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SantiagoMatamoros
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I’ve been accused by my local priest of being an ‘’apostate’’ and he even called me ‘’heretic’’ when he asked my opinion about the nature of god, angels and other celestial beings after reading the old testament for the first time, my argumentation was this, I never thought of it as bad or anti-christian:
‘’god is a being of such omnipotence and that lives in such a different plain of existance that we cannot simply comprehend it, his existance is so superior that we cannot even try to figure out what he is, keep in mind the same with his angels, that in the biblie aren’t described as winged men, but as eldrich abominations (by human standards), ever wondered why nearly everytime an angel is seen by a human the first thing the angel says is ‘’do not fear’’?
Ezekiel sees a seraphim like this:
4 I looked, and I saw a windstorm coming out of the north–an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The center of the fire looked like glowing metal, 5 and in the fire was what looked like four living creatures. In appearance their form was that of a man, 6 but each of them had four faces and four wings. 7 Their legs were straight; their feet were like those of a calf and gleamed like burnished bronze. 8 Under their wings on their four sides they had the hands of a man. All four of them had faces and wings, 9 and their wings touched one another. Each one went straight ahead; they did not turn as they moved. 10 Their faces looked like this: Each of the four had the face of a man, and on the right side each had the face of a lion, and on the left the face of an ox; each also had the face of an eagle. 11 Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out upward; each had two wings, one touching the wing of another creature on either side, and two wings covering its body. 12 Each one went straight ahead.
As you can appreciate, that ‘’thing’’ he describes is an abomination of such degree ezekiel has problems even describing briefly what he was seeing, the criatures we know as angels live in such plane of existance our human minds can barely comprehend them.
Now god is an entity so above angels this ones cannot probably comprehend god too, god is abstract, he is powerful to a degree that even the most basics laws of the universe don’t work around him, for example time doesn’t work for him, he is, was, and will be, all at the same time, remember this:
“ego sum Alpha et Omega, principium et finis , dicit Dominus Deus, qui est et qui erat et qui venturus, est Omnipotens”
“I am the Alpha and the Omega, saith the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, I am Almighty.”
He is such an elevated being he is also everywhere and can see you at everytime, he knows what you did, what you do, and what will you do, our brains cannot probably even imagine his might. I’m sure his true form won’t be a big bearded man, but something so incredible, so above our understanding we will never figure out’’
I’ve been an atheist for the last 4 years and now I got my faith back, am I a bad christian for trying to have a philosophical opinion on the nature of our lord and his celestial companions?
‘’god is a being of such omnipotence and that lives in such a different plain of existance that we cannot simply comprehend it, his existance is so superior that we cannot even try to figure out what he is, keep in mind the same with his angels, that in the biblie aren’t described as winged men, but as eldrich abominations (by human standards), ever wondered why nearly everytime an angel is seen by a human the first thing the angel says is ‘’do not fear’’?
Ezekiel sees a seraphim like this:
4 I looked, and I saw a windstorm coming out of the north–an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The center of the fire looked like glowing metal, 5 and in the fire was what looked like four living creatures. In appearance their form was that of a man, 6 but each of them had four faces and four wings. 7 Their legs were straight; their feet were like those of a calf and gleamed like burnished bronze. 8 Under their wings on their four sides they had the hands of a man. All four of them had faces and wings, 9 and their wings touched one another. Each one went straight ahead; they did not turn as they moved. 10 Their faces looked like this: Each of the four had the face of a man, and on the right side each had the face of a lion, and on the left the face of an ox; each also had the face of an eagle. 11 Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out upward; each had two wings, one touching the wing of another creature on either side, and two wings covering its body. 12 Each one went straight ahead.
As you can appreciate, that ‘’thing’’ he describes is an abomination of such degree ezekiel has problems even describing briefly what he was seeing, the criatures we know as angels live in such plane of existance our human minds can barely comprehend them.
Now god is an entity so above angels this ones cannot probably comprehend god too, god is abstract, he is powerful to a degree that even the most basics laws of the universe don’t work around him, for example time doesn’t work for him, he is, was, and will be, all at the same time, remember this:
“ego sum Alpha et Omega, principium et finis , dicit Dominus Deus, qui est et qui erat et qui venturus, est Omnipotens”
“I am the Alpha and the Omega, saith the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, I am Almighty.”
He is such an elevated being he is also everywhere and can see you at everytime, he knows what you did, what you do, and what will you do, our brains cannot probably even imagine his might. I’m sure his true form won’t be a big bearded man, but something so incredible, so above our understanding we will never figure out’’
I’ve been an atheist for the last 4 years and now I got my faith back, am I a bad christian for trying to have a philosophical opinion on the nature of our lord and his celestial companions?
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