Greetings,
You (as in, y'all) probably don't want me joining in here, too much, as you might see, as i often offer a little something from outside of the box, and I don't say so boasting but only to help you grasp where some things come from.
Jim, you mentioned that word morphe.
One thing always strikes me about these sort of discussions and that is that we all too often forget that we come at these often non-subject subjects like fish disputing their water tanks dimensions rather than fish swimming in the ocean.
Do we also forget the fact that we discuss this with a level of christianese language and understanding and forsake any possibility of the Lord providing, in His Body prepared, an interpreter for us, as we use, on top of the christianese, a tongue most awkward and blended in our cultural appreciation of time and events as we perceive them.
Morphe reminds me of meta-morphe(is) or however one spells it. It might be from Latin or something.
Does anyone know the difference between entomology and etymology?
what is metamorphism or metamorphose?
Back to metamorphosis..... look it up on your yonder search engine.
for those who can't or won't...
Latin
metamorphōsis, from Greek, from
metamorphoun,
to transform :
meta-,
meta- +
morphē,
form.
n. Change of form or structure; transmutation or transformation.
n. A marked change in the form or function of a living body; a transformation resulting from development; specifically, in zoology, the course of alteration which an animal undergoes after its exclusion from the egg, and which modifies extensively the general form and life of the individual; particularly, in entomology, the transformations of a metabolous insect.
n. In chem., that chemical action by which a given compound is caused, by the presence of a peculiar substance, to resolve itself into two or more compounds, as sugar, by the presence of yeast, into alcohol and carbonic acid.
n. In botany, the various changes that are brought about in plant-organs, whereby they appear under changed or modified conditions, as when stamens are metamorphosed into petals, or stipules into leaves.
n. In music, either the same as variation (see variation, 9), or that extension or transformation of a theme or subject which often appears in modern music in the progress or development of an extended movement. From Beethoven onward the recognition of the essentially plastic nature of musical ideas (see idea, 9) has steadily advanced and constitutes one of the salient characteristics of recent composition.
n. The change of material of one kind into another through the agency of the living organism; metabolism.
n. A transformation, such as that of magic or by sorcery
n. A noticeable change in character, appearance, function or condition.
n. A change in the form and often habits of an animal after the embryonic stage during normal development. (e.g. the transformation of a caterpillar into a butterfly or a tadpole into a frog.)
so, I am not sure if you can see anything there but to me it is quite clearly written in all that the LORD God has made.
And then we go to the Book of Job, shall we?
Is it not God Who asks a few questions about Who Job might think He is and uses a few facts from His Creation to do so?
But, if you all prefer, keep God in a box and at least you can get all scientific and poke and prod and observe the concepts you have captured.
Bless you ....><>
and yes, Who is our Redeemer, What is His name?
and on that note... can anyone tell me what Jesus's name really is and what of the name we use (generally it is Jesus but some prefer to be more correct in their imaginations and use Yeshuah or similar... but tell me if you can, what and Who does He mean??) ....><>
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above referrence from metamorphosis - definition and meaning
