tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2061647847674717162024-03-12T23:53:36.803-07:00Bib 451 Visalia Spring 17 OL109Bib 451 Visalia Spring 17 OL109davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07135992921485306480noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-206164784767471716.post-59263634090092137172019-06-14T18:39:00.001-07:002019-06-14T18:39:50.887-07:00week 5 bak<iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/208494610?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="640"></iframe>
<a href="https://vimeo.com/208494610">The challenge of Onesimus / Scot McKnight</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/blfisherlibrary">B.L. Fisher Library</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/18884039">Maranatha</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/peterrollins">Peter Rollins</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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Here's what you felt about the F bomb lament line. <b>Great words to describe what lament is meant to evoke</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.bible-history.com/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #659ec7; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="Temple Warning Inscription" border="0" class="img-responsive" src="http://www.bible-history.com/archaeology/israel/temple-warning.jpg" height="287" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="450" /></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;">What did Jesus think when he saw this stone?</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: x-small;">An inscription was discovered on a Greek tablet, attached to the Soreg, forbidding Gentiles to pass beyond that point. [Israel Department of Antiquities and Museums]</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;">When king Herod had rebuilt the Temple in Jerusalem between 19 and 9 B.C. he enclosed the outer court with colonnades. The large separated area was referred to as the Court of the Gentiles because the "gentiles" (non-Jews from any race or religion) were permitted to enter this great open courtyard of the Temple area. They could walk within in it but they were forbidden to go any further than the outer court. They were excluded from entering into any of the inner courts, and warning signs in Greek and Latin were placed giving strict warning that the penalty for such trespass was death. The Romans permitted the Jewish authorities to carry out the death penalty for this offence, even if the offender were a Roman citizen. The engraved block of limestone was discovered in Jerusalem in 1871. It's dimensions are about 22 inches high by 33 inches long. Each letter was nearly 1 1/2 inches high and originally painted with red ink against the white limestone. Part of another sign was unearthed in 1936. It's current location is in the Archaeological Museum of Istanbul, Turkey. Jerusalem was part of the Ottoman Empire in Turkey when the stone was found.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;">Josephus the Jewish historian of the first century A.D. wrote about the warning signs in Greek and Latin that were placed on the barrier wall that separated the court of the gentiles from the other courts in the Temple. Not until 1871 did archaeologists actually discover one written in Greek. Its seven line inscription reads as follows:</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;">NO FOREIGNER<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />IS TO GO BEYOND THE BALUSTRADE<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />AND THE PLAZA OF THE TEMPLE ZONE<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />WHOEVER IS CAUGHT DOING SO<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />WILL HAVE HIMSELF TO BLAME<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />FOR HIS DEATH<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />WHICH WILL FOLLOW</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The Temple Warning Inscription is important in the study of Biblical Archaeology and confirms events outlined in Scripture. When Jesus saw this inscription he knew that his own life would be the cost for the gentiles to go past this barrier. <a href="http://www.bible-history.com/archaeology/israel/temple-warning.html"> LINK</a></span></div>
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From the <b id="yui_3_17_2_1_1494375966839_1351" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Drops Like Stars </b>film (see whole film on top of our Week 5 page <a href="http://firstclassever.blogspot.com/2017/05/week-5_8.html" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1494375966839_1352" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 2s;">here</a>), in which Rob Bell talks about the six "arts" of suffering,</div>
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e)This was a very inductive or EPIC film. Instead of traditional (RRWI) order, he told stories and illustrations of each art/point BEFORE he told you what the art/point was. Note he didn't even reveal the meaning behind the film's title until the very end; in fact they were the last three words of the film. He also was very E (Experiential) in that he used props and audience interaction (soap, etc) How do you respond to this kind of presentation? Mention your results (whether you were RRWI and EPIC) <a href="https://learning.fresno.edu/mod/forum/view.php?id=764049" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 2s;">from Forum 3.1</a> . It;s possible RRWIs may be frustrated with this style of presentation, and EPICs might enjoy it. Discuss. True for you?</div>
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<a href="https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20150117000009AAFKZD7" style="color: #660099; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Psalm 137:9 "Blessed is the one who </a></h3>
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<a href="https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20150117000009AAFKZD7" style="color: #660099; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">seize yours infants and violently dash</a>es </h3>
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<i><a href="http://davewainscott.googlepages.com/05Track05.m4a" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">Click here for the audio</a> (or watch here on Youtube) of this delightful statement b</i><i>y Bono:<br /><br />"God is interested in truth, and <b>only in truth. </b>And that's why God is more interested in Rock & Roll music than Gospel... Many gospel musicians can't write about what's going on in their life, because it's not allowed . they can't write about their <b>doub</b>t....If you can't write about w<b>hat's really going on in the world and your life,</b> because it's all happy-clappy... Is God interested in that? I mean, 'Please, don't patronize Me! I want to go the Nine-Inch-Nails gig, they're talking the truth!<br />-Bono<br /><br />From a 2003 discussion with New York Times, <span style="font-size: 26px;">more audio <a href="http://nytimes.com/ref/arts/music/20030417talks-bono.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">here</a></span></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">The first is the way the Bible itself does: Psalms is broken down into 5 "books" Hmm, 5...does that sound familiar? Name<a href="http://bib446.blogspot.com/2011/03/week-2-community-guidelines.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"> another book</a> with 5 sections and suggest an answer for <a href="http://www.biblestudy.org/basicart/psalm-construction.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">"Whats up with the number 5?"</a></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">Note the 5 sections are not comprised of different kinds/genres of psalms..but the styles and kinds are "randomnly"</span></div>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprecatory_Psalms" style="color: #bb213a; text-decoration-line: none;">imprecatory</a></li>
