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THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS
PRIDE- a feeling of pleasure or satisfaction, derived from one’s own achievements.
GREED- intense or selfish desire for something
LUST- a very strong, sexual desire or longing for something you can’t have
ENVY- a feeling of discontent or resentful longing aroused by someone else’s possession, qualities or luck
GLUTTONY- habitual greed or excess in eating
WRATH- an extreme anger
SLOTH- reluctance to work or make an effort; laziness
NOT Helluva, Obey me or Hazbin related!
Random poll: Which sin would be closest with Belphegor (sloth) in your opinion?
Pride (Lucifer)
Wrath (Satan)
Greed (Mammon)
Gluttony (Beezlebub)
Lust (Asmodeus)
Envy (Leviathan)
The Epistle of St. Jude is Enochic Literature - Here's Why
(This is cribbing a lot from Fr. Stephen DeYoung's article "The Book of Enoch", so read that - also, it's really good).
The Epistle of St. Jude is a very short and pretty minor book of the New Testament - it's one chapter, read it here. The Enochic tradition was a literary corpus written between the 3rd and 1st centuries BC, centred on the First Book of Enoch but including other texts such as the Book of Jubilees and the Book of Giants, with unifying themes such as having the character of Enoch from Genesis as a central figure, the Enochic calendar (a particular way of organising the Jewish calendar), an apocalyptic emphasis, detailed angelic hierarchies (in particular assigning governing angels to different parts of the world) and ascribing human sin to rebellious angels.
So, the point of this post is that the Epistle of St. Jude represents a Christianised version of Enochic literature. This can be seen in four points:
v.6: "And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, He has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—". This represents a very truncated version of the Watcher story. In it, several angels are assigned to watch over humanity in its infancy, but rebel and corrupt it by fathering giants with mortal women and teaching sorcery and other forbidden knowledge to humans; God imprisons the watchers in the abyss and wipes out the giants via the Flood. The story, while not found (at least not explicitly) in Genesis, was a favourite theme of the Enochic tradition - it's the central theme of the Book of the Watchers, the largest and most famous part of the First Book of Enoch, the main topic of the Book of Giants and appears in the Book of Jubilees. While you could argue that St. Jude got this from the Nephilim story in Genesis 6:1-4, that story doesn't include the detail that the rebellious angels were "kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness"; he could only have gotten that from the Enochic tradition.
v.9: "But when the archangel Michael, contending with the Devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.”" In the Enochic tradition, Michael is the opponent of Satan in God's jury, with Satan acting as the "lawyer for the prosecution" and St. Michael as the "lawyer for the defence". While this conception of Satan appears in the Book of Job, and St. Michael first appears in the Book of Daniel, the Enochic tradition was the first to make much of pairing them up, as seen in the First Book of Enoch.
v.14a: "It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying". Firstly, this calls Enoch a prophet, which heavily implies that St. Jude thought 1 Enoch was at least partly divinely inspired. Secondly, "the seventh from Adam" is a title derived from the First Book of Enoch.
v.14b-15: "Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones, 1to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him." This is a quote from the Book of Enoch, specifically 1 Enoch 1:9.
Notably, these all come from the section marked in English Bibles as "Judgement on False Teachers" or something similar, made up of verses 3 to 16 - fourteen verses in a twenty-five verse book. Sine this section is permeated with Enochic ideas and terms, and is the bulk of the letter, I'd go so far as to call St. Jude's Epistle an Enochic book.
Oh boy, howdy, guess who came back with the U.K. version of photoshop flowey?
Well, the whole idea began a while ago, while making the storyline (spoilers ahead, read at your own risk).
So, I decided to base flowey of on a biblical creature (they look damn cool but also terrifying with those rings, eyes, arms). So, this one has two extra pairs of arms.
At second, the screen is damaged, so flowey relies upon the huge flesh ring, and since a lot less mechanica is present, the pipes got also replaced by rings. A detail is that they are spinning, and when a SOUL activates, the flesh ring stops spinning, along with the activated one, while the rest continues the chaos.
Also the process of drawing him:
We can all agree that, no matter in which form, no matter we got spoiled or not, omega flowey is and always will be pure terror. Good.
friggen angels man
You sat in Gabe's lap, playing with his wing while he was eating some chocolate. The tv played some random action movie but it didn't really interest you.
'Gabriel?' you asked quietly.
'Yes dear?' he looked at you with his beautiful eyes.
'What's heaven like?' you slightly felt nervous, he never really talked about it and maybe he didn't wanted to. He swallowed the piece of chocolate he had in his mouth before looking at you.
'White' he said and you chuckled slightly. 'Very bright and dull, you know until the humans came around. That was quite exciting.'
'Were you at Garden of Eden?'
'Of course I was!' he nodded 'It was beautiful, full of color, life'
He went on and on about Heaven, Eden, other angels and God himself. It was getting kind of late and as much as you enjoyed listening to Gabe a yawn escaped your lips.
'You should go to sleep now pet. I can continue in the morning' said Gabe lied you down.
'Okay just one more question'
'Shoot'
'Did you really tell Virgin Mary she was carrying a child? '
'Yeah, I was like; yo Mary ya pregnant' as soon as Gabe said it you just lost it. Maybe it was because of the tiredness but you started laughing so hard that you almost fell of the bed. Fortunately Gabriel caught you.
'His name will be Jesus' he said with a wierd accent 'The funny part is that daddy told me his name should be something awesome you know God like and powerful and I was like nah that kid will be Jesus'
'Stop Gabe you're such a dork!'
'What? You asked honey' chuckled the archangel putting an arm around you. You snuggled up to him.
'I love Y/N. More than anything. You know that right?'
'I love you too Gabriel' you said as he gently stocked your hair and you palced a small kiss on his cheek.
'Sweet dreams, sugar' you heard Gabe's voice before falling asleep.
*Calls God*
Yes, hello? Yeah, complaint. I'll hold.
Yes! Listen, you should have let Moses see the promised land. He should have been allowed. Yes yes I know he- listen, I just think he deserved it. Nooo. No, thank you. Fine. Bye.
In Eve's defense, who would say no to a speaking snake?? It's big and beautiful and can talk!!!, want you to eat some fruits and overthrow the government, what is bad about it???
