#bible motif

[abbey-abdominal]

reverse chaggie sketches (tbcl)

#my art #digital rough sketching #to be continued l8tr #reverse!chaggie #sketch au #hazbin hotel posting #lamb angel!charlie #demon!vaggie #night sketching #to be cleaned later #the motif of reverse!chaggie is the lion and lamb thing from bible merchandise

[cyberdragoninfinity]

I loooooove reading your yugioh zexal thoughts, do you have a favorite piece of zexal symbolism?

AH THANK YOU!! 🥺 always means a lot when folks enjoy my yugioh chatter and ramblerants on whatever's got my brain in a vicegrip this time.... zexal is just sooo especially good for analyzing and thinking about they put SO much in that bad boy. So so many deliberate choices in there.

My FAAAAAVORITE piece of zexal symbolism is everything re: the Seven Barian Emperors paralleling the Seven Princes of Hell in demonology--I was really into classical demonology back in college and it was like getting long lost knowledge slammed back into my brain at mach speed. ESPECIALLY how it relates to Vector.

Like. It's pretty clear Vector's meant to invoke the demon Beelzebub, and it makes me absolutely insane. The way Beelzebub is deeply associated with flies/straight up known as the Lord of the Flies/occasionally considered leader of the "Order of the Flies" --> Mr. Heartland's fly motif and his acting under Vector's command. The way Beelzebub is often depicted as one of Lucifer's chief lieutenants, his second in command, a prince of Hell and sometimes even wielding more power than the Devil himself --> Vector acting as Don Thousand's second in command/his complex dynamic with Guy Who Is Effectively Alien Satan. The way Beelzebub is often associated with the sin of gluttony --> Vector's own gluttonous desire for power and blood and violence and chaos. THIS SHIT

It goes on and on and on!!! It's definitely the bit of symbolism that really opened my eyes to "oh my god it's Hell, it's Heaven and Hell and the Barians are demons" and I love it so much.

you almost have to wonder if Vector's bonkers expressive eyes could be linked to this 1863ish Beelzebub depiction...probably a stretch but still fun to think about ❤

#THAMK YOU for asking i love getting into ygo symbolism IT'S SO FUN!! THEY PACKED THIS CARROT WITH SO MANY SYMBOLS AND MOTIFS #vector #asks #ygo posting #anonymous #dana's ygo bible study

[myscalesofjustice]

It'll be a wasted opportunity if promo posters for Tristamp s2 don't have "He is Risen" or some variant on them. That is if it's not too heavy-handed for the first episode's name. "High Noon in July" is Vash's Good Friday, his return to duty is Easter, and he fell on July.

#Trigun #Vash the Stampede #Trigun Stampede #Trigun's always been a bible story #but Tristamp's really generous with the motifs

[roryfrommybabysittersavampire]

I did not choose to have fucking cannibalism as a special interest but here we are folks :3 painted this in art class for a typography assignment.

#cannibalism #watercolor #I love the bible #there are surprising amount of bible verses about cannibalism. not one of them distinctly says not to do it :3 #i am not planning to eat anyone #autism posting #my evaluation is in exactly one week I can finally say that without feeling stupid soon #meow #gray stop typing pls #i have therapy in 45 minutes #this is a great use of my time #also writing a poem about being a dog #dog motif wants me dead #I'll update if I'm so insufferable she discontinues my care #my art #hey this animal can talk #yo update I'm autistic

[queenlucythevaliant]

Why did God harden the Pharaoh’s? I’m in a Bible as Lit class and someone brought up “wouldn’t that be against free will,” and why did God let the Israelites stay it in slavery for so long. Why is God different in the Old Testament to the New Testament? I hope this doesn’t bother you, with all these questions

Okay, so there are several different questions here and I'm going to try to address them all. I'm sure I'll miss something somewhere, so other more knowledgeable friends feel free to add on. Follow-ups are also very much welcome.

First off, Bible as literature class! Yikes. I took a Bible as lit class for my English minor years ago and my experience was pretty much wall-to-wall frustration. It was mostly an exercise in coming up with the most transgressive reads on Scripture possible and that really upset me.

