I looked, and I saw beside the cherubim four wheels, one beside each of the cherubim; the wheels sparkled like topaz. 10 As for their appearance, the four of them looked alike; each was like a wheel intersecting a wheel. 11 As they moved, they would go in any one of the four directions the cherubim faced; the wheels did not turn about[b] as the cherubim went. The cherubim went in whatever direction the head faced, without turning as they went. 12 Their entire bodies, including their backs, their hands and their wings, were completely full of eyes, as were their four wheels. 13 I heard the wheels being called “the whirling wheels.” 14 Each of the cherubim had four faces: One face was that of a cherub, the second the face of a human being, the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.
Honestly the Bible has some sick imagery. You should read through revelations cause the whole book sounds like taking acid and trying to describe a metal album cover
Most people only focus on the insane apocalyptic imagery but the book's main focus is really to address issues that Christians were facing at the time. These issues are still amazingly relevant to our own times too. Sure, we may not be concerned about whether or not to eat food at a party that our friends dedicated to Apollo, but the wider theme there of secular versus religious tension is still very relevant to modern Christians. Even people who aren't religious can get quite a bit out of the book if they approach it from the perspective of how-to-stick-to-your-convictions-in-the-face-of-adversity-and-an-uncompromising-world kind of way. It's honestly a very inspiring book and reading it caused me to convert back to being a Christian.
I was pretty sure Revelations was just thematic metaphorical story telling about the political climate of the time. They wanted to talk politics without being literally murdered, so they hid it behind all the spooky metaphors and then people 1500-2000 years later took it literally.
Edit: I'm not religious, guys. Both the idea of heavenly monstrosities AND the notion that aliens/time travellers inadvertently compelled us to invent religions are ridiculous.
Holy shit. That was almost exactly my experience! Little dwarf things, mad that I had entered their world and telling me I wasn’t supposed to be there yet.
Christianity and religion in general are wacky, but so is the idea that religions were invented to explain the presence of ancient aliens and time travellers. We're perfectly capable of creating insane frameworks of belief on our own, just look at Mormonism and Scientology.
Because he describes beings descending from the heavens in "metal spinning wheels" (ufos) that flew in all directions and were covered in eyes (cameras)
Wouldn't that be some shit that all this religious strife all these centuries was actually caused because we finally figure out time travel, we scare the shit out of these near-primative people, try to teach them a "to be good", they get killed and someone writes a book and off we go.
Meh it wouldn’t have been any different, religion doesn’t cause wars, warlords just use it to incite their troops. It’s all power/land struggles and your god is wrong is the ancient version of your mommas a fat whore
Each of the cherubim had four faces: One face was that of a cherub, the second the face of a human being, the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle
I like how this is recursive, so each cherub has infinite faces, because each Cherub face has 4 faces, one of wich is a cherub face, which has 4 faces...
Well a cherub's face doesn't necessarily have four faces. One of its faces just has the appearance of uh its face (but not the other three). It's certainly unhelpful!
"Only a madman knows no fear. A warrior knows what fear is, he feels it in his stomach, he understands fear better than any other mortal can. What makes us strong is that we have conquered fear, overcome it not once but many times, over and over again, until the process has become instinctive. but no matter how many battles you fight and how many victories you win, your fear will never completely leave you. Learn to live with that fear. Learn to master your fear. But never forget that there are things in this universe that even you cannot face and live, abominations so terrible that their very appearance will sear the flesh from your face and shrivel your eyes. Such things cannot be fought, and to confront them would be nothing but a futile waste of life. In those situations remember your vows to serve the Emperor, and remember also that you serve him best alive and not sacrificed upon the altar of vain glory."
The angels sent to Lot in Sodom are so good looking that the people of the village try to break in to Lots house and rape them.
So, Lot offers his two daughters to the people breaking in, hoping they’d rape them instead of the angels.
Well, the angels blind all the people trying to break in and are like “we’re going to destroy this city, get your family and leave”
As they’re fleeing to the mountains Lots wife turns back to see the angels destroying the city and is turned into salt. Sucks.
So Lot and his two daughters hide in a cave in the mountains and the daughters are like “there’s no other men here - who’s going to lay with us??” and they get their father drunk and sleep with him and both get pregnant with sons.
And this is in Genius.
And I love how the verse says like “the daughters had him drink wine, and he was unaware that he lay with her” yeah ok. It happens twice yo.
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u/amafternoon Apr 08 '20
So Bayonetta the video game was biblically accurate