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The whore is Jerusalem. They whored with Babylon.

Spirit and Soul are 2 different things. Spirit is directed force, and only God can preserve it.

Human breath is not immortal. And also, the Greeks believed it contained human intelligence.

It doesn't symbolize anything. Babylon may have existed back then.

Hellenistic writings are full [of] man being made from immortal sparks; Valentinus seems to have copied, and the church followed at the way.

It is a comparison, and it did happen.

@Davy I guess you know everything, and my simple statements about the last days being specifically about Israel, and their God-fearers are actually wrong.

Zelensky's arrogance to me is striking. Most his countrymen have left for Poland, and those who believe in his leadership are firing rockets; and he wants to fight for his independence, while he b-rates us. As a puppet dictator, he for some reason doesn't like Russia anymore, yet they made him...

They understand the Hebrew. There may have been one tree with both attributes.

Yet selfishness can also be self-preservation. God guided Jesus to his death and resurrection. We are not all ourselves expected to be as good.

The tree of Knowledge and the tree of Life are the same tree, per Jewish rabbis.

God is the king to which she is married, perhaps.

I must resort to this. Where is the proper place for the discussion of unorthodox "heretical ideas"?

It was a fall from favor. Favor not grace was the fall. Did not Eve's open when she ate it first?

In Revelations, the whore is Jerusalem, and Babylon the Great is just Babylon which Peter visited.

My personal observation is this. Adam and Eve gained sight by eating from a tree which is also the tree of life. To rebalance things, we had to die. Cain was not kicked out of the garden until he killed able, perhaps. But after that, no one gets free contact with God.

The Messiah came for Israel and God fearers. It incorrectly gets the nature of the atonement wrong. With it, there came a belief immortality of the soul etc. It makes God blood thirsty and only accepting of blind trust aka blind faith.

It means divine action on an object. There would be an iota, and the word would be θειον, if it was about divinity purely.

I think 100 BCE is too early for Rabbinical-Merkabah politics also. I assume your source is the Talmud and anything written at the time is collected from ancient notes of the same time.

You are mistaken. The powers debate is not pre-Gnostic, and the Talmud nor Ester is among the Dead Sea Scrolls, but some letters to Bar Kochba have been found in the same area.