I hope that your experience is better than mine. However, assuming that the class is at a secular university, I'd still encourage you to be intentional about talking the things you cover in class over with knowledgeable Christians in your life. I certainly benefitted a lot from doing so, both in the sense that I got to vent a whole bunch and in that I got help contextualizing the secular perspectives within Christian scholarship.

That out of the way: The God of the Bible is the same in both the Old and New Testaments.

I do understand where you’re coming from. It’s not uncommon for people to find God kind of inscrutable in the OT when they're more used to reading the NT. I actually think that's a failure on the part of the contemporary church in the West; large swaths of the OT tend to be understudied among lay-Christians.

Systematic theology can help a lot here. I'm just going to hit a few really broad highlights, but I really can't recommend Wayne Grudem highly enough if you're interested in more in-depth reading. Lots of people start with Bible Doctrine, but my family happened to have a copy of his enormous Systematic Theology tome in the basement when I was in high school and I got a lot out of just poking through that a little at a time too. A few quick bullets though:

Across all the Biblical texts, God is love. He glories in kindness to his people, whether it's in the covenant with Abraham, the Exodus, the faithful ministry of the prophets, Christ's ministry/death/resurrection, or the promised coming of his kingdom.

God is holy; he gives the Law to the Israelites so that they can approach his holiness without fearing for their lives and he sent Jesus so that we can do the same. Both Isaiah and Peter react with fear and awe in the face of God's holiness.

God is just. By virtue of his holiness, he cannot allow sin to go unpunished. As modern westerners, we often chafe against this but has any of us experienced justice that was actually pure? Justice is a form of faithfulness, and the same God who sent his people into exile poured out his wrath on his own son in our place. He has promised that one day, every evil will face his perfect justice.

God is faithful. He keeps his Covenant with Abraham even unto the cross. In the OT he is faithful husband to an adulterous people. In the NT he tells us that when we are faithless, he remains faithful, for he cannot deny himself.

Lots of other characteristics but this answer is going to be long enough as it is. The only way to get a real sense for the continuity within the Bible is to read the whole Bible with an eye towards the continuity.

The reason that God is more approachable in the NT than the Old is that he became human. In the Incarnation, all of that holiness and justice and faithfulness and love that was God came to earth in our perfect likeness so that he could live beside us and die for us. God is certainly easier to approach in light of Christ's work, but he is utterly the same as he ever was. Read the Transfiguration and tell me that isn’t the God of Mount Sinai. Read John 1 and tell me it doesn’t remind you of the end of Job. Read the Gospels, Hebrews, and Revelation and play spot-the-OT-parallel. It's beautiful.

Why did God leave his people in slavery for so long? You could ask the same question about the Babylonian captivity and even about why Jesus waits to return and finally defeat Death. Why does he wait? Why let his people suffer?

Well. God is sovereign and he only permits evil to the extent that it ultimately accomplishes the very opposite of what it intends. Because the Israelites were slaves in Egypt, the Exodus was able to occur. The Exodus glorified God in extraordinary fashion, both among his own people and to the peoples of the ancient world. It was also a necessary type and precursor to Jesus's work on the cross. I don't think it's an overstatement to say that redemptive history rests on God's work in the Exodus, which is itself contingent on a period of slavery in Egypt.

“How long, O Lord” and “Come Lord Jesus” are the same sentiment in different words. We are still in exile, even now. We are chronologically exiled from the place where we belong, the New Jerusalem, and we mourn because we live in a fallen world in which sin and death can still hurt us. We can ask, just as the Prophets once asked, why God waits to vanquish the Enemy, extract suffering from the world, and restore our years that the locusts have eaten. And in each case (the slaves in Egypt, the Babylonian captivity, and the period of waiting for Jesus to return), the answer is that God does not fix it yet because He is doing something bigger!

Regarding Pharaoh's heart: this is basically a question of human nature. The easiest way that I can articulate it off the top of my head is using Augustine's fourfold state of man:

Prior to the fall, man was able either to sin or not to sin (posse peccare, posse non peccare)

The natural state of man after the fall is one in which he is unable not to sin (non posse non peccare). This was Pharaoh's state.

