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<h1><span style="color: #339966;"><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The Spirit of Python Promoted Paul in Acts 16:16</span></strong></span></h1>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">In Acts 14, wherever Paul went to evangelize with Barnabas, Paul was the “chief speaker.” (<a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/14-12.htm">Acts 14:12</a>.) In Acts 16, Paul is preaching at Philippi, and is heard by a demon possessed woman known as <strong>Python</strong>. (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+16%3A16&version=YLT">Acts 16:16</a>.) She was popular at Philippi as a soothsayer whom people paid for prophecies. Those aspiring to be kings and rulers would vie for her endorsement to gain acceptance from among the people. Large parts of Greece fell to Philip of Macedon because Philip bribed the Python priestess to prophesy he would conquer. (See <em>infra</em>.) The Pythoness thus was a 'rock-star' -- to use a modern equivalent.</span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1"><sup>17</sup>she having followed Paul and us, was crying, saying, `<strong>These men are servants of the Most High God, who <span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">declare to us a way of salvation</span>;'</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">(Technically, the god Phobus was the god of light, and he morphed into "Apollo Pythia." See <a href="http://www.pantheon.org/articles/a/apollo.html">link</a>.) </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">On this tripod sat a coiled serpent statue with three heads known as the Python. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">Technically, in Greek mythology, Apollo previously slayed the prophesying Python, but now through his female Pythia priestess at Delphi, also known as Python, the Python spirit spoke. See Leadbetter, "<a href="http://www.pantheon.org/articles/a/apollo.html">Apollo</a>," Pantheon.org. </span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">"As the cone or pyramid was a symbol of the sun's rays, this typified the worship of Apollo, <strong><em>the Sun-god with that of the Serpent, the python</em></strong>, the earth deity." (M. Oldfield Howey, <span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">The Encircled Serpent a Study of Serpent Symbolism in All Countries And Ages</span> (1900) at <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=SY6DUnOOZSAC&lpg=PA142&dq=%22spirit%20of%20python&pg=PA143#v=onepage&q=%22spirit%20of%20python&f=false">143</a>.)</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">Clearly, the spirit of Python is the<em><strong> spirit of Satan</strong></em> / Apollos / Lucifer -- the "blinding light" (see "<a href="/topicindex/223-who-is-the-blinding-angel-of-light.html">Who Is Blinding Angel of Light</a>") -- even worshipped as a large three-headed Serpent. The "pythoness" -- the young virgin who would speak the Serpent's prophecies -- had to sit on the tripod at the Temple of Python / Apollo at Delphos / Delphi. Eventually there were always three young virgins who would alternate at the task. (Howey, <em>Id., </em>at <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=SY6DUnOOZSAC&lpg=PA142&dq=%22spirit%20of%20python&pg=PA144#v=onepage&q=%22spirit%20of%20python&f=false">144</a>.)</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">Delphos of Greece and its oracle became linked to Philippi in Macedon because in the<img src="/images/stories/JWOBook/apolloslayspython.jpg" alt="apolloslayspython" width="198" height="298" style="float: right;" /> 300s BC Macedon under <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_II_of_Macedon">Philip II </a>seized parts of Greece by bribing the Python oracle to give prophecies of his success. It was said by Demosthenes that the oracle had become "<em><strong>Philipized</strong></em>." <em>Id., </em>at <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=SY6DUnOOZSAC&lpg=PA142&dq=%22spirit%20of%20python&pg=PA146#v=onepage&q=%22spirit%20of%20python&f=false">146</a>.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">[Painting to right is 'Apollo slaying the Python' by Eugene Delacroix - died 1863]</span></p>
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<h1><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #0000ff;" data-mce-mark="1">Python Priestess of Phillipi</span></strong></span></h1>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">The Python priestess at Philippi within Macedon thereby was just another sister-prophetess to the three who rotated the role at Delphi. The Philippian Python is the one whom Paul met:</span></p>
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<p style="margin-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">12 </span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">thence also [we came] to Philippi, which is a principal city of the part of Macedonia -- a colony. And we were in this city abiding certain days,...<span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">16 </span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">And it came to pass in our going on to prayer, a certain maid, having <em><strong>a spirit of Python</strong></em>, did meet us, who <em><strong>brought much employment to her masters by soothsaying</strong></em>, (<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%2016&version=YLT">Acts 16:12, 16 YLT</a>.)</span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">She was equally an "agent of Satan" explains Chr. Wordsworth, D.D., Canon of Westminster, in his <em><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">The New Testament of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in the original Greek</span> </em>(Ed. Ch. Wordsworth, D.D., Canon of Westminster)(Rivington 1862) at <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=JWs0hmbprQ4C&lpg=PA120&ots=G-K4dokGU8&dq=philippi%20python&pg=PA120#v=onepage&q=philippi%20python&f=false" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">120</a>. He explains what this label of Python applied to this young girl represented:</span></p>
