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Title: Expulsion from the Garden of Eden Artist: Theodore Poulakis (Greek [Cretan], 1622-1692) Genre: religious art (Eastern Orthodox Christianity) Period: Greek Renaissance Movement: Cretan School Medium: egg tempera on wood Location: private collection
#art#art history#Theodore Poulakis#religious art#Biblical art#Christian art#Christianity#Old Testament#Hebrew Bible#Book of Genesis#Expulsion from the Garden#Greek Renaissance#Cretan School#Greek art#Cretan art#17th century art#egg tempera on wood#private collection
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I want to clarify that this blog is not anti-public fruit trees. It is pro-serpent.
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#art#etching#steel engraving#the deluge#epic#masterpiece#wrath#the ocean#the sea#the flood#bible stories#book of genesis#judgement#gustave doré
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i hope this isn't blasphemy but imagine a Genesis!Dreammare AU? With Night being the one to eat the apple (Eve) and Dream following him (Adam)— maybe Nim could be the version of god?
The Fall
#zu art#comic#book of genesis#dreammare#dream!sans#nightmare!sans#passive!nightmare#undertale#undertale au#utmv#I couldn't think of anything else I just /had/ to get it out of my head#dreamtale but the proship version ;D#sinners win today *happy sob*#I don’t see anything blasphemous in parallels and free interpretation without insulting the original so thank you for the idea! <3#I'm like 95% sure I've seen this idea on Tumblr but I didn't find any post in the end so here we go >:D#(if you know the original feel free to share so I'll credit them *^*)#back to work ٩( ᐛ )و♪
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"I wouldn't have eaten the forbidden fruit" yes you would have. Why? Because you do it everyday. Because every character in the bible does it (with a few exceptions) over and over and over again. The narrative uses different ways of talking about it, "taking the fruit", "getting bit by the snake", etc but the real point is that your absolute failure to read the bible as a narrative, and instead to insist on historicity as your primary way of reading scripture, is the root issue here because it causes you to be blind to the actual message of the Bible.
#i will die on the hill that is “the bible is narrative”#garden of eden#book of genesis#christianity#christian#jesus#bible#keep the faith#faith#jesus christ#faith in jesus#(g)arden core#progressive christianity#christian faith#christblr#christian tumblr#christian blog#bible verse#bible scripture#progressive christian#queer christian#lgbt christian#queer christianity
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Frederick Goodall RA (British, 1822-1904) Rachel and her flock, 'And behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep', ca.1874–75
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Tolkien personally states that his elves were supposed to be what humanity would be like without original sin. However, in basically every version of the Abrahamic creation myth, wanting to wear clothing is a direct result of eating the fruit of knowledge. Meaning that for the worldbuilding, philosophy, and theology of Tolkien to make sense the elves would have to be naked unless they specifically had a reason not to be. However none of the works in the lotr cannon have properly portrayed elves this way. However, with the power of cgi, deaging technology, and labor rights violations, in an all new extended edition coming to Amazon Prime in 2025...
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In the previous paragraph, I said that God was the beginning and end, Alpha and Omega. These pairs (not binaries) can unlock a beautiful vision in Genesis 1.
‘Beginning and end’ is a pairing that represents the whole scope of history and time. ‘Alpha and Omega’ stretches from the first letter of the alphabet to the last, representing the whole alphabet in one swoop by referring to its extremities. ‘From head to toe’, ‘from top to bottom’, and ‘from cradle to grave’ all denote a spectrum through the use of pairs considered to be extremities of that spectrum. Take for example Genesis 1.1: God creates the ‘heaven and earth’, i.e. everything. Or even the phrase ‘there was evening and there was morning’, signifying the passing of a whole day.
Now return to Genesis 1.27: ‘male and female [God] created them’. Male and female. I think you can all see what I’m probably getting at here. The ‘and’ is not a binary ‘and’. Male and female can disclose a spectrum of varied gender identities in the same way that ‘Alpha and Omega’ discloses the whole alphabet, or how ‘from head to toe’ means the length of the whole body.
'Queer Creation: Queering the Image of God,' Alan Hooker (2013).
