Posted on 09/25/2001 7:24:54 PM PDT by malakhi
| "I have seen in the last week much ugly use of religion for chest thumping and blaming 'ragheads' and even blaming our decadence for the events of the last week. I would rather that we continue here, respectful of our unity in citizenship, in displaying how religion can be talked about without veering off into ugliness." (SoothingDave, 9/19/01) |
The Neverending Story (The Christian Chronicles) -- Thread 147
A link worth looking at if you have the time (it runs around one hour). This is an online streaming video of a 1995 PBS documentary. Someone flagged this to me on a different FR thread. The creator of this award-winning documentary was targeted by islamic fundamentalist groups for assassination. The feed ran pretty well on my dialup connection at home. In light of the recent events, this is particularly chilling.
Late one evening, a poor farmer on his way back from the market found himself without his prayer book. The wheels of his cart had come off right in the middle of the woods and it distressed him that this day should pass without his having said his prayers.So this is the prayer he made: "I have done something very foolish, Lord. I came away from home this morning without my prayer book and my memory is such that I cannot recite a single prayer without it. So this is what I am going to do. I shall recite the alphabet five times very slowly and You, to whom all prayers are known, can put the letters together to form the prayers I can't remember."
This was created by Free Republic's very own one_particular_harbour (this takes some time to load, but can be run on dial-up--I viewed it that way last night).
allend, you are just wrong on this. It is impossible to pass on one's genealogy through adoption. For example, a Jew of the Kohenim (priestly line) is someone who is born to another Kohein. If a Kohein adopts a boy who is the son of someone who was not a Kohein, that child does not become a Kohein through adoption.
According to the Torah, the mother determines if someone is Jewish (Deuteronomy 7:3-4), but tribal affiliation and family genealogy can only be traced through the person's father (Exodus 28:4, 29:9-30, 30:30, and 40:15 (priesthood lineage), Numbers 36 (tribal lineage), Genesis 49:10, and I Chronicles 17:11-19 (kingship lineage)).
This is a glimpse into the "internal life" of the Trinity. The fact that Jesus prays to the Father is not an indication that they are not both God. Rather it shows us how the persons of the Trinity interact. If I may stretch formal definitions a bit, consider this: Wouldn't it be sad if you had three heads and none of them talked to the others?
Also, Jesus, as the model human would naturally turn to the Father in prayer, as it is what we should do.
SD
Either that or start speaking in foreign languages and technical terms.
J'ai un valisse. Ma valisse est bleu. Ou est ma valisse bleu?
SD
We think you look ma valisse too, Dave.
SD
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