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<p style="margin-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">"A remarkable expression. The damsel was possessed by an evil spirit....<strong>Python</strong> spirit, a word never occurring in the gospels....[T]he word <strong>Python</strong> would sound a note strong on the Greek and Roman ear. How much was contained in those words? <strong>Python</strong> was the prophetic serpent at Delphi, the center and focus of Gentile divination. The <strong>Python</strong> gave his name and place to the prophetic deity of the Gentile world. The successor of the Serpent of Delphi was the Pythian Phoebus or Apollo. And from him <em><strong>all who claimed the powers of divination received their title, and were called Pythons</strong></em>. [Author provides numerous examples from Greek literature.] Therefore <em><strong>this damsel at Philippi</strong></em> with her Pythonistic possession was, according to her degree, <em><strong>a representative of Pythia who sat on the tripod of Delphi,</strong></em> and who delivered the responses in the name of Pythian Apollo, the successor of the Serpent, and brought much gain and renown to her masters, at that place, and deceived the world by her sorceries. Hence. <strong>St. Luke calls the Spirit </strong>at Philippi, <strong>Python</strong>....<em><strong>The Python was an agent of Satan</strong></em>." <span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"><em>Id.</em><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">, <span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">at </span><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=JWs0hmbprQ4C&lpg=PA120&ots=G-K4dokGU8&dq=philippi%20python&pg=PA120#v=onepage&q=philippi%20python&f=false" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">120</a>.</span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">Predictably, this devout Christian author blinds himself to the importance that for "many days" this influential Python counterpart to the one at Delphi was endorsing <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=JWs0hmbprQ4C&lpg=PA120&ots=G-K4dokGU8&dq=philippi%20python&pg=PA120&ci=104%2C1374%2C447%2C112&source=bookclip"><img src="http://books.google.com/books?id=JWs0hmbprQ4C&pg=PA120&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U21VWYAvreO-H2g36TQGTy4t48iRQ&ci=104%2C1374%2C447%2C112&edge=0" alt="" style="float: right;" /></a>the plan of salvation from Paul. This author simply goes on to say by virtue of Paul casting out the demon later that Paul teaches the Python was an "unclean spirit," and is "denounced and ejected by St. Paul." It never dawns on this author to question the significance of Paul's delay and the interim endorsement of Paul's gospel by what this author admits is a popular and influential "agent of Satan." </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">Obviously aware of the problem we are about to expose, most translations other than Young's Literal <strong>never properly translate</strong> this as "spirit of Python." So the King James simply has it the "spirit of divination." (<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=acts%2016:16-19&version=KJV">Acts 16:16-19 KJV</a>.) The New International Version is even wimpier, saying simply she had a "spirit." (<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=acts%2016:16-19&version=NIV">Acts 16:16 NIV</a>.) Virtually all the rest are in line</span>.</span></p>
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<h1><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #0000ff;" data-mce-mark="1">The Obvious Problem Being Avoided</span></strong></span></h1>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">Now if this woman is demon possessed and Paul were following the true Christ, then<span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"> her declaration to others to listen to Paul for salvation represents a house divided against itself</span>. It makes no sense. But if Paul were following <strong>unwittingly a false Christ</strong>, then this makes perfect sense.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">As Boulanger in 1746 first exposed, this means a famous demon was promoting Paul's plan of salvation "for many days" before Paul casts out the demon in her - thus confirming Paul's plan of salvation could not be from God if demons endorsed it:</span></p>
