...which, by now, surely ranks humans with angels in the "beings you don't normally encounter" class.Pthug wrote:How it was transmitted and what happened to it when it got there. The Greeks are obviously important, and are doubtless highly venerated, but my point was that Almean knowledge of humanity did not die with them. To believers, this is not only knowledge of humanity, but communion with *living human beings*.Rodlox wrote:thought the conversation was about how Christianity was transmitted to Almea -- in which case, yes, the Greeks are important.
If you are a Christian, it matters to God.[/quote]the Rome comment was more aimed at the fact that it doesn't matter if Rome or St. Petersburg or Constantinople or Cairo consider Almean Christianity to be heretical or not.
God seems to have no problem with numerous Churches who are heretical from the traditional Catholic* perspective --
* Nestorian Churches
* Coptic Churches
* Eastern Churches
* Mormon Church
* various Protestant Churches.
* = to pick a denomination at random.
But he *had to have it cut off*. Imagine if the Jews had nose tentacles, and the covenant of Abraham was that these aliens had to cut the nose tentacles off. You do not have nose tentacles. Nobody you know has nose tentacles. That these people *had* nose tentacles to cut off in the first place makes them peculiar.[/quote]besides, its a moot point - after His infancy, Jesus didn't have one either.
the Lord in His mercy. He does what He does.
heck, Jesus was a Jew, and He preached to Jews and Samaritans - and His Message was spread to those funny-looking non-Semitic peoples.
one could further argue that Jesus looked like a Jew, not like a Swede or a San tribesman. that does not limit His Work.And when I said iconography, I obviously did not mean iconography of Christ's hot cut cock. I meant the fact that he looks like a human, not a uesti.
unlike Cleopatra 7th or Helen of Troy, the shape of Jesus' nose does not matter to salvation theology - nor does the count of his toes.There are differences -- different number of toes, as I recall, and obviously subtle facial structure differences too. Unlike his dick, Christ's toes and face make an appearance frequently, particularly in crucifixion scenes.