Enochic Judaism include: the idea that evil and impurity on Earth originated as a result of angels
Completely false.
That's what happens when you get your theology from Wikipedia, you get led astray by every foolish suggestion you encounter because you literally don't know any better.
This extends throughout the rest of your comment.. Wikipedia pays big money to make sure every article has leftist ideology; none of this is even concerned with accuracy.
You know nothing about any of this.
You still get your theology from Wikipedia.
You've still never been to church.
Ideologically, you are a Houthi.
You are correct! Although the term "Deuterocanonical" is helpful to introduce here, as apocrypha is also used in ways that don't pertain to Enoch and that makes everything confusing. Deuterocanon simply means second Canon, which is appropriate.
Additionally, most of the difficult sayings of Jesus quote the book of Enoch. This is important because it tells us that Jews of His day read Enoch, enough to be VERY familiar with it.
Parts of Enoch make it impossible to miss that Jesus was the Promised Messiah, and these parts were written more than 150 years before He was born. It then becomes significant why Jews felt it necessary to remove Enoch from their Canon.
Has nothing to do with gnosticism.
You perpetuate your ignorance.
Oh, a wise guy huh?
Good!
Personally, I'd like him to pick ONE instance of "genocide," a completely anachronistic term, and to discuss that one reasonably from every angle until it's exhausted.
The basic issues include the teaching tool of moral dilemma, which appears countless times throughout the OT. It's designed to cultivate critical thinking. This idea completely clashes with the bias he inherently brings to the topic. It will help him to discover the source of that bias; he mentioned a prior gf and I imagine she DID influence him, but I bet he'll discover earlier influences in his life. That will be key.
My interest here is solely to help him understand the literature in question, which is in fact difficult. It's also richly rewarding! Just at the level of literature.
There's a lot we can learn about this online, that gives insight into the whole sheep thing in Scripture.
Basically they are very smart; smart enough that they have distinct personalities. They also are extremely picky about who they trust and who they do not. I guess that makes sense when you're basically lunch on a stick for wolves. And while modern shepherds use guns and sheepdogs in combination, and sheepdogs are some of the most dangerous dogs there are for this exact reason, (they're bred to fight to the death and you aren't breaking their skull which is the guaranteed way to definitely stop most dogs that might attack) Biblical shepherds relied on different techniques.
Those techniques were common knowledge at the time, and therefore never explained in Scripture. I don't remember the details off the top of my head well enough to explain it clearly, but I do recall that it adds a lot of richness to the Word.
Personally, the most interaction I've had with a sheep was getting to the point where one would ram into me because it wanted affection. They are surprisingly forceful, and unsurprisingly related to ... Rams! I was shocked by this at first, and frankly so was the shepherd; sheep don't usually take to someone that quickly.
naive and trusting and not to use your critical faculties
This is completely false.
This is proven extensively through Scripture - but again this is not something that can be addressed quickly and easily.
This is NOT what sheep refer to in Scripture!
NOT AT ALL
This is only one of the many things that we as English speakers inherently miss out on, that ANE (ancient near east) culture understood as common knowledge.
David was a shepherd; as such, he had intimate knowledge of sheep. Have you even met a shepherd?
Never happened.
Salvation: Gnosticism emphasizes knowledge (gnosis) as the path to salvation.
Which is not salvation in any sense of the word.
This is entirely opposite from Christianity.
You go ahead and prepare for your final exam, which upon passing you will be granted entrance into Eternal Life.
Meanwhile:
"And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them." (Revelation 20:12)
Quick, what Old Testament writing is this based on? I'm sure you not only don't know, but have no idea how to find out. Go ahead and search your Wikipedia, it might even give you a correct answer. Which does not at all mean you would have any understanding of it.
You are correct in what you think. I don't believe Jesus was real, I believe he was a trick rustled up by Jews
History proves Jesus was real, much to the chagrin of Jews.
Your expressed thinking is entirely backwards here. There is also much to be learned about the development of the Bible itself that speaks to these facts ...
Why order the murder of babies? And of livestock?
There are definite answers to this.
Understanding even just one of them requires patience; and there are many different answers, all of which have their own unique facet of truth.
Perhaps the place to begin is by looking at where these appear in Scripture, and how incredible it is that we can recover any meaning at all from such ancient scribblings. Have you devoted any effort to this?
Following Jesus is EXACTLY why the US was founded!
The challenge, as you put it, is deep. While it certainly is an opportunity to grow, it's not the easiest step to take, and neither is it a small one. I urge you to pray, to see if God even wants you addressing this in your own walk at this time.
