hypothetically, what do you think would happen if one day Jack Chick came out and said, “hey, this is all a joke, i’ve been messing with you guys for the past ‘X’ years! Haw Haw Haw!”
Anyway, this was a very funny tract. If Chick is serious, he is losing his touch. I was to busy laughing to worry about Jesus coming down and tossing me into hell. Not that I’d mind, actually, I imagine hell would be rather tastefully decorated, what with all those gay “sickos” down there.
What interests me is the idea that Jesus Christ existed as a separate entity in the Old Testament, somehow separate and distinct from God. That is totally unsupported by the OT, where no mention is made of Jesus except in prophecy (if you choose to read the prophecies that way), and where the only supernatural actor is God – meaning, God the Father, not God the Son. But I wonder if Jack knows what major religion believes the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are and always have been distinct?
I think they’re at a school, maybe Bob’s main squeeze is a teacher. She does something involving documents and bails on him, but then there’s that wide shot what looks an awful lot like a school, the one that has all the kids skating all over it. How impudent!
Wherever they are, I still want to know why there’s a pit with a triceratops and a gazebo. Those two things do not go together in my mind.
AFAIK, there’s no real disagreement between Catholics and most Protestant denominations about the Trinity. They pretty much all believe that even though the Son is “begotten” by the Father, the Son is also just as eternal as the Father. There was never a time (according to mainstream Christian theology) before God became a Trinity. The three “Persons” have always been distinct but not separated from one another.
Yeah, I seem to remember God appearing to Abraham as all three at the same time, way back in Genesis. Who knows if that’s apocryphal, but it’s still interesting.
It is often supported by the use of the first person plural “we” and “us” in Genesis. Genesis 3:22 “And the LORD God said, ‘The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.’”
Of course, Jewish scholars interpret this differently.
Yeah, I think we’ll get spanked on that one. You think house to house fighting in Baghdad is going to be bad…try it in the silver city sometime.
Though I freely admit that, this morning coming out of the market there were three skate rats (13 years old or so) cursing up a storm and on my way past I told one of them, “Mind your language, young man.” To which I got a ‘yes, sir’.
Which proves I’m getting old, I guess. And that we have polite skate rats up here.
Chick’s “art” has always been atrocious, but I swear it’s gotten progressively worse over the past few years.
His tracts have been around since at least the early 70s, and I can’t help but wonder if Chick is still drawing all of them. Maybe he’s dumping more of the workload on interns now, or something.