Revelation

Karl Barth believed that God is unknowable, transcendant, self-revealing and self-imparting. When God reveals Himself to you and gives you His Message, your mere human mind cannot comprehend the infinity of God, so God must also recode his message into something simple enough that your limited human mind can understand.

(with thanks to my friend Andy, who described this to me. I have probably got it all wrong)

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photopolly — out of chemo says:

Great message and photo!
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

williamnyk says:

A divine message in soup! Great photo.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

stripey.suze says:

kyz the theologian! Great idea with the photo; I think I like the soup's message better than Barth's theology behind the simple phrase ... :o)
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

KWG73 says:

there nothing as simple as soup.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

Betty Zissou says:

this reminds me of my favourite quote from John Waters (which I later repeated to my Catholic grandmother) "I thank God I'm Catholic, so sex will always be dirty"

I dare say Jesus hates me...
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

budderflyman says:

You won't find that sort of message in my matzo ball soup. I looked in my soup yesterday and it spelled "Oy".
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

MaccuNero says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Jesus was a communist, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

MaccuNero says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called nOiSE and bEEr - Fischi & Birra, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

hooray_j says:

great !
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

Meyilo says:

It makes me laught
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

Arthur Smokes says:

This is clearly proof of God's existence. I bet even Richard Dawkins couldn't debunk this. Let's make him eat His words. ;)

Great concept and capture.
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Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

Feryi says:

Gran mensaje.... bonita captura
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

Lucky Poet says:

Karl Barth should have got out more, methinks ;) And I'm quite envious - my soup never says a flamin word to me.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

kyz says:

Thanks everybody!

Zizzy: Jesus loves even you. Who doesn't love Catholic girls?
budderflyman: oy vey gevult! now I want some matzah brei to eat...
Arty: Great idea, but I had already had them for tea. Imagine how upset Dawkins would be if if found out he was God...
Lucky Poet: maybe it's shy, have you tried talking to it?
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

[ L.K ] 夜 says:

Brilliant photo

Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

saint magenta says:

let there be soup ...
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

iza.belle:):) says:

tsss
awesome :):)
i love jesus♥
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

vagawi says:

And don't I know it - with all my being, I know it.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

martinaee says:

really? your soup told you that? Maybe you should see a doctor :)
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

geelocyte says:

I love your photo! Please post it in our group's pool and join us at:

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Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

tengromero says:

C-O-O-L-!

This photo is inspiring and I saw this in:

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Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

singosan777 says:

Wonderful idea!
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

Jamie.184. says:

Fantastic.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

lauronsky says:

ahhaha...!! oh my, how long it took, to do that?? : D

anyway, god speaks me through the soup just when the wireless is not working.

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Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

kyz says:

Hi lauronsky, it took me about 30 minutes to pick out enough letters and 5 minutes to arrange them. There are far more As, Os and Fs than the other letters for some reason. Time well spent, I think!
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

s i b e r says:

Maybe the "YOU" refers to the alphabetti spaghetti and not the reader of the message.

Had educational pasta been around 2000 years ago would He really have fed the 5000 with mere loaves and fishes? I think not.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

kyz says:

siber: that's an interesting theory. But if the message were intended for the spaghetti, don't you think it would be facing the other way?
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

s i b e r says:

Turin shroud effect?
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

kyz says:

maybe...
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

joyork says:

Proof of the Flying Spaghetti Monster I think :)
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

lauronsky says:

time well spent indeed : ))
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

GMan1967 says:

cool :)
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

monsieur ours ( pas de peau à vendre ) says:

though i'm not completly sure god actually wrote that message in your soup, this is a great picture :)
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

amanky says:

hasta en la sopa!
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

Arthur Smokes says:

Heinz press release from 2005: "Alphabetti Spaghetti is back! After a 15-year gap, popular demand has brought the childhood favourite back onto our shelves. And, for even more fun, we have also launched three new shaped spaghetti products for children – Funky Fish, Space Spaghetti and Spaghetti Head. Not only do they look fun and taste great, but they are also made with multigrain pasta, making them the healthiest of their kind on the mark".

I bet "Spaghetti Head" is what you get if you hang around with TubGirl. :/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabetti_Spaghetti
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

uosǝǝq uopuɐɹq says:

So simple, but so meaningful. I Love it!
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

~Kim's Picture Gallery~ says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Gold Seal of Quality *INVITE ONLY* Post 1 Comment 2, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

This is just wonderful! Seen in Explore!!
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

dino.daniel says:

hahaha, that's really cute! did you still eat it though? :D
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

Wise Tree [deleted] says:

=)
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

pathlost says:

No image of Mary on toasted cheese to with that?
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

kyz says:

dino.daniel: I did. In the beginning was the word, and the word was scrumptious.

pathlost: you'd expect that, but no. However, I did see an image of Osama bin Laden in my dessert recently:

Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

<kian> says:

Amen. =)
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

amylynne. says:

I love that. Nice work, my friend. haha.
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

lauronsky says:

Thank you very much for adding this photo to the pool of Two Weeks Notice! (Theme: Food)
We will have a new theme running very soon... see you there! : )
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

boyonherbike says:

This is a delicious way to preach to people who really very muchly like soup.
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

subaudition says:

i love it absolutelly!!!!!
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

frunt says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Alphabetti Spaghetti, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

xxxrmt says:

uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xb6R3ibPc0U
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

IrishDave5000 says:

If it's in the soup, it must be true.
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

stripey.suze says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Scotland on the map, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

Jaime25x says:

so beautiful, I mean it's really beautiful and love how God uses elemental things to tell us how special we are to him
Posted 2 months ago. ( permalink )

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