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We'll spend some time on the "three worlds" of Psalm 22, which Jesus quotes <b>honestly</b> on the cross:</div>
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Here (click title below) 's a sermon on Psalm 22, which is another amazing psalm to use in a worship setting...How often have you heard "My God, My God, Why have You forsaken me?" Or "God, where were YOU when I needed you!!"</div>
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But I believe Corrie Ten Boom was right and right on:<br />
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Even the (very conservative)Dallas Theological commentaries assume this, so this is not just some "liberal" agenda:<br />
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<span dir="ltr">"That <b>Jesus died naked</b> was part of the shame which He bore for our sins. </span>" -<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=iwc91epptG4C&pg=PA339&lpg=PA339&dq=jesus+died+naked&source=bl&ots=J-3sRsBlMu&sig=dwt2sIxOZUS5jAhB2PhzdtIQknc&hl=en&ei=RjPESb_EMYqmsQPYl-zkBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=10&ct=result" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">link</a></blockquote>
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is likely wrong(Jesus looks too white).<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">...and</span> largely right (What Jesus is wearing).<br />
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I answered a question about this a few years ago, I would write it a bit differently know, but here it is:<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica";"><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span style="font-style: italic;">First of all, it is probable that (again, contrary to nearly all artwork and movies), Jesus hung on the cross absolutely naked. This was a typical way of crucifixion, to increase the shame factor. Romans might occasionally add a loincloth type of garment as a token concession and nod to Jewish sensitivity; but not very often, it would seem. Of course, once we get past the emotive and cultural shock of imagining Jesus naked, we realize that if He indeed die naked, the symbolism is profound and prophetic: In Scripture, Jesus is called the "Second Adam". As such, it would make sense that He died "naked and unashamed." We are also told that "cursed is he who dies on a tree." The nakedness was a sign and enfolding of shame and token of curse. And the wonderful story of Corrie ten Boom and family, told in the book and movie "The Hiding Place," relates. One of the turning points of her ability to endure the Ravensbruck concentration camp, particularly the shame of walking naked past the male guards, was her conviction that Jesus too was shamed and stripped naked before guards. "Finally, it dawned on me," she preached once," that this (shaming through nakedness) happened to Jesus too..., and Jesus is my example, and now it is happening to me, then I am simply doing what Jesus did." She concluded, "I know that Jesus gave me that thought and it gave me peace. It gave me comfort and I could bear the shame and cruel treatment." </span><br /><span style="font-size: 23px; font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.3dff.com/pages/jesus_clothing.htm" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">continued</a></span></span></span></span><br />
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But most of us do it less officially, and more often,...in prayer, even if unarticulated/<a href="http://wordless./" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">wordless.</a><br />
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Complaints/<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;"><a dir="ltr" href="http://davewainscott.blogspot.com/search/label/lament" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">lament</a>s</span>/questions have to surface somewhere. So we might as well be honest and<a href="http://davewainscott.blogspot.com/2009/12/elevation-leads-to-vertigo-20.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">elevate</a> them. pray them post them, sing them....prophetically write them on <a href="http://davewainscott.blogspot.com/2007/03/wordsimages-of-prophets.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">subway walls</a> or church halls.<br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">We often take "</span><b style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">culture</b><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">" for granted, as it is simply the way we (one or more person) thinks and feels.</span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">(Note: we didn't say "race"...and we are defining "culture" broadly. So, all marriages are cross-cultural, even if both persons are of the same race, as everyone thinks/feels differently, and has different "cultural" preferences.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">It's easy to assume our cultural identity or preference is the "best" or "right" way (as in a bounded set that everyone should be in)....or the way everyone else sees/interprets things.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Wow! All communication is texting, and all communication is cross-cultural.</span><br />
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davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07135992921485306480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-206164784767471716.post-38189398615967041602017-05-17T01:35:00.002-07:002017-05-17T01:56:48.026-07:00Psalm 22 helpIf you choose Psalm 22. follow instructions from syllabus for Esther paper, and just replave Esther with Psalm 22.<br />
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<b>Since Psalm 22 was written a thousand years before Jesus, your paper may not even mention Jesus.</b><br />
<b>Remember, determine what the message the original writer had in mind.</b><br />
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<b>If you use resources, here are some ideas.</b><br />
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<b>Definitely check class summaries Week 4 and 5, and notes in your class Bible under Psalm 22</b><br />
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<b>See also</b><br />
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<li><b><a href="https://www.biblica.com/bible/online-bible/scholar-notes/niv-study-bible/intro-to-psalms/">Intro to psalms</a></b></li>
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<b><a href="http://oneinjesus.info/2014/03/n-t-wrights-the-case-for-the-psalms-chapters-1-2-part-c/">NT Wright on Psalm 22</a></b></li>
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<li><b><a href="https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/188a/a93ec749c8d0dfa278f763401fcaa44bc81a.pdf">Exposition on Psalm 22 (PDF) </a></b></li>
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Dave's sermon:<br /><blockquote>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><a href="http://davewainscott.blogspot.com/2006/04/lord-be-with-youeven-when-_114598388742647398.html" style="color: #ff1900; text-decoration: initial;">"<span style="font-size: small;">The Lord Be With You...Even When He’s Not!"</span></a></span>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psalm_22">Psalm 22 - Wikipedia</a></h3>
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Psalm 22 possible chiasm: Death is off the table.
