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>extra-Biblical sources
Like the stuff that I asked about in the beginning, Dead Sea scrolls, Nag Hammadi, or Apocryphal texts?
I don't like those kinds of 'inconsistencies' they seem like cheap 'gotchas'. Reminds me of when atheism was the coolest and greatest thing like ten-fifteen years ago.
Gods original people being angels is something I've read before and is a cool concept. Slightly related I once read the theory that the true fall from grace could also be about when people stopped hearing God (or stopped listening), any thoughts on that?
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> don't like those kinds of 'inconsistencies' they seem like cheap 'gotchas'
Exactly what I mean. It is this type of stuff that kills civilizations. Atheists complain that Christians are stupid and dogmatic, but they are the ones who made modern Christianity what it is. Everytime two or more Christians habe a discussion about what certain passages or historical acts mean, an Atheist has to insert himself in to inform everyone that 'this literally proves that Christianity is fiction.' Obviously Christians should have simply ignored them, but people too often give in to their insecurities and take the safer, blander option

On extra-Biblical sources, I mean everything. Oral traditions, art, government actions; all of it. There are some things that the people in power do, even today, so they have to hide it with misdirection. >yeah we hoarded a bunch of ancient skeletons and burial artifacts, but people were using them to explain their pseudo science, so you're welcome.
This has been happening for as long as history has been recorded.

>true fall from grace could also be about when people stopped hearing God (or stopped listening), any thoughts on that?
I think that God was literally king of the original people, so I think that is an interesting idea. It is referenced in the Bible that the people of Israel were idiots for asking for a human king, as they could have just mad God their King. In the Garden of Eden, God walked with Adam. When the Greeks described Atlantis, it was the same thing. The gods were literally running Atlantis. There was one cult (I forget the name) that said there was an original race that had telepathic abilities, so maybe it was actually just the ability to hear God