Christian Discussion Thread VIII: Augustine's Revenge.

[Thermodolia]

So...no kneeling for me.

"Daniel, listen to me. I am the Archangel Gabriel and I have a very important prophecy for you...aaaaaand he passed-out."
*Helps Daniel up.* "There. You good?"
"...I think so."
"Alright. So, I have come from God to tell you...OH COME ON."

There's a reason why god appeared as burning bushes

[Gim]

"Daniel, listen to me. I am the Archangel Gabriel and I have a very important prophecy for you...aaaaaand he passed-out."
*Helps Daniel up.* "There. You good?"
"...I think so."
"Alright. So, I have come from God to tell you...OH COME ON."

There's a reason why god appeared as burning bushes

Angels are relieved from their positions as messengers of God.

[Salus Maior]

"Daniel, listen to me. I am the Archangel Gabriel and I have a very important prophecy for you...aaaaaand he passed-out."
*Helps Daniel up.* "There. You good?"
"...I think so."
"Alright. So, I have come from God to tell you...OH COME ON."

There's a reason why god appeared as burning bushes

Actually, the burning bush itself was an Angel. The voice Moses heard, however, was God.

[Luminesa]

"Daniel, listen to me. I am the Archangel Gabriel and I have a very important prophecy for you...aaaaaand he passed-out."
*Helps Daniel up.* "There. You good?"
"...I think so."
"Alright. So, I have come from God to tell you...OH COME ON."

There's a reason why god appeared as burning bushes

Moses: "...Adonai, why are you a burning bush?"
God: "...Do you really wanna see what I actually look like?"
M: "...Um...Well, what do you actually look like?"
G: "...So, imagine a 5'11" Middle Eastern man with short brown hair, a beard, and who wears a seamless garment."
Jesus: "I HAVEN'T INCARNATED YET DAD THAT'S CHEATING."
G: "Well I'm not telling him what I actually look like as God the Father, or his head will explode. And um...We kinda need him to get Our people out of Egypt. Don't think he'll be able to do it if his head explodes."
Jesus: "...Fair enough."

[Gim]

There's a reason why god appeared as burning bushes

Moses: "...Adonai, why are you a burning bush?"
God: "...Do you really wanna see what I actually look like?"
M: "...Um...Well, what do you actually look like?"
G: "...So, imagine a 5'11" Middle Eastern man with short brown hair, a beard, and who wears a seamless garment."
Jesus: "I HAVEN'T INCARNATED YET DAD THAT'S CHEATING."
G: "Well I'm not telling him what I actually look like as God the Father, or his head will explode. And um...We kinda need him to get Our people out of Egypt. Don't think he'll be able to do it if his head explodes."
Jesus: "...Fair enough."

Jesus' identity has been revealed in Genesis, actually, although indirectly.

[Tarsonis Survivors]

There's a reason why god appeared as burning bushes

Moses: "...Adonai, why are you a burning bush?"
God: "...Do you really wanna see what I actually look like?"
M: "...Um...Well, what do you actually look like?"
G: "...So, imagine a 5'11" Middle Eastern man with short brown hair, a beard, and who wears a seamless garment."
Jesus: "I HAVEN'T INCARNATED YET DAD THAT'S CHEATING."
G: "Well I'm not telling him what I actually look like as God the Father, or his head will explode. And um...We kinda need him to get Our people out of Egypt. Don't think he'll be able to do it if his head explodes."
Jesus: "...Fair enough."

Want to really explode your brain? If the incarnation was always preordained, and We are made in His image,... does that mean we were made in the image of Christ 100's of thousands of years before Christ was incarnated?

[Tarsonis Survivors]

So...no kneeling for me.

"Daniel, listen to me. I am the Archangel Gabriel and I have a very important prophecy for you...aaaaaand he passed-out."
*Helps Daniel up.* "There. You good?"
"...I think so."
"Alright. So, I have come from God to tell you...OH COME ON."

Metatron: Human beings have neither the aural nor the psychological capacity to withstand the awesome power of God's true voice. Were you to hear it, your mind would cave in and your heart would explode within your chest. We went through five Adams before we figured that one out.

[Salus Maior]

"Daniel, listen to me. I am the Archangel Gabriel and I have a very important prophecy for you...aaaaaand he passed-out."
*Helps Daniel up.* "There. You good?"
"...I think so."
"Alright. So, I have come from God to tell you...OH COME ON."

Metatron: Human beings have neither the aural nor the psychological capacity to withstand the awesome power of God's true voice. Were you to hear it, your mind would cave in and your heart would explode within your chest. We went through five Adams before we figured that one out.

...Why does the name Metatron ring a bell?

That doesn't have anything to do with LDS does it?

[Tarsonis Survivors]

Metatron: Human beings have neither the aural nor the psychological capacity to withstand the awesome power of God's true voice. Were you to hear it, your mind would cave in and your heart would explode within your chest. We went through five Adams before we figured that one out.

...Why does the name Metatron ring a bell?

That doesn't have anything to do with LDS does it?

That's Maronai you're thinking of.

Metatron is Alan Rickman's character in Dogma.

[Cote Acreole]

Moses: "...Adonai, why are you a burning bush?"
God: "...Do you really wanna see what I actually look like?"
M: "...Um...Well, what do you actually look like?"
G: "...So, imagine a 5'11" Middle Eastern man with short brown hair, a beard, and who wears a seamless garment."
Jesus: "I HAVEN'T INCARNATED YET DAD THAT'S CHEATING."
G: "Well I'm not telling him what I actually look like as God the Father, or his head will explode. And um...We kinda need him to get Our people out of Egypt. Don't think he'll be able to do it if his head explodes."
Jesus: "...Fair enough."

