Formendacil, before I answer your smashing post in reply to my post, I have to ask you, and the other people who know the answer, a question.
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Ah, but this is intended to be the history of the real world well BEFORE Jesus came to die for us- saving us from a much worse fate than Sauron could have inflicted.
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Do you mean this literally, or that Tolkien wrote about M-E so that (this is what I've heard in the past) Brittain and the United Kingdoms could have a mythological backround, kind of like Rome and Greece did with all their gods and the like. I've always understood it to be myth. I'll be able to address some things clearly if it's established that it's supposed to be myth, and therefore, yes, before Christ came.
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Any other differences between God and Eru can be put down to YOUR conception of God conflicting with TOLKIEN's conception of God. No one on this earth can truly KNOW God in His entirety, or even incompletely. Therefore, any presentation of God, be it in art, literature, or whatnot, can only be the presentation of what ONE PERSON knows of God.
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No. No one can know God in his entirety, but we can know about him, and we can learn his ways. We can consider and ponder on his character and come up with a lot of really good conclusions from reading the Bible and looking around us, and it will show us a lot about him. We can never know him entirely, but that doesn't mean we can't know him. Don't tell me I can't truly know God, and love Him at that.
Anyway, to get back on track - once I get an answer to this Mythology question, or whatever you want to call it, I'll have something more to say on the actual question of whether Eru is God or not.
-- Folwren