By the way I like 'The woman in pink' a lot.

Weeell......It seems I'm the only nonbeliever here. Probably because I am unable to believe in ONE higher being who makes no mistakes, gives humanity alot of restrictions and bless his worshipers with paradise, but punishes those who don't with eternal cruelty and torture. Since I just can't believe in something like that I would only be lying if I went to church or prayed for forgiveness for my sins and would wound up with damnation anyway. But I'm here to comment your pictures not to turn elfwood into a chatroom and discuss religion. You got some fairly good pictures and by fairly I mean I've seen hundreds if not thousands of pictures here at elfwood that are a lot worse.....A LOT! I don't know many versions of the bible since I haven't read any versions, but the one you speak so fondly of seem very tolerant.

Those antidepressants you are taking sevierly alter and permanantly damage your brian.Been threr,still carry the scars.I can tell by the incoherency in your bio that the drugs are altering your mind.

I was born a christian and decided to quit that world of lies and unspoken hatred. Seriously you can't believe in God the way the christian church ask you to? can you?
Read my friend, find out how the church of yesterday has given you the church you know now. You'll see that it's a long story about racism, sexism and inequity. But wait, maybe you actually dig all that stuff if you are 'born again' (whatever what that can possibly mean).
Free yourself as I did, with a good old apostasy.

No one is born a Christian. You must accept the Lord Jesus Christ by faith. Then you are born again.
John 3 "Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."
1 Peter 1:23 "Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever."
I don't follow the teachings of a church, I follow the scriptures.
1 John 2:27 "But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him."

Wow. Your art is really great. Also glad to see so many people who aren't afraid of speaking out about their faith. It's so repressed in today's world.

Personally, I'm a Christian who occasionally gets a chance to go to a Catholic mass. I don't consider myself Catholic anymore because I know my views are way off from what they would want me to have.
I'll probably get yelled at here, but I add context to any bit of the Bible I read. It was written in ancient times, when people did not understand what we do now. I believe that God shows us what we can understand when He thinks it's time we found it out.
I believe that hating anyone is wrong, and that there is no such thing as born evil for any creature.
Anyone can feel free to email me to chat about religion if they want, just please don't send me conversion and "have you been saved?" stuff. Save it for someone who needs it. I have a God and Savior in Jesus, so it's kinda pointless.
And now I will stop rambling, tell the wonderful artist again that he has a ton of talent, and go about on my way.

God-speed!

I'm just curious??? why would a satanic or anything related to dark illustration would appear on your gallery? you a God fearing Christian!? Where do you stand? you can only serve one master, You can only Love one and hate the other! if you are that religious, then I suggest that you should act like one!

Randell J. Embs replies: "I believe the Bible, so to me ALL monsters are demons or devils of some sort. I mean they are certainly not angels of the Lord, and I like to draw strange and bizzare monsters. Besides, if God ever cures my OCD, so that I can devote the time and effort, I would like to design a computer game or mod, or maybe several, and what better to draw than concept art for it, and what better monsters to fight than really evil ones? "

I like yout work alot. Keep up the good work. Ishvara W00t

I would just like to tell everyone that I'm glad Israel is finally fighting back instead of giving away more of the land that is Biblically endowed to them to its enemies! As a born again Christian I am a BIG supporter of Israel! God bless the Jews! They need Jesus like everyone else, but they are God's chosen people! Support Israel! Yay!!!!

Randell J. Embs replies: "Well, I guess Ehud Olmert decided that the lives of the kidnapped soldiers and the one civilian were not important enough to resist international pressure, and now Hezbollah is claiming victory. I guess I should not be surprised. After all, just like Ariel Sharon he was giving away land that was Biblically endowed to the Jews to their enemies. "

If all monsters are demons or devils, then what would happen to your beliefs if you found out if demons/devils first spawned from humans literally (not saying this is true, but it could be)? Or if there was a human severely deformed that he/she didn't look human anymore? What if there was a vampire that wants to be prayed for?

Think about it.

Randell J. Embs replies: "I'm not quite sure what you mean by demons and devils first spawning from humans, but if anything contradicts the King James Bible I believe the King James Bible. If I was confronted with evidence to the contrary of what the Bible says, I would assume that the evidence was faulty and the King James Bible is right. But some devils do spawn from humans and some humans are devils. Remember what Jesus Christ said about Judas Iscariot. John 6:70-71"Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?He spake of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon: for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve." As for deformed people, they are not monsters, they are deformed people. They are genetically human in every way; just deformed. As for vampires, there are two types. One is the normal human being that is involved in the drinking of blood for occult purposes or sexual fetish. They are just people who are caught up in the fantasy of being a vampire. To them I would say, read Leviticus 19:26"Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times." You are not even supposed to partake of animal blood. Plus that is an easy way to get AIDS or some other disease.As for the real vampire, like Anne Rice writes about, I have never met one, at least not to my knowledge anyway, but if I do, I'll have to decide what to think then.I suppose that the Biblical definition of monster might be somewhat different than mine. It is written, Leviticus 4, “Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.” I don’t know that sea monsters are devils; except for Leviathan. He is a multi-headed dragon and serpent whose heads God shall bruise.Job 41:1 “Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?”Psalms 74:14“Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.”Psalms104:26“There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.”Isaiah 27:1“In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.”Genesis 3:14-15“And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.”Romans 16:20“And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.” "