(urth) Silk corrupted?

[Son of Witz]

I thought about that Nicene creed last night too.
It's purely Exegesis to insist that he was divine.

I take a bit of issue with your comment about fictional things, though of course it's a matter of opinion, or faith.
I've been trying to speak of triangulating from two fictions to a real thing.
or rather, from many fictions to a real thing.
Personally, I'm confident there is a God and the Logos is our path to him, and God's healing light into our Whorl.  I feel all of these stories are fictions pointing at this very real entity.  I have no confidence in the fiction of Jesus, or Mithras as historical fact, but I think the stories are talking about something real via plot metaphor.  It's from that perspective that I've tried to discus Severian and Christ.

/My two cents,
keep the change, Stu.

~witz

>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Stockhoff [mailto:dstockhoff at verizon.net]
>Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 01:34 PM
>To: urth at lists.urth.net
>Subject: Re: (urth) Silk corrupted?
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>Oh, come on. Christ has had a dual nature only since the Nicene Creed of 325!
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>Seriously, you could just as well be describing the Monophysite or Arian Christs as Severian and Silk. Let's recall that you aren't comparing a real thing to a fictional thing. You are comparing fictional things to one another. As far as I can see, THEY ARE ALL CHRISTS. Wolfe's religion is secondary, because he could be holding up heretical Christs to compare them to the Chalcedonic Christ. We know his personal preference. So what?
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>THEY ARE ALL CHRISTS. Even if he is deliberately showing us only how partial they are---which I do not believe.
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>And this is true regardless of your religious beliefs, aside from Bible fundamentalist Bible literalism.
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>Just saying.
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>Severian (and Silk) are human beings. They each have a single, human,
>nature. Christ is unique, in Christianity in that He has a dual nature,
>being both human and God. He is the only being in the Christian World that
>has such a dual nature. He can manifest through other beings, and this is
>what is happening with Severian and Silk.
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