Talk:Christophany

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Source?[edit]

Some Christians believe Jesus came to Earth at various times before the New Testament, including once as Melchizedek himself.

Who? Where?

--Charlesknight 23:31, 24 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have fellowed with eager anticipation and keen interest the ongoing debate on this principal issue and I think that the issue as to whether the Captain of the host of the army of the Lord in Jos Chapter; the assertion of the King in Daniel Chapter 3 are in my opinion the holy spirit. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.202.124.6 (talk) 20:08, 15 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Christophany[edit]

I am new to making comments on Wikipedia; the intent of the following is to suggest a correction to the contributor of the cited article:

I would assume it is unintentional (perhaps out of an abundance of caution that has gone overboard;) but the article on Christophany appears to either contain bad grammar or an anti-Christian bias by using the adjective "alleged" as a modifier in defining Christophany ("an alleged appearance of the incarnate Christ"). For example, "Angel" is defined as "a spiritual supernatural being," not "an 'alleged' spiritual supernatural being." One can certainly talk about an alleged Christophany, but to define it as an "alleged appearance..." indicates either an error in logic and grammar or a bias.

Also, I believe the traditional orthodox Christian definition of Christophany restricts its use to the Old Testament since the Post Resurrection body would be the glorified body of the incarnate Christ (a la the glorified resurrected body of all believers). While its use for the post-resurrected Christ may be taught by some, I would at least qualify that definition by pointing out that it is not normative.

--AMDG,

72.208.136.225 (talk) 03:08, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have only contributed a bit to this article, but I think you should go ahead and do the changes you propose. Leos Friend (talk) 21:57, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Christophany[edit]

Thank you, I will do so as I have time (I'm still new to this). It is simply a matter of logic and grammar (not a disagreement). AlphaMikeDeltaGolf (talk) 04:22, 15 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Original research ?[edit]

As this article is written at present (4 August 2009) it appears to be original research. Although the Bible is cited extensively, there are few, if any, citations to those who have suggested these interpretations. If Christophany is a common belief, then these citations should be easy to find in reliable published sources. --Bejnar (talk) 19:03, 4 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Christophany V God Incarnate[edit]

Would Christophany only refer to God in the state of the Son appearing to people or God in any of the three forms appearing to people?--174.45.157.36 (talk) 01:40, 20 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The incipit states "Christophany is an appearance or non-physical manifestation of Christ." But, litterally speaking, a Christophany is any apparition of Christ, both physical (e g. the doubting Thomas and the Five Holy Wounds of the cross) and non-physical.

The distinction itself is a non-sense. Jesus Christ God was generated with a human adult male body by God the Father before all centuries. The fiat lux come from the voice of His human-divine flesh. The Incarnation into the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary was necessary to make the flesh of Christ mortal, unifying his body with a human rational soul at the time of the virginal conception.

The Virginal birth made Him a mortal child. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.44.84.1 (talk) 14:07, 13 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Book of Mormon[edit]

The Book of Mormon, the sacred text for millions of people, records a purported Christophany. Shouldn't the purported Mormon Christophany be added to the list of purported examples. Prsaucer1958 (talk) 12:30, 21 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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