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Clivedurdle · 01-20-2008, 08:46 AM

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angel and demonreligion demon also spelled daemon
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respectively, any benevolent or malevolent spiritual being that mediates between the transcendent and temporal realms.

Throughout the history of religions, varying kinds and degrees of beliefs have existed in various spiritual beings, powers, and principles that mediate between the realm of the sacred or holy—i.e., the transcendent realm—and the profane realm of time, space, and cause and effect. Such spiritual beings when regarded as benevolent are usually called angels in Western religions; those viewed as malevolent are termed demons. In other religions—Eastern, ancient, and those of nonliterate cultures—such intermediate beings are less categorical, for they may be benevolent in some circumstances and malevolent in others.

http://www.britannica.com/bps/home#t...20Encyclopedia

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....popular piety, feeding on graphic and symbolic representations of angels, has to some extent posited semi divine or even divine status to angelic figures. Though such occurrences are not usually sanctioned doctrinally or theologically, some angelic figures, such as Mithra (a Persian god who in Zoroastrianism became an angelic mediator between heaven and earth and judge and preserver of the created world), have achieved semi divine or divine status with their own cults.

Did a similar process occur within Judaism and with their Joshua Messiah?

mountainman · 01-20-2008, 02:37 PM

Jesus Christ is a fourth century Constantinian inspired
literary fiction character; and the story is still being rerun
in basilicas near you. The worlds greatest public relations
exercise. A top-down emperor cult which appeared out of
nowhere with Constantine, Pontifex Maximus, supreme
imperial mafia thug, military supremacist, malevolent despot
and the planet's very first christian.

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01-20-2008, 02:37 PM	#2
mountainman Contributor Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Falls Creek, Oz. Posts: 11,192	Jesus Christ is a fourth century Constantinian inspired literary fiction character; and the story is still being rerun in basilicas near you. The worlds greatest public relations exercise. A top-down emperor cult which appeared out of nowhere with Constantine, Pontifex Maximus, supreme imperial mafia thug, military supremacist, malevolent despot and the planet's very first christian.

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