God's Changing Body Through History
Dan Snow's History Hit
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God Goes Gray in That Beard
In the second century b c e, this kind of divine brightness begins gradually to moff into a kind of divine whiteness or grayness. So he's gone from having red skin and black hair to being this white robed, white haired, white bearded deity. But yet, you lok a bit like father christmas. And soo, got those two things being brought together in this passage in the book of daniel. The prophet daniel sees god sitting on his thro and he’s got white, white, white hair, and his beard is white as snow, and his hair as white as snow. That image that christianity picks up when they are
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