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Psalm 22 – “My God, My God, Why hast Thou Forsaken Me?:</h2>
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This Psalm has 2 parts. The first part is a chiasmus. The second part is not. </div>
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The chiasmus has a famous beginning (“My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken Me?”), a good center, and a nice end. </div>
Here’s a basic outline of the chiasmus:<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><strong>A</strong></span>: A cry for help: no answer</div>
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<span style="color: red;"><strong>B</strong></span>: Israel</div>
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<span style="color: red;"><strong>C</strong></span>: Personal (an “I/me” section)</div>
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<strong><span style="color: red;">D</span></strong>: Bulls, lion, bones</div>
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<span style="color: red;"><strong>E</strong></span>: Dogs, ‘pierce’, bones</div>
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<span style="color: red;"><strong>F</strong></span>: <span style="text-decoration: underline;">A prayer for God’s help</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><strong>E’</strong></span>: - , sword, dog</div>
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<span style="color: red;"><strong>D’</strong></span>: – , lion, oxen</div>
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<span style="color: red;"><strong>C’</strong></span>: Personal (an “I/me” section)</div>
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<span style="color: red;"><strong>B’</strong></span>: Israel</div>
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<span style="color: red;"><strong>A’</strong></span>: Cried for help: heard</div>
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I particularly like the connections through
D2, E2′, E’2”, and D’2” : … think ‘sharp’, as in e.g., ’teeth’, as in
‘open lion’s mouth’.</div>
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Interestingly, D3 and E3′ (“bones”) have
been left unmatched in E’ and D’. I wonder why? Is it because of the
section’s closer association with death? If so, then ‘death’ is absent
in the latter sections. … <em>Death is off the table. Life is in play … ?..</em></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc;"> </span><em><a href="http://biblicalchiasmus.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/psalm-22-why-have-you-forsaken-me/" style="background-color: #cccccc;">-CONTINUED HERE</a></em></div>
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This Psalm has 2 parts. The first part is a chiasmus. The second part is not. </div>
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The chiasmus has a famous beginning (“My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken Me?”), a good center, and a nice end. </div>
Here’s a basic outline of the chiasmus:<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><strong>A</strong></span>: A cry for help: no answer</div>
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<span style="color: red;"><strong>B</strong></span>: Israel</div>
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<span style="color: red;"><strong>C</strong></span>: Personal (an “I/me” section)</div>
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<strong><span style="color: red;">D</span></strong>: Bulls, lion, bones</div>
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<span style="color: red;"><strong>E</strong></span>: Dogs, ‘pierce’, bones</div>
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<span style="color: red;"><strong>F</strong></span>: <span style="text-decoration: underline;">A prayer for God’s help</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><strong>E’</strong></span>: – , sword, dog</div>
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<span style="color: red;"><strong>D’</strong></span>: – , lion, oxen</div>
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<span style="color: red;"><strong>C’</strong></span>: Personal (an “I/me” section)</div>
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<span style="color: red;"><strong>B’</strong></span>: Israel</div>
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<span style="color: red;"><strong>A’</strong></span>: Cried for help: heard</div>
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I particularly like the connections through
D2, E2′, E’2”, and D’2” : … think ‘sharp’, as in e.g., ‘teeth’, as in
‘open lion’s mouth’.</div>
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Interestingly, D3 and E3′ (“bones”) have
been left unmatched in E’ and D’. I wonder why? Is it because of the
section’s closer association with death? If so, then ‘death’ is absent
in the latter sections. … <em>Death is off the table. Life is in play … ?</em></div>
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Note how D begins with the idea of being
surrounded and encircled. The paralleling and chiastic sections D, E,
E’ and D’ then proceed to do just that. They surround the individual at
the center of the chiasmus. … The structure illustrates what’s being
said. Nice.</div>
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Section C is complex. a and b are negative,
while b’ and a’ are positive. … In particular I like the i/i’ match
in b where i refers to sneering, while i’ delivers the actual content of
the sneer. The content is chiastic as well. Once again, well done.</div>
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The second part nicely builds through space and time. Overall, it seems to build and cover everything.</div>
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I like this chiasmus. </div>
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It’s an important Psalm, in part, because of it’s connection to Jesus’ crucifixion.</div>
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<a href="https://biblicalchiasmus.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/psalm-22-why-have-you-forsaken-me/">LINK </a></div>
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davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07135992921485306480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-206164784767471716.post-78410700241379037222017-05-15T17:52:00.000-07:002017-05-17T10:35:22.877-07:00Week 6!!Our guest: Christopher Scott.<br />
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His blog posts on Philemon are <a href="http://christopherscottblog.com/tag/philemon/">here</a>.<br />
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Remember the Prodigal Son and the forgotten famine?<br />
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See it <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Ze_1qSe4veYC&pg=PA14&lpg=PA14&dq=misreading+scripture+forgotten+famine&source=bl&ots=r1EpGspIoO&sig=UcI6ZLpITbJYAf1Ff7KPs3aq2i0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj-rqbgtvfTAhULS2MKHR3gCaMQ6AEIIzAA#v=onepage&q=misreading%20scripture%20forgotten%20famine&f=false">here</a> in the original book.<br />
