nattyprofessor

From the sign of some animals in Bible to Thai traditional House

You may be confused that why these two differnet topics are related. And my answer is "Not at al, except they both are my homework!!!!!!"

According to Quest, doves refer to peace. But, according to the bible, doves refer to "innocent" person, as the bible siad "Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves" (Matthew 10:16). In addition, in Matthew 5:16, Doves also refer to "the Holy Spirit". I am not sure about this, but I sort of know that some western guys refer to Doves as "stupid".

I think most of men don't like snake. Snake, which is called "serpent" in Genesis 3:1, is symbolized to be "the chief devil." But in Matthew 10:16, snake refer to "shrewd" person.

The bible kept saying about sheep. sheeps are symbolized to be "human," which the Lord calls them -son-. Sheeps share many characteristics with the man in the view of Christianity. Sheep are short-sigthed and have short legs and puffy hairs; all of these make them fail to live by themselves without shepherds. However, sheep are good follower and obey their sheperds. Therefore, sheep are intended to visualize the concept that human are "sinners" and need the "savior" to be saved and follow. Paradoxically, I know a pastor who went to Norway and he found that he couldn't use the word "sheep" in prearching since, for the scandinavian, sheeps mean "the stupid." He said that it's exactly the same as when Thai people call someone "BUFFALO"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Without any connection to the previous paragraph, I'll talk about Thai traditional house. Because of terribly hot weather, Thai traditional Houses are open-air. their roofs are very high relative to western style to decrease the temperature in their room. the first floor of the house must be lifted up from the ground level at least 2 meters due to flood in rainy season. Unfortunately, the present environment in big cities like Bangkok doesn't support such that style at all. therefore, we can hardly find Thai traditonal house in Bangkok.

posted by nattyprofessor @ 12:39 PM