Following the work of Christ, regenerate man is able not to sin (posse non peccare)

In eternity, glorified man will be unable to sin (non posse peccare)

When we talk about man's will, we must acknowledge that our wills are subject to our nature. In other words, Pharaoh was a natural, fallen man. His nature was inherently sinful and his heart inherently hard.

What we've got here is sort of a "Jacob I have loved but Esau I have hated" situation. Pharaoh, in his natural state, had a hard heart and a natural enmity with God. God did not intervene to give him a heart of flesh. My people I have loved, but Pharaoh I have hated.

Not a perfect parallel, but I think it serves its purpose. The point is that God's sovereignty isn't in conflict with man's will, since our wills are a function of our natures. Man behaves however his nature inclines him to behave at any given time. We call this free will; however, God is entirely sovereign over all of it.

This is definitely a long, messy answer, but like I said, feel free to continue the conversation. I've got some biochem to work on, but I'm always happy to talk theology :)

#Secular Bible as lit classes really are a quagmire #mine was basically where I decided that I straight up do not care what non-Christians have to say about the Bible #(in the scholarship sense I mean) #if you don't have skin in the game then i couldn't care less what you think on authorship/characterization in genesis/weird subversive take #on ruth/Job being internally inconsistent/God's gender/the purpose of the parables/whatever other nonsense #sigh #and like. i had a good theological grounding to be able to push back on the BS nine times out of ten #my prof actually called me the most engaged student she'd ever taught which was pretty hilarious #but i was FURIOUS on behalf of the other Christians in the class who by and large had relatively shallow foundations as far as i could tell #like one girl was seriously doubting whether God was good when we did the prophets because of the way it was presented #i went to the prof's office hours one time to pick a fight (long story) and she told me that she's had numerous students over the years #that renounced their faith after taking her class #i spent the whole semester praying for all the names on the class roster #ugh i could rant about that class forever #meanwhile! no discussion of the ACTUAL literary merits of the Bible which are awesome! #the poetry the reoccurring motifs the deft use of metaphor the beautiful elevation of theology to art #i wanted to talk about that! #and that wasn't what the class was about #this was years ago and i'm still mad. sorry #maybe that'll be a separate post one of these days #ask me hard questions #only thou art holy

[george228732]

I dunno why do i put symbolism and motifs to my characters just go with it

#rambles #just look at Fylass who has the bible as his motif

[yakafuto]

What if it was the man who ate the Forbidden Fruit first

#bangtan #bts #укр #digital art #бтс #украрт #art #bts fanart #арт #jimin #park jimin #bible motifs #jimin bts #jm #пак чімін #чімін #procreate #bts art #бтс арт #Ukraine #Ukrainian art #Україна #blood sweat and tears #bst bts #bs&t #apple #Spotify

[dykeinthedark]

me when the story got fall of man/loss of innocence motif represented via a character literally falling

#OKAY LIKE DUDEEEEE #so omori spoilers but. omori obviously. actual that game has so much bible references. we literally get expelled from the garden #also obviously. a separate peace. GOD THE TREE MOTIF THE LOSS OF INNOCENCE THE FUCKING WAR!!!! #in the same vein as asp... consider... catcher in the rye... when we find out abt the guy who killed himself by falling from the building #i think that's exactly when holden became more jaded tbh especially how it relates to the pseudo climax with mr antolini #also again. the secret history... self explanatory...

[arohuacheng]

everyone should read tgcf forever btw. unless you're gonna be weird about it

#i love this book so much. and i hate so many mxtx fans with a passion dfjhgds #like! hey! to consume this content you have to be able to think critically #and look at the author's clear internalized homophobia and fetishization of gay men without trying to justify it #and you have to be able to read a book longer than the bible. #some of those criteria are more unreasonable than others. but not being a fujoshi is not one of the unreasonable ones #throwing rocks at people. please PLEASE look at the themes and motifs #anyway if you wanna read the greatest love story ever written by someone with a base misunderstanding of their own characters... #my most beloved trans character whose transness goes completely unacknowledged by the author... #pain so deep and wrenching that it gives way to revenge that is just as painful and exacting as the event that inspired it... #look i have my qualms with tgcf but there is also so so much i love about it #obviously. says tumblr user arohuacheng. #anyway everyone go read tgcf and be normal about it please #tgcf #mxtx

[craycraybluejay]

The more people tell you that you are [bad thing] the more you're inclined to agree with them. Every time someone says I remind them of some famous serial killer or something I get closer to just being like "aight sure thing now you get to be the first. Don't scream too loud or I'll start by fucking up your vocal cords."

