To: PetroniusMaximus
I'm afraid you missed what I said. His fleeing from her is not in a physical manner. He cannot deny what he has seen, so he has changed the meaning of what he has seen. In this way he has fled from the reality of what she has spoken. She has spoken and given witness to Christianity, and he knows the truth of what she has done, so he has, in his own mind, changed what she has said so he can think of her as having given witness to something she in fact must have opposed; he has refused to live in the truth. It is a subtler way of fleeing than fleeing in body, but it is no less a denial of what she has said.
21 posted on
03/13/2004 9:39:07 PM PST by
dangus
To: dangus
I realized at once that her strange life is intended by God to reassure all Christians of the historical authenticity of Jesus' life and crucifixion as recorded in the New Testament, and to dramatically display the ever-living bond between the Galilean Master and his devotees.What about these words do you not understand? Is it the author's unusual Indian name that offends you the most?
22 posted on
03/14/2004 1:47:05 PM PST by
Gilead
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