why did the people who canonized scripture leave out Clement?
Jude is quoting from the book of Enoch which was written some 300 years before Christ NOT written by Enoch (preflood).
>The director of a movie also directs the villain.
I am cynical but that is an extremely cynical view of God.
So it is God that has the problem not man?
You make God out to be un-relatable.
I will buy that book and read it. Not intending to be argumentative sometimes thoughts written can come across different that if spoken.
I asked the questions about satan because the traditional explanations conflict with reality & what I see in scripture.
>All were/are granted free will.
Jesus said 'let your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven'….
How can there be a rebellion where God resides if His will is being done?
I ask these type of questions not to confuse or create argument but to cause curiosity in what this implicates…
Man can operate in a 'heavenly realm' but there is no access to the 'Heavenly realm' where the Creator resides other than through Christ.
The heavens that Lucifer (Nebuchadnezzar) fell from was his commanding position over mankind at the time. Ruling over man as if God was ruling.
Same concept can be found with Nimrod and the Tower of Babel. Build the tower into the heavens… Which could have the meaning of 'the leadership at the top will govern as if the authority was from Heaven'…
This 'church structure/model' continues today with all organized religion.
Christ is the only head of the church…
Thanks anon!
I did so that the 'implications' I was referencing could be expounded…
great try though.