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What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
Now this theme of the Lamb of God, the Passover symbolism, actually is shot through the entirety of John's gospel. From the very first scene of John's gospel, when Jesus enters the story for the first time, he does so by coming to John the Baptist to be baptized. And when Jesus enters, John sees him coming and looks and says, "Behold the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world." So the whole story is now bracketed by this one motif, the Lamb of God. And of course that's the kind of symbolism that would eventually become one of the most profound and dominant in all of Christian theological tradition. Later on we will find just that one image a lamb showing up in all kinds of Christian art from the catacombs to the great mosaics at Ravenna because in just that small little capsule form we have a whole theological tradition wrapped up. It's a theological statement about the significance of the death of Jesus.The symbolism of John's gospel, while it is probably the most evocative of any in the New Testament, is also provocative. The language of John's gospel is intentionally antagonistic at times toward Jewish tradition and toward Jewish sensitivities. The idea of the Passover of course is very Jewish but John tends to turn some of those ideas in a much sharper way against Jewish tradition. At one point in John 6 Jesus says, "Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood you will have no life in you." But the idea of drinking blood is absolutely abhorrent to Jewish dietary regulations. So the very language and the symbolism that is so rich within John's gospel also has a decidedly political tone to it in terms of the evolving relationship between Jews and Christians. John's gospel is witness to a Christianity that's moving farther and father away from Jewish tradition. And in fact it's seeing Jewish tradition often as actually hostile to the Christian movement.
Allen D. Callahan:
Associate Professor of New Testament, Harvard Divinity School
JOHN'S GOSPEL AND ATTITUDES TOWARDS JERUSALEM
Each of the gospel writers has certain concerns that he must address, certain questions that he must answer, and certain crises that he must negotiate. the fourth gospel, the gospel according to John, Jesus' relation to Jerusalem and the Jerusalem authorities is more of a concern. There are more people in the dramatis personae of John's gospel who hailed from Judea. We encounter some figures there that we don't encounter anywhere else in gospel traditions. Nicodemus, Joseph of Arimathea. These are Jerusalem ite non-priestly elites. One of the things that this suggests is that the sources of the fourth gospel are closer to this social stratum of people and their concerns. Not so, for Matthew, Mark, and Luke. The Galilean traditions are the signal traditions there, and so Jesus' activity in the Galilee and among people in Northern Judea have pride of place....
When we look at the concerns of these differences, the concerns that are suggested or reflected in these differences, one of the ways of explaining differences, is seeing that they're coming from different points and different strata of Palestinian society.
RE: Palistine versus Jews.
Folks are getting more Revolutionary minded ...I heard of a poll in which 25% of 'Murkuns want their state to leave the Union
Personally... I'm beginning to think maybe a Little Bit of Global Thermonuclear War might not be such a Bad thing ...
Kinda like hitting the Refresh button.
RE: Probably a stupid question but -
And, by the time I reach the tenth member of the harem, you can imagine the state of the bedroom. Piles of headscarves and clothes, and cowgirl bras. It's difficult to find a space in the bed with ten others. And ten people snoring is like an orchestra tuning up.
RELIGIOUS HAIR COVERING
Instead of all the paraphernalia that is required to be worn, wouldn't it be better to attach a tracking device. A constant bleep would reveal the ladies movements.
RE: Probably a stupid question but -
What I do is move on to the next member of the harem, whilst the other is recovering. By the time they have removed their headscarf and rest of the other layers and cowgirl bra, an hour would have elapsed which is ideal.
RE: Palistine versus Jews.
Listen, I can see a silver lining arond that cloud, and its colled the internet.Now we can by the click talk to friends across the world, and suddenly 'we' (the new gen) might qustion if its right tm bomb for democracy in a place that don't evne have that word in their vocabulary.
I seen meny sensible 20years olds who take none of the old doctrines.
I'm talking the generation that will follow Z. I see hope. Plenty of these are not keen to obay no bullshit religous ledear neither. I really think there is hope as many of these start with a clean sheet.
Now all we need to do is get woke out of the schools, and I think that will eventually happen as well.
Probably a stupid question but -
Haha, love it!RE: It the culture dummy.
Very true re copping out by blaming attitude, and very true about overcoming differences. We are a competitive combative tribal species, we humans, and will always eye strangers askance. When someone is instantly obviously a stranger by reason of race, gender, traditional attire, even the second they open their mouth and have a different accent, they will always have to work harder for acceptance and any hostility will always target their differences. It is what it is.The instinct to stick with others like us, where acceptance is easier, that's not going to change. Neither is resentment from the general tribe, because the different cling together, going to change. You have to work for general acceptance and it will always take longer and it will never be complete but it can be done.
I was a fair-skinned redhead in Africa - outsider
I was a fair-skinned redhead in Scotland, but didn't sound Scottish - outsider
I am a fair-skinned redhead in Spain who doesn't speak fluent Spanish - outsider
You can't insist on acceptance if you are different, you have to earn it. I get impatient with the whiners. It is what it is. Nobody gets the world on a plate and you find your place and make the best you can of it. JMO.
RE: Probably a stupid question but -
What about a glass of wine and start all over again
Probably a stupid question but -
Smoking in the bedroom is generally a bit of a no-no even when both smoke so actually smoking after is probably horrendously dangerous, 2 sleepy people, chance of setting the bed on fireAmerica is no longer offering liberty and justice for all.
