Are mermaids real, or just fake or sort of demonic creatures?

Many fairytales stories among children and of folklores of many cultures around the world mentioning about this same fabled creature that once thought to have existed along with us, but it has been long disputed, though there is a documentary about the discoveries of the body of a supposedly real mermaid body found by a team named NOAA in 1997, but the thing is I have been always been skeptical about this creature fabled in fairytales to be true.

 

Though some may take mermaid as the pre-flood era, which might be possible, that in Genesis 6:

Wickedness in the World

1 When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them,

2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.

3 Then the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with[a] humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”

4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.

5 The LORD saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.

6 The LORD regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled.

7 So the LORD said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.”

8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.

 

Though in Genesis 6 it is well understood for God’s anger upon the wickedness upon the people on the earth during the pre-flood days, the very possible ‘sons of Gods’ possibly referring to the fallen angels who interbred with the daughters of men of the pre-flood days, though it is not possible, but it might be possible of how it looks like during the pre-flood days. Subsequently, mermaids aren’t mentioned in the bible, but though dinosaurs aren’t mentioned in the bible, but the word dinosaur did not exist when the first King James Version of the bible printed in London, England in 1611, simply didn’t exist, but was known as dragons. Which means those dragons mentioned in these ancient cultures, possibly they might exist before they disappeared from the face of the earth, but not as what evolutionist claim of dinosaurs died out from the face of the earth 65 million years ago.

 

Could it be possible that whatever cryptic creatures that exist or not, it is hard to prove their existence, due to the lack of evidence and document of their existence on the face of the earth, despite the claims from cryptologist. Even many believed that mermaids are a creation by the devil, which might be feasibly plausible, but also feasibly possible, due to the bible verse in Genesis 6, though God was pleased with Noah, due to the reason that one possible reason could be is Noah and his wife, his son and his sons’ wives are the only pure ones in the eyes of God, whom delights the eyes of God, which in turn God spares Noah and his family from the annihilation of mankind during the flood period.

 

Lastly, to verify the existence of mermaid is an issue. Even if mermaids do exist and are of God’s creation, it is possible that they might have their own set of their messiah who will save among the mermaids but so far, in the history of theology, there isn’t such record, and so in my own opinions, mermaids don’t exist at all—they are simply a fabled creatures just for fairy tales in children’s story books, and even if they exist before, they might be possibly killed after the great flood, and was never to be found again, due to God’s anger upon the wickedness on the grounds of the earth since Adam and Eve have sinned against God for eating the fruit of knowledge of good and evil, which God at first instructed to eat fruits of the trees of the garden of Eden, except they are forbidden to eat the fruit of knowledge of good and evil.

Comparison between Judaism, Christianity and Islam: A brief look

	Religions
	Judaism	Christianity	Islam
Is Monotheism?	Yes	Yes	Yes
Recognize from Adam to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob?	Yes	Yes	Yes
Recognition of Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David and Solomon?	Yes	Yes	Yes
Beliefs in Jesus as the messiah?	No, except for Messianic Jews	Yes	Yes, but as a messenger from God
Beliefs of Jesus as the Son of God?	No, except for messianic Jews	Yes	No
Beliefs of Jesus as the prophet?	No	No	Yes
Holy scripture	Tanakh (except Messianic Jew which does have New Testament)	Bible	Quran
Dietary law?	Kosher	New Testament Covenant	Halal
Believes in the trinity?	No, except for messianic Jews	Yes	No
Believes that Muhammad is the prophet from God after Jesus?	No	No	Yes
Restriction on pork?	Yes	No, except for seventh-day Adventist	Yes
Holy City?	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem
Year of founding of religion?	Probably 2000BCE	Around 30-36CE, probably the year of crucifixion and resurrection of Christ	612CE
Origin?	God of the Israelites through the Mosaic law	Followers of Jesus Christ the Nazareth	Follower of Muhammad
Recognizing Satan as the enemy of God?	Yes	Yes	Yes
Rejection of Christ?	Yes, except for Messianic Jews	No	No, but reject the ideology of Jesus as the son of God, but accepting Jesus as the prophet, a messenger sent by God who was crucified by the Jews.
Geographical origins?	Israel ,Middle-East	Israel ,Middle-East	Modern-day Saudi Arabia ,Middle-East

What is the Talmud?

