RE: Did God play peek-a-boo?
March 14, 2023 at 11:48 pm
(This post was last modified: March 14, 2023 at 11:58 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
God, in the overall thrust of the abrahamic fairy tale, is limited. He had to do it that way, womb and all, for example..because otherwise the magic would not work. Would not be sufficient. Human sin cannot be atoned for without human blood. You cannot say that you've resisted human temptation and are, thus, ritually or magically pure....unless you've actually been human. Gods had to respect the rules of and operate within the constraints of sympathetic magic, back in the day when this stuff was coming up.
That may sound ridiculous. Even to the minds of contemporary secularized believers - but there it is. It continued well after christianity proper entered the scene. There are italian villages famous for burying saints statues heads in the dirt until it rained. Cause that would make them do rain stuff....to get their heads out of the mud....they'd employ their divine or divinely granted powers..... The disposition of the idol or representative ritual object could compel that which it represented or was a token of, and vv. These items, to this day, cry when god is upset about stuff - or so it's contended. The committedly faithful certify them as actual and existent miracles.
That may sound ridiculous. Even to the minds of contemporary secularized believers - but there it is. It continued well after christianity proper entered the scene. There are italian villages famous for burying saints statues heads in the dirt until it rained. Cause that would make them do rain stuff....to get their heads out of the mud....they'd employ their divine or divinely granted powers..... The disposition of the idol or representative ritual object could compel that which it represented or was a token of, and vv. These items, to this day, cry when god is upset about stuff - or so it's contended. The committedly faithful certify them as actual and existent miracles.
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