Fingers tightly crossed for you and Florida. The trouble with votes - the Brexit referendum comes to mind - is that the choices are so limited, yes or no. If the whole abortion question was based on whether bearing the child would be detrimental to the mother, in which case the rights of the living should outweigh the rights of the not-yet-born, the vote should be whether to allow merciful abortion or all abortions, not just 'never allow' or 'always allow'. An easier choice for voters, too.
Anyway. Just tidying up comments missed previously and I'll close comments so this blog can drop out of sight.
RE: Probably a stupid question but -
Married (was) to a smoker and a non smoker , I never smoked.Smoker did not smoke in the bedroom,
Non- smoker, we cuddled up and fell asleep
America is no longer offering liberty and justice for all.
You make a strong point there. The same complete disregard for anything approaching rights.
RELIGIOUS HAIR COVERING
Yes. It's all down to male possession. Nothing to do with pleasing the gods. The countries that practice hair coverings etc are those that suppress the people and are male dominated. Why would a god wish someone to hide their hair, or face, or body. Did the gods create people to hide their physical features?RE: And I said..
Nice happy for you guys.What country will you live in, decided yet?
I hope the days of long distance love is soon over for the two of you.
RE: Why do so many people not understand that the usa is a constitutional federal republic?
you missed a heck of a lot,not reading it!BTW,Switzerland is not in that Club(EU),and I hope we never will be,in spite of the Skulduggery by the EU and some of our Politicians!
RE: We lost another one...
He was hoping to photograph the eclipse, brought a filter so he could, so no, I don't think he saw it coming.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
The Gospel of JohnEmbedded in the so-called "spiritual gospel" is an architectural hostility toward Judaism.
L. Michael White:
Professor of Classics and Director of the Religious Studies Program University of Texas at Austin
THE SPIRITUAL GOSPEL
John's gospel is different from the other three in the New Testament. That fact has been recognized since the early church itself. Already by the year 200, John's gospel was called the spiritual gospel precisely because it told the story of Jesus in symbolic ways that differ sharply at times from the other three. For example, Jesus dies on a different day in John's gospel than in Matthew, Mark and Luke.... Whereas in the three synoptic gospels, Jesus actually eats a Passover meal before he dies, in John's gospel he doesn't. The last supper is actually eaten before the beginning of Passover. So that the sequence of events leading up to the actual crucifixion are very different for John's gospel. And one has to look at it to say, why is the story so different? How do we account for these differences in terms of the way the story-telling developed? And the answer becomes fairly clear when we realize that Jesus has had the last supper a day before so that he's hanging on the cross during the day of preparation before the beginning of Passover.
So here's the scene in John's gospel: on the day leading up to Passover, and Passover will commence at 6 o'clock with the evening meal, on the day leading up to that Passover meal is the day when all the lambs are slaughtered and everyone goes to the temple to get their lamb for the Passover meal. In Jerusalem this would have meant thousands of lambs being slaughtered all at one time. And in John's gospel, that's the day on which Jesus is crucified. So that quite literally the dramatic scene in John's gospel has Jesus hanging on the cross while the lambs are being slaughtered for Passover. John's gospel is forcing us, dramatically at least, through the storytelling mode, to think of Jesus as a Passover lamb. Jesus doesn't eat a Passover meal, Jesus is the Passover meal, at least within the Christian mind in the way that John tells the story.
RE: A divorced women deserves a good man?
Yes, when I think about all the ladies out there that have standard levels of sex because of their shitty men I cry for all women: cool:RE: Is there no decency out there anymore
People are braindead trash that think they are intelligent and not trash
We lost another one...
In February this year he leased a BMW 530e.Only a few months ago, I wonder now if he realized how much his health was failing back then...
Useless trivia
Another "criminal" taking up valuable resources and oxygen.Useless trivia
A 10-year-old boy has confessed to an unsolved killing in Texas, telling investigators that he shot a man he did not know while the victim slept, authorities said Friday (local time).The boy, who was just shy of his eighth birthday when the man was shot two years ago, has been evaluated at a psychiatric hospital but cannot be charged with the crime because of his age at the time, the Gonzales County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.
Texas law requires a child to be at least 10 years old to have criminal culpability. The boy is being held in juvenile detention for threatening a student on a bus in another incident earlier this month, authorities said.
RE: Probably a stupid question but -
Usually play paper , scissors,rock best of 3 lover gets to sleep in the wet patch
RE: This one pegged the BS meter...
Lol. Just like the young men who message women and immediately want to contact off of here. I started to harass the phone scammers now. You would think they would not assume what service, disease or whatever one has. The phone bill has to cost them to get sworn at...no %^&$^%&% I dont have a Spectrum, TV service, diabetes, high electric bill or any of the other stupid thinks they try.Biggest hint to them..try to get someone who doesn't have an East Indian accent.
And change up the scripts. 
Useless trivia
Hope he has to pay all costs involved with his hospital stay and care and gets charged with global warming
RE: What is a Player? - Part 2
I think you described narcissistic personality as player…you will never be happy with them, it is very hard experience interact with narcissist and “fun” changes into being hurt, depressed, cheated and downgraded.