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lunamoth said:Yes, I have not seen him back lately.
So what do you think China Cat?
Well, that's a deep subject. I tend to think of the OT references as connected to the Shekinah, which is essentially God's "presence", but there's a lot more to it than that. I tend to think of the NT references as an adaptation of that. One idea in Judaism is that the Shekinah is exiled with the Jews from her "husband" (sorta) God. There is an attraction between them like you would expect between a god and his consort. They want to get back together, so she entices him to become involved in the affairs of the chosen people as a means for them to reconnect. It's possible that the NT authors had this in mind, only now there's a different chosen people so they have to wait for the appropriate seperation from God's direct emmisary for the new Shekinah to show up. This is pure conjecture, so get out the salt shaker.
I like the story of how Elijah (or was it Elisha) looked for God in the thunderstorm and the whirlwind, but found him, instead, in the "still small voice."
Chris