Posted on 12/12/2006 6:52:44 PM PST by blam
Wow. This is thrilling.
Engineering Drawings - the artwork formerly known as prints...
Because if he's decomposed he's not really a saint? If the body is missing, is he St Elsewhere?
Heh.
"...I mean, if you had everything... where would you keep it..."
If you did have averything, you would have the resources to hold all of your stuff.
Loftsmen in the aircraft and shipbuilding industry used to do these full size drawings of wings and other parts on huge tables up in the loft at the shipyard.
Sometimes I turn all the lights off when I'm in the shower and pretend I'm in a submarine that's been hit...
No, if he's decomposed he;''s still a Stain. If the body's missing, he's "St. Elsewhere".
But if he's there, incorrupt, after 20 centuries, it would be a screamingluy POWERFUL sign from God to the world, a clarion call to anybdoy who has the mind able to see and understand. Incorruption of a 2000 year-old body is impossible. The CURRENT crop of incorrupt saints, especially Saint Silvan, whose incorrupt body has lain in its current state...like he died yesterday, since 380 AD...are powerful witnesses, but there is always suspicion that the bodies have been tinkered with, etc. Open up St. Paul's tomb, in the modern age, after 20 centuries, and find an incorrupt Saint Paul in two pieces (head and rest), and there will be no question of tampering or tinkering. There will be pathetic efforts to find a "scientific" explanation, but there won't really BE one, and everyone with a mind will now that. It will be one more of those tangible, visible injections of Gods command over nature and natural law into our world. Many Thomases will be saved by such a find.
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