https://youtu.be/D3dcAbWg-c8 amazin

In the Northwest Semitic realm, as in Mesopotamia, we find fluidity of divine selfhood and of divine embodiment. Among Canaanites and Arameans, as among Babylonians and Assyrians, a deity’s ability to be more than one person correlates with the ability to be in more than one place.
Benjamin Sommers
The Bodies of God in the World of Ancient Israel.
Page 29

Yet James Jordan points out, “Ancient man bowed before his god, whether it was Nature (Baalism) or the creator (YHWH). Modern man does not bow before his god, whether Nature (humanism) or the Creator (Christ). Similarly, for ancient man, the heart of religious exercise was adoration, worship, prostration, sacrament (a fellowship meal with the god). This was true of Israel before the Lord, and of the Canaanites before Baal. And this is the biblical view of worship: Preaching/proclamation is the word from God, which leads to a response of adoration, prostration, sacrament. The modern Christian, however, sees the heart of worship as entertainment (from a choir and an entertaining preacher) or as philosophical meditation (from a scholarly preacher). The sermon, instead of leading into worship, has become itself the climax of worship. And, just as the modern Christian view of worship is not much more than studying doctrine…we don’t see Christians bowing down to the Lord either, but we do see them studying Him, preaching about Him, and writing books about Him. Thus, there is indeed a big difference between ancient religions and modern ones. Ancient man primarily worshiped his gods, while modern man primarily studies his. This is true both of pagans and of conservative, orthodox Christians.”

https://youtu.be/svFVgu5ykv8 get ready for the final countdown to Pentecost and remember stepping on Legos is the wurst .

Lord Acton (Catholic historian): “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely” — Gary Wills (Catholic): “Most people are familiar with Acton’s famous axiom…. Fewer people remember that he was speaking of papal absolutism.”

Quoted in Wills, Papal Sin, 2.

God forbid that I should limit the time of acquiring faith to the present life. In the depth of the Divine mercy there may be opportunity to win it in the future. —Martin Luther

“The Memra has a place above the angels as that agent of the Deity who sustains the course of nature and personifies the Law.”37 37Edwards, “Justin’s Logos,” 263.

It is written, they [the Arians] say: "But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father only." But it is not to be wondered at if they who have corrupted the sacred Scriptures, have also falsified this passage. The reason for which it seems to have been inserted is perfectly plain, so long as it is applied to unfold such blasphemy.

Ambrose of Milan, Exposition of the Christian faith, 5.16.192 in NPNF2 10:308.