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#gospel of john


Anonymous User asked:

do you believe god exists within video games or are they, like everything, made of sin

According to Johannine theology, the Word which created all things is the Light of the World, yet the world doth not comprehend/perceive it (John 1:5). John also says that this light is Shining in the Darkness, which happens to be the title of Camelot Software Planning's hit 1991 dungeon crawler for the Sega Genesis. Therefore, we can conclude that God is in at least one videographic game.

Moreover, speaking of the Word, how hubristic would it be of us to claim that videogames lie in sin, while yet we humans are a continual fountain of sin! Verily, when God sendeth his Word unto us we set it aside and hearken not unto it. And yet a videogame, which is made of naught but the dust of the earth, doth dutifully execute every word of machine language that doth enliven its being. Wherefore, shall not their sins fall upon the heads of us, their makers, and they be filled with the grace of our God?

Alternatively, if you're talking about the character of God who has appeared in countless JRPGs, I think there's something to be said about how he keeps making new appearances despite how many times he's been killed. Perhaps "God" in this case is a gestalt that naturally emerges from the logical results of electro-ludic processes.

Thank you for the ask. Please ask again. :eggbug:



Okay… hear me out…
The little guy running naked while Jesus is being arrested from the Gospel of Mark + the Beloved Disciple from the Gospel of John = Same guy.

Disclaimer: I don’t know anything about anything, I’m just a guy who sees some gay shit* in the Bible and unlike a lot of Christians, I am Intrigued instead of Appalled.

*Yes, there will be gay shit in this post eventually.

So both of these figures, interestingly, are generally seen as the respective authors humbly not identifying himself. But literally the only reason people think that is because both of these characters are unnamed. It's a huge speculation. The "titles" of the gospels (which I will be using here) were later additions based on early Christians' guesses of who the author was/who the unnamed guy was, but neither guess can be backed up in the texts themselves.

Mark’s Streaker appears in two whole verses following Jesus’ arrest in the garden: “A certain young man was following him, wearing nothing but a linen cloth. They caught hold of him, but he left the linen cloth and ran off naked.” Mark 14:51-52