Ancient demonology

[yiostheoy]

The most ancient concept of a demon (daemon in Greek) comes from the Assyrians of the 25th Century BCE.

This demon was a bringer of storms and drought.

The demon was corporeal and comprised of the torso of a man, the head of a doglike lion, talons of an eagle, two pairs of wings, and a scorpion's tail.

The notion of demons as living intelligences that bring evil to mankind is therefore ancient and predates Old Testament (Tenakh) references by 1,000 years.

This notion then entered religion by way of the stories told by the Biblical authors.

In the Greek New Testament, Jesus Himself confronts this master demon in the wilderness and was tempted by him to give up His own mission and succumb to wealth and worldly power.

Pazuzu - Wikipedia

Humans failed to keep most of their documents. The absence of earlier documents won't make your statement true. Today's humans can acquire up to 0.000000000001% overall documents possibly written 25th Century BCE or earlier, plus that not all human ethnic groups had writing capability which by no means says that they didn't have the demon concept back then. So your statement can stand a possible truth only when "the absence of evidence is the evidence of absence".

That said. Demons may be something different from the fallen angels as demons have the obsession of occupying a physical body. Most likely they once have such a physical body. Demons could be the giants of their descendants as a result of "the sons of god" married the daughters of humans.

They could also be trained human spirits (trained by the fallen angels to have acquired some sort of specialties, such as possessing humans).

War has destroyed most libraries around the world.

But even those were mostly accounting and tax records.

Hesiod, Homer, Moses, and a few others are the best sources of old narrative documents that we have. There are also more recent versions of Gilgamesh as well, concurrent with the ancient Greeks but not as ancient as Moses nor the Egyptian hieroglyphs.

The demon concept seems to be Mesopotamian. Not Egyptian nor Greek.

Homer? Seriously? Homer's Iliad occurred in 900 BC, the earliest known copy was from 400 BC, 500 years after the event. There are a total of 643 known copies which have a 95% accuracy between copies. There are presently 5,686 Greek manuscripts in existence today for the New Testament with a 99.5% accuracy between copies. The earliest being only 100 years after the event. It seems you have selective standards.

ding you have stated a bunch of facts but you come to no particular conclusion. Care to finish ??

 

[HaShev]

Do you believe that God actively works in your life today?

There is a ton of evidence that God is a Deist God not a Theist God.

Otherwise it would not have taken God so long to help the Jews of Germany who were being gassed by Adolf.

God saved them eventually but not right away.

And to save them God required the help of FDR and of Gen. Ike.

Bad assertion for numerous reasons.
The Hebrew God is not a man nor form to tangibly be involved. The mediation is done by the hosts in the Essence of God and interference is restricted for reasons within nature (cause & affect) & in changing
history. Like preventing the result formation of Israel which then could of made Europe infiltrated by radicalists causing even worse global situations.
To assert there was no involvement is also mistaken. What part of thpu dhalt not murder does the world not understand or the fact;
The greatest maniacs though history who have done such horrible things to humanity and nature, the tops ones, have all been political prisoners. We were warned by what you claim is non involvment.
The Dead Sea Scrolls
(4Q266 -7 fr 5) warned us of a rule they had back then about not listening to leaders/teachers who had been politically imprisoned as we see why through history, if only we had obeyed the simple rule.

So assertions are through not knowing what the source is and the processes while also not knowing all the broken guidelines.
Furthermore no mattr how you try and change fate the connectivity and affect reactions always will try to bring things back.
Once you manage to change fate through all the restrictions therecs still one thing people forget about. The need to come back into ones position held before the changes.
Hence the secret of the Celtic lore matches the Judaic legend that THE Michael "returns" to his inheritence and "restores"
"the Staff of Aaron".
It is not physically returning, but a
restoration back to the inheritence.
Sources:
Numbers/Korach
17:25 Vayomer Adonay el-Moshe
HASHEV et-mateh Aharon lifney ha'edut lemishmeret le'ot
livney-Meri utechal telunotam me'alay velo yamutu.
God said to Moses, "Put Aaron's staff back there before
the [Ark of] Testimony as a keepsake. Let it be a sign for anyone who wants to rebel.
This should put an end to their complaints to Me, and then they will not die."

4QSe (4Q259) the Moshiach's Aaron Lineage.

 

[ding]

I am glad you try to treat everyone with respect...Yes I am Jewish. Michael is Hashev...

Thank you. So do you believe God is actively working in your life? Or do you believe you are on your own?

 

[ding]

The most ancient concept of a demon (daemon in Greek) comes from the Assyrians of the 25th Century BCE.

This demon was a bringer of storms and drought.

The demon was corporeal and comprised of the torso of a man, the head of a doglike lion, talons of an eagle, two pairs of wings, and a scorpion's tail.

The notion of demons as living intelligences that bring evil to mankind is therefore ancient and predates Old Testament (Tenakh) references by 1,000 years.

This notion then entered religion by way of the stories told by the Biblical authors.

In the Greek New Testament, Jesus Himself confronts this master demon in the wilderness and was tempted by him to give up His own mission and succumb to wealth and worldly power.

Pazuzu - Wikipedia

Humans failed to keep most of their documents. The absence of earlier documents won't make your statement true. Today's humans can acquire up to 0.000000000001% overall documents possibly written 25th Century BCE or earlier, plus that not all human ethnic groups had writing capability which by no means says that they didn't have the demon concept back then. So your statement can stand a possible truth only when "the absence of evidence is the evidence of absence".

That said. Demons may be something different from the fallen angels as demons have the obsession of occupying a physical body. Most likely they once have such a physical body. Demons could be the giants of their descendants as a result of "the sons of god" married the daughters of humans.

They could also be trained human spirits (trained by the fallen angels to have acquired some sort of specialties, such as possessing humans).

War has destroyed most libraries around the world.

But even those were mostly accounting and tax records.

Hesiod, Homer, Moses, and a few others are the best sources of old narrative documents that we have. There are also more recent versions of Gilgamesh as well, concurrent with the ancient Greeks but not as ancient as Moses nor the Egyptian hieroglyphs.

The demon concept seems to be Mesopotamian. Not Egyptian nor Greek.

Homer? Seriously? Homer's Iliad occurred in 900 BC, the earliest known copy was from 400 BC, 500 years after the event. There are a total of 643 known copies which have a 95% accuracy between copies. There are presently 5,686 Greek manuscripts in existence today for the New Testament with a 99.5% accuracy between copies. The earliest being only 100 years after the event. It seems you have selective standards.

ding you have stated a bunch of facts but you come to no particular conclusion. Care to finish ??

No. I started with the assertion. You weren't interested in it.