Galahad encounters many tests to illustrate his purity. These include the pulling of the sword from the stone, the gaining of his shield, and the entering of the ship. What Christian symbolism is involved in these tests or encounters, and for what purpose and by whom was the ship made?
2007-12-10 14:48:57 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
These doubts are in the state of human mind and the answers are also within that domain. You have to go beyond to get the meaning of God through meditation on the beyond.
2007-12-14 14:29:49 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These stories were really romances and were not told as part of Christian teaching. Sir Thomas Malory who wrote Morte d'Arthur probaby used French sources to write what is arguably the best prose romance in English, giving an epic unity to various earlier tales. But any semblance of Christian symbolism merely reflects the social ethos of the times - about 1470 - and is not theologically significant. A good story though.
2007-12-10 15:04:01 · answer #2 · answered by janniel 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Answering as one Jesuit educated:
The sword from the stone: Overcoming infertility. The gaining of the shield: Using human law for one's own advantage. The ship: both cradle and grave. A box set adrift on one sea or another.
The purpose of the ship is to transport the soul from unbeing to serenity, through the chaos of one ocean or another. The test is not to survive life, for that cannot be done. Rather the test is to recognize where on the spectrum of life and death, fall or redemption, we each are as souls.
2007-12-10 14:59:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-11 00:55:01 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This scripture is very clear.
(EXODUS 20:4-5) “You must not make for yourself a carved image or a form like anything that is in the heavens above or that is on the earth underneath or that is in the waters under the earth. 5 You must not bow down to them nor be induced to serve them, because I Jehovah your God am a God exacting exclusive devotion, bringing punishment for the error of fathers upon sons, upon the third generation and upon the fourth generation, in the case of those who hate me;
What was once a simple cup should be nothing more than that.
The fact that Jesus drank from it should not be a reason to treat IT as an object of worship.
The cup would have no 'soecial powers'.
Even Jesus' ability to perform miracles was power granted to him by his Father in heaven, Jehovah God.
(JOHN 5:19) Therefore, in answer, Jesus went on to say to them: “Most truly I say to YOU, The Son cannot do a single thing of his own initiative, but only what he beholds the Father doing. For whatever things that One does, these things the Son also does in like manner.
(JOHN 10:37) If I am not doing the works of my Father, do not believe me.
When Jesus died, he said this:
(JOHN 10:18) No man has taken it away from me, but I surrender it of my own initiative. I have authority to surrender it, and I have authority to receive it again. The commandment on this I received from my Father.”
(JOHN 7:28-29) Therefore Jesus cried out as he was teaching in the temple and said: “YOU both know me and know where I am from. Also, I have not come of my own initiative, but he that sent me is real, and YOU do not know him. 29 I know him, because I am a representative from him, and that One sent me forth.”
2007-12-10 15:28:55 · answer #5 · answered by pugjw9896 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
None at all.The Grail is symbolic of something else in that realm.Not Christian.
2007-12-10 14:53:43 · answer #6 · answered by Trish 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To inculcate to the minds of the sinners that God is punishing them inspite of the fact that God love His creatures very much. That is the punishment for those who do not want to abey God who created them.
2007-12-10 14:56:31 · answer #7 · answered by Jesus M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am sorry to break this to you, but there is nothing Christian about them.
2007-12-10 14:52:03 · answer #8 · answered by Mutations Killed Darwin Fish 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