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Angels.
Actually, they are, but surprisingly for divine beings, they come in a variety of forms
The devil's pitchform, horns and goat legs.
The devil is in the Bible of course, but the conventional appearance derived from Pan plus a toasting - fork for use in barbequeing sinners is as unoriginal as Santa's red suit. The Holy Grail.
Well, actually it is, if you take it as one of the bits of crockery used at the Last Supper, but all the Houpla and Hulabaloo is part of the Arthurian legend, not the Bible. The Antichrist...well actually, he is in the Bible..."The Antichrist is mentioned only four times in the Bible, and each time he's described the same way: Hell.
Well, of course, it is, quite a lot, actually (only the NT). But it is rather vague about it. IMO it was invented by Christians and none of them knew a darn thing about it.
Well, I am a Christian, I have been through seminary, and I agree entirely with the article.
Each of those topics have been completely made-up from the imagination of recent writers and leaders; and are not found in the Bible.
On a slightly related topic; there is a phrase used in the New Testament, 'agnoein' or 'Agnoeo'.
It means to be 'without a full understanding'. Agnoea is only used seven times in the Bible and each time it is used to introduce a new topic. Each time it is used in the context as God commanding Christians to have a full understanding of: blah topic.
It is then, easily reasoned that these seven topics, [ that God commands us not to be 'without a full
understanding' of ] are in fact the basic foundational topics of doctrine that each Christian is to be familiar with.
7 doctrines that we are commanded to have an understanding of, and yet I have seen surveys done, out of a crowd of 100 participants, each listing seven doctrines which they would each consider 'basic' doctrines. You get a really long list of ideas. Generally most of them will not include even one of these seven that we are commanded to know.
My point being that today in mainstream Christianity there is truly very little Bible included, and a great deal of ignorance.
'Three wise men from the East': The Bible does not say there were three. The OT tells us who taught them the prophecies in the first place, and where they lived. They were part of a large religion of that era. But the mainstream teachings today leave out everything we do know about them, and fill the voids with myth. [I know as agnostics you can easily claim that all of the Bible is myth] It makes things difficult when so many who proclaim to be Christians teach so many myths.
I imagine that many would say that it doesn't matter about he details of what myths are not in the Bible (Like the Holy Graeal) or are in the Bible (like the star) so long as people believe that Jesus was the son of God and rose from the dead. That's all you need to believe.
Angels.
Actually, they are, but surprisingly for divine beings, they come in a variety of forms
It's specifically referring to the blond anglo-saxon guardian angel of the type that christian mommies and daddies tell their kids is hovering over their beds at night.
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The devil's pitchform, horns and goat legs.
The devil is in the Bible of course, but the conventional appearance derived from Pan plus a toasting - fork for use in barbequeing sinners is as unoriginal as Santa's red suit.
The Holy Grail.
Well, actually it is, if you take it as one of the bits of crockery used at the Last Supper, but all the Houpla and Hulabaloo is part of the Arthurian legend, not the Bible.
The Antichrist...well actually, he is in the Bible..."The Antichrist is mentioned only four times in the Bible, and each time he's described the same way:
Hell.
Well, of course, it is, quite a lot, actually (only the NT). But it is rather vague about it. IMO it was invented by Christians and none of them knew a darn thing about it.
Like the angel, we're talking about the version of these things that are shown in movies or told in stories. They simply don't exist in the bible.
Satan is not physically described in the bible. The "grail" came from later, non-biblical stories, the antichrist is not a specific entity but rather anyone who denies the divinity of Jesus (so that means I'm an antichrist), and the popular version of Hell comes straight from the schizophrenic, drug-addled visions of Dante.
As far as naming of the angels, that came from the Catholic Church. Very few angels get to be named in the Bible itself. But they are mentioned.
The phrase "God helps them that help themselves" is not found in the Bible anywhere, though some that agree with the phrase--as I do--believe it to be in there somewhere.
Actually, make that eight. We also miss humour, sound logic, and accurate quotemining.
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