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Julius Caesar was Divine, Octavian became Divine, Jesus was Divine, His Father was Divine, Christians Could become Divine. Paul was Divine? (NOT as innocent)
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March 26, 2025 - 8:18 pm

Julius Caesar was Divine, Octavian became Divine, Jesus was Divine, His Father was Divine, Christians Could become Divine. Paul was Divine? (NOT as innocent)

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March 26, 2025 - 8:56 pm

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March 26, 2025 - 9:01 pm

Divine Means Holy.
(That’s why I have issues with the term “holy Bible.”)

Truth and accuracy are characteristics of holiness.
To be saved to truth and accuracy is what “Jesus,” “Christ/Drug for preserving life” wants.

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March 26, 2025 - 9:06 pm

There are archetypes of the divine.
All archetypes are not marked by humility or sacrifice.

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March 26, 2025 - 9:08 pm

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March 26, 2025 - 9:09 pm

So, if God is amoral, is God divine?

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March 28, 2025 - 12:10 pm

Jordan Peterson, author of Maps of Meaning:

Divinity points up.
Beauty points to divinity.
Divinity transcends beauty.

Your must fundamental axiom is divinity to you.

Steve Campbell, author of Historical Accuracy:

Your self-evidently true statement or proposition is your axiom.
Supply equals demand is an equilibrium that should be sought if we are not looking for scarcity.

Jordan, we are talking divinity, here.

Does Divinity Answer All of Our Prayers?

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March 28, 2025 - 9:04 pm

Divine is anything that was sacrificed to the gods. It is now dead and no longer exists.

Sacred is the opposite of Divine. It was saved from becoming divine. It is still alive and exists.

example: the sacred cow, the sacred books,

🤷‍♂️, words that have a evolving definition and usage.

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March 29, 2025 - 3:17 pm

Colin,

Is holiness dead and no longer exists?

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Colin Milton

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March 30, 2025 - 12:54 pm

They had sacrificed cows and so then made a cow of gold. The golden calf, a divine golden calf. The divine exists as a non-living manmade object. Exodus 32:4.

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Colin Milton

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March 30, 2025 - 1:05 pm

The blood of the animals had saved them from the angel of death. Passover tradition of the Exodus. As a result they had reasoned it amongst themselves that the animals can be divine as gods whom had saved them from death. 🤷‍♂️

The sacred living blood of animal sacrifices and dead divine idols of animals. The sacrificed animal is divine and the living scapegoat is sacred.

Holy is anything divine or sacred sent by the gods, God. The word Holy makes things less complicated because I do not have to specify if and why it is sacred or divine.

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Colin Milton

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March 30, 2025 - 1:44 pm

i won’t be deceptive,

my vocabulary intentionally creates a linguistic trap for Atheism. The aethist can simply redefine the words divine, sacred, holy, however they want to disagree with me.

God is Divine. That also means that God is not alive and or exists in the sense of the sacred living things that we can observe. The statement that God does not exist also means that God is divine. Thoughts are also divine.

They are prohibited from eating the divine meat in the New Covenant. The animals sacrificed to idols are now divine. The meat is divine because it is not alive.

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