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Iceland Converts to Christianity. -
03-19-2018, 10:26 PM
We Christians are quite used to God Who uses earthquakes, fire, flood, famine and frogs * to punish the evil doers, but some may find it surprising that He also uses these things to bring people to him.
It has now been confirmed that this happened in Iceland – a horrible country before God and now an even worse one that is populated by abominations and ruled by moral delinquents.
Nevertheless, God mercifully gave Iceland every chance to be Saved and when He felt that resistance had to be overcome, He sent the most awesome volcanic flood of burning lava to demonstrate what Hell is really like.
This did the job, and Iceland became Christian via this huge and very public Miracle.
God so loved the Icelanders that he was willing to lose millions of His dearest creations all over the world, that the Icelanders might see His Truth.
It is a great pity that Iceland has now rejected God Who took so much trouble to set them on the Path to Heaven, and has reverted to the former ways of old gods, false prophets by being the Sodom and Gomorrah of the Northern Hemisphere.
I hope that their intransigence and hatred of God can be changed, as I have no doubt that God is again becoming impatient with these neo-pagans and millions will die.
Anyway: on to the report:
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https://www.sciencedaily.com/release...0319090740.htm
Volcanic eruption influenced Iceland's conversion to Christianity
Memories of the largest lava flood in the history of Iceland, recorded in an apocalyptic medieval poem, were used to drive the island's conversion to Christianity, new research suggests.
[The] researchers found that Iceland's most celebrated medieval poem, which describes the end of the pagan gods and the coming of a new, singular god, describes the eruption and uses memories of it to stimulate the Christianisation of Iceland.
The eruption of the Eldgjá in the tenth century is known as a lava flood: … accompanied by a haze of sulphurous gases
It was a colossal event with around 20 cubic kilometres of lava erupted -- enough to cover all of England up to the ankles.
The Cambridge-led team pinpointed the date of the eruption … around the spring of 939 and continued at least through the autumn of 940.
Once they had a date for the Eldgjá eruption, the team then investigated its consequences. First, a haze of sulphurous dust spread across Europe, recorded as sightings of an exceptionally blood-red and weakened Sun in Irish, German and Italian chronicles from the same period.
Then the climate cooled as the dust layer reduced the amount of sunlight reaching the surface, which is evident from tree rings from across the Northern Hemisphere
"It was a massive eruption, but we were still amazed just how abundant the historical evidence is for the eruption's consequences," said co-author Dr Tim Newfield, from Georgetown University's Departments of History and Biology. "Human suffering in the wake of Eldgjá was widespread. From northern Europe to northern China, people experienced long, hard winters and severe spring-summer drought. Locust infestations and livestock mortalities occurred. Famine did not set in everywhere, but in the early 940s we read of starvation and vast mortality in parts of Germany, Iraq and China."
But Iceland's most celebrated medieval poem, Voluspá ('The prophecy of the seeress') does appear to give an impression of what the eruption was like. The poem, which can be dated as far back as 961, foretells the end of Iceland's pagan gods and the coming of a new, singular god: in other words, the conversion of Iceland to Christianity, which was formalized around the turn of the eleventh century.
Part of the poem describes a terrible eruption with fiery explosions lighting up the sky, and the Sun obscured by thick clouds of ash and steam:
"The sun starts to turn black, land sinks into sea; the bright stars scatter from the sky. Steam spurts up with what nourishes life, flame flies high against heaven itself."
The poem also depicts cold summers that would be expected after a massive eruption, …
The poem's apocalyptic imagery marks the fiery end to the world of the old gods. The researchers suggest that these lines in the poem may have been intended to rekindle harrowing memories of the eruption to stimulate the massive religious and cultural shift taking place in Iceland in the last decades of the tenth century.
"With a firm date for the eruption, many entries in medieval chronicles snap into place as likely consequences -- sightings in Europe of an extraordinary atmospheric haze; severe winters; and cold summers, poor harvests; and food shortages," said Oppenheimer. "But most striking is the almost eyewitness style in which the eruption is depicted in Voluspá.
The poem's interpretation as a prophecy of the end of the pagan gods and their replacement by the one, singular god, suggests that memories of this terrible volcanic eruption were purposefully provoked [Edit - by God] to stimulate the Christianization of Iceland."
