just curious about people's belief systems....

[ploto]

I believe Jesus is the one and only Savior of the world. I believe that it is by grace, through faith that we are saved. I believe that salvation requires both believing in your heart and confessing with your mouth.

So are you prepared to claim that only those who do these 2 specific things have salvation- even to the point of excluding any hope for those who have never even heard of Jesus?

[Winehole23]

if there is no more free will in Heaven, then how is it that Lucifer came to know sin?

Ponam pedem in aquilonis et similis altissimo ero. -- Piers Plowman

118 Ponam pedem &c. An inexact quotation from Isaiah xiv 13 14 In coelum conscendam, super astra Dei exaltabo solium meum, sedebo in monte testamenti, in lateribus aquilonis. Ascendam super al udinem nubium; similis ero Altissimo. It is curious that wherever the fall of Lucifer is mentioned as in most of the places cited in the note above there is mention also of Lucifer's sitting in the north. We find it even in Milton P.L. v.755-76o

At length into the limits of the north
They came; and Satan to his royal seat
. . . . . . . . . .
The palace of great Lucifer, &c.

So in Skelton's Colin Clout:

Some say ye sit in trones,
Like princes aquilonis

So in the Anglo Saxon Version of the Hexameron of St Basil ed Norman 1849 P 6 which agrees closely with Isaiah In Chaucer's Freres Tale 115 the fiend lives in the north centre. In Text C of Piers Plowman William inquires why Lucifer chose the north side but fears he shall offend Northern men if he says much about it. Yet he hints that the north is the place for cold and discomfort and suitable enough for the fallen angel In the Icelandic Gyl inning we find ni(thorn)r ok nor(thorn)r liggr Helvegr, i.e., 'downwards and northwards lieth the way to .'

[Homeland Security]

Ponam pedem in aquilonis et similis altissimo ero. -- Piers Plowman

Satan is the common ancestor of all white people.

[tlongII]

Perhaps they made them for their gods in the sky to see.

Maybe. I wonder how they did it though? It's bizarre to me.

[tlongII]

Forgot about this one that some have speculated could represent an alien astronaut...

[Blake]

Maybe. I wonder how they did it though? It's bizarre to me.

I'm thinking that aliens that are capable of traveling millions of light years to another planet would be capable of more than a few crude drawings of Earth creatures.

That 4th pic looks like they are giving the aliens the middle finger

[tlongII]

I'm thinking that aliens that are capable of traveling millions of light years to another planet would be capable of more than a few crude drawings of Earth creatures.

That 4th pic looks like they are giving the aliens the middle finger

Actually the 4th picture is a hummingbird. And I don't think aliens drew the pictures. I just thought it was possible that aliens inspired them. I doubt it though. They're probably just for their gods to see.

[JoeChalupa]

I've always found those drawings fascinating.

[Blake]

And I don't think aliens drew the pictures. I just thought it was possible that aliens inspired them.

aliens inspired them to draw giant pictures of other earth creatures?

I doubt it too.

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

Perhaps they made them for their gods in the sky to see.

Makes sense.