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Originally Posted by lmp
Do you see the contradiction between these two statements? Just to make it perfectly clear what I see in these two posts: in the first you want to see something that is uniquely Christian, while in the second you hope no-one thinks that such a thing can be produced. You simply cannot have both.
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Erm, there is no contradiction. Firstly I hope that nobody wants to pinpoint LotR as an exclusively Christian text as its plainly many things to many people. And secondly, I had hoped that someone could come up with an instance of imagery from somewhere within the text that was as I said, unequivocally Christian (and by that not also something else). Having the second does not mean that the first is true, and the first not being true does not preclude the second from happening.
Methinks the purpose of the thread has subtly changed. It began with a lot of fire about Gandalf being Jesus etc and now it aims to be somewhere for Christians to share their personal impressions? Which in itself is a subtle way of forcing things into the conclusion that LotR
is Christian. Now we know that for some already it
is Christian, and that's fine of course, but we've still not had any of the hard evidence promised early on.