dimanche 10 avril 2022

"Christ-Focused"


"Reason for declining: Thanks for submitting to this Space. Unfortunately, we can't accept your submission at this time. Questions are to be Christ-focused and intended to bring Him Glory. Please see our submission guidelines."


I was actually asking a question, and without noticing "submitted to a space" on quora.

Now, what was the question?

Is Fathecht an eighth son of Japheth, or is "Fathecht son of Japheth" an euphemism for "Fathecht son of Magog son of Japheth"?
https://www.quora.com/unanswered/Is-Fathecht-an-eighth-son-of-Japheth-or-is-Fathecht-son-of-Japheth-an-euphemism-for-Fathecht-son-of-Magog-son-of-Japheth


There is obviously a third possibility, Fathecht is the Gaelic name for a named son of Japheth, whether Magog or another one.

But I do not see how it would not intend to bring glory to Christ to inscribe the earliest population of Scotland ...

Scotland The Brave (Lyrics)
13th Febr. 2009 | Scottishtam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GowMI4wvmU4


... into the broad perspective of Genesis 10.

It is arguably "less flattering" to the Word eternal who is the Word of Truth to pretend Scotland was peopled while Adam lived elsewhere, and Genesis 10 is wrong, as I have seen a Frenchman (a supposed Catholic Theologian, Frédéric Kurzawa) do, when stating the origin of Cruithne mac Cinge must be wrong, because it involves a Biblical ancestor like Noah!

There is a kind of "feeling" in certain theological circles, every question needs to be in and of itself centred on Christ, no centres around centre around that Centre allowed, no epicircles allowed around the circle of questions related to Christ Himself directly. It's kind of the same aesthetics according to which Copernicus did away with a Geocentrism which he realised involved "epicircles" - too unaesthetic to him ... suffice it to say, Nicolas Copernic built no Gothic Cathedral and wrote no Gothic Summa or comment on the Sentences by Peter the Lombard. Neither, for that matter, did Erasmus.

So, while waiting to bring glory to Christ by tracing the Scots to Japheth through the appropriate grandson, I am at least upholding that Scotland's peopling in carbon dated 7000 BC corresponds to a generation statistic probable arrival of Cruithne mac Cinge in actual 2418 BC, and that the Pictish Kings do indeed descend from Noah through Japheth.

And I thankfully note, the Quoran question is still available, if anyone likes to answer it, since "submitting the question" to that space was just one "answer request" after the question was already posed to all of quora.

Seriously, this kind of narrowness does harm, and some guys will first be told to "stay Christ-focussed" and then, when those so telling them give no answers on issues of how Genesis 1 - 11 relate to science and to modern mainstream evolution biassed science (which is not the same thing as science, it's a paradogm within it), they will finish by losing the faith. Or, surviving despite such "pastoral" and supposed "Christ-centredness"./HGL

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