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The Bible In Paintings 33: SATAN REALLY, REALLY, REALLY TEMPTS JESUS
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| c.2,200 BC - c.95 AD
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Posted on 05/13/2021 5:56:17 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6
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posted on
05/13/2021 5:59:11 AM PDT
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Hebrews 11:6
(Watch "THE CHOSEN," the great show about Jesus: https://watch.angelstudios.com/thechosen )
To: Hebrews 11:6
I notice several of these paintings show Satan dressed as a Catholic priest. Symbology? ........... They must be trying to tell us something..................
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posted on
05/13/2021 5:59:19 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven.....................)
To: Hebrews 11:6
Thanks for posting the Synopsis of the Gospels, side by side.
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posted on
05/13/2021 6:01:59 AM PDT
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left that other site
(If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all. (Isaiah 7:9))
To: left that other site
Seems inevitable—don’t know any other way to present it responsibly and coherently.
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posted on
05/13/2021 6:06:32 AM PDT
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Hebrews 11:6
(Watch "THE CHOSEN," the great show about Jesus: https://watch.angelstudios.com/thechosen )
To: Hebrews 11:6
I like that in many of these Satan is depicted as an ordinary man, no horns, no bat wings, no barbed tail.
Temptation and evil seldom shows such obvious danger signals...
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posted on
05/13/2021 6:10:43 AM PDT
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null and void
(When you put bad people in charge expect bad things to happen, often in a spectacular and sudden way)
To: Red Badger
Perhaps so, although I hadn’t noticed until your inference.
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posted on
05/13/2021 6:11:22 AM PDT
by
Hebrews 11:6
(Watch "THE CHOSEN," the great show about Jesus: https://watch.angelstudios.com/thechosen )
To: null and void
Spoken as one who has experienced his fair share....
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posted on
05/13/2021 6:12:45 AM PDT
by
Hebrews 11:6
(Watch "THE CHOSEN," the great show about Jesus: https://watch.angelstudios.com/thechosen )
To: Hebrews 11:6
Yup! It’s a learning experience. Harsh lessons make for long memories...
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posted on
05/13/2021 6:13:55 AM PDT
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null and void
(When you put bad people in charge expect bad things to happen, often in a spectacular and sudden way)
To: null and void
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posted on
05/13/2021 6:18:22 AM PDT
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Hebrews 11:6
(Watch "THE CHOSEN," the great show about Jesus: https://watch.angelstudios.com/thechosen )
To: Hebrews 11:6
True, but an astonishingly large percentage seem incapable of learning from even the harshest of lessons!
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posted on
05/13/2021 6:25:32 AM PDT
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null and void
(When you put bad people in charge expect bad things to happen, often in a spectacular and sudden way)
To: Hebrews 11:6
A prelude to His final victory.
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posted on
05/13/2021 6:28:20 AM PDT
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Huskrrrr
(Pronouns? I need no stinkin pronouns!)
To: null and void
Which will continue right through the end of the coming Great Tribulation, despite God’s severe ratcheting-up of His punishments. Once the very last person has made that final decision, has jumped down off his personal fence on one side of the other—then, the end will come. I hasten to add that no one can blithely wait for that, for “You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you.”
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posted on
05/13/2021 6:41:09 AM PDT
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Hebrews 11:6
(Watch "THE CHOSEN," the great show about Jesus: https://watch.angelstudios.com/thechosen )
To: Huskrrrr
A necessary prelude, for He cannot be said to have been truly sinless, the spotless sacrificial Lamb, without this triumphal facing down of the Great Tempter.
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posted on
05/13/2021 6:45:23 AM PDT
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Hebrews 11:6
(Watch "THE CHOSEN," the great show about Jesus: https://watch.angelstudios.com/thechosen )
To: Hebrews 11:6
They are all beautiful, hard to have a favorite. The detail of Botticelli Temptation of Christ (#17) shows the devil disguised as a hermit. Look though at his feet.
#4 - Love this Jesus in deep prayer.
#1, excellent portrait of the Christ. Haunting expression. There is another version, without the devil. No attribution although the Christ is the same as in the other painting.
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posted on
05/13/2021 6:52:30 AM PDT
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etabeta
To: etabeta
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posted on
05/13/2021 6:54:47 AM PDT
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etabeta
To: etabeta
Could be that the devil was added later, by another painter?
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posted on
05/13/2021 6:57:55 AM PDT
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etabeta
To: etabeta
For me, Kramskoy's #4 caught the strain of the ordeal on Jesus' face. I want the artist to zoom in to emphasize that, but he cannot, for he must present the Christ's solitude--we cannot help Him here.
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posted on
05/13/2021 7:06:45 AM PDT
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Hebrews 11:6
(Watch "THE CHOSEN," the great show about Jesus: https://watch.angelstudios.com/thechosen )
To: Hebrews 11:6; Red Badger; etabeta
3 of the paintings show beads/rosary
and bird/beast-like feet:
#14 John of Flanders (click image source to see)
#17 & #31 both Botticelli
2 have only the weird feet: #15 & #35.
Given what I could (briefly) find @ the artists' backgrounds, I find it difficult to believe they are out-and-out slamming the Catholic church as a whole.
Maybe they're implying 'some priests are bad'? I just don't know.
To: spankalib
#15 is wearing priests clothing as well, for the times...........
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posted on
05/13/2021 9:11:02 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven.....................)
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