#book of genesis#queer christian#alan hooker#progressive christianity#queer theology#queer#quotes#biblical commentary#mine
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*looking at his brothers
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The Rebuke of Adam and Eve
Artist: Charles Joseph Natoire (French, 1700–1777)
Date: 1740
Medium: Oil on copper
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, United States
Painting Information
The history painter Natoire was trained in the studio of François Le Moyne, for whom this meticulously executed painting must have been intended as a tribute. It is a pendant to an earlier work by Le Moyne of the same size, also painted on copper, which depicts Adam receiving the forbidden fruit from Eve (private collection). Natoire shared with Le Moyne a predilection for the nude that here links biblical to more sensual subjects popular in eighteenth-century France. Note the rosy flesh of Natoire’s disappointed Eve, a tear glistening on her cheek, contrasted with Adam’s taut musculature.
Biblical Narrative
In Genesis 3:22 God says, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil.” Knowledge in itself is not wrong (see Luke 2:52), so what was so bad about man “knowing good and evil”?
It is vital to know the context of God’s statement. God had already told Adam not to eat from this tree. Adam was already aware that doing so was wrong, and he knew the consequences, yet he chose to join Eve in eating the fruit. When they ate, they were not simply aware of evil; they experienced evil, to the extent that they became evil - sinners by nature.
Man knew what was good: he was created in goodness and was surrounded by it (Genesis 1:31). He had been given everything God wanted him to have, including authority over all the rest of God’s creation. Adam had everything he needed for a fulfilling life. He did not need to “know” evil, especially when the only way for him to “know” it was to experience it. It should have been enough that God had warned Adam against disobedience. God did not want Adam and Eve to “know” evil in the sense of participating in it. The sin of Adam and Eve was not in attaining knowledge but in rejecting God’s will in favor of their own.
Because of their sin, Adam and Eve received dire consequences. First, Eve was told, “I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you” (Genesis 3:16).
Second, Adam was told, “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life” (Genesis 3:17).
Third, for both Adam and Eve, “You are dust, and to dust you will return” (Genesis 3:19). They had been told they would “die” if they ate from the tree (Genesis 2:17). This consequence did not happen immediately, but Adam and Eve did both physically die, a pattern followed by all other humans.
Fourth, they were expelled from the Garden of Eden: “So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken” (Genesis 3:23).
#garden of eden#painting#fine art#book of genesis#adam#eve#god#angels#biblical scene#biblical art#nude figures#landscape#animals#trees#lake#hills#charles joseph natoire#french painter#artwork#french culture#oil on copper#french art#oil painting#christianity#good versus evil#garden#european art#18th century painting#the metropolitan museum of art
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I'm so glad they invented trans gender. Back in the day the only women were my wife and the only men were me. I love my wife. I'm just glad there are options now
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Title: Jacob and the Angel Artist: Gustave Moreau (French, 1826-1898) Date: between 1874 and 1878 Genre: religious art Movement: Symbolism Medium: oil on canvas Location: Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
#art#art history#Gustave Moreau#religious art#Biblical art#Christian art#Christianity#Catholicism#Old Testament#Hebrew Bible#Book of Genesis#Symbolism#Symbolist art#French art#19th century art#oil on canvas#Fogg Museum
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#guard your heart#sin#cain and abel#book of genesis#christian faith#faith in jesus#jesus loves you#jesussaves#christian blog#christian living#faith in god#jesus christ#faith#gods promise#god is kind#god is real#belief in god#god is good#love jesus#jesus is coming#belief in jesus#lord jesus christ#follow jesus#bible scripture#the bible#reelsinstagram#instagram reels#instagram
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#art#painting#oil on canvas#bible stories#book of genesis#the old testament#the flood#great flood#deluge#scene of the flood#anne-louis girodet de roussy-trioson
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Aziraphale's Flaming Sword
I'm working on a poem about Aziraphale's flaming sword and it got me thinking all about it, so here are my thoughts and findings!
