RE: God, Santa, and The Tooth Fairy
December 10, 2021 at 9:31 am
(This post was last modified: December 10, 2021 at 9:33 am by The Grand Nudger.)
They didn't think he was divine, either. They thought he was a prophet. The whole resurrection thing was a post hoc revision. It might be shorter to just note that whomever the real people the new testament is referring to were, they certainly didn't believe very much of what current christians believe. The religion as it is isn't based on any event, but on centuries of development in a social movement across multiple continents and cultures.
144 thing is numerology..and, yes..though no christian could be among them - the davidic prophesy is intentionally and fundamentally ethnocentric. It's about their people turning the tables on the then current world order, at a time when blood and blood relation was the currency of the land (and, fwiw, gods, too). I think they're going to need a bigger army...but I suppose they could be forgiven for not realizing as much given their time and place. Either that, or gods downloading some supersoldier shit into every man woman and child when he reinstantiates them.
144 thing is numerology..and, yes..though no christian could be among them - the davidic prophesy is intentionally and fundamentally ethnocentric. It's about their people turning the tables on the then current world order, at a time when blood and blood relation was the currency of the land (and, fwiw, gods, too). I think they're going to need a bigger army...but I suppose they could be forgiven for not realizing as much given their time and place. Either that, or gods downloading some supersoldier shit into every man woman and child when he reinstantiates them.
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