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leon_z@sh.itjust.works to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 1 day ago

Becoming an angel

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Becoming an angel

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leon_z@sh.itjust.works to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 1 day ago
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  • whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    biblically accurate angel ophanim

    Be not afraid, I returned my shopping cart

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      0

    • Ricky Rigatoni@retrolemmy.com
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      Would.

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        … be more afraid…

    • Kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Where is this fucking cool thing from?

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        Bible. That’s a biblically accurate angel.

        https://www.biblestudytools.com/bible-study/topical-studies/what-are-biblically-accurate-angels.html

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          Akshually, it’s a biblically accurate being but not quite a biblically accurate angel

          Edit:

          The art work is still cool as all fuck

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          Ezekiel and Isaiah were on so many hallucinogens when they “saw” these dudes

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          Hermaeus Mora

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        That one is from onichild on deviant art, there’s a bunch of artists interpretations of the section from Ezekiel 1 if you search for biblically accurate angel

        Ezekiel 1:15-20 15 As I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the earth beside the living creatures, one for each of the four of them.[a] 16 As for the appearance of the wheels and their construction: their appearance was like the gleaming of beryl, and the four had the same form, their construction being something like a wheel within a wheel. 17 When they moved, they moved in any of the four directions without veering as they moved. 18 Their rims were tall and awesome, for the rims of all four were full of eyes all around. 19 When the living creatures moved, the wheels moved beside them, and when the living creatures rose from the earth, the wheels rose. 20 Wherever the spirit would go, they went, and the wheels rose along with them, for a living spirit was in the wheels.

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          True but the current online use of “biblically accurate angel” implies the angels we’ve been drawing are biblically inaccurate. That’s ignoring most types of angels, see Hierarchy of angels on Wikipedia.

          wheel within a wheel

          As an atheist, I don’t think Ezekiel actually had divine visions so his (or whoever pretended to be Ezekiel’s) texts must have been based on what he’d heard or could think of. A gyroscope might be the most mesmerizing and high-tech device he had seen. What is its equivalent today? Volumetric display? Drone show? VR?

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            Yeah there’s stuff in there about taking on human form & more human like subdivisions too so both are biblically accurate, I think it caught on as a phrase because most of the depictions you find are like humans with wings or halos or both. I think an equivalent today if it was inspired by tech and not just a fully imagining hallucination might be something like a drone show or something natural but not common knowledge like a lightning sprite

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          Thank you!

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      How did you add captions to the picture?

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        I’m on voyager, it has a link to make images where it uploads the image then gives you a line like

        ![](https://lemmy.yourinstance.com/pictrs/image/99e2dd97-43ff-4779-a780-af3921bc8dbb.webp)
        
        

        You can add the caption (also sometimes called alt text I think it’s used by screen readers) in the square [] braces at the beginning

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          So that’s what that’s for. I always thought adding text to the brackets would turn it into a link.

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            Omitting the exclamation point turns it into a link.

            With exclamation point: biblically accurate angel ophanim

            Without exclamation point: biblically accurate angel ophanim

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