First is looks: the hilt is surprisingly plain. It's not the intricate, ornate sword you might expect; instead it's more primitive, or ancient, by design. The pommel is rounded, and the hand guard curves upward around the base of the blade, resembling a cup shape, rather than a crossguard in a straight line. Actually, it resembles the handle of a torch, which is interesting. Torches give off light and symbolize guidance and enlightenment. An appropriate weapon for our angel, I think! Aziraphale is given the sword to help him guard Eden against... what, exactly? I've never really stopped to consider what the danger is supposed to be. Could it be the animals that live outside of the garden? After Adam and Eve are cast out, they're seen fighting a lion with the sword, and in his dialogue with Crowley, Zira mentions "vicious animals". If it's the forces of Hell, then he's not doing a very good job of it, (poor angel~) letting Crowley snake his way in with the whole apple business! And since it's a sword made of fire, would that even hurt a demon? Is it holy fire? Do angels have holy water AND holy fire, and if so, do demons have a "hellwater" equivalent?!?!? These are the real questions I need answers to!! lol
I wonder if instead it's supposed to match up with what's written in the Bible. An angel with a flaming sword is sent to guard the Tree of Knowledge AFTER Adam and Eve are cast out, to prevent mankind from re-entering the garden. The angel was supposed to stop humanity from returning to paradise! I didn't know about this detail! In the show I assumed Aziraphale was always stationed there to protect Eden, even before Adam and Eve were cast out! Was this Aziraphale's actual job? Was he told to go to Eden and guard the gate after the original sin? If true, I think this would imply he had only been in the garden for a short time by the wall scene in s1ep1. And then it would make sense that he didn't try to stop Crowley from tempting Eve if he wasn't even there to see it happen originally. He's called in to work after everything already went down (like a lead balloon). But he has empathy and takes pity on the humans, and by giving away the sword he deviates from the Bible's story. I think the way this scene is cut and edited it feels like all of these events are happening immediately one after another, as it is meant to serve as a summary of Genesis (we all know the basic story) when most likely there were moments in between, like God speaking to Adam and Eve about why they're hiding their bodies and, potentially, Zira's arrival at the garden. We see in a different scene later that Zira is patching up the wall, and God asks him about the sword being missing. How is he to defend the garden against humanity's return without his sword?
Moving onnn... This scene is an origin story for how humanity harnessed fire!! And Aziraphale is the one who gave it to us, to protect ourselves and stay cozy warm and cook our food!!!! That is so cool and it completely fits with his character!! I love that the flaming sword in Aziraphale's hands is a symbol of protection and self-defense, life and survival.
And then because it's been given away, given to humans, (who now have the capacity for both good and bad after eating the apple) after thousands of years the sword ends up in the hands of the horseman WAR. That's her key item to summon her for the impending apocalypse. It now represents how humans have control over fire; they've created gunpowder and artillery and war and violence and Earth-ending destruction.
But WAR is defeated by Pepper, using the same sword that now holds this duality in meaning. Pepper, "Pippin Galadriel Moonchild", the child of a hippie mother, or in a way, a child of PEACE, defending her world, protecting the lives of everyone on Earth. Ahh it's such a satisfying narrative circle, I love it!!!!
That's all for now! I totally paused my poem work to write all this out, so back to it!!
#good omens#gomens#good omens meta#good omens s1#good omens eden#aziraphale#az fell#angel of the eastern gate#aziraphale's flaming sword#good omens war#good omens pepper#good omens adam and eve#guardian angel#book of genesis#meta#ticketyboooo posts
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Are YOU still living in sin even after knowing the truth? (SOAP Bible Study, Genesis 33)
SCRIPTURE:
14 So let my lord go on ahead of his servant, while I move along slowly at the pace of the flocks and herds before me and the pace of the children, until I come to my lord in Seir.”
15 Esau said, “Then let me leave some of my men with you.”
“But why do that?” Jacob asked. “Just let me find favor in the eyes of my lord.”
16 So that day Esau started on his way back to Seir. 17 Jacob, however, went to Sukkoth, where he built a place for himself and made shelters for his livestock. That is why the place is called Sukkoth.
OBSERVATION:
Jacob and Esau had just reunited after 20 years of being apart
Their last interaction was after Jacob deceived Esau into giving him his birth right and his blessing
Esau came to him with an army of 400 men, but then embraced him, and they wept and cried and forgave each other (aww!)
Esau invites him to go with him to Seir, but Jacob denies it because of the large amount of flocks and people he was bringing, insisting that they go on their own pace following Esau.
buttttt Jacob decieves him AGAIN and goes to Sukkoth, and arrives at shechem.
(note: Jacob and Esau probably met again and reconciled because they bury their father together. See Genesis 35:29 ("And Isaac breathed his last, and he died and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him") but we aren't gonna focus on that today)
APPLICATION::
Many people call themselves Christian, right? I mean, there are 2.4 billion of us. Maybe you're a Christian who's reading this right now. But let me ask you, are you really a Christian?
