Favorite God/Goddess from antiquity

Keep trying to sell it, Vizzini.

 

Lob it all you like. It fits fart boy better. Even he knows it.

 

I think we need an intervention for you. It's gone far past simple bad posting.

 

Keep trying, Vizzini. Troll a few more threads while you are at it.

 

Semi-divine? No he wasn't. Who reads it that way?

 

books.google.com/books?id=RqeoAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA66&lpg=PA66&dq=semi-divine+moses&source=bl&ots=0erSp2rVCi&sig=9nUmvl_o2vVe6fWMid7X1QzLtYw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=y_8MVIq8EJD5yQStsIKACg&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=semi-divine moses&f=false

 

And here's the vita:
http://seaver.pepperdine.edu/religion/facultystaff/member.htm?faculty=danny_mathews

I am not a fan of the appeal to authority argument used so often on this board, but I will unquestionably accept the insight of a PhD in biblical studies.

 

I didn't mean you were wrong that someone believed it, that's why I asked who? I meant that is wrong. Who said it? There's also a difference between super-human and semi-divine. And yes, I'm secure enough to take on a PHD.

 

He cites the verses in the Pentateuch.
Read the passages.
Exodus 34:29-35.

 

I hear it, but the simplest understanding (and IMO the correct one) is that it was the exposure to the Divine that made his face shine.

 

Fair enough.
This is semantic quibbling.
I think we can agree he was no ordinary mortal.

 

Well, not really. I think he was a regular person who through his own self discipline and circumstance managed to develop a closer relationship with God than anyone in history. But make no mistake, he was born from a mother and father; he died and remained dead.