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<span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px;">What goes without being said for us can lead us to miss important details in a Bible passage, even when the author is trying to make them obvious. Mark Allan Powell offers an excellent example of this phenomenon in “The Forgotten Famine,” an exploration of the theme of personal responsibility in what we call the parable of the prodigal son. Powell had twelve students in a seminary class read the story carefully from Luke’s Gospel, close their Bibles and then retell the story as faithfully as possible to a partner. None of the twelve American seminary students mentioned the famine in </span><a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Luke 15.14" data-version="nrsv" href="https://biblia.com/bible/nrsv/Luke%2015.14" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #0066cc; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">Luke 15:14</a><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px;">, which precipitates the son’s eventual return. Powell found this omission interesting, so he organized a larger experiment in which he had one hundred people read the story and retell it, as accurately as possible, to a partner. Only six of the one hundred participants mentioned the famine. The group was ethnically, racially, socioeconomically and religiously diverse. The “famine-forgetters,” as Powell calls them, had only one thing in common: they were from the United States.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px;">Later, Powell had the opportunity to try the experiment again, this time outside the United States. In St. Petersburg, Russia, he gathered fifty participants to read and retell the prodigal son story. This time an overwhelming forty-two of the fifty participants mentioned the famine. Why? Just seventy years before, 670,000 people had died of starvation after a Nazi German siege of the capital city began a three-year famine. Famine was very much a part of the history and imagination of the Russian participants in Powell’s exercise. Based solely on cultural location, people from America and Russia disagreed about what they considered the crucial details of the story.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px;">Americans tend to treat the mention of the famine as an unnecessary plot device. Sure, we think: the famine makes matters worse for the young son. He’s already penniless, and now there’s no food to buy even if he did have money. But he has already committed his sin, so it goes without being said for us that the main issue in the story is his wastefulness, not the famine. This is evident from our traditional title for the story: the parable of the prodigal (“wasteful”) son. We apply the story, then, as a lesson about willful rebellion and repentance. The boy is guilty, morally, of disrespecting his father and squandering his inheritance. He must now ask for forgiveness.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px;">Christians in other parts of the world understand the story differently. In cultures more familiar with famine, like Russia, readers consider the boy’s spending less important than the famine. The application of the story has less to do with willful rebellion and more to do with God’s faithfulness to deliver his people from hopeless situations. The boy’s problem is not that he is wasteful but that he is lost.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px;">Our goal in this book is not, first and foremost, to argue which interpretation of a biblical story like this one is correct. Our goal is to raise this question: if our cultural context and assumptions can cause us to overlook a famine, what else do we fail to notice? <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/benjaminthescribe/2017/04/free-book-good-one/">link</a></span><br />
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And getting over VERSE-ITIS helps a lot in seeing chiasm in the big sweep. This is Genesis 6:<br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">“</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">Very much of human life is ‘there and back again,’ or chiastic. This is how God has designed human beings to live in the world. It is so obvious that we don’t notice it. But it is everywhere. This shape of human life arises ultimately from the give and take of the three Persons of God, as the Father sends the Spirit to the Son and the Son sends the Spirit back to the Father. We can see that literary chiasm is not a mere curiosity, a mere poetic device to structure the text. It arises from the very life of God, and is played out in the structure of the lives of the images of God in many ways and at many levels. It is because human beings live and move so often chiastically, that poets often find themselves drawn to chiastic writing. God creates chiasms out of His inner life, and so do the images of God.</span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">Biblical chiasms are perfect. That is, they are perfectly matched to the human chiasms they address and transform. As we become more and more sensitive to Biblical chiasms, we will become more and more sensitive to one aspect of the true nature of human life under God. We will be transformed from bad human chiasms into good human chiasms. In this way, becoming sensitive to chiasm can be of practical transformative value to human life, though in deep ways that probably cannot be explained or preached very well.</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">One further thought. We saw in our previous essay that chiasms often have a double climax, one in the middle and the greatest at the end. The food we bought at market is put away in the cupboard and refrigerator when we get back home. Moving forward to a final climax is what all literature does, whether it has a middle climax or not. (Shakespeare’s five-act plays always move to a climax in the third and in the fifth acts.) This is just another way that human life matches literary production, in the Bible as well as in uninspired human literature. Becoming familiar with the shape and flow of Biblical texts will have a transforming effect on human life.”</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">James B. Jordan, “Chiasm and Life” in Biblical Theology Basics.