Like. Once it's funny and a little of an ego stroke. Twice still funny. Thrice a little annoying. Ten plus times and you're just like aight that's my reputation and it seems like a fun time so--

It's that weird mix of ego stroking about notoriety. and judging someone you don't know as bad enough to do something like that. and psychological conditioning which btw fucking works and is 1 therapy tactic I can tell you actually works on changing your narrative about yourself and your life. and temptation to just fuck around and find out like the snake and the apple-- it is not god but the little human who is testing you and you're inclined to fail on purpose cause you're bored. and that pinch of indignation and rage at this idea that you are so visibly evil that people will say to your face that you remind them of someone who has famously killed a lot of people. and just that little inner tug of act and react that urges you to exit the social contract of maintaining contact with thy human self and instead allow the animal to take over. snarl at shit. someone looks you in the eyes you hit them with a fucking chair. someone touches you without permission you break their fingers one by one. not even the sadistic thinking process but simply the urge to do whatever the first instinct is. hungry? eat straight out of the leftovers box with your bare hands. angry? fight someone or break something. annoyed? throw the nearest object. worried? immediately call the person youre worried about even though you should know theyre busy. just grab the first thing and run with it. but we're people, not animals. right? it's not the same if i personally kill and eat a chicken. we do not generally cannibalize our young or piss to mark our territory. civilized. at least we think so. but sometimes you just feel like it. animal. and sometimes people treat you like it. animal. and you can't help but remind them that turning a human into an animal is not advisable. because animals are not civil.

#ask to tag #civility #reputation #waxing poetic #poetry kinda? #repetition #tw repetition #tw violence #animal motif #don't you just want to go apeshit #bible reference #dehumanisation #judgement #twice is a coincidence #thrice is a pattern #! if you start laughing at peoples accusations you will not be able to recognize the useful ones #! judgement makes reason a less than well oiled machine for all parties involved #psychological conditioning

[dailyminddumps]

Ok not religious but here me out a “Samson” (Regina Spektor) and “Hey There Delilah” (The Plain White T’s) song mash up for a musical…

The lady in bed singing about Samson, meanwhile in his dreams he’s thinking about Delilah. There’s some layered story telling there?!?

#dailyminddumps #does religious allusions #the motifs are motifng #the bible girls who get it get it #plain white t's #hey there delilah #and #Samson #regina spektor #music #dailymindmusic

[cyberdragoninfinity]

so the thing with the Three Pure Nobles' routes in Tag Force 6, they all are effectively the same set up (same set of WRGP duels, same 'endgame' (i.e. the Ark appearing)) but their Team 5D's opponents in the last round are all different, and then once you GET on the Ark Cradle these three just start saying the most harrowing shit at you and you can't leave and it's been in my brain for like 6+ months

they each make it very very clear to you how aware they are that theyre like.... not people, they're mechanical Things born from a moment of Agonizing Despair. Created by someone else.

^I wonder if him talking in first-person pronouns when describing the past is a fan translation choice or if this really is a situation of him being so distressed that Aporia's memories actually feel like something tangible and real he was There For. 8( (since it's established that Emperors learning theyre parts of someone else is a fairly recent happening--those memories were sealed off in their programming prior to Primo getting ripped in half)

Anyway with Primo you see how this burdened knowledge of being built from Literally Some Guy's Trauma is bleeding into his entire belief system (which is already kind of scrombled to begin with)

