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Only Gods can see Each Other

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  • The Pastor's Workshop
Categories
  • Spiritual Formation
Illiustration Categories (2)
  • Background
  • Analogies
Keywords (12)
  • Pride
  • Judgment
  • Humility
  • Power
  • Myth
Scripture (6)
  • Isaiah 14:13–15
  • Daniel 4:30–37
  • Exodus 5:2
  • Acts 12:21–23
  • Philippians 2:6–8
Date Added
  • May 30, 2025

During each full moon, believing himself equal to the Roman gods, the Roman emperor Caligula would summon the moon goddess to share his bedchamber. When he asked Aulus Vitellius—a member of the Roman Senate who would later claim the imperial throne—whether he had witnessed the…

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