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Originally Posted by Agamemnon
You've never seen images/heard description of angelic hosts singing/playing trumpets? Huh... I guess you're not as immersed in the whole thing as I thought... I remember that stuff vividly from Christian school/church.
What I'm talking about is fantasy-type stuff that Christians believe in, like St. Peter waiting at pearly gates. This is easy stuff for a bright guy like you.
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I'm no expert but that stuff usually falls under the culturally and socially created imagery that doesn't actually exist in the bible. Sure there are verses about trumpets and angels and heavenly hosts but there is no St. Peter at the gates. Nobody knows what happened to Peter after he had a vision about lots of good stuff to eat like lobster and pork. Yum Yum.
There is a lot of stuff Christians seem to take for granted that isn't actually stated explicitly in the bible. For instance, I've often heard Christians explaining the origin of evil and it generally goes that Satan was an archangel and him and his followers rebelled and then falling from grace into hell. However, none of that is actually in the bible and he's not even in Hell (which is also a matter of contention as to whether or not it exists or not outside of analogy). According to the Bible, Satan is on earth.
Another fun point is the name Lucificer (which actually means light-bringer in Latin, doesn't sound like a very super-evil name at all). That's actually a mistranslation of god of the "morning-star" from a verse by St. Jerome but people seem to have taken that name and imagery into common parlance and belief that it means "the devil" without even realizing it. Lucifer is actually a good name. There was a Bishop Lucifer once.