Timeline for Who was the first protagonist to routinely save the world?
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| Feb 6, 2019 at 15:51 | comment | added | Dan W | "The Abrahamic (i.e., Judeo-Christian-Islamic) god saved the world from a flood, albeit a flood of his own creation" – no, rather he judged the world ("every inclination of the thoughts of [humans'] heart was altogether evil all the time"), preserving a remnant. The preservation of the remnant is a repeated theme running from Adam, Noah, Abraham, Exodus, Northern Exile, Daniel, Return from Exile, to Christ, and through Christ to all nations; but it's not 'saved the world' in the superhero sense. Furthermore, finally at his return, the world itself is not 'saved', but remade new and perfect. | |
| Apr 15, 2016 at 18:56 | vote | accept | Nerrolken | ||
| Jul 6, 2015 at 3:26 | comment | added | Wad Cheber | @cde - I would guess that people figured out the connection between sunlight and life pretty early. The plants and animals they needed to survive don't do very well during the winter months, when the sun rises late and sets early. They probably noticed that plants don't grow in caves where the sun never shines. Once people started practicing agriculture, they would have seen the link between sunlight and the health of the crops. And even before all of that, they must have realized that night is usually cooler than day. People living near the North Pole would have seen all this very quickly | |
| Jul 5, 2015 at 21:18 | comment | added | user16696 | But the The Chinese archer-god, Yi story makes me wonder, when did humans first (or in parallel) figure out that the sun is needed for life and heat. Hmmm | |
| Jul 5, 2015 at 21:17 | comment | added | user16696 | Well he is a jealous god. But he mellowed out some later on. Teenage angst I guess. | |
| Jul 5, 2015 at 4:06 | comment | added | Wad Cheber | @Taladris - My sentiments exactly. I'm auditing courses at Princeton Theological Seminary, studying early Christology, patristic theology, textual criticism of the bible, and the histories of the bible and the early Christian church, and I keep coming back to that idea. Not a very nice guy. | |
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| Jul 5, 2015 at 3:16 | comment | added | Taladris | "The Abrahamic (i.e., Judeo-Christian-Islamic) god saved the world from a flood, albeit a flood of his own creation". That makes him one of the first super-villain then. | |
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| Jul 5, 2015 at 2:47 | history | edited | Wad Cheber | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 5, 2015 at 2:42 | history | answered | Wad Cheber | CC BY-SA 3.0 |