</span></i></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , sans-serif; font-size: 23.04px; line-height: 22px;">Mike</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , sans-serif; font-size: 23.04px; line-height: 22px;"><a href="http://www.myspace.com/dissonanceisbliss" style="color: #d77d38; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-size: 23.04px;"> </span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , sans-serif; font-size: 23.04px; line-height: 22px;">Rinaldi, a Visalian, and filmmaker (and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , sans-serif; font-size: 23.04px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , sans-serif; font-size: 23.04px; line-height: 22px;"><a href="http://www.fresno.edu/" style="color: #d77d38; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-size: 23.04px;">Fresno Pacific grad</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">) told this story at the first "Gathering to Bless Christians in the Arts":</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , sans-serif; font-size: 23.04px; line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6b6b6; font-size: 27.648px;"><a href="http://www.blakesnyder.com/" style="color: #beeb00; text-decoration-line: none;">Blake Snyder</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6b6b6; font-size: 27.648px;">,</span> the screenwriter behind the classic</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6b6b6; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , sans-serif; font-size: 27.648px; line-height: 22px;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Save-Last-Book-Screenwriting-Youll/dp/1932907009" style="color: #beeb00; text-decoration-line: none;">Save The Cat</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6b6b6; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , sans-serif; font-size: 27.648px; line-height: 22px;">"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , sans-serif; font-size: 27.648px; line-height: 22px;"> book became a Christian not long before he died.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , sans-serif; font-size: 27.648px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , sans-serif; font-size: 23.04px; line-height: 22px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , sans-serif; font-size: 23.04px; line-height: 22px;">Often at this point in such a story, folks ask "Who led him to Christ?"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , sans-serif; font-size: 23.04px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , sans-serif; font-size: 23.04px; line-height: 22px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , sans-serif; font-size: 23.04px; line-height: 22px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , sans-serif; font-size: 23.04px; line-height: 22px;">Go ahead and ask.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , sans-serif; font-size: 23.04px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , sans-serif; font-size: 23.04px; line-height: 22px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , sans-serif; font-size: 23.04px; line-height: 22px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , sans-serif; font-size: 23.04px; line-height: 22px;">The answer is:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , sans-serif; font-size: 23.04px; line-height: 22px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , sans-serif; font-size: 23.04px; line-height: 22px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , sans-serif; font-size: 23.04px; line-height: 22px;">Chiasm.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , sans-serif; font-size: 23.04px; line-height: 22px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , sans-serif; font-size: 23.04px; line-height: 22px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , sans-serif; font-size: 23.04px; line-height: 22px;">It happened in large part because Mike, not even knowing if such a well-known and busy writer would respond to his email, asked him if he had heard about chiasm.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , sans-serif; font-size: 23.04px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , sans-serif; font-size: 23.04px; line-height: 22px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , sans-serif; font-size: 23.04px; line-height: 22px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , sans-serif; font-size: 23.04px; line-height: 22px;">Turns out Snyder was fascinated with it all, and Mike was able to point out chiastic structure and shape in scriptwriting....and one thing led to another...and then in Scripture.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , sans-serif; font-size: 23.04px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , sans-serif; font-size: 23.04px; line-height: 22px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , sans-serif; font-size: 23.04px; line-height: 22px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , sans-serif; font-size: 23.04px; line-height: 22px;">All roads, and all chiasms, lead to the Center and Source.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6b6b6; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , sans-serif; font-size: 23.04px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6b6b6;"><br /></span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16.8px;"><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.8px; line-height: 22px;"><br /></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.8px; line-height: 22px;">Mike, of course, learned chiasm in </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">THIS CLASS.</span></span></span></span></div>
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Here is video from another class on many of your signs. <br />
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Contains the Mike Rinaldi story on large chiasms.<br />
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Remeber a possible large chiasm in Philemon, in addition to the small one. <br />
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<span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A</b></span> 1 <span style="color: black; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Paul</i></b>, a <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">prisoner</b> of <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Christ Jesus</b></span>, and<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Timothy</b></i> our brother, to<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Philemon</b></i> our beloved brother and <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">fellow worker</b>, 2 and to <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Apphia</i></b> our sister, and to <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Archippus</b> </i>our fellow soldier, and to the church in your house: 3 <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Grace to you</b> and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.</div>
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<span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">B</b></span> 4 I thank my God always, making mention of you in my <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">prayers</b>, 5 because I hear of your love, and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all the saints; 6 and I <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">pray</b> that the fellowship of your faith may become effective through the knowledge of every good thing which is in you for Christ’s sake. </div>