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<p style="margin-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">He there cured a girl, who had a <strong>spirit of Python</strong></span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">, and being by that means possessed of the power of divination, gained great profit to her masters. These, far from acknowledging and admiring the power of a man who reduced to silence Apollo, one of the most powerful gods of paganism, brought Paul and Silas before the magistrates, and excited the people against them. [53] It is right to remark in this place, that <strong>Apollo (i.e., the Devil) who resided in this prophetess labored to destroy his own empire</strong>. </span><em style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;"></em><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">In fact having perceived Paul and his comrade, the girl followed them, crying, these men are the servants of the Most High God, which <strong>shew unto us the way of salvation</strong>. And this did she <strong>many days</strong>. But Paul being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her, and he came out the same hour." (Acts16:17-18.) (Boulanger, <em>A Criticial Examination of St. Paul</em> (1746) at <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=4BA_AAAAYAAJ&dq=critical%20examination%20of%20st.%20paul&pg=PA52#v=onepage&q&f=false">52</a>.)</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">But look at the very different evidence that 'the rock-star' demon Pythia (the priestess) promoted Paul for "many days" as having the true plan of salvation. In ancient Greece-Macedon, there was no more influential prophetess than the Python-priestess. She was routinely paid for her prophecies.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">But look how Paul for days took advantage of her endorsement while never questioning himself why would the prophetess-Pythia who was serving Satan be endorsing specifically Paul's plan of salvation. Paul never asked himself if it were possible he actually met an imposter Jesus on the road to Damascus. Thus, as Luke tells the story, Paul at Philippi did not think through this problem but was glad even demons endorsed his message: "It may be noted that the missionaries<strong> did not question the genuiness of her inspiration by the spirit of Python, and also that it spoke the truth</strong>...." (M. Oldfield Howey, <span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"><em>The Encircled Serpent a Study of Serpent Symbolism in All Countries And Ages</em></span> (1900) at <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=SY6DUnOOZSAC&lpg=PA142&dq=%22spirit%20of%20python&pg=PA142#v=onepage&q=%22spirit%20of%20python&f=false">142</a>.)</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">But they should have questioned it, as this demon-oracle in the service of Satan was well-regarded by the pagans of the area. Why would Satan through her <span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"><strong>deliberately try to promote Paul's ministry?</strong></span> Luke's account does not appear to give this a second-thought even though the account clearly requires the Berean in us to do so.</span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">"A young girl...having a Spirit of [the demon] <strong>Python</strong>...having followed Paul and us, was crying [to the public many days], saying, '<strong><em>T</em></strong><em><strong>hese men</strong>...<strong>declare to us a way of salvation.'</strong></em>"<em> </em>Acts 16:16-17</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">And notice, the demon spirit of Python did not say to follow Christ, but specifically to follow Paul's plan of salvation. In Acts 16:17, the demon Python-spirit says: " `<strong>These men are servants of the Most High God, who declare to us a way of salvation;'" </strong> So the message of Christ on salvation was not being promoted, but instead the demon was<strong><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"> promoting Paul's very different plan of salvation.</span></strong> On the difference between these two gospels, see our page "<a href="/topicindex/175-pauls-contradictions-of-jesus.html">Paul's Contradictions of Jesus</a>."</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1"><em></em>Hence, Acts 16:16-17 is further confirmation that Paul was unwittingly serving Satan. We already deduced this about the appearance to Paul and others with him of someone saying "I am Jesus" on a wilderness road when Jesus warned us not to trust when someone "comes in my name" in the wilderness (see Matt 24:5, 24-27) because the only way Jesus will be seen on earth after the Ascension was if every eye on earth sees Him. (See <a href="/topicindex/292-jesus-prophecy-about-who-identified-himself-as-jesus-to-paul.html">link</a>.) But that is not what happened on the road to Damascus, is it?</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #000000; line-height: 24px;">As you know, you </span><strong style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Philippians</strong><span style="color: #000000; line-height: 24px;"> were the <strong>only</strong> <strong>ones</strong> <strong>who</strong> <strong>gave</strong> <strong>me</strong> <strong>financial</strong><em><strong> help when I first brought you the Good News</strong></em> and then traveled on from Macedonia. No other church did this. (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=philippians+4%3A15&version=NLT" style="color: #517291; text-decoration: underline;">Philippians 4:15. NLT.</a>)</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #494a44; font-size: 24px; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">Hence, Luke might have known among Christians that a demon endorsing Paul is a negative fact. However, Luke at the same time knew that among Pagans, to tell them the Python Priestess of Phillipi had "endorsed the way of salvation" taught by Paul, that is <em><strong>all they have to hear</strong></em>. If this proves confirmed, the case is over. Christianity survives to a pagan court because the Greco-Roman world's pagan religion will obey and listen to the Python as the light to emperors and peoples everywhere. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #494a44; font-size: 24px; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">Luke thus made a <strong>calculated risk</strong> to reveal something that Bible-astute readers would see as a hurdle for Christians to accept Paul at all, knowing that a Pagan court would instead use the Python priestess' words as a key fact to rule in favor of Christianity. It would no longer matter who Paul offended or did not offend. Accordingly, it is likely that <strong>Luke did see this issue</strong>, but the legal survival of Christianity was more important than shielding Paul from the embarassing aspect which Christians would readily recognize once pointed out. </span></span></p>
