Anonymous
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6/13/2025, 2:39:07 PM No.507212401
It's too long to post here so I will make 8 posts here.
The Idol-Self and the Fire That Consumes:
The pagans sacrificed. Blood, time, flesh, soul. Not simply the ritual offering of life, but the deeper offering. The surrender of their own becoming. They gave themselves away in pursuit of their gods, and became their gods in return. Not divinity, but parody. Their ideals demanded performance. Their performance demanded form. And form, once hardened, became stone. Cold. Immobile. Dead. The statue is not merely the representation of the god, it is what the worshipper becomes.
Where paganism reaches upward to become god through self-erasure, Christianity begins with descent: God becomes man to restore man to himself. The divine empties into the human not to disguise, but to recover.
Christ does not demand we transcend humanity. He enters it. He doesnโt raise us up into abstraction. He descends into death, into the void, into the collapsed image we constructed, and lets it devour Him. Where idols consume worshippers, Christ consumes the idol-self. He becomes the statue, only to fracture the marble from within.
He does not flee the grave. He sanctifies it.
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The Idol-Self and the Fire That Consumes:
The pagans sacrificed. Blood, time, flesh, soul. Not simply the ritual offering of life, but the deeper offering. The surrender of their own becoming. They gave themselves away in pursuit of their gods, and became their gods in return. Not divinity, but parody. Their ideals demanded performance. Their performance demanded form. And form, once hardened, became stone. Cold. Immobile. Dead. The statue is not merely the representation of the god, it is what the worshipper becomes.
Where paganism reaches upward to become god through self-erasure, Christianity begins with descent: God becomes man to restore man to himself. The divine empties into the human not to disguise, but to recover.
Christ does not demand we transcend humanity. He enters it. He doesnโt raise us up into abstraction. He descends into death, into the void, into the collapsed image we constructed, and lets it devour Him. Where idols consume worshippers, Christ consumes the idol-self. He becomes the statue, only to fracture the marble from within.
He does not flee the grave. He sanctifies it.
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