In fact, since we're on the subject of "dragons" and "seraphim", here are a FEW Byzantine illustrations of "seraphim".
Yes. And your next comment is my point (emphases are mine):
The Byzantines may not have had "Jeheshua" whispering into THEIR ears
You will absolutely get NO argument or disagreement from me on this. Although, I THINK the One you mean is JAHESHUA, the Chosen One of JAH (MischaJah). Funny, isn't it, though... how you folks can't state it? Can't even write it?
, but at around 300 - 500 A.D.,
YES! And by THAT time, the Body of Christ barely resembled what he started. He never instituted any Council... or established any "creeds." Yet, those existed. Not only existed, but when to all kinds of extents to FORCE people to accept [their version of] "Christ" and things related. But this was prophesied: the "restraint" would be removed and wicked men would arise from with the Body itself. And the world would once again plunge into darkness. The "Dark Ages" started long, long before the western world's written history states. With the exception of a very few... a VERY few... there was no faith in the earth. As is almost always the case. Yes, there were... and are... those who have "a FORM of godly devotion." A buttload of these. Then... and now. But just as then, now too... such ones "prove FALSE" to the power of that "devotion."
they were a LOT closer to the actual origins of Christianity than YOU...
I have to disagree, dear one - the closest one can get to the origin... is the Source. When one is a member of the BODY of Christ, one is in union with HIM... THE Source. The Byzantine's, as a people, were not a part of that Body, not even close to it and thus, nowhere near the Source. Those who were... either hid... or were martyred. In EACH generation, however, there are a few who come forth and declare the truth. For millenia great campaigns have been undertaken to silence such ones. Started with Abel... and continues down to today. Today, such ones are necessarily murdered (depends on where they are)... but the efforts to silence them never cease.
This campaign is and has always been the vocation of the ADVERSARY of the Christ and his Body (the seed of the Woman)... the "enmity" between him and Christ. Since he is now the ruler of THIS world he has vast resources at his disposal. Because we are IN the world. And the most prevalent... yet obscure... resource... his MOST handy "tool"... is folks like you. You all have no idea how you are ALLOWING yourselves to be used. No more than those who had my Lord put to death... those who killed the Prophets... those who persecuted and killed the early Body... those who killed some during campaigns like the Crusades, Inquisition, Salem witch hunts, etc., did. And the attempts to denigrate those by calling them apostates, heretics, sorcerers, witches, demonized, charlatans, zealots, insane, delusional, mentally diseased, etc. Using this terms, they have been able to convince the masses and gather followers in THEIR endeavors to silence the Body. And if that didn't work, if turning the PEOPLE against them didn't work... then, they killed them. Look at man's HISTORY - it's all there.
And you, some of you here, are among them. But, just as my Lord said of those who opposed and silenced HIM... I say of you, "Forgive them, Father, because they truly DON'T know what they're doing... how they're being used... and for whose purpose."
Think of it: you think me an imposter, yet you consider me more dangerous than, say, the WTBTS. Such ones have misled MILLIONS... some even to their physical death. They have lied, cheated, stolen, and murdered. Openly. And you all KNOW this. Yet, some of you are still a part of her regardless of what you wish us to believe the reason is... and all of you have now turned to excusing her... in exchange for opposing me and those like me. We, who've lied to no one, cheated no one, stolen from no one... indeed, have asked NOTHING of ANYONE... and certainly have murdered no one. To the contrary, I just recently posted information that can help some SAVE their mortal lives... and/or that of others... and look what was taken from that. NOT that such ones could be FREE from the burden erroneously and wickedly placed on them as to this matter... but, OMG, someone might actually LISTEN. NOT that the mortal life of anyone listening might be SAVED... no. Rather, some of you consider it better that they... or their loved one(s)... DIE... than listen to something YOU don't like, agree with, or recall having ever heard before.
If THAT isn't WTBTS indoctrination and baggage at its best... I don't know what is!
So, here is how the BYZANTINE Christians represented "seraphim"
Yes. Which is how one would know that they had NO clue, but were only depicting what others told them... or they THOUGHT... seraphs appeared like. Because if one bothered to look up the WORDS... including their Latin, Greek, Hebrew/Aramaic forms, means, and etymologies, one would KNOW this. Or... even easier... if one just asked.
I have the courage to ask. That you DON'T... is your deficiency, not mine.
Now, I can cut you some slack and we can leave it here, dear Zid... or you can tell me if you want me to continue and SHOW you... from the Bible (which is where the Byzantine's would have looked, right?)... what seraphs look like. In the meantime, we can start with the simple truths, which you perhaps already know, that one spirit being is a seraph (saraph) while the GROUP (which includes them all, even the Most Holy One of Israel, JAH of Armies)... are "seraphim". Same for cherubs - "cherub" denotes one, while "cherubim" denote more than one. Same with "Nephi" - they are a particular rank of spirit beings - "the Nephilim."
So, YOU choose whether you wish to contine this... contest. I'm certainly "game", if you are.
Again, peace to you!
YOUR servant and a slave of Christ,
SA
