Lutheran, mainstream Norway state church
Museum Pic
by peacefulpete 33 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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peacefulpete
I threw a couple threads back to the top because there is a comment that related to another thread and it took me an hour to find them.
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slimboyfat
It was this church to be exact
Vår Frelsers Church (Rogaland)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A5r_Frelsers_Church_(Rogaland)
They also have a ChiRho, banners of the four evangelists, and an all-seeing eye - whatever that’s about.
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peacefulpete
Stumbled across an interesting bit regarding the "Alexamenos graffito" as was shown in this thread. According to wiki, a work by David Litwa describes the Ptolemaic period connection between Seth the donkey headed god (not the man in Genesis) and Yahweh.
wiki:
Following the Assyrian conquest of Egypt in the 7th century BCE, Seth was seen as an evil deity by the Egyptians and not commonly worshipped, in large part due to his role as the god of foreigners.[17] From at least 200 BCE onward, a tradition developed in the Graeco-Egyptian Ptolemaic Kingdom which identified Yahweh, the God of the Jews, with the Egyptian god Seth.[18] Diverging from previous zoologically multiplicitous depictions, Seth's appearance during the Hellenistic period onwards was depicted as resembling a man with a donkey's head.[19][20] The Greek practice of interpretatio graeca, ascribing the gods of another people's pantheon to corresponding ones in one's own, had been adopted by the Egyptians after their Hellenisation;.....Furthermore, the story of the Exodus was adapted by Ezekiel the Tragedian into the Ancient Greek: ἐξαγωγή, romanized: Exagōgḗ, a Greek play performed in Alexandria and seen by Egyptians and Jews. .....In this context some Egyptians saw similarities between Yahweh's in-narrative actions and attributes and those of Seth, in addition to a phonetic resemblance between Koinē Greek: Ἰαω, romanized: Iaō, Yahweh's name as used by hellenised Jews, and Coptic: ⲓⲱ, romanized: Iō, lit. 'donkey', then seen as the animal of Seth.
Give this connection, it would not be surprising some would depict the Crucified Christ as a donkey. It is also suggested this association with Seth as a capricious god developed into the self-interested demiurge conceptualization of Yahweh in many Gnostic sects.