Posted on 06/20/2007 3:54:57 PM PDT by blam
“What is the air speed velocity of an unladen sparrow?”
Or else Zoot’s been lighting the Grail-shaped beacon again...
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I went to a Catholic school growing up and at least one year (I think it was more like 2-3 years in a row), we had a sedar meal on Good Friday — right after we had all gone to mass. (o:
It was very interesting and IIRC (I was pretty young) they brought in someone (not sure if it was a local Rabbi, or what) who said all the prayers, told us the story of Moses, and had us eat the different foods that symbolized what the people had gone through. I though it was really interesting, and I always thought it odd when I was young that (since Jesus was technically a Jew and celebrated all of the Jewish holy days and such) we didn’t celebrate more of the Jewish holy days...
Not really to the point but Jesus was much more likely to be a stone mason than a carpenter. The gospels only tell us he was a “builder” (greek: Tekton).
When you read the gospels with this in mind it is interesting how often he use stone in metaphors and parables.
I think you understand Jesus’ role vis a vis reversing the damage done in Exodus 32 better than many Christians.
> Not really to the point but Jesus was much more likely to be a stone mason than a carpenter.
It’s an interesting idea, I hadn’t heard that one before. Where did it come from?
I actually first read an article about it on FR and have since read more about it elsewhere.
there is no claims to supernatural powers surrounding the Chalice of Valencia. It's just a stone cup with a pretty base that Jesus happened to drink out of.
And that's just as He would have wanted it.
So pagans took the grail and used it to funnel drinks to the dead. Figures.
Be prepared to be BLOWN AWAY!!! Read this: Christ's Blood On the Mercy Seat
The Discovery of the Earthquake Crack in the Ceiling With adrenaline flowing through his veins and great anticipation, he looked around to see what else he could see, which wasn't much. He shined his flashlight around the open area and then up to the ceiling. There, he saw something that caught his eye - it was a crack in the ceiling with a black substance within the crack. Crawling slowly and painfully over the rocks to the rear of the chamber, he saw a stone case extending through the rocks. It had a flat stone top which was cracked completely in two and the smaller section was moved aside, creating an opening into the stone case. But the top was too near the ceiling for him to look inside. Yet he knew what was inside- the crack in the ceiling was directly above the cracked part of the lid, where it was open, and the black substance had fallen from the crack into the case because some of it had splashed onto the lid. It was at this time, as Ron recalls, as the instant realization of what had happened here dawned on him, that he passed out. When he realized that the crack in the ceiling was the end of the crack he had found in the elevated cross-hole many feet above him, and the black substance was blood which had fallen through the crack and into the stone case, he KNEW the Ark was in the stone case. But the most overwhelming realization was that Christ's Blood had actually fallen onto the Mercy Seat.
When he came to, it was 2:45 pm. A mere 45 minutes had passed since he entered the chamber, yet in that short time, he became the first witness to the literal fulfillment of the "type" represented by all the sacrifices made by God's people since Adam and Eve, and later specifically directed by God, Himself, in the laws of the sacrificial system. Now he knew why he and the boys had to do the last three years of excavation that he had sometimes felt was useless. If they had not found first, the cut-out niches, and then the elevated cross-hole with the earthquake crack, he would not have recognized what had happened here.
Interesting...
Thanks for posting!
Calling the KOETT {!}
Surely a topic of interest for the Knights who say Neener.
I done told ya before. The Holy Grail isn’t a cup. It’s the bloodline of Christ passed down through His daughter, Sarah, with Mary Magdalene. Doesn’t anybody watch the History Channel?
Or substituting another one entirely.
He’s a direct male-line ancestor (or so my DNA analysis says — that 99% of all cohens have a common male ancestor about 3,500 years ago -— could be Aaron, or it could be a nice story backed up by a lot of tradition), so the failings of my line are rather personal and were pretty well beat into me at an early age.
You’ve been hanging around with too many freemasons. :-)
cool - where can I get one?
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