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<h1><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Study Notes</span></h1>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">Why did Paul get annoyed with the Spirit of Python promoting him after "many days" instead of initially? For why would a man of God want a popular demon promoting him? Scholars concede this while trying to flip it the other way: "it is something of a puzzle why he resented the girl's cries [of support]." (Henry Ansgar Kelly, <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">Satan: A Biography</span> </span>(<span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">Cambridge University Press:</span> <span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">2006) </span>at <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=gPIpQg0lRbMC&lpg=PA55&dq=spirit%20of%20python%20promoting%20paul&pg=PA56#v=onepage&q=spirit%20of%20python%20promoting%20paul&f=false">56</a>.) </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">The best explanation is Paul let this go on many days without rebuking the demon because it was helping until Paul realized that people would start wondering why demons were promoting Paul.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">Contrast the situation with Jesus in Matthew. At every encounter with demon-possessed people, Jesus cast them out of the person. Jesus did not leave them in their state "many days" to serve any personal advantage if they would identify Him as Messiah.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">A unique situation is presented in Mark that did not appear in Matthew. Mark is the Gospel scholars have deduced was written by a Paulinist, eliminating all prophecies critical about Paul in Matthew. See "<a href="/topicindex/364-marcan-priority-claim-is-invalid.html">Marcan Priority Claim</a>."</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">In <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+3&version=ESV">Mark 3:11</a> et seq. Jesus apparently leaves the demons in place (unlike Matthew where Jesus always cast them out.) What happens is, per Mark, that Jesus during a healing activity of many people tells "unclean spirits" who cried out "You are the son of God" not "to make him known."</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">Unlike Paul, Jesus in Mark 3 did not want anyone to perceive these "unclean spirits" as declaring His identity, so as to prevent the endorsement of demons. By contrast, Paul welcomed the support of demons.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1"><strong>Python</strong>. The Roman historian Lucian records that "the dragon under the tripod spoke" at the Temple of Python. In the temple were kept a host of snakes. It is assumed "dragon" here meant one of the snakes.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">What is curious is that Apollo was the Sun god and that the symbol of his power was a three-headed snake. When one considers the Sun-god at Rome became known as Sol Invictus, it actually traces back to the popular Apollo-Python god of the Greeks. Here is what M. Oldfield Howey, <span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Encircled Serpent a Study of Serpent Symbolism in All Countries And Ages</span></span> (1900) at<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=SY6DUnOOZSAC&lpg=PA142&dq=%22spirit%20of%20python&pg=PA143#v=onepage&q=%22spirit%20of%20python&f=false"> 143</a> says:</span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">The tripod on which the pythoness sat was another relic of the religion which it had superseded, for it was formed of a serpent of bronze, coiled spirally upwards in the form of a cone, and terminated in three heads. As the cone or pyramid was a symbol of the sun's rays, this typified the worship of Apollo, <strong>the Sun-god with that of the Serpent, the python</strong>, the earth deity.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">Glossalia / Excited Utterances / Prophetic Words of Knowledge</span></strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">The method of words of prophecy by the Python have a chilling similarity to modern 'words of knowledge' and 'glossalia' that I have personally witnessed in certain churches. I can verify words of knowledge are often amazingly accurate depictions of people, with their past excellently described by pure strangers, mixed in with some future promises that often are safe bets.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">Now remember, the gift of tongues of the 12 apostles was different: it was the ability to speak to foreign-language speakers, and the listeners would hear it in their own language. See Acts 1.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">So here is what is so chilling to consider to explain how our modern behavior may have entered the church from copying practices of the Pythonesses of ancient Greece.