makes me think of the 'Prince of Tyre' in the Old Testament
""Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre,‘Thus says the Lord God: "Because your heart is lifted up, And you say, 'I am a god I sit in the seat of gods ,In the midst of the seas', Yet you are a man, and not a god, though you set your heart as the heart of a god".
and the rich fool in the New Testament
Then He spoke a parable to them, saying: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded plentifully. And he thought within himself, saying, ‘What shall I do, since I have no room to store my crops?’ So he said, ‘I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build greater, and there I will store all my crops and my goods. And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take your ease; eat, drink, and be merry.” ’
note the repetition of 'I' in both men.
(ditto Nebuchadnezzar; 'Is this not great Babylon that I have built?')
the essence of Christianity is the denial of self and the uplifting of others, especially Jesus; hence 'Jesus is Lord'.
""Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre,‘Thus says the Lord God: "Because your heart is lifted up, And you say, 'I am a god I sit in the seat of gods ,In the midst of the seas', Yet you are a man, and not a god, though you set your heart as the heart of a god".
and the rich fool in the New Testament
Then He spoke a parable to them, saying: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded plentifully. And he thought within himself, saying, ‘What shall I do, since I have no room to store my crops?’ So he said, ‘I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build greater, and there I will store all my crops and my goods. And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take your ease; eat, drink, and be merry.” ’
note the repetition of 'I' in both men.
(ditto Nebuchadnezzar; 'Is this not great Babylon that I have built?')
the essence of Christianity is the denial of self and the uplifting of others, especially Jesus; hence 'Jesus is Lord'.
once known as El Goobero