of Heaven, as sanctified by the bishops. The one-time Palestinian hill-fort of Har Megiddo was thereby invested with supernatural dimension, so that the very word Armageddon took on a hideous ring of terror. It implied the fearsome ending of all things, from which the only sure route to salvation was absolute compliance with the rule of Rome. This proved to be one of the most ingenious political manoevres of all time - or, at least until the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered, and the historical truth of Armageddon became known.

In essence, the original meaning of Har Migeddo was changed by the new church to suit the needs of its minstry. Now, nearly two thousand years later, people still beleive in the end of everything (Armageddon), despite it being shown to be nothing of the sort.

I'd prefer if your arguments contained text and your thoughts, as opposed to mere quoting of biblical texts, which, I may add, often have been changed or modified from their original meanings - such as Armageddon.

seeyuzz
river

What do you mean by people still beleive in the end of everthing(Armageddon)?

[Report message to a moderator]

[Message index]

-=] Back to Top [=-

Current Time: Tue Mar 11 23:04:55 UTC 2025

Total time taken to generate the page: 0.020884037017822 seconds

.:: Contact :: Home ::.