#unicorns of the Bible

[unforgivablengk]

Unicorns of the Bible

Job 39:9 (KJV) "Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?"

Job 39:10 (KJV) "Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?" Psalm 92:10 (KJV) "But my horn shalt though exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil." Deuteronomy 33:17 (KJV) "His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh." Numbers 23:22 (KJV) “God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.” Numbers 24:8 (KJV) “God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.” Isaiah 34:7 (KJV) "And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness." Psalm 29:6 (KJV) "He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn." Note: When considering the most popular English translations of the Christian Bible - including the Hebrew texts, of which all of these verses originate- the King James Version (KJV) is considered to be one of the least accurate to the original language, despite using the Masoretic Hebrew as the reference text, which is used as the authorative Hebrew. No other popular translations use "unicorns." Instead, the reader will usually see "wild ox."

[I'm a seminarian who has several semesters of Biblical Greek and Hebrew]

[dunmeshistash]

any intel on how unicorns work in dungeon meshi? they are attracted to innocent maidens unlike bicorn, but what else?

You can use their horns to purify things

[chimeride]

[teamiris]

Hello everypony.

[solomiracle]

kinda funny how in order to make satan stand out amongst his brothers, the devs made his symbolic animal be the one that has big ties to christianity and purity

[jesse-pinko]

Friendly reminder that the pink and blue unicorns from Charlie the Unicorn were canonically Deadites the entire time

[fangsinmypants]

Fbdw rarepairs day 2 🤯🤯🤯🤯

Bracken x jesus christ

Idc anymore (i treat bible as a piece of literature btw!!!! I'm not making fun of the religion!!! Sorry if it offended anyone!!!)

[girlspecimen]

honestly my gay childhood is so funny because i would wear boy’s dress shirts and polos to school and i was obsessed with embodying dashing and dramatic male figures like peter pan or prince charming or the medieval courtship unicorn who were chasing after beautiful women BUT nobody called me a tomboy because i hated running and climbing and sports and spending time with boys in general. my ideal of masculinity was simply too faggy

[nopizzaaftermidnight]

For context, older translations of Job 39 mention a unicorn. Nowadays I think it's usually translated as wild ox or perhaps rhinocerous

[raz-goblin]

I feel like I should show y’all this thing.

[qqweebird]

my favorite book of the bible to read as a kid was revelations. its really sick tbh i think tumblr should get into revelations. also i think it was psalms where they talk about the whore i liked that one too

[pathetic-pierrot]

I literally act like I am such a genius when I notice a reference that could possibly be symbolism

I am speaking about how Azulin and Gordi are like Abel and Cain around the end

[dragon0fhades]

I feel like the best part of this is the bit people always forget/don't mention/aren't told:

Cain didn’t know that smacking Abel over the head with a rock would kill him.

In christianity Adam and Eve(Cain and Abel's parents) were the first humans. There hadn't been a human death at this point. Mans literally was just (understandably) upset that his brother was getting the favoritism treatment. So he did what a lot of siblings would do in that type of situation. He hit his brother, bc he can't hit the authority figure showing favoritism and he's pissed that it's happening.

So it's more:

god: Where's your brother?

Cain, confused: Wdym? Why would I know, I'm not his keeper

Than:

god: Where's your brother?

Cain: Wouldn't you like to know. Go find him yourself.

The first funny bitch was Cain, who straight up lied to God after killing his brother.

[entityandstereo]

Cursed unicorn

[jimfostercoc]

Alice Camille, author of "Animals of the Bible from A to Z," talks about the challenge of finding the animal that began with the letter U.  The full interview from a 2007 episode of "Conversations On The Coast with Jim Foster" can be heard now wherever you get your podcasts.  The book is illustrated by Camille's niece, Sarah Evelyn Showalter.  

[jim-fetter-illustrations]

Unicorns and the Bible are both Myths.

I saw a slice of Rainbow Unicorn Cake in the grocery store the other day.......

Now this slice of cake had nothing to do with any Unicorn that I could reference in my past studies! Ya see, in college I took a couple classes in Greek natural history writings from the 4th century BCE, because as most people might think Greek mythology would cover the Unicorn, but Unicorns aren't found in Greek mythology, and ya hafta study Greek natural history to learn of the Unicorn, which might suggest they were a REAL animal,...... and they were, but not what most people would think a unicorn would be............ They were just a natural animal that man manipulated into being a mythical and magical beast so a profit could be obtained through stupid people who believed the fairy tale.

Ya see,... The Greek historian Ctesias wrote about unicorns in his book Indika ("On India") way back in the 4th century BCE, likely based on stories he heard while stationed in Persia (modern-day Iran). Ctesias description of the unicorn is considered one of the earliest written references to the so-called mythical animal: And this guy Ctesias heard tales of the Unicorn as a type of wild ass, which is a Donkey, and donkeys are usually small animals like 36 to 50 inches tall on average, defiantly not a Horse as most think Unicorns to be.

The Horn on this donkey was said to be a cubit and a half in length, and we know A CUBIT from ancient times was about 20.4 inches long, so the Unicorn's horn was about 30 something inches long, which is substantial for such a small donkey animal, and prominent that most people would notice.

The color of this horn was said to be grayish-white, dark red and black,.... and here's where we get back to that slice of Rainbow Unicorn Cake, which is the WRONG colors of the original Unicorn Horn.

See what I'm talking about here?

Rainbow Unicorn Cakes are a fraud, they taste good, but are based upon fabricated information for marketing purposes. (Lol)

Now history and ancient writings tell us the unicorn was likely based on descriptions of multiple animals such as wild asses and Indian rhinos (Rhinoceros unicornis) that were mistranslations people believed as fact, then further transformed into confusing composite animals, to eventually getting that majestic white creature called the Unicorn with the multicolored horn we'd like to believe in today.

Kind of like the whole Bible story goes, that most people today believe is true, but isn't, and it's just another mistranslation from one generation to another with a little something extra to keep the fairy tale going by people who knew damn well what they were doing,... and for profiteering.

Not a major subject of study these controversial days of a clusterfucked political arena indeed.

But a much more enjoyable subject of study by someone who's fed up with the status quo, and the stupid people who support it.....