Is "God winked" allegoric reference to "twinkling of an eye" in the Bible in which things are an "allegory"?
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God winked in Acts 17:30 is not an allegory It is translated from the Greek word  “hupereido”  (strongs #5237.), and means to overlook .\n\nTroubling in 1Corinthians 15:52  is the Greek word “rhipe,” (strongs #4493.); and means a  jerk (of the eye, i.e. [by anal.] an instant):a quick motion--twinkling.\n\nKeep up the good work.
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It's when God takes the blinders off your spiritual eyes.\n\nhttp://www.spurgeon.org/sermons/0107.htm
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The ironic part is that the bible says, \n\n"Judge not, lest ye be judged"\n"Remove the plank from thine own eye, before removing the splinter from another"
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FOR WESMEISTER:  Answer not a fool according to his folly lest thou also be like unto him.\n                                                 Proverbs 26:4
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Hmm.  Is groping mentioned in the Bible?
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These are all great answers.  Literally, the word glory from the bible means to illuminate.  Like to shed a light on.  God is obscured on this planet - people mock and ignore him etc.  But when Christians sing to God in worship, or do good things to people like feed the hungry and care for the sick and lonely, they do it to show how loving and awesome God is.  We are literally shedding light on God - making him more visible to other people.\n\nIf all of the Christian church lived their lives to glorify God can you imagine the floodlight marquee centerstage that Jesus would have on this planet?
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The "All-Seeing Eye" as it appears on the dollar bill is actually a Christian symbol representing the omniscience of God.  It was a Templar symbol adopted into the Masonic tradition early in their history.  The Masons were a sort of secret society that played a large roll in the American Revolution.  George Washington and many of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were masons for example.\n\nWhen Christianity spread throughout the Roman world many Pagan symbols were assimilated into the Christian tradition.  Some more examples of this would be all the goddess symbols associated with Mary or any of the fertility symbols (think rabbits) associated with Easter. Some elements of Egyptian mythology was also assimilated, mostly into the Coptic Churches that were more or less sqelched when Islam moved into that region.
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From the King James Verson in Matthew 15:14\n\n"Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch."\n\nIn the Webster version the quote is:\n\n"Let them alone: they are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leadeth the blind, both will fall into the ditch."
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Um...  not sure if this is helpful, but there are repeated references to God, however there are still references to fate and wyrd, remnants of the old anglo-saxon relgion.  This is important because it indicates that the culture is in a shift between the two religions and/or that the story dates from the pre-christian era, and has simply been retold for christian audiences.
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If everyone took the bible literally this world would be quite an unpleasant place to be lol.  The phrase "an eye for an eye" has been misinterpreted...if someone gouged your eye out do you really want that person to give you their gouged eye? lol...i hope not lol it just means you have to substitute the loss with some kind of compensation hehe and then feel really bad for gouging someone's eye out in the first place =P
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No...it is an allegorical interpretation from the OT, first introduced by Origen in the 2nd century AD.\n\nActually, I think it was Jerome, in his Latin Vulgate translation, that first WRONGLY interpreted the Hebrew word Hallel (morning star), into Latin as Lucifer, which means "light bearer", and is NOT capitalized as a proper name.\n\nhis MISinterpretation has carried the day for centuries, but it is wrong.
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You know, YOU take the Bible more literally than we ""Bible-thumpers"" do! You here, not us, seem to be claiming that every single verse in the Bible MUST be taken literally, and we believe that, yes, there really are verses that are meant only to be taken as allegory. Did Gd actually ""walk"" in the Garden of Eden? YOU seem to say that this, too, must be taken literally, and not us!\n\nSo, it is possible, FOR US, to ""Believe in"" the Bible without taking Every Single verse literally, although you seem to say this verse must be taken literally for us to believe in it....
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A Great eye shall be conquered by a venerable man, a halfling, and his gay gardener.  \nLucridivous 16:3
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Some like to points to passages like this as evidence that Scripture contradicts itself.  \n\nBut that is hardly the explanation for a case like this\nNotice that the book of Proverbs intentionally puts these two proverbs side by side!  The suggestion that the collector was so incompetent as note to notice that the two successive verses said exactly the OPPOSITE is a bit much.\n\nIn fact, those who have studied the making and collecting of proverbs around the world (a fascinating area of study called "paremiology") have found that it is COMMON in this sort of literary collection to deliberately put two complementary, even seemingly contradictory sayings together.   For that matter, it would not be difficult to find seemingly contradictory parables WE have used.  For example: “Look before you leap” versus “He who hesitates is lost” and “Birds of a feather flock together,” versus “Opposites attract”\n\nThe point is that proverbs are "generalized" widsom -- obsevations about how life works -- but one can't mechanically apply them.  It takes real insight/wisdom to know which 'rule-of-thumb' applies in a given situation.  When the collector of Proverbs put THESE two together he clearly wanted to underline this point (which is made in other ways in the opening chapters of the book), and to challenge us to 'chew it over.'
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THE GREEN EYE OF THE LITTLE YELLOW GOD\nby\nJ. Milton Hayes\n\nThere's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu,\nThere's a little marble cross below the town;\nThere's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew,\nAnd the Yellow God forever gazes down.\n\nHe was known as "Mad Carew" by the subs at Khatmandu,\nHe was hotter than they felt inclined to tell;\nBut for all his foolish pranks, he was worshipped in the ranks,\nAnd the Colonel's daughter smiled on him as well.\n\nHe had loved her all along, with a passion of the strong,\nThe fact that she loved him was plain to all.\nShe was nearly twenty-one and arrangements had begun\nTo celebrate her birthday with a ball.\n\nHe wrote to ask what present she would like from Mad Carew;\nThey met next day as he dismissed a squad;\nAnd jestingly she told him then that nothing else would do\nBut the green eye of the little Yellow God.\n\nOn the night before the dance, Mad Carew seemed in a trance,\nAnd they chaffed him as they puffed at their cigars:\nBut for once he failed to smile, and he sat alone awhile,\nThen went out into the night beneath the stars.\n\nHe returned before the dawn, with his shirt and tunic torn,\nAnd a gash across his temple dripping red;\nHe was patched up right away, and he slept through all the day,\nAnd the Colonel's daughter watched beside his bed.\n\nHe woke at last and asked if they could send his tunic through;\nShe brought it, and he thanked her with a nod;\nHe bade her search the pocket saying "That's from Mad Carew,"\nAnd she found the little green eye of the god.\n\nShe upbraided poor Carew in the way that women do,\nThough both her eyes were strangely hot and wet;\nBut she wouldn't take the stone and Mad Carew was left alone\nWith the jewel that he'd chanced his life to get.\n\nWhen the ball was at its height, on that still and tropic night,\nShe thought of him and hurried to his room;\nAs she crossed the barrack square she could hear the dreamy air\nOf a waltz tune softly stealing thro' the gloom.\n\nHis door was open wide, with silver moonlight shining through;\nThe place was wet and slipp'ry where she trod;\nAn ugly knife lay buried in the heart of Mad Carew,\n'Twas the "Vengeance of the Little Yellow God."\n\nThere's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu,\nThere's a little marble cross below the town;\nThere's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew,\nAnd the Yellow God forever gazes down.
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I believe you're talking about a mustard seed.\n\nMatt 13:\n31 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of MUSTARD seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: \n32 Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
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CS Lewis wrote it.\nIt is an allegory about the  purpose of Jesus Christ