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Replying to myth-one.com in post #1388]
Why do you ask? Would you believe it, if it was often replicated?
It is understandable enough in terms of how - if humans deny their bodies sustenance, then they will go through extreme mental transformations.
My interest, and why I asked, is that it seems peculiar that Jesus would mention his desert experience to anyone, since no one was there to witness it, and I want to know if any of the other gospels mention it, and if not, how did the story end up being part of the contents of the Bible?
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My only claim is that it is supported in the Bible that angels ruled over the earth originally.
That some of them rebelled against God, and warred in Heaven.
That they were subdued and cast back down to the earth. As a result of their neglect, the earth had become empty, void, and dark.
God returned and re-created the decimated earth and gave mortal man dominion over the earth.
Man is in training to replace those rebellious angels.
Those humans chosen to do so will become equal to the angels by gaining immortal spiritual bodies.
They will then rule over the earth forever under leadership of the Word.
My response is that your interpretation of bits of Biblical writ into an elaborate storyline is perhaps incorrect.
It appears to me to be something which should have been dedicated a whole book to itself that we humans are more fully informed rather than having to reply upon snippets of information built upon snippets of information.
If the story is true the way you tell it, then there would be more information available in the Bible, than what there actually is, since such Angelic Beings are so influential and involved with Earth as you claim.
As it is, the snippets are more likely as not, to being cast from the minds of imaginative humans trying to work out how come bad things happen within something which was supposed to be deemed "Good" by The Creator of said thing, and thus - "some kind of antagonist" must be involved.
I don't think it is necessary to go that far, and religion having done so with their snippets - haven't served the world in any great way, going down that particular rabbit hole.