Greetings,

Possibilities, but not from a biblical scholar:

Moses has the starring role in Numbers 31, and he also wrote it!   Even such a God-chosen good person may be be a bit self-serving sometimes.

Death is no big deal to God. He knows it's only temporary. He could speak of it in brutal terms because peoples' lives were more brutal then.

God knew what He needed to have happen in order that His plan unfold. He used whatever means were necessary for those times. He uses whatever means are currently  necessary too; we just don't have a Moses to record the instructions.


Bets

hmm Alan..I'm not a bible scholar either. I just memorized in my soul things JC said which rang true for me.  the people in the bible were the current scribes of the times..hopefully mankind is not as brutal as they once were.
I guess if you look at it another way, Earth is a warring planet. I assume if Earth is a warring planet, then there must be other planets where war is not a consideration. just unthinkable.

so if u say u haven't much time left Alan and you are weary and tired, I can say the same about myself. I would like to make a proposal: can I meet you someday in the hereafter on a peaceful planet?

I would love to have tea and crumpets with my brother.

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Hi Blink I could share my beliefs and faith I have. It's an honest question. God does not have a dark side. Being spirit we take a physical body, and with this physical walk through matter, it is necessary to take and build an ego. We join in with the collective area and we are told to learn all about the world and how to behave ourselves according to the collective social rules.

It is the ego which is dark. It is generally wanting to add unto itself and grow more powerful.
the ego is not who we really are. In our essence we are spirit, we are love.

we come to the world to essentially view the contrast and discover our true selves once more through struggle, pain and suffering is sometimes our journey. Other lives, a life of ease may not yield up much in the way of a fruit of the soul to return to our wider disc, or level of afterlife station, which is the before life station he same. our true home is not here. we are on a journey, in a movie. Death is not real, that's why I say movie.

There comes a time when the ego begins to die off, as it is seen for what it is, a self image that can never be satisfied, though it may have fame and fortune, the real satisfaction is knowing who you really are, and in this knowing, one with god, with all that is, pain and suffering, struggle and strife cease as you understand the ego is the one to make this suffering, and also the ego will tell you suffering is necessary.
It is not necessary and all suffering ceases when you know that you are love, which is the love of the father also, God, the force, Atman, The Buddhic nature, we have so many names for higher self, it's all the same.

It's in our hands to choose love because we wanted to be here, to experience a physical honing process, and then coming back to this particular dimension is a choice for the soul, or to go onto plan other vistas "to be" existing within.
Free will means being able to choose our reality. It's easier to do it together than singly because the ego can be a vicious guard of it's spoils. Yet PUL can sweep the ego away into the dust and nothingness which it really is.
Here, I view life as we all wear these masks at a costume party. In the afterlife we have no mask on the higher levels, and getting home, we often say, wow, I thought that life was Real!

It's not real here. everybody is telling a big lie believing they are not this love essence, or they are screaming give me some love from others.
sometimes u can give them what they need, other times you have to walk away and pray for them. then what's really amazing, is prayer works!
two voices in the head, one speaks first; the ego, the softer voice is our connection to God, creative thought. Most often, but it's changing, we can't tell the difference between the ego and the spirit speaking. yet we have assistance nowdays in greater measure, because we have to be able to tell which is the voice of love, and which is the voice of the self serving ego.

Lucifer, the fallen angel, I believe is a symbol for man's ego having come to Earth. Now, the good news is I have a good report I trust that Lucifer has returned home! lol!
which means the ego has no more power in and of itself to block our visions of cummuning with those beings who are now ascended and which I call spirit.

hope that helps...our words though, are twice removed from our certain reality to all knowledge.

SHSS, this is not a "Christian" site but, rather, an "exploration" site, but I understand your hesitation. All ideas, belief systems and experiences are open here for discussion, and we have varying degrees of success in discussing these ideas peacefully with each other, because they quite naturally bring up emotions for people from time to time.

The beliefs that influence me change from day to day, and I am becoming more open to that, as a way of being. It's not always easy to be open, for me.

Basically, personal experiences are accepted here, from any belief system. We all come from somewhere, so I guess we come together with whatever is in our basket, and try to feed ourselves and each other. Yes, that is a Christian image: Jesus sharing the fish and the bread with the multitudes, stretching out a little to feed a crowd.

I wonder if the fish or the bread looked different to each person in the crowd?

I like to think about things like that....

Thanks Blink and LaffingRain.  I did not mean to imply that I have been to the Monroe Institute.  I know someone who has and so I have all the cd's and books I can buy and have been exploring on my own for many years.  Sorry.  PUL

I am going to shut up about religion, just wanted to answer.

PUL, got a new word,
SHSS 

Hi Alan,

Yes, if there is anything I have learned since the internet came out is how easy it is to misunderstand and to be misunderstood in an email or post.
I would love to take you up on the tea and crumpets.  Thank you.   Maybe we can have a good old party soon and celebrate having graduated this game.
I personally believe that ALL is ALL and as you mentioned-in your way-Yahweh is both the light and the darkness.
You know when you get into some focuses where you cannot compare things.  Like, how can you tell if something is big if there is no small.  How can you tell if something is hot etc.  without something to compare it to.  How can you tell what is good or healthy if there is no contrast?  This is why I cannot understand how some say especially now-a-days that we can get rid of all black for example.  I think it would be great to rest in loving white for some no-time, but then after trillions of non-years, it might get boring.
And then we might go out looking for some trouble to get into again.

PUL
SHSS 

well ha! you two, I'm going to go be a mermaid somewhere after this life...I wouldn't want to get bored after all...