Hey, Matt

Good for you.  Your note shows you are growing a discerning Spirit and
understanding the difference between the Truth and a lie.  The myth of
Lilith is very old and the result of, as you say, human beings trying to
understand something on their own terms so they don't have to accept GOD on
His terms.  Submissive wife?  Well, if GOD wants women to be submissive and
Eve is that wife, let us creat an anti-Eve in our own image who predates her
(and therefore succeeds her), and we come up with Lilith.  Lillith actually
is a Hebrew word and is in the Book of Isaiah, but it is interpreted as a
night creature of the desert.  Like those other creatures Brad mentioned
like Leviathan which we're really not certain about and might be dinosaurs
or might not.  It (the myth of Lilith) actually has its roots in mythology
going very far back, as a goddess or a demon, considered a creature or demon
of darkness.  The Talmud, which is a collection of very old sayings by
Rabbis and some very complex attempts at describing the indescribable,
considers Lilith (or the plural of the word) to be demons or evil creatures.
Some of those Rabbis say that Adam kept himself away from Eve because he
felt so bad for bringing evil into the world and that, when alone, had sex
with these mysterious creatures of the dark, bringing evil creatures into
the world.  Paul may have been referring to this as a way to warn men not to
withhold sex from their wives and wives not to withhold sex from their
husbands in 1 Corinthians 7:5.  But, as he did in Acts, referring to the
Unknown God, if he was referring to this myth, he did so only to relate to
the audience and not to say the myth was true, only that the practice of
husbands and wives withholding sex from each other was wrong.  As you
rightly said, all of that is just a distraction from the Truth of the Bible.

As far as television, except for maybe (and I emphasize maybe) some dramas
on Trinity Broadcasting Network you are not going to get anything nearly
accurate on the Bible on TV.  They are too much in love with their human
minds and trying to act like they are ever so much more knowledgeable than
the Bible and the poor schnooks who believe it.  Sigh.  A good example of
this is the History Channel.  Around Christmas and Easter you will always
see the History Channel doing programs on quote the real JESUS unquote and
there have been books on quote the historical JESUS unquote.  But that's far
from the Truth.  Instead they interject all sorts of lies and conjecture and
just stupid rumors, anything to give a new angle to the old, old story.
Anything to tickle ears as Paul says in 2 Timothy 4:3.  Even classic movies
like JESUS of Nazareth, etc. end up twisting things, putting words in the
mouths of Mary and Joseph, etc. and rearranging conversations and Scriptures
to the point where even gentle-souled lions end up screaming at the
television.  Smile.

The Bible or the Bible on CD or tape (and maybe those movies such as the
JESUS movie that are word for word from the Gospels) are your only safe
choices on the Truth.

Paul




----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 11:26 AM
Subject: glitches in studying bible


> Hi all,
> I tell you what, you never can tell when you will run into a perversion or
> get misled from the propper path when trying to study the bible.
> Terri and I were looking forward to viewing these programs on a and e the
> other night concerning the bible.  It is the sort of stuff I have watched
> before but not paid much attention too.  It's one of those shows where
they
> say, what did the bible say about ... and then they start pulling out
> scriptures which might pretain.
> Then they debate this or that or maybe those...
> I am big on genesis, since Jimmy Evans quoted from it a lot when talking
of
> what god intended marage and relationships to be.
> However, they started talking about Adam having a first wife before Eav.
> I don't think they gave a reference for this information but in looking on
> the net for Adam and this supposed first wife's name, Lilith, I found
> reference to a ficticious wife mentioned in the torah.
> The scripture they did mention on this show to try and back this up was
> genesis 1 27.
> this is where it says so got created man and woman.  Their reasoning for
> this was because it appears before genesis 2 7 where it is speaking of god
> forming man from the dust of the ground.  Of course, woman comes later
from
> the man's rib.
> What they didn't mention on the show was that the first is an account of
> what he did in the 6 days of creation and the second is mentioned in a
sort
> of history of what he had done in those 6 days.
> Or that is how I am reading it.
> What do you think?
> The websight I found on Lilith said that the only mention of Lilith in the
> bible was Isaia 34 14 and I looked that up and it made no since to me.
> I am still going to read around it and see but at first glance I didn't
see
> it.
> Things like this show on tv cause Terri and I to pull away from the
showsand
> question what they are talking about and say, no that's not right and
> they're just trying to grab people's attention or stir up evil in them.
> Well, that's what I think.
> Do you folks ever watch this kind of stuff?
> As I say, I used to watch it with some interest but now it's starting to
> just turn me off.
>
> Matt