The Bible In Paintings: AND GOD SAID, "LET THERE BE LIGHT"

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GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH
AND GOD SAID, "LET THERE BE LIGHT"
GOD CREATES ADAM
GOD CREATES EVE

THE SERPENT TEMPTS EVE
EVE TEMPTS ADAM, 1
EVE TEMPTS ADAM, 2
HIDING FROM GOD
BANISHED FROM THE GARDEN

AFTER THE GARDEN
FARMER CAIN AND SHEPHERD ABEL
THE FIRST MURDER
THE FIRST FUNERAL

[texas booster]

Thanks for restarting the Bible painting series.

Did we get some dups above?

Looking forward to the next posts.

Quite a labor of love.

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No dups. The angels? A series of six, one for each creation day: one yesterday, four today, one tomorrow.

[RoosterRedux]

Didn’t God say, “Let there be electromagnetic waves”?

[Red Badger]

Why are angels nearly always portrayed by artists as female, when no female angels are ever mentioned in the Bible? And even when they are portrayed as males, they have feminine facial features. Hollywood does it as well, not just Renaissance artists and such...................

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Of course. That’s exactly how it reads in the TechnoBabbleBible.

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You want angels with beards?

[Phinneous]

Here’s a tradition/Kabbalistic mind-bender for you. G-d created the sun and stars later in the week. So what was the “light” that was created on this day?

[Red Badger]

Why not? Apparently God has one, since all artists depict Him as having one! Apparently beards are standard issue for all gods, since Babylonian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Norse gods had beards!.............................

[Red Badger]

He created the photon, the essential particle of light, as He also created the Laws of Physics for the basic particles, electrons, protons, neutrons, etc., to operate under....................

[telescope115]

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No. He created them "in the beginning", as part of "the heavens and the earth."

In verse two He directs our attention to the Spirit at the earth's surface: we are to view subsequent events from there, looking upward.

God told Job He had darkened the earth's surface with an impenetrable cloud layer. Now, He is thinning those clouds to let there be light at the surface; He will need it to enable photosynthesis soon.

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You’re all set. Starts tomorrow.

[etabeta]

Love #4 and of course the angels of Edward Burne-Jones! Very creative design, the Days of Creation fascinated Burne-Jones. I love that he makes each angel join with the others in the following days. As an aside, he used his daughters as models for the angels. This was considered one of his greatest works.

[Captain Compassion]

Wonderful.

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No wonder all the angels look so similar! Any idea how many daughters?

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Good.

[RoosterRedux]

Well, if the KGV was good enough for St. Paul, it’s good enough for me.;-)

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KiloGram Version?