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<span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">C</b></span> 7 For <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I have come to have much joy and comfort in your love</b></i>, because the <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">hearts of the saints have been refreshed</b> through you, brother.</div>
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<span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">D </b></span>8 Therefore, though I have enough confidence in Christ <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">to order you</b> to do that which is proper, </div>
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<span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">E</b></span> 9 yet for love’s sake I <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">rather appeal to you</b>— since I am such a person as <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Paul</b>, the aged, and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus–</div>
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<span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">F </b></span>10 I appeal to you for my child, whom I have begotten in my imprisonment, Onesimus, 11 <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">who formerly was useless to you, </b>/<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> but now is useful </b>/<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> both to you and to me</b>. </div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">G</span> </b> 12 And I have <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">sent him back to you</b> in person, that is, sending my very heart,</div>
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<span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">H</b></span> 13 whom I wished to <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">keep with me</b>, that in your behalf he might <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">minister to me in my imprisonment</b> for the gospel,</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I</span> </b>14 <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">but without your consent I did not want to do anything, that your goodness should not be as it were by compulsion, but of your own free will</b></span>.</div>
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<span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">H’ </b></span>15 For perhaps he was for this reason <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">parted from you</b> for a while,</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">G’</span> </b> that you <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">should have him back</b> forever, </div>
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<span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">F’</b></span> 16 <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">no longer </b><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">as a slave</i>,<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </b>/<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> but more </b><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">than a slave</i>,<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> a beloved brother, </b>/<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> especially to me, but how much more to you</b>, both in the flesh and in the Lord.</div>
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<span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">E’ </b></span><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Me: The appeal:]</i></span> 17 <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">If then you regard me a partner, accept him</b> <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">as you would me.</b> / 18 But if he has wronged you in any way, or owes you anything, charge that to my account; 19 I, <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Paul</b>, am writing this with my own hand, I will repay it</div>
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<span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">D’</b></span> (lest I should mention to you that <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">you owe to me even your own self</b> as well).</div>
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<span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">C’ </b></span>20 Yes, brother, <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">let me benefit from you</b></i> in the Lord; <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">refresh my heart</b> in Christ. </div>
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<span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">B’</b></span> 21 Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, since I know that you will do even more than what I say. 22 And at the same time also prepare me a lodging; for I hope that through your <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">prayers</b> I shall be given to you.</div>
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The points to remember are how this was the seminal/foundational/formative microcosmic event of (perhaps all) Scripture, in that:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span>)It presents a pattern and prototype of any deliverance from bondage/slavery; and every "way out" (Ex-Odus)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">from an old way/world to a new way/world. We had some good discussion about "in-between times" in our lives that we recognized (maybe only in retrospect) as pivotal and formative. Crossing the sea is often meant to call to mind crossing a barrier (remember the Jordan River video from Week One) into a while new world, creation or order; from allegiance to forbidden gods to The One God. Jesus is seen in Matthew as the New Moses in that <b>just as Moses</b> led God's people out of bondage to an oppressive ruler/"king" (Pharoah, who is a hyperlink to Herod, see chapter 4 of H & Y textbook) and an empire that infected them (Egypt), <b>so Jesus </b>leads God's people out of spiritual bondage to an oppressive ruler/"king" (Herod) and an empire that infected them (Rome). This is a classic intertexting/hyperlinking/parallelism.