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Can't be God's hand. It's lacking the nail holes. Must be the devil's.
I may not be the most religiously knowledgeable person on the planet.... But didn't Jesus get the Home Depot special, not god?
I don't know about other religions, but we were taught as youngsters in Catholicism that Jesus was god too. They were separate, but one. 🤷
Every religion invented it's own version of the mythology.
Yep, the ultimate hero's journey.
Jesus is God. He isn't God The Father, but God The Father doesn't have a physical/earthly form, so it can't be His hand.
Bro can't manifest a hand while doing a matrix time stop to redirect a bullet.
So much for omnipotence I guess.
Also, wasn't humanity made in god's image?
Doesn't Jesus refer to god as a separate entity?
Here I am looking for logical consistency in religion, the very definition of logical inconsistency.
Jesus doesn't refer to God as a separate entity.
He refers to the Father as a separate person, but still their unity as God is emphasised
John 8:57-58
John 10:30
John 14:8-11
He also emphasised that He has a distinct relationship with The Father and God that's different to us.
John 20:17
Jesus makes clear that His God is distinct to our God. His God is merely just The Father, which He is obedient to in accordance with His human nature (This is how Jesus was both God and Human- as a perfect Human, He had to worship as well. If He didn't, He wouldn't be a human.) while our God is the whole Triune God.
As for manifesting hands or whatever, all of creation was made through Jesus.
John 1:2-3
Genesis 1:26
Wild.
Either way, sounds like there is more than one representation of god that would be capable of having hands, so it's probably just one of those instead of Jesus in the painting.
It's possible, but what I was saying originally was a joke. Although the hand of God depicted Anno Domini is typically depicted with the hole.
Someone better tell Michelangelo!
That was a depiction of the Ancient of Days according to Daniel's vision. Although western Christians do believe the Ancient of Days to be God The Father. Basically every denomination apart from Roman Catholics frown upon depicting God The Father.
Yeah, that makes sense. / S
Would make less sense if The Creator of the Universe wasn't able to manifest Himself as a human
Everything is God's plan. Still God's hand then.
Wrists would have the nail holes. Hands can't support a human hanging on a cross. But I understand your point!
Yes, but what's amusing to me is that this painting shows the wrist but not the palm.
Wrists are still visible, the term I was using "hand" in this context actually can refer to the upper forearm, it's just me using theological terms, my bad lol.
Although also in my defence, a hand was what's painted, the wrist is visible, so it's still okay to refer to what's shown as a "hand"
Lets just be real here. We only want one hole in a body part, and it's not the being on the left!
Lmao, true. Although, personally, I'm scared about what vance would do if it was successful. Would basically be a Reichstag fire.