RE: Belief in white Jesus linked to racism
March 25, 2021 at 4:42 am
(This post was last modified: March 25, 2021 at 4:43 am by Belacqua.)
(March 25, 2021 at 1:06 am)Ferrocyanide Wrote: God has a face
Genesis 32:30 KING JAMES VERSION
And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
--Ferrocyanide
Were you raised as a literalist evangelical? I've heard that there are some people in the world who think that every word in the Bible is meant literally, but I don't think I've ever met one. Certainly I've never met anyone who takes it to the extreme that you're going to.
In English, there are a lot of idioms and phrases related to body parts which aren't meant literally.
all ears = fully listening; cold feet = nervous just before a big event; cost an arm and a leg = be very expensive; cry your heart out = cry very hard; (my) flesh and blood = relative; get something off one's chest = tell someone your problems; have one's head in the clouds = be unaware or unrealistic about something
There are a lot of these. I think it would be strange for a native speaker not to know them, or not to understand that this is how language works. For example, you apparently think that the law has a long arm, since we speak of it.
An image, by definition, is not the same as the thing depicted. It does not contain the essence of the thing depicted. So for example if you have a passport photo, it is an image of you. But there are major differences. Your real head is bigger, for instance. It is round. It is attached to the rest of your body. It exists in time, moving around. Its hair grows. Most importantly, behind the face is a brain where (we hope) all sorts of things are happening. So the "primitive jews" who think that the passport photo is an accurate depiction of what you are would be very silly. In fact it is doubtful that such people ever existed.
