A point very well made. Thank you.

Thanks to the replies of several people now I'm in a place of better understanding regarding the suitability of the names and roles used when referring to the Gods. I'm also pleased to have sparked debate, hopefully people other than me have benefited from the collective efforts made to...

Having watched that [And a few related links] , my sense of reason has come under heavy assault and insult. Could you perhaps recommend a recent book which collects these speculations into something coherent and which holds up to modern scientific / astrophysical scrutiny?

Not an answer as such but a reaction to the kind of question posed. There are some things we know we do not know, some of which are temporary conditions constrained by technology or limited cognition. Of these there are things which we know we one day can know, based on the pattern of...

Again, thanks for the input! I suppose my thoughts were delivered within the constraints of a Judeo-centric syntax. If one was to say Daemon to the 'average' thoughtless layman, one would be summoning up the ignorant image of slobbering red-skinned satyrs, hell-bent on brutality. Pardon the...

I really appreciate your input, and welcome any others who can better inform us :D ~Nephil_Improv _________________________

Just a fleeting thought on the nature of appropriate entitlement, answerable only by those lucky enough to speak with or for Enki and his influential cohorts: Would these mighty entities whom mortals have long-since branded Demons take kindly to the notion of being instead called Angels, or...

I'm halfway through this book, The Devil - A Biography, by Peter Stanford, and I'm hoping some here have read it to discuss and that others might consider it. The investigation recounts the history of the Christian devil from his humble beginnings as celestial prosecutor in the Jewish canon...

I am new to this group, but I have come here having spent the last four hours taking in knowledge from the JoS archives. And the last four months in weekly debates with local Jehova's Witnesses in an attempt to get them to honestly interact with and critique the multitude of inherent fallacies...