alright people, it is the certified holiest day of the week, day of the SUN. we are up, we are making moves, we are considering our gut bacteria and our dopamine levels, and it is time for:
[reactionary bible circle]
#RBcirc
we are scoping genesis 17 - 20pic.twitter.com/wO6eY1M30B
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so this takes us from abram becoming abraham to the destruction of sodom usual disclaimer that i am not pontificating here just opening it up for discussion
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first up, god comes to abram when hes 99. this has always been one of my favorite symbolic numbers for some reason, because its just one short of such a complete number (100) that it feels so oddly intentional. this is the closest i could find to commentary on it, from chrysostompic.twitter.com/5fZii691ci
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NGL, always felt like this part where god makes abraham circumsize himself and others kind of weird. why lord? why u make them do this? and if they had to do it, why wouldnt we (not really down with this practice TBH no offense god) ambrose of milans answer:pic.twitter.com/oGqxKZmqBm
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in genesis 18:1 god appears to abraham (again). naturally fascinated by these parts. ambrose of milan says that god appearing as three men is obviously symbolic, origen points out the name of the place theyre in:pic.twitter.com/IO05210yRw
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find the theme of people lying to god and how god responds very interesting also: sarah laughs when she hears the men say she'll have a kid, later god asks her about it and she says she didnt laugh:pic.twitter.com/9jIcCLb8v9
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really enjoyed genesis 18:26 - 33 where abraham basically "haggles down" god on his conditions for destroying sodom. mentioned it before but im mostly interested in mans relationship to god so I find this reciprocal exchange of info and ideas with an omnipotent being fascinating
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also intriugued by passes where god (who is really everywhere) "goes" somewhere or is personified in some capacitypic.twitter.com/MWGpyPkuNX
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so in sodom lot has those two angels come by his house (as men) and a band of people come and demand them for like, a public gangrape i guess. he offers his daughters instead. haydock says he knew they wouldnt take them. why? was it a dude only public gangrape? very odd TBHpic.twitter.com/hf2ep7CVXh
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scene where the angels strike the crowd blind so they can't get in the door and then tell lot to leave is badass (starts gen. 19:11)
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It’s also signifies that the angels removed their intellect as well.
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Replying to @helioshellfire
wow ur right it says "small and great" but i thought that referred to the people. of course few "small" (or great tbh) people would be there so maybe its referring to small and great blindness... or you mean blindness here has both connotations?pic.twitter.com/omsdPms8DQ
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Replying to @WesternIdentity
Two kinds of blindness yes. They were already spiritually blind so it’s fitting
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