Want to really explode your brain? If the incarnation was always preordained, and We are made in His image,... does that mean we were made in the image of Christ 100's of thousands of years before Christ was incarnated?

Flesh and spirit. And have we not given worshipless honor and salutations even unto our own?
It'd be more proper to give it to those claimed by Christ or sent by God rather than have those men of great reknown become idols of the future.

[Cote Acreole]

Metatron: Human beings have neither the aural nor the psychological capacity to withstand the awesome power of God's true voice. Were you to hear it, your mind would cave in and your heart would explode within your chest. We went through five Adams before we figured that one out.

...Why does the name Metatron ring a bell?

That doesn't have anything to do with LDS does it?

It sounds like an autobot from Transformers tbqh.
Supposedly, Enoch was made an Archangel in some Apocrypha works.

[Tarsonis Survivors]

...Why does the name Metatron ring a bell?

That doesn't have anything to do with LDS does it?

It sounds like an autobot from Transformers tbqh.
Supposedly, Enoch was made an Archangel in some Apocrypha works.

There's a lot of apocrypha surround Enoch. He's a unique bird

[Cote Acreole]

It sounds like an autobot from Transformers tbqh.
Supposedly, Enoch was made an Archangel in some Apocrypha works.

There's a lot of apocrypha surround Enoch. He's a unique bird

I've only read 1 Enoch, I could see why it was very popular. When I really started to get interested is when he described the Son of Man as white as wool (or his hair was as white wool; something like that). It caught me off gaurd for the time period its supposedly dated.
Edit: white but not ethnicity-wise

[Tarsonis Survivors]

There's a lot of apocrypha surround Enoch. He's a unique bird

I've only read 1 Enoch, I could see why it was very popular. When I really started to get interested is when he described the Son of Man as white as wool (or his hair was as white wool; something like that). It caught me off gaurd for the time period its supposedly dated.

White is a color associated with purity. As it says in Ecclesiastes "keep your clothes white". The whiteness of the Son of Man is pure symbolism of his purity, not an proposed ethnicity.

[Cote Acreole]

I've only read 1 Enoch, I could see why it was very popular. When I really started to get interested is when he described the Son of Man as white as wool (or his hair was as white wool; something like that). It caught me off gaurd for the time period its supposedly dated.

White is a color associated with purity. As it says in Ecclesiastes "keep your clothes white". The whiteness of the Son of Man is pure symbolism of his purity, not an proposed ethnicity.

I was thinking more of the transfiguration or him being the lamb than ethnicity; im glad you caught that before someone else

[Salus Maior]

White is a color associated with purity. As it says in Ecclesiastes "keep your clothes white". The whiteness of the Son of Man is pure symbolism of his purity, not an proposed ethnicity.

I was thinking more of the transfiguration or him being the lamb than ethnicity; im glad you caught that before someone else

Let's not give the Neo-Nazis and KKK more ammo

[Luminesa]

"Daniel, listen to me. I am the Archangel Gabriel and I have a very important prophecy for you...aaaaaand he passed-out."
*Helps Daniel up.* "There. You good?"
"...I think so."
"Alright. So, I have come from God to tell you...OH COME ON."

Metatron: Human beings have neither the aural nor the psychological capacity to withstand the awesome power of God's true voice. Were you to hear it, your mind would cave in and your heart would explode within your chest. We went through five Adams before we figured that one out.

Daniel: "WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE WERE FIVE?!"
Michael: "Multiple Eves as well, and a Lilith."
Gabriel: "YOU GUYS WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO TELL THEM THAT."
Michael: "...Oops."

[Cote Acreole]

I was thinking more of the transfiguration or him being the lamb than ethnicity; im glad you caught that before someone else

Let's not give the Neo-Nazis and KKK more ammo

Dont fret, they'll meet our divisions in the afterlife.

[Tarsonis Survivors]

Metatron: Human beings have neither the aural nor the psychological capacity to withstand the awesome power of God's true voice. Were you to hear it, your mind would cave in and your heart would explode within your chest. We went through five Adams before we figured that one out.

Daniel: "WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE WERE FIVE?!"
Michael: "Multiple Eves as well, and a Lilith."
Gabriel: "YOU GUYS WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO TELL THEM THAT."
Michael: "...Oops."

And that concludes this weeks episode of "The Bible: Redacted". Tune in next week where we discuss the true meaning of Christmas, and Christ's drunken ramblings at the wedding of Caana

[Gim]

Let's not give the Neo-Nazis and KKK more ammo

Dont fret, they'll meet our divisions in the afterlife.

God will obliterate them all.

[Tarsonis Survivors]

Dont fret, they'll meet our divisions in the afterlife.

God will obliterate them all.

A bit presumptious I might point out

[Gim]

God will obliterate them all.

A bit presumptious I might point out

Perhaps, using an absolute statement like "all" reduces the credibility of the claim. Details, details.

[Tarsonis Survivors]

A bit presumptious I might point out

Perhaps, using an absolute statement like "all" reduces the credibility of the claim. Details, details.

Eh just in general. I try to refrain from God will do x statements unless they're specifically referred to in Theological terms. It's just not wise to speak for God imho

[Gim]

Perhaps, using an absolute statement like "all" reduces the credibility of the claim. Details, details.

Eh just in general. I try to refrain from God will do x statements unless they're specifically referred to in Theological terms. It's just not wise to speak for God imho

Well, it's true there will be Judgment Day. I'm referring what is directly portrayed in the Bible.

[Cote Acreole]

Dont fret, they'll meet our divisions in the afterlife.

God will obliterate them all.

Lets not take comfort at that thought.
I had more of a Pope Pius IX to Joseph Stalin, with Pope St. John Paul II's role in the Polish Solidarity movement