Re: 2nd Season Joan of Arcadia - Common Thread - 5 star poll - SPOILERS AHOY !

kstahl <ktsahl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>KenM47 wrote:
>>>Take a look at the first chapter of Job in the so-called bible.
>> 
>> 
>> Sorry. Don't have one handy. Any chance you can explain?
>> 
>
>The first chapter talks about the "sons of god" getting together and 
>mentions that Satan was there as well and god has a conversation with 
>Satan and places a bet with him. The point is, there is no mention of 
>being Satan being an angel.
>
>The primary source for the explanation that the devil is a fallen angel 
>is John Milton's "Paradise Lost" - which, strictly speaking, is not 
>canonical.
>
>The only other comment I'll make is that the word translated into 
>English as "angel" is a Greek word which was used as an attempt to 
>translate a Hebrew word from the Masoretic text. Since the Masoretic 
>compilation was not assembled until about 600B.C. we have to accept that 
>the original form was not written in Hebrew, so the Hebrew is based on a 
>translation of some other language. Also, since we have no empirical 
>exemplar that can be used to identify an angel, then we really don't 
>know what an angel is in the first place.
>
>Geez, I hate having to explain religious things to religious people when 
>I'm not a religious person myself.

Well, you're explaining this to a non-religious person. Thanks.
All these years and I was unaware of this little controversy.

Does make one wonder where this Job  Satan was supposed to have come
from. Starts to make "Thou shall have no other Gods before me" seem a
competitive statement rather than a mere statement of fact.



Ken (Brooklyn)