Landmark Post: The time is now 2017

If I were to treat this blog as my online repository, I think it would be beneficial to have some order to it. I will start putting dates to each entry. For example, the below is from 2017. 

I learned about biblical allusions!

Prodigal son: Luke 15: 11-32

The 27 books of the New Testament, together with the Hebrew Bible (Old testament), make up the Christian Bible. The New Testament focuses on the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth and his apostles. Jesus often conveyed his teachings by telling a kind of story known as a parable. Parable itself derives from the Greek word “to compare”. Parables illustrate abstract truths using comparisons to familiar activities, such as farming, housekeeping, or family life. 

Finding lost things, Jesus tells the story in response to a question about why he associates with sinners. 

Teaches that love and compassion are more important than money, you should forgive people their mistakes, exact fairness is not always the right thing

• The parable of the lost sheep

• The parable of the lost coin

• The parable of the lost son (or, as we know it, the parable of the prodigal son) 

Talks of the three parts of a prodigal son. Waste, Return, Redemption. Itself being an allusion: the story itself alluding to the human population as a greedy population, not knowing the power of love and mistaking it as a sort of selfish possession. A very real-life situation such as this one talks of the relationship between an individual and his father (very much like one individual and his Father, his selfless father that will accept him for who he is). Relates to agape, the impeccable love between the divine and without exceptions. The process of request and provide. 
Parable told by Jesus to teach forgiveness; about a wasteful son who is forgiven when he returns home even though he had spent all of his money.

Tower of Babel:

Bible scholars think the Tower of Babel refers to a ziggurat, the ancient pagan temple tower of the Babylonians. Babylon was located on the Euphrates River about 30 miles (49 km) from the modern city of Baghdad in Iraq. The Babylonians bragged that their tower reached up to the heavens.
Babel was the Hebrew name for Babylon which means "gate of god." But It was similar to the Hebrew word balal which meant to confound or confuse. The Hebrews despised the Babylonians, and there may well be a humorous play on words here: Far from being the "gate of god," Babylon was actually the site of much confusion!

A common theme reflects the belief that people by nature are very close to being god, it might show that being a good human means accepting one’s limitation, it might serve to explain why human knowledge is imperfect. 
The gods are strict and unforgiving: they have specific expectations for the creatures they make, and they are afraid that their creation will know as much as they do. 
A spiritual beginning of divine origin of human beings and their relationship with God. Why we read Bible, it deals with matters that are important to all people, it contains fine examples of literature, its stories, images, themes, and languages. 
A narrative told in the third person, omniscient. Uses repetition. 
Lisa thinks it is a locational metaphor and archeological feature in Iraq. Situated in the Genesis, this story explains the formation of languages. The immensity and importance of this story is emphasized through its positioning (the Genesis!) As religions generally tend to explain natural phenomenons, teach men of morals, give insight of the future and the past, and serve as a governmental propaganda (in the 10th century).

Constructed to reach heaven; God made everyone to speak a different language so they couldn't understand each other and complete the project; represents arrogance met with punishment.

In Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the characters all have babel fish placed in their ears that are capable of translating all of the galaxy’s many languages. This is an obvious allusion to the story of the Tower of Babel because the fish undoes what God did when he mixed up the languages of the world. The allusion serves to emphasize that the fish can translate all languages, essentially reversing what God did during the Tower of Babel story.

Old Scratch, the Snake, Lucifer, Satan, The Beast: 

The snake, first notified as the spirit of the devil, is an unit and a shadow to impersonate evil. Mankind differentiates the different levels of progress, that the further off the ground one may be, the more you are away from the savage self. The snake slithers, without the support of legs. The bible, in a sense, hints at the preference of a civilized man. A man with high empathy, wide knowledge, and has a great capacity for God.