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The basic fib of the Testament of Abraham( an apocryphal book from the 1st century that was favourite among early Christians) is that ol’ Abe is scheduled to die, but God decides to do him a solid and tell him know ahead of age. Unfortunately, instead of lying down and waiting for it, Abraham spends the whole record trying to weasel out of expiring. Eventually, God has no choice but to send in his personal hitman: Death.
This isn’t your digesting age-old skeleton with an agricultural implement, either. This Death is so scream-pissingly startling that a single inspection would instant kill a human. In a move right out of a Bugs Bunny cartoon, Abraham decides to stall the inevitable by demanding a look at Death’s 14 fronts, which are so shocking that 7,000 parties instantly keel over and vanish purely from is available on the general area.
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As it turned out, whoever wrote this bible various kinds of backed themselves into a reces with that one, since they then had to come up with 14 whole faces, each spooky enough to authorize that big holocaust. Let’s see how that ran TAGEND
– Faces 1 and two are “flaming fire” and “darkness.”( Not really scary by themselves, but could be as faces .)
– Face 3 is “a somber look of a viper.”( Pretty creepy .)
– Face 4 is “a most terrible precipice.”( Scary, extremely if you’re so worried about heights .)
– Face 5 is “fiercer than an asp.”( So another snake. Could precisely have led with this one .)
– Face 6 is “a awful lion.”( Unclear if he’s cruel as in deadliness or as in he has a shitty attitude .)
– Faces 7 and 8 are “a cerastes and basilisk.”( A snake and a snake. Chill out with the serpents .)
– Faces 9 and 10 are “a fiery scimitar” and “a sword-bearing face.”( Wait, is Face 10 carrying Appearance 9? Now we’re coming somewhere freaky .)
– Face 11 is “lightning, lightning terribly.” ( Fucking metal .)
– Face 12 is “a intense tempestuou sea and a relentless speed river.”( That’s a lot of anchor to cover for a single appearance .)
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– Face 13 is “a appalling three-headed serpent.”( Presupposing they all have faces of their own, this returns our snake face total up to seven .)
– And Face 14 is “a cup mingled with poisons.”( Snake poisons ?)
Most of the rest of the book is dedicated to Death showing the meaning of his fronts, which might have worked better had the writer in any way understood ingenuity or allegories. For speciman, the sword fronts represent people being killed with swords. The cup of deadly symbols people who die from boozing big cups full of poison. Even God seems to agree that 7,000 people dying for this is laughable, so he terminates up fetching all those back to life. Not Abraham, though. That guy can suck it.
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Hell Is Full Of Aborted Fetuses That Shoot Lightning Bolts From Their Eyes
Since Hell isn’t actually in the Bible a whole lot, early Christian texts tried to fill that vacancy while having a little enjoyable with eternal damnation. Like a hip middle school frailty superintendent, the 1st century apocryphal text the Apocalypse of Peter had considered that the punishment should fit the violation. For sample, if a woman braided her “hairs-breadth” and persuasion a somebody with those yarns, then she would hang by her overwhelmingly sexy mane over a roasting moras. The gentleman she beguiled, meanwhile, would be suspended by his thighs, and his head would be dunked in sewage. Maybe they were going for a “keep your mind out of the gutter” pun?
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Anyway, abortion was an even more dire guilt than hair-braiding, yet the sanction is similarly poop-centric: A maiden who gets an abortion has to sit neck-deep in a oppose of “excretions.” Why exclusively neck-deep? Because the aborted child would sit above her, shooting their would-be momma in the are dealing with “rays of fire”( sometimes restated as “lighting” ). That’s title, going aborted overturns you into Cyclops from the X-Men.
The punishment for leaving a newborn out in the wilderness to die is even worse. Instead of hanging out in the shit excavation while going drilled by lasers, the mother would be attacked by monsters made out of her own breast milk, “which shall come forth and curdle and misery them perpetually with their husbands.” Does the mention of “husbands” make the papa is given from the tit juice demon rampage if they’re not married to the mother? Please consult your local pastor and give us know what he says.
There were efforts to get this wackiness in the New Testament, but ultimately it didn’t make the cut. Not because of all the crazy poop-themed torment porn, head you, but because in the 4th century, the Bishop of Athanasius picked another textbook( the now-canonical Book of Revelations) as best available for him to use against other Christians who investigated him. The shit rivers and tit wizards didn’t factor into it.
Alex Perry is a freelance who wrote young adults novel about a time-traveling stalker, as well as a heartwarming kid’s book that retells the classic floor of a boy’s relationship with his genetically modified pig/ organ donor. She requires an negotiator to help her exchange those diaries, and for you to follow her on Twitter . i>
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