I was highlighting the flaw of your ancient cave painting analogy. I was highlighting the bible hadn't changed. Although having said that... there are certain changes being noticed in new modern bible versions. 'By their fruit we shall read them' ... to who's advantage and gain.
Which Bible has not changed, since when, and how would you know?
That's because people still assert that the DSS are the collections of the Essenes. What escapes the awareness oddly enough is... non of doctrines of the Essenes are there, rather you'll find them in the Nag Hamadi. People studying this have a case that these are more likely to be the collections of John the Baptist or his followers or both. The NT hints them being in that area, which makes much more sense. Also the DSS tally's with for example the three known books of Enoch. The DSS doesn't include 2 or 3 Enoch because they were written much later. Tallying with the Ethiopian bible which has only 1 Enoch.
The various translated Bible's and scriptures throughout as far as I can tell demonstrates this. Unless...you can show me where then I can be corrected. Not talking of the modern bibles
I tried
… and immutable, unchanging, eternal etc.
I am happy to use any of them. The narrative is mainly the same, as I have said previously, which in fact, irony would have it... it was you who brought up the changes issue of bible translations initially. My point for changes in modern bibles is for example like the NIV, which is missing a few verses.
Actually it was an angel who stopped Abraham....
That sure is an old translation - I have no idea what "haply" means. Maybe those passages are saying that God endorses righteous anger through miracles/etc and curses... e.g. with the naked Noah and 2 Kings 2:23-24:
On the topic of an angry God I like the following - Isaiah 63:3-6
You must be mixed up with books similar to Harry Potter. The bible is against magic which describes the conjurors as magicians, witches charlatans, fortune tellers, sorcerers; people who evoke demons or spirits, that do bewildering things etc. & etc.. In comparison... counter to magic. God is the ultimate science master.
The Bible is against magic in exactly the same way that drug barons are against dealing in drugs. They're absolutely determined that any competitor should not be tolerated.
I think in magick there is a system where an effect can be consistently repeated by using the correct words, etc - it can involve "sigils" (though perhaps not really do anything). I don't think the miracles supposedly done by Jesus are like that.
That is definitely not true, at least not of Crowleyan magick (it was Aleister Crowley who championed the spelling "magick", and his spiritual descendants who predominately use it now). While signs and sigils do have consistent meanings, that doesn't mean they have consistent effects; they are only a channel for the Will of the magician, and the refinement and direction of the Will is the real focus of magick, not the signs and sigils and spells that guide it. Think of the spell the way that you do spelling: letters have consistent meanings and similar effects, but it is nevertheless the author writes the work.
I was using the NIRV translation which seems to be flawed in this case (for not mentioning them being female).
But it said "the Lord answers".... are you saying God didn't say that at all?
Well in the NIRV that is part of a new passage "Isaiah Praises the Lord and Prays to Him". Verse 7 is from Isaiah not the Lord. That doesn't mean the verses about God's anger can be ignored. Obviously God has other sides besides his angry side.
Like the Bible for instance?
Magic is by the bible, an imitation. An imitation counterfeit, in context, meaning magic can't really transform matter, prolong life or create life. Magic dazzles and fools you. God does the real thing, transforms matter and creates life. He knows about science very very well.