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*Note to self = “Is the “F” a coincidence or a sign? If it is, what is it a sign of?”
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Re: Iceland Converts to Christianity. -
03-20-2018, 06:15 AM
The extent that Iceland has descended into depravity since their original Christian awakening can not be over stated Pastor Bathfire. Today over half the population believes in Elves - of all things. That original volcanic rock supposedly houses "elf churches". If this isn't an invitation for Jesus smite them again, I don't know what is.
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Why So Many Icelanders Still Believe in Invisible Elves
How the country’s history and geography created the perfect setting for magical creatures, whose perceived existence sparks environmental protests to this day.
Ryan Jacobs - Oct 29, 2013
At the edge of the ancient Gálgahraun lava field, about a 10-minute drive outside Iceland’s capital city of Reykjavík, a small group of local environmentalists has made camp among the gnarled volcanic rock, wild moss, and browning grass to protest a new road development that will slice the bucolic landscape into four sections and place a traffic circle in its core. The project, led by the Icelandic Road and Coastal Administration and the nearby municipality of Garðabær, will provide a more direct route to and from the tip of the Álftanes peninsula, where the rustic, red-tiled compound of the country’s president and an eponymous hamlet of 2,600 people stand.
The Hraunavinir, or “Friends of the Lava,” believe that any benefits from a project that snakes through Gálgahraun are cancelled out by its cultural and environmental costs. According to protester Ragnhildur Jónsdóttir, the thoroughfares would destroy some of the “amazingly beautiful lava formations” and spoil a habitat where birds flock and small plants flourish. One of Iceland’s most famous painters, Jóhannes Sveinsson Kjarval, once worked on his canvases there, perhaps magnetized by the charm of the terrain’s craggy natural relics.
Not all of the arguments against the development are so straightforward. At least a few believe it will displace certain supernatural forces that dwell within the hallowed volcanic rubble, and fear the potentially dark consequences that come with such a disturbance. Jónsdóttir, a greying and spectacled seer who also operates an “elf garden” in nearby Hafnarfjörður, believes the field is highly populated by elves, huldufolk (hidden people), and dwarves, many of whom, she says, have recently fled the area while the matter is settled.
One of the many oddly shaped rocks at the lava field houses “a very important elf church,” which lies directly in the path of one of the roads, according to Jónsdóttir. Both she and another seer visited the field separately and came to the same conclusion about the spot. “I mean, there are thousands or millions of rocks in this lava field,” she said, “but we both went to the same rock or cliff and talked about an elf church.” She knows about the elf church because she can see it, she says, and also sense its energy, a sensation many Icelanders are familiar with.
If a road is completely necessary, the elves will generally move out of the way, but if it is deemed superfluous, a possibility at Gálgahraun, “very bad things” might happen. “This elf church is connected by light energy to other churches, other places,” Jónsdóttir said. “So, if one of them is destroyed, it’s, uh, well, it’s not a good thing.”
Though Jónsdóttir’s belief in elves may sound extreme, it is fairly common for Icelanders to at least entertain the possibility of their existence. In one 1998 survey, 54.4 percent of Icelanders said they believed in the existence of elves. That poll is fairly consistent with other findings and with qualitative fieldwork, according to an academic paper published in 2000 titled “The Elves’ Point of View" by Valdimar Hafstein, who now is a folkloristics professor at the University of Iceland. “If this was just one crazy lady talking about invisible friends, it's really easy to laugh about that,” Jónsdóttir said. “But to have people through hundreds of years talking about the same things, it’s beyond one or two crazy ladies. It is part of the nation.”
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https://www.theatlantic.com/internat...-elves/280783/
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Re: Iceland Converts to Christianity. -
03-20-2018, 09:50 PM
But the question is: which doctrine of Christianity are they converting? Because the last time i checked the main religion of Iceland (not counting Atheism) it was Lutheranism.
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Re: Iceland Converts to Christianity. -
03-20-2018, 11:15 PM
A volcano in the largest block of ice on Earth. Indeed a clear demonstration of God's mighty almighty might.
Unfortunately those Icelandistanians are too retarded to get the message.
On a related matter, how much alcohol do these Islandistanski's need to procreate?
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