Yes, many people call themselves Christian, but they are still actively and willingly sinning. They still hold grudges, they're still unforgiving, selfish, lustful, entitled, worldly, they're still living in sin. Of course, there's a difference between falling into sin and willfully sinning when they already know its a sin. It's good if you don't want to sin and actively try not to, and especially if you're just starting out, you will fall back in. The problem is if you already know its a sin, but you're ACTIVELY and WILLINGLY going back to the sin without guilt.
The Bible already says things against holding grudges, hating others, being entitled, being sexually immoral, idolatry, homosexuality AND homophobia because that is still hating others and is bad, and judging and shaming others. Then, why are we still actively and willingly doing these things, even though there are already many words against them? Were we not called to love and serve others and put them and God before ourselves? Were we not called to be made new through Christ?
Look at Jacob and Esau, they've already forgiven each other, yet Jacob repeats his sin against Esau and he fools him again, and chooses what he thinks is better for him and his family, but eventually, he and his family suffers there as seen in Chapter 34, where his daughter was violated and his sons kill the entire village of Shechem as an act of revenge.
Now if we apply Jacob and Esau's relationship to our relationship with God, we can see that we, like Jacob, sometimes even after we ask for forgiveness from God, we still go and willingly (again, emphasis on WILLINGLY.) go back and sin. Yes, God loves us and will always love us forgive us when we sincerely ask for forgiveness, but we have to remember that God also loves everyone else God knows when we are exploiting his grace. He's literally God, do NOT think you can fool him.
To fully make room in our hearts to love Jesus, we need to let go of the sins and idols that will weigh us down and fully submit to Him. The lust, the greed, the hatred, the gluttony, the pride, all of it. They are called sins and idols for a reason, because:
They will only weigh us down and make us worse
They will have nothing good stored for us
Though it may feel good for a little while, they will only make feel and be worse in the long run
They actively distract us from the things that are actually good and actually important.
They hurt us and they hurt other people
So, is it really worth the momentary the pleasure? The feeling? No. No its not.
Jesus loves us. He loves us so much He literally died for all of us, and when He was on the Cross, He had YOU in mind. He died to save YOU, and his grace, love, and freedom is always there and always available. We just have to accept it, and to accept it, we have to let that love fill us to the brim, and to do that, we have to let go of the things weighing us down.
Yes, it is possible to let it go. The drugs, the sex, the money, the fame the validation from others that you crave, the idols, that one fictional character that you've devoted your entire life to thats ruining your relationship with others and your own psyche (trust me i've been there) the depression, the anxiety, the homosexuality, the anger, the hatred, you can let go of it. In fact, I was a severe p0rn addict since I was 8 years old, I swore, I hated others, I was entitled, I was literally an EVERYTHINGphile, and I have no joke nearly committed several crimes. And Jesus still saved me, and though it has been a pure struggle every day, i have gotten over my addictions, my hatred, and pride, and now I am better, though I still have much to improve on. Only Jesus can help you do that. Jesus can and will help you and pull you out of the pit of sin, all we have to do is to let Him pull us out instead of staying in. He will wash us clean, and He will forget our mistakes and love us regardless.
Now let me ask you, what's weighing YOU down?
PRAYER:
Dear Jesus,
Thank You Lord, because I am made anew through You! You have saved me and helped me be better O Lord. I praise You, I glorify You, and I honor you for all that you have done for me. Lord, I know that I have fallen short time and time again. I have failed, I have fallen I have sinned, and I confess that I am imperfect and that I need you now. I ask you O Lord to help me and to save me from the pit of sin and death, from my addictions and my idols that seek to be against me. Help me let them go, and to accept the fact that You love me, You care for me, and You forgive me, and that Your way will always be better than my way. Help me be better O Lord.
I ask for your wisdom and Holy Spirit to guide me so that I may do the right thing for you and for others instead of for fleeting yet hurtful pleasure. And as I continue to go on (or start!) my journey with you, help me to stay on the straight path that leads to heaven, and though it won't be easy, it'll be worth it all the way.
Thank You Lord! Truly I say, You are above all, You can do all things, and You are amazing! I love You! :D In Jesus Name, I pray, Amen.
(feel free to add whatever you need to this prayer!)
Matthew 11:28-30: 28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” (NIV)
hii guys I made another bible study!! Jesus is truly so so good and so so amazing!! He's so cool and epic :333 anyways Jesus Loves You and God bless!!
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