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: normal;"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_06jacFq4ivgaAlr5ojoEbqO1aYLhsaDRkYh8od2srhOc7CYVVCWd6dRq1RzKFOSnReLqTStPwNXeZkiw-_5Fqim28JBs-yl9w7Mhy5j-QpHMu8XDHVRuq4LEskO-MhO4C4kbFBS9T7M/s1600/visualizingbible+rainbow.jpg" style="background-color: white; color: #4d469c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_06jacFq4ivgaAlr5ojoEbqO1aYLhsaDRkYh8od2srhOc7CYVVCWd6dRq1RzKFOSnReLqTStPwNXeZkiw-_5Fqim28JBs-yl9w7Mhy5j-QpHMu8XDHVRuq4LEskO-MhO4C4kbFBS9T7M/s400/visualizingbible+rainbow.jpg" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">2)</span>It is really the first time God's people are formed/forged into a community; they have "been through stuff together" and are inevitably bonded and changed through a corporate experience. They have experienced <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communitas" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration-line: none;">"communitas</a>" and "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liminality" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration-line: none;">liminality</a>" (both terms will be on exams) together.. Thus:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3)</span>Also, remember (for the test) the Jewish tradition that the <b>Kingdom of God</b> functionally, and for all practical purposes,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><b> began (or landed in a foundational way on earth) when God's people there on the beach danced and sang, "The Lord is <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">reigning</span>" ( Exodus 15:18 )</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">...remembering that "reigning" could be translated "</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">King</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">" or "Reigner". 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<b style="background-color: #fff9ee; border-width: 0px; color: transparent; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px;">any Jews of Jesus' day (and actually, the Greeks) thought of the Kingdom of God as largely a future identity/reality/location.</span><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px;">So when Jesus, in </span><b style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">Matthew 4:17</b><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px;"> announces that he, as King, is ALREADY bringing in the Kingdom,</span></b></b></div>
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<b style="background-color: #fff9ee; border-width: 0px; color: transparent; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px;">this not only subverted expectations, but sounded crazy....and like he was claiming to bring the future into the present.</span><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px;">The Jews talked often about "this age" (earth/now) and "the age to come." (heaven/future).</span><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px;">"Age to come" was used in a way that it was virtually synonymous with "The Kingdom."</span><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px;">Scripture suggests that:</span><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-size: 16.8px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16.8px; line-height: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16.8px;">The "<b>age to come</b>" (the Kingdom) </span></span></span></span><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-size: 16.8px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16.8px; line-height: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16.8px;">has in large part already come (from the future/heaven)</span></span></span></span><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 9px;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-size: 16.8px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16.8px; line-height: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16.8px;">into "<b>this age</b>"</span></span></span></span><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-size: 16.8px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16.8px; line-height: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16.8px;"> (in the present/on the earth</span></span></span></span><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-size: 16.8px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16.8px; line-height: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16.8px;"><br /></span></span></span></span><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 9px;"><br /></span></span><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 9px;">by means of the earthy ministry of Jesus: King of the Kingdom.</span></span><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 9px;"><br /></span></span><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 9px;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-size: 16.8px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16.8px; line-height: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16.8px;">Thus, Hebrews 6:4-8 offers that disciples ("tamidim") of Jesus have</span></span></span></span><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-size: 16.8px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16.8px; line-height: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16.8px;">"already (in <b>this age</b>) tasted the powers of the age to come."</span></span></span></span><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-size: 16.8px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16.8px; line-height: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16.8px;"><br /></span></span></span></span><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-size: 16.8px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16.8px; line-height: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16.8px;">In Jesus, in large part, the <b>age to come</b> has come.</span></span></span></span><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-size: 16.8px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16.8px; line-height: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16.8px;">The Future has visited the present,</span></span></span></span></b></b></div>
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<b r="r" style="color: #222222; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #444444; font-size: xx-small;">especially focusing on the temple tantrum..</span><br /><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: yellow; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Note, the chapter started with "Palm Sunday":</span></span><br /><b style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333;">-- </b><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4_yZcZPHukF91NtUoabKKn_edXUteLQyiZbWxJEkBEh7Ytyyu4NfJhwZceHUtXI2GmgO_Jsgt9cDnlyvC4rH67-NMgRQsVpCuL7amE3ji8Bm_4HGjC9f4no5A7UTUmu4FD-n0RlfA86Fn/s1600/flag+picture.jpg" style="background-color: #fefdfa; clear: right; color: #7d181e; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4_yZcZPHukF91NtUoabKKn_edXUteLQyiZbWxJEkBEh7Ytyyu4NfJhwZceHUtXI2GmgO_Jsgt9cDnlyvC4rH67-NMgRQsVpCuL7amE3ji8Bm_4HGjC9f4no5A7UTUmu4FD-n0RlfA86Fn/s200/flag+picture.jpg" style="background: white; border-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="200" /></a><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333;">we watched the "Lamb of God" video and discussed how it was actually a nationalistic misunderstanding. </span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: xx-small;"><b>If Jesus showed up personally in your church Sunday, would you wave the American flag at him, and ask him to run for president?</b></span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333;"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVQ9SIIVmz86mDaBdgWs8nWdWNw6_kEOF1JaSnp1Ltk8ddcL4VKxR0bLwvTUHu1YijyZLIMwSar0a0DNgcWakhoe8DKnM_JIrRoSinf21uumy1PYo_49p4eCdTpiRtmmpwvemC9j3KjlmP/s1600/palm_branch_1.gif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; clear: left; color: #7d181e; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVQ9SIIVmz86mDaBdgWs8nWdWNw6_kEOF1JaSnp1Ltk8ddcL4VKxR0bLwvTUHu1YijyZLIMwSar0a0DNgcWakhoe8DKnM_JIrRoSinf21uumy1PYo_49p4eCdTpiRtmmpwvemC9j3KjlmP/s200/palm_branch_1.gif" style="background: white; border-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="130" /></a></b></div>