(extracted from: http://www.gotquestions.org/Talmud.html )

The word “Talmud” is a Hebrew word meaning “learning, instruction.” The Talmud is a central text of mainstream Judaism and consists primarily of discussions and commentary on Jewish history, law (especially its practical application to life), customs and culture. The Talmud consists of what are known as the Gemara and the Mishnah.

In addition to the inspired written Hebrew scriptures, which Christians call the Old Testament, Judaism has an “Oral Torah” which is a tradition explaining what these scriptures mean and how to interpret them and apply the laws. Orthodox Jews believe God taught this Oral Torah to Moses, and to others, down to the present day. This tradition was maintained only in oral form until about the 2nd century A.D., when the oral law was compiled and written down in a document called the Mishnah. Over the next few centuries, additional commentaries elaborating on the Mishnah were written down in Jerusalem and Babylon. These additional commentaries are known as the Gemara. The Gemara and the Mishnah together are known as the Talmud. This was completed in the 5th century A.D.

There are actually two Talmuds: the Jerusalem Talmud and the Babylonian Talmud. The Babylonian Talmud is more comprehensive, and is the one most people mean if they just say “the Talmud” without specifying which one. The Talmud is not easy to read. There are often gaps in the reasoning where it is assumed that you already know what they are talking about, and concepts are often expressed in a sort of shorthand. Biblical verses that support a teaching are often referenced by only two or three words. The Talmud preserves a variety of views on every issue and does not always clearly identify which view is the accepted one.

Christianity does not consider the Talmud to be inspired in the same sense that the 66 books of the biblical canon are “God breathed” (2 Timothy 3:16). While some of the teachings from the Talmud may be “compatible” with biblical teachings, the same can be said for many different writings from many different religions. For the Christian, the study of the Talmud can be a great way to learn more about Jewish tradition, history, and interpretation, but the Talmud is not to considered the authoritative Word of God.

What Is Kabbalah?

(extracted from: http://www.equip.org/articles/what-is-kabbalah/ )

By: Elliot Miller

Kabbalah is the name of an occult philosophy and theosophy that developed among Jews in Babylonia, and later Italy, Provence, and Spain, between the sixth and thirteenth centuries A.D.

What is Kabbalah- What does “Kabbalah” mean?

The word “Kabbalah” means “to receive,” and refers to heavenly revelation received by Jews and passed on to succeeding generations through oral tradition. At first it was used by the mainstream of Judaism, but eventually it became identified with those who believed that the Kabbalah was an esoteric, occultic tradition that explained the true meaning of the Hebrew Scriptures, which was kept hidden from the masses and only made known to those who were spiritually ready to receive it.

What Is Kabbalah- The Philosophy

The most basic philosophical presupposition behind Kabbalah is that the world is an emanation of the spiritual essence of God. God, or “En Sof” (Endless One) is infinite and transcendent, and could make no direct contact with finite beings. The finite creation came into existence when the En Sof voluntarily limited Himself by allowing Himself to become manifest through attributes or emanation (called Sephiroth), listed as Crown, Wisdom, Intelligence, Greatness, Strength, Beauty, Firmness, Spendor, Foundation, and Sovereignty. Each emanation would be further removed from the En Sof, and thus further from God’s perfection and transcendence. The Sephiroth would be repeated on four different levels, and these realms, according to descent, were called: “Atziluth” (the world of the supernals, or heavenless), “Briah” (the world of creation), “Yetzirah” (the world of formation), and “Assiah” (the world of material action). Taking on a personal form, these Sephiroth, as angels, served as intermediaries between God and man.

