This idea of violently tearing yourself out of a filthy chrysalis to emerge brand new, innocent, and free, and clean It's this really raw deep psychological stuff The Passion followed by the Resurrection Tortured to death on the Cross, then the stone rolling away from the tomb
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And this is even kind of intentional -- the early Christians had poetry, songs, ritual liturgy (analogous to much of the content of the Tanakh) that they used in services, Paul even quotes one of them at some point But that didn't make it into the canon, the blog posts did
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And in a way I find that inspiring, even as Jewish writers are very much justified in being appalled that these wackjobs started a movement that ended up shredding hundreds of other religious traditions in its wake That's the scary and powerful narrative of all this
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And most of the writers weren't even native speakers of Greek. It was the common language of communication and trade. A lot of it is horribly written. Everyone in my Greek classes want to translate Revelations, but the prof said the Greek was so bad as to be useless for learning.
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Lol yeah, the tradition goes all the way back Revelation itself is the same badly-spelled ungrammatical unsettling mess as the writings of 99% of the people on the Internet trying to interpret Revelation
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As a side note, I'm not sure why fundamentalist Christians would argue Jonah being able to survive in the fish. I think the point is that he died. Jesus seems to allude to that when asked for a sign, saying that the only sign he'd give is the sign of Jonah.
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well, i mean, if he did die he definitely got better?
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This is the most erudite discussion I've ever seen on Twitter.
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