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacharsis">Anarcharsis</a> in a travel journal of the 6th Century before Christ identified that "toward the middle [of the temple] is an aperture from whence came the <strong>prophetic </strong>exalation." (Howey, <em>id.</em>., at <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=SY6DUnOOZSAC&lpg=PA142&dq=%22spirit%20of%20python&pg=PA144#v=onepage&q=%22spirit%20of%20python&f=false">144</a>.) The young virgin would drink some water which "it is said [has] the virtue of <strong>disclosing futurity</strong>." <em>Id. </em>Interestingly, the young prophetess would have her <strong>limbs</strong> suffer "<strong>involuntary</strong> <strong>motions</strong>," and she uttered "plaintiff <strong>cries</strong> and <strong>deep</strong> <strong>groans</strong>" (<em>id.</em>) She then uttered "<strong>dreadful</strong> <strong>howlings</strong> which were eagerly collected by the priests." Then the priests went to work. Anarcharsis continues: "They arranged them in proper order, and delivered them to us in writing." <em>Id. </em></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Leadbetter summarizes it even more pointedly, unaware how this might educate Christians to problems about Paul's glossalia instructions: "After she mumbled her answer, a male priest would <strong>translate</strong> it for the supplicant." (Ron Leadbetter, "<a href="http://www.pantheon.org/articles/a/apollo.html">Apollo</a>," Pantheon.org (2012).)</span><em></em></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">Importantly, Origen in 248 AD in <strong>Contra Celsum</strong> used these fits of ecstasy to prove the Python Priestess was under the influence of demons, and not the Holy Spirit. He wrote: </span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">[I]t is not part of the divine spirit to drive the prophetess [Pythia] into such a state of <strong>ecstasy</strong> and <strong>madness</strong> that she <strong>loses</strong> <strong>control</strong> of herself. For he who is under the influence of a Divine Spirit ought to be the first to receive the beneficial effects, ... and moreover, that should be the time of clearest perception when one is in close intercourse with the Deity." ...For we are persuaded that the Spirit "mortifies the deeds of the body" ... If, then, the Pythian priestess is <strong>beside</strong> <strong>herself</strong> <strong>when</strong> <strong>she</strong> <strong>prophesies</strong>, what spirit must that be that fills her mind and <strong>clouds</strong> her judgment with <strong>darkness</strong>, unless it be of the same order with those demons which Christians cast out of persons possessed with them? (Contra Celsum, <a href="http://www.documenta-catholica.eu/d_0185-0254-%20Origene%20-%20Contra%20Celsus%20-%20EN.pdf">link</a>, pg. 171.)<br /><em></em></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt; background-color: transparent;">What is interesting is how similar the Python priestess received and relayed her messages to what Paul's describes as the gift of tongues. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt; background-color: transparent;">However, Paul gives the same name to something totally different -- something identical to the </span><strong style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt; background-color: transparent;">ecstatic</strong><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt; background-color: transparent;"> utterances of the "spirit of Python" where another would interpret and write it down. The words were not readily understandable as they were supposed to be had they been the true apostolic gift revealed in Acts 1. But Paul discloses his very different version from the original gift of tongues in the following quote, and please note how strikingly similar it is to the "spirit of Python" and her interpreters:</span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">"If any man speak in<strong><em> an unknown tongue</em></strong>, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that in turn; and <em><strong>let one interpret.</strong></em>" (<a href="http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/14-27.htm">1 Cor. 14:27 KJV</a>.)</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">Thus, one must wonder if Paul's stinger in the flesh from an "Angel of Satan" in 2 Cor. 12:7 impaled him somehow with Satan's spirit of Python -- what Paul unwittingly reveals when he describes the glossalia-spirit, of which Paul says in very modest terms (I am being facetious):</span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1"><sup>18</sup> I thank God that I speak in tongues<em><strong> more than all of you</strong></em>. (<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20cor.%2014:18&version=NIV">1 Cor. 14:18 NIV</a>.) </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">When I was asked on May 10, 2020 about the gift of the spirit, and what I thought about them, I took a chance and shared the Python Priestess evidence. The reaction to this evidence was quite confirmatory that the Holy Spirit chilled her husband's spirit on the similarity between the Priestess and a church friend pushing on him the 'gifts of the spirit.' Please see this anonymized email exchange at this <a href="/topicindex/823-was-python-priestess-of-acts-16-the-source-of-paul-teaching-on-tongues-explained-by-an-interpreter.html">link</a>.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">The Greek term "python" had a secondary meaning of divination and the "belly talking," as if a ventriloquist speaking in a strange voice. See Mark Nanos, at <a href="http://www.marknanos.com/Phil3Dogs-Reverse-6-27-07.pdf">24</a>.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">Stephen A writes:</span></p>
