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Yes, because Lovecraft was an autistic agonstic who used his hatred of God in literature and attacked the very concept of divinity by creating the concept of "cosmic horror".

t. interested Christian in Lovecraft's works

>>542449

Maybe preincarnation. But post incarnation he doesn't fit the bill. He is too meek, visible and loving and observable…. We can paint icons of him, we have shroud of Turin (might be legit)…he wants to save all and all to come to truth, he doesn't want to flood the earth or send plagues etc…

>>542490

>God has undergone a change

careful with that marcionism, orthobro

>>542501

Becoming visible and taking on human nature is a difference. Unless you deny Christ.

Lovecrafts cosmic beings are supposed to be hidden and obscured from our vision

>>542507

The human nature was made manifest through Jesus in the Gospels, but God always had a human nature. Read the story of Genesis 18-19, where God appears as a man to Abraham, and later it says that "The LORD rained down brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;" Jesus was eternally a God-man. Anytime you read about God as a physical man in the Old Testament, it's Jesus appearing

>>542449

Yes. If you can't feel why, than you need to get in touch with God.

The word you're looking for is "numinous."

>>542567

>>542507

>>542490

Lovecraft had characters who took on human form, like Nyarlathotep.

Anyway, the short story "The Dunwhich Horror" is deliberately structured after the Passion and is meant to be an inversion of the Gospels. If you want to see Christianity expressed in Lovecraft's writings, that's probably the closest you'll get.

>>542507

>In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

>Change

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Yes it would be incorrect and kinda blasphemous. The entities in Lovecraft's mythos are uncaring, evil, and ultimately induce "cosmic indifference" or a sense that humans are insignificant in the greater picture of the universe. While God is love, forgiving, and has created Man in his imagine. This being said, I am a fan of some of his works despite the fact that Lovecraft was a paranoid, racist, atheist.

Lovecraftian "gods" are not deities, more like primordial entities which science cannot still comprehend; and the Lovecraftian universe is one who cares not for the human condition, whilst our God has shed is blood for our salvation, and one day our bodies will resurrect under a new sky and onto a new earth where we will be forever filled with joy and love (unless we failed as Christians, then we'll be forever taken away from such delights and live in a place where we will see that joy but only to have the torments of Hell made even more unbearable, for all eternity).

>>542611

Same; I met him for the first time when I was like 12, found a collection of his novels in a rubbish bin and I took it home.

Could have been the Devil playing tricks on me, as I lost my faith for a few years after going to high school, and I even became a quasi-homo furry.

>>542735

What did I put at the end.

>save for actually having morality and benevolence.

I know he basically made God into a cosmic amoeba, but it was just for the sake of argument.

>>542567

>The human nature was made manifest through Jesus in the Gospels, but God always had a human nature.

Maybe a human form, maybe some ethereal manifestation, but it wasn't Jesus of Nazareth born of the virgin Mary.

>Jesus was eternally a God-man. Anytime you read about God as a physical man in the Old Testament, it's Jesus appearing

Not sure about that.

The Son is eternally begotten, timeless, but the Son's human incarnation, taking on a human nature, as Jesus of Nazareth took place in time.

He also experienced suffering and death these aspects were not part of him prior, right?

>>542449

God isn't a tentacle monster