Nude Male Figure and Ezekiel's vision in its context and the evolution God - Video

today's painting it's a mixture of a bunch of stuff what it is is that there's a kind of description I had in mind to translate into paint which was present in my mind while doing the other painting not this painting but that idea was actualizing itself within this painting instead which was unexpected but Pleasant so what I was thinking about was that I recently read about the origins of monotheism and how Yahweh turned into the god of monotheists which we know of today which is by the way no close to what we know of today this is about three 4,000 years ago but the origin story is there and by the way this is really helpful that when you read a text you try to contextualize it within the context of that author not by your own version of things cuz that is usually far away from whatever that text means by something so the case in point is that I was reading the book of Ezekiel and there is this part that he's sitting in Exile and he's having a vision of God and by the end of that, he's surprised that he was seeing God here because he expected for God not to be in the Exile but to be in the main Temple that they built for that God so the relation of that and to this book the origin of Yahweh is absolutely Illuminating one because before this theological jump to monotheism the way that it was for Millennial before before that was the way that the tribal Warfare would result the result would be the Exile of The Losers of that war and that would mean those people who worshiped this thing over here would move to another location and be forced to worship whatever other God this other tribe had and the remaining people would also be forced to adopt the god of their new king or something so the the theological mutation that happened with the evolution of the idea of God was that the monotheist idea would skip all of these problems and say no God is the God of all place of of all time and it would basically be a present with you wherever you go so that was the this is the context of that because we usually we atheists especially read this and think that is your god limited isn't your God supposed to be Beyond everything thing and all power stuff but no this is pretty modern considering the history of the evolution of God as an idea so yeah so that idea I had for the previous painting all of a sudden appeared to be actualized in this painting and I was like Ezekiel thinking aren't you supposed to be in this other painting but I take it it was sweet to see it actualized anyway so let's paint.