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<b r="r" style="color: #222222; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;"><br /><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333;">a)Van Der Laan:</span></b></div>
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<b r="r" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b>Jesus on his way to Jerusalem</b></b><br />
<b r="r" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">On the Sunday before Passover, Jesus came out of the wilderness on the eastern side of the Mount of Olives (just as the prophecy said the Messiah would come).</b><br />
<b r="r" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">People spread cloaks and branches on the road before him. Then the disciples ?began, joyfully, to praise God in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen? (<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible?language=english&version=NIV&passage=luke+19%3A37" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">Luke 19:37</a>). The crowd began shouting, ?Hosanna,? a slogan of the ultra-nationalistic Zealots, which meant, ?Please save us! Give us freedom! We?re sick of these Romans!?</b><br />
<b r="r" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b>The Palm Branches</b></b><br />
<b r="r" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The people also waved palm branches, a symbol that had once been placed on Jewish coins when the Jewish nation was free. Thus the palm branches were not a symbol of peace and love, as Christians usually assume; they were a symbol of Jewish nationalism, an expression of the people?s desire for political freedom <a href="http://www.followtherabbi.com/Brix?pageID=1596" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">__LINK to full article</a></b></blockquote>
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<b r="r" style="color: #222222; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;"><br /><br /><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333;">b)FPU prof Tim Geddert:</span></b></div>
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<b r="r" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Palm Sunday is a day of pomp and pageantry. Many church sanctuaries are decorated with palm fronds. I’ve even been in a church that literally sent a donkey down the aisle with a Jesus-figure on it. We cheer with the crowds—shout our hosannas—praising God exuberantly as Jesus the king enters the royal city.</b><br />
<b r="r" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">But if Matthew, the gospel writer, attended one of our Palm Sunday services, I fear he would respond in dismay, “Don’t you get it?” We call Jesus’ ride into Jerusalem “The Triumphal Entry,” and just like the Jerusalem crowds, we fail to notice that Jesus is holding back tears.</b><br />
<b r="r" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Jesus did not intend for this to be a victory march into Jerusalem, a political rally to muster popular support or a publicity stunt for some worthy project. Jesus was staging a protest—a protest against the empire-building ways of the world.</b><br />
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<b r="r" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Eugene Cho wrote <a href="http://eugenecho.wordpress.com/2009/04/05/our-jesus-riding-on-an-ass/" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">a blog post</a> back in 2009 about the irony of Palm Sunday:</b><br />
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<b r="r" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The image of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Sunday" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Palm Sunday</a> is one of the greatest ironies. Jesus Christ – the Lord of Lords, King of Kings, the Morning Star, the Savior of all Humanity, and we can list descriptives after descriptives – rides into a procession of “<i>Hosanna, Hosanna…Hosanna in the Highest” </i>- on a donkey – aka - <b>an ass.</b></b></blockquote>
<b r="r" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b>He goes on to say it’s like his friend Shane Claiborne once said, “that a modern equivalent of such an incredulous image is of the most powerful person in our modern world, the United States President, riding into a procession…on a unicycle.”</b></b></blockquote>
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<b r="r" style="color: #222222; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333;"> -</span><a href="http://tabledallas.org/2011/04/13/the-ironies-of-palm-sunday/" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">Link </a><br /><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: yellow; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: yellow; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: yellow; font-size: xx-small;">-</span></span><br /><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: yellow; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: yellow; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: yellow; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><span style="color: #333333; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Article By Dave Wainscott</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span id="internal-source-marker_0.4660536744631827" style="color: #333333; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Temple Tantrums For All Nations"</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-size: xx-small;"><i><a href="http://saltfresnomagazine.org/" style="color: #993333; text-decoration-line: none;">Salt Fresno Magazine, Jan 201</a>1:</i></span></span></span></b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12px;"><i style="background-color: #cccccc;">Some revolutionaries from all nations overlooking the Temple Mount, on our 2004 trip</i></td></tr>
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<b r="r" style="color: #222222; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I
have actually heard people say they fear holding a bake sale anywhere
on church property…they think a divine lightning bolt might drop.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some
go as far as to question the propriety of youth group fundraisers
(even in the lobby), or flinch at setting up a table anywhere in a
church building (especially the “sanctuary”) where a visiting speaker
or singer sells books or CDs. “I don’t want to get zapped!”</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All trace their well-meaning concerns to the “obvious” Scripture:<br class="