I suggest that exploring what SS is into is an essential prerequisite to this topic, broadly. Also that Jewish teaching on this includes many perspectives, none of which deserve to be ignored. I seriously doubt that OP has the patience for any of this, if he has even a drop of sincerity. Hopefully I'm proven wrong about that, but it's not a light matter.
Jesus, insofar as he even existed, had no time for you unless you were Jewish. In fact, Jesus saw you as his enemies whom he was to rule over.
This is completely false.
Your entire position is based on ignorance.
This can be discussed, but it isn't brief.
You're whack.
Some people just need to be whacked.
USA was absolutely founded on Christianity.
People like you have NEVER been trusted in the US.
Energy harvesting is exactly the plot of The Matrix, right? I think it's possible now. Data harvesting was made legal with the Patriot Act and was going on long before that. In fact TD had an AMA with someone who created a program designed to let the government actually use the data they collect, via trimming down what they collect to only that which is useful. Instead they kept collecting everything which was entirely illegal, and AI in this sense is primarily about sifting through all that to find whatever they decide to look for.
In a positive sense AI could analyze medical records to help Doctors recognize diagnose and treat rare conditions they have little or no experience with but someone has.
body area networks, internet of bodies blockchain
I have no idea what these are so thanks for the link. AI is not even artificial intelligence yet, it's 0 intelligence. Of course you know the sci Fi plots, which are pretty well thought through I think. And Elon's comments on that topic are not at all comforting.
First link does not pertain to government. I'm not sure of the best way to define this scope, but it's not government. Of course fascism as defined by the unholy mix of government and corporations muddies this important distinction.
Final link doesn't equate to "being governed by AI" either. A surveillance camera having a radius of 7 miles is also not being governed by AI, but the creepy similarity to the eye of Sauron will give some pause.
Thanks for defining your term. It's how I read it, but I want to be careful to not make the mistake of assuming.
You've got sincere concerns. Elon Musk is not on our side when it comes to AI, transhumanism, etc. I do think he's got good motives concerning holding government accountable (waste fraud and abuse) which is synonymous with draining the swamp, so I understand the collaboration.
Let me address your concerns re: war and peace. While you're more concerned with the middle east, the war with Russia is much simpler to discuss. If you go by what DJT says at this stage (of either) you'll be left confused and upset. He's trying to get Russia to tip their hand as to what they're willing to accept in order to end the war. Zelensky's big mad about being excluded, but he's irrelevant until DJT knows what Russia will accept vs is not willing to compromise on. While he'd prefer getting that info from Putin, he'll work with whatever he can get.
So far Russia is demanding control of all 5 oblasts Putin wrote into the Russian Constitution, which would be a 30% increase of territory held within Ukraine. There are also two other points, but this is a non starter. If DJT cannot get Putin to budge he'll fail to make peace here. Whether Ukraine will "fight to the last man" or whether Europe will ever enter the fight without their own borders being attacked remains to be seen, but arriving at this stage was always OBVIOUS. Whether the risk of nuclear war has actually reduced since the beginning of Putin's invasion is anybody's guess, but the consensus guess is that risk is now lower. I'll opine it will never be 0 if any real resistance is made.
Similarly Israel and Hamas are at an impasse: will not! Will too! re: Hamas losing all power and influence in Gaza and disarming. It's quite possible that DJT's best efforts at making peace will fail there too, and it's obvious this is the DNC's plan. My opinion is that once Israel's stance of ending Hamas was declared (which was after all the current hostages were taken) they should've gone all in on wiping out Hamas, assuming all the hostages are dead. I'm really not a war hawk but Israel has only amplified their own suffering since, and BIGLY. Israel has released over 1700 of the worst Jihadist prisoners into Judea and Samaria, in exchange for less than 300 innocent hostages. This is a losing strategy.
None of this aligns with the emergence of the antichrist, although the days are certainly evil.
Please explain "AI governance."
I don't fault him for trying.
Notice he has not succeeded.
I'd be happy if we can avoid nuclear war.
In the same vein that simply taking over Gaza and removing all Palestinians for 15 years was proposed. If you prefer not to label it as "4D chess" that's ok, but this is exactly how the term is used. Leaders of Countries that have given this problem a sum total of 0 thought for 77 years are suddenly coming up with solutions of their own!
That's a win right there.
the challenging of orthodoxies, is dangerous.
The orthodoxy he's referring to is very clearly the status quo in DC.
This is simply more proof that it's a false gospel.