• rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2·
    6 days ago

    Fun fact, the Nicine Creed exists because this question was a legitimate crisis of Christianity. The council of Nicaea determined that Jesus was not created by God but rather “begotten”, meaning he was equivalent to God but not the same as God, and has existed for all eternity as part of God

      • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
        2·
        6 days ago

        Oh, sure. Mock Christianity. But no one bats an eye when Tolkien retcons half of The Hobbit and gives an excuse like “well the book is written by Bilbo and he lied at first”.

        • balsoft@lemmy.ml
          1·
          5 days ago

          Well, IIRC The Hobbit was initially just a collection of bedtime fairy tales he made up for his children, of course it had inconsistencies.

          Actually, thinking about it, that seems like a plausible source of the Old Testament as well…

        • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          6 days ago

          I don’t remember anyone telling me that bilbo was the son of God, so I think we can hold different yardsticks here.

        • Carl@anarchist.nexusEnglish
          1·
          6 days ago

          I mean, The Hobbit was primarily written to be a children’s bedtime story. The fact that adults latched onto it was sort of an accident. Tolkien was primarily a linguist, not a writer. He developed several fake languages, and wanted an excuse to use them. So he did a ton of world building, just to have a reason to write song lyrics in elvish and dwarven.

        • Hishiryo@scribe.disroot.org
          0·
          5 days ago

          The difference is that, afaik, Christianity has people that believes that Bible is NOT fiction, while nobody thinks that The Hobbit is a historical book.