Kabbalah is classically divided into two systems: theoretical and practical. The theoretical is concerned with theosophical speculation upon God and His attributes, such as what is described above. The practical is concerned with bringing what has been theorized into the realm of everyday experience. This is attempted through prayer, ascetic practices, and the employment of various occult means, such as numerology, talismans, amulets, and incarnation of divine names and words.

Intrinsic to Kabbalah is the belief that Scripture is inspired, not only in its obvious interpretations, but even to the degree that, through the use of occult symbol interpretation, one could find hidden meaning in the very numerical and alphabetical interpretation of the texts. Thus, the doctrine of the Kabbalah was derived through study of the Old Testament, albeit, only after occultic interpretative methods had been applied to it.

What Is Kabbalah?- A Historical PerspectiveTo give you an historical perspective, Kabbalah grew out of two basic needs in the Jewish consciousness. Because they had rejected their Messiah, God temporarily rejected the Jewish nation (Luke 13:35), and so, in the centuries that followed, there were no prophets; there was no immediate manifestation of God’s presence among the Jewish people. This left them feeling that God was far away and removed from them and made them more prone to be influenced by the philosophical climate of the people in whose lands they dwelt. The overwhelming philosophical influence in areas where Kabbalah began was Greek; Neo-Platonism and its “Christian” offshoot, Gnosticism. These Platonic philosophies had a very transcendent view of God: He is infinite and far removed from any conceivable contact with man. As the Jew assumed an increasingly transcendent view of God, he needed to reconcile this with the traditional Hebrew belief in the immanence and accessibility of God to man. This need seemed to be met best through the doctrine of the Sephiroth, the groundwork of which had already been laid by the Gnostics, and Philo of Alexandria, a Jewish philosopher and contemporary of Christ.

A second reason for Kabbalah’s emergence was that by around the twelfth century, Talmudic legalism, ritualism, and intellectual slavery had reached its peak (the Talmud is the body of writings that seeks the interpret the Law of God contained in Jewish Scripture). Kabbalah became popular because it opened up an approach to religion that seemed more pleasurable, immediate, and less confining.

What Is Kabbalah- The Christian Response

What is the Christian response to Kabbalah? This is an important question because in today’s “occult revolution” where all dimensions of the occult are being probed, there has been a revived interest in Cabala among both Jew and Gentile. Although its Jewish origin makes it unique, Kabbalah is still essentially an occultic system, and thus must be classified among all other occultic systems as being incompatible with the historic Judaeo-Christian faiths. Its theology is essentially pantheistic in that it teaches that all reality springs directly from God’s own essence. Even if one believes that these emanations from God’s essence have gone through a descent of ten spheres on four different levels, the conclusion is inescapable that even the being on the lowest level is still of one essence with God; and thus, ultimately, he is God. Such a concept is incompatible with the biblical God, who created the world out of nothing, not out of Himself (Gen. 1:1. The Hebrew word for “create” is “bara,” which indicates something coming out of nothing.

Although Kabbalists’ insistence upon the inspiration of Scripture in its literal form was commendable, their carrying this point to the extent of seeking to find hidden meaning in its numerical arrangements was unwarranted. Depending upon one’s assumptions, one may apply Kabbalistic methods to almost any piece of literature and draw almost any interpretation from it. Kabbalistic method of interpretation is neither acknowledged in the Bible, nor justified by it. The application of this method of the Bible had produced interpretations that are not supported by Scripture, and, in fact, are something directly opposed to it, in its obvious context.

In my years of research in comparative religions I have become persuaded that essentially there are only two metaphysical interpretations of reality available to us: the Biblical and the occultic. In seeking to support the inspiration of Scripture, the Jewish Kabbalists applied to it a method of interpretation foreign to Scripture, but familiar to the occult, and thus these Jews slipped over from a Biblical understanding of reality to an occultic one.