GOD. GOD!!! I feel like too often I see people characterize Primo and his cohorts as 1:1 copies of Aporia's various life stages (or literally them having been once human and "made" into robots later,) and/or as beings completely separated from Aporia entirely, and neither of those takes are really all that correct!! The Emperors are more like slightly off photocopies of Aporia, gijinkas of the worst moments of his life. They're not him, BUT, his memories are what made them, they're vessels for carrying his despair, and Aporia's themes and motifs are still baked into them at the very core. I've gone off before about Apo's ouroboros motif and this is one of the rare times YOU SEE IT SHOW UP WITH PRIMO TOO!!! IT'S CYCLICAL SUFFERING ALL THE WAY DOWN WITH THESE GUYS

You also get this really moderately distressing glimpse into how dedicated to the Emperor's 'God' (Z-one. Just Some Guy.) Primo is (and also how he considers his sword to be a great power Z-one has blessed him with, which i just think is cool. (^: archangel moment !)

he is SO hyped about purveying God's will with you!!! Immediately after this is when he starts revealing he's ALSO really hyped about getting to finally die in the name of Iliaster's mission, which I talked about in my other post about this route.

aahhaha...that's real cool buddy <:)....... <8,)

Anyway since this story event starts with Primo just killing Yusei in front of Akiza, she's then apparently approaching fast on Primo's location with the rest of the Signers, and it's all but stated that you WILL be taking care of that with him.

JUST. HIS GNARLY LITTLE SMILE SPRITE GETS ME HERE SO BAD. THE CACKLING. guy who was programmed to go to the ends of the earth for another man's cause. guy who fully believes in inflicting the despair that he's made of upon his enemies (suffer just as I have <;/3) mechanical avenging angel. God's specialest living weapon. there is NOTHING in TF6 that indicates finishing Primo's heart events will culminate this. he's so fucked up. it rules

#ygo posting #yugioh 5ds #tag force madness #placido #primo 5ds #long post sorry HFDHGUG i have so much to say about this particular chunk of tag force 6. ouroboros motif moment!!! #primoplacido is a miserable permanently 19 pile of wires and metal who wants to be god's bestest favorite angel #so he can save the future and then immediately die about it. i love him so much. i could talk endlessly about him #anyway i have an ask about lester's tf6 route i'll talk on that one in the future. it is also. emotionally difficult <3 #dana's ygo bible study

[thegreatestheaver]

Lucifer Morningstar kinda looks like Albert Wesker oh my god

#I think it’s the stupid blond slicked up hair #evil guys? ig #Lucifer doesn’t rlly feel that evil but he’s also the devil from the Bible so idk evil #cool awesome powers hmm yes #SNAKE MOTIF???? #GUYS IM INTO SOMETHING …

[demonstars]

ou woww, all i know from religion i know from crosswords, web weavings and death note so you can imagine it's not good -eras

i'm going to waterboard you with dream is job a little. He lost everything but his faith...

#bible analysis is so fun when it doesnt matter and its another myth you can go crazy about motifs and narratives #star asks

[inverse-problem]

suddenly struck by the implication of jesus existing in the ultrakill universe and now it’s haunting me

ultrajesus

#don’t try to debate theology with me or whatever I just think the idea is funny #but idk I was just thinking about gabriel and his cross motif etc and then I remembered he’s That gabriel etc #it’s hilarious to me ngl #by being inspired by works inspired by religious text this game is on some level bible fanfic #tbf that’s actually the case for a whole bunch of fiction it’s just funny for me to realize in this context #inverse problem.txt

[andrewpcannon]

Daily Devotional: Exodus 7:14-25

Blood represents life and death, and so does the Nile for all of Egypt. At some point in their history, Egyptians associated the Nile with their gods—Hapi, Sobek, and Osiris—and relied on them to bring fertility to the soil for farming through the natural cycle of the Nile River. Without the Nile, Egyptians would die. They tried to invoke gods to ensure the Nile flowed and flooded at the…

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#andrew paul #bible study #Christian #Christianity #Christoa #church #commentary #Exodus #exodus 7 #free #gospels #in the Bible #Jesus #Moses #Motifs #new testament #old testament #parallels #Sermon #typology #water to blood #water to wine