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<div><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">EKHIDNA (or Echidna) was a monstrous she-dragon (drakaina) with the head and breast of a woman. She probably represented or presided over the corruptions of the earth : rot, slime, fetid waters, illness and disease.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">She was often equated with Python (the rotting one), a dragon born of the fetid slime left behind by the great Deluge. Others call her the Tartarean lamprey, and assigned her to the dark, swampy pit of Tartaros beneath the earth. Hesiod, makes her a daughter of monstrous sea-gods, and presumably associates her with rotting sea-scum and fetid salt-marshes. </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1"><a href="http://www.theoi.com/Ther/DrakainaEkhidna1.html" target="_blank">http://www.theoi.com/Ther/<wbr />DrakainaEkhidna1.html</a></span></div>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;">Grace greetings, I stumbled through your apologies when I was looking at Python Spirit exegesis. I will recommend you check out <a href="http://www.gospelofchristministrues.org/">www.gospelofchristministries.org</a> of Dr. Shawn Smith and you will see a clear right division of before and after the Cross which will prove to you the apostle <strong>Paul is the Apostle to the church today</strong> and the differences between Jesus before & post resurrection. You will<strong> rethink your stance</strong> against Pauline epistles and shall be rightly taught on numerous subjects especially on salvation by faith Alone. Thanks </p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;">The site you provided makes the following statement under <a href="https://www.gospelofchristministries.org/project/theosis/">Theosis </a>which proves the importance that the Python Priestess in Acts 16 when still possessed by a demon endorsed Paul's "way of salvation":</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; padding-left: 30px;">It is without exaggeration to say that apart from the Saviour, the Apostle Paul is the greatest benefactor to the human race because the Lord<span style="font-weight: bold;"> used him to give us the most advanced teachings</span>. When you see what was revealed to Paul, what motivated him will begin to motivate you. There is no other way the desire to go out and fulfil this grace mandate can infuse you except by you receiving the same things that the Lord Jesus Christ revealed to the apostle Paul; what made him a great theologian and at the same time a great missionary.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;">Thus, the author of Theosis believes Paul came with a <strong>different more advanced</strong> Gospel than Jesus taught the 12. This is clearly a sign that <strong>the Python Priestess passage explains why this was true</strong>. The most influential demon spirit of Paul's age endorsed Paul's "way of salvation" for many days, and Paul did nothing until finally he cast the demon out of her.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;">(Paul never quotes Jesus giving him a revelation other than 2 Cor. 12:7 where the Damascus Jesus refuses Paul's request to release him from the torment by an "angel of Satan" -- which Paul defenders say we should ignore, because Paul could not possibly mean what this implies about our Jesus leaving Paul under a demon's influence. See <a href="/recommendedreading/666-how-many-times-do-episltes-of-paul-uniquely-quote-jesus.html">our article</a> on this passage.)</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;">Hence, what this quote from Theosis proves is that the author realizes Paul's gospel is more "<strong>advanced</strong>" (different) than Jesus' gospel which was supposedly '<strong>less advanced</strong>.' The explanation for this difference is right there in Acts 16 - Paul taught a gospel "way of salvation" that demons approved.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;">Also, we see the difference by comparing what Theosis regards as the "less advanced" Jesus' Gospel which teaches, for example, that works worthy of repentance are necessary to appease the one you offended prior to you or I bringing our atonement offering -- Christ's blood -- to God to cover ourselves -- <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+5%3A23-26&version=TLB">Matt 5:23-26 TLB</a>, versus Paul's more "advanced" teaching that if you merely "believe Jesus died for your sins and rose from the dead you shall be saved" (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+cor.+15%3A1-5&version=KJV">1 Cor. 15:1-5.</a>) But the demons believe such things, and cannot be saved. James deduced therefore that such a "faith alone does not justify" (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=james+2%3A17%2C+24&version=KJV">James 2:17, 24</a> (faith alone -- without works - is dead; and by works, and not by faith alone, is a man justified.). Hence, the role of the Python Priestess in Acts 16 perfectly explains this material difference -- the true Gospel of Salvation which Jesus taught versus the Gospel of Salvation that Paul taught which <strong>THE MOST INFLUENTIAL DEMON OF THAT ERA ENDORSED TO PAUL'S GREAT ADVANCEMENT IN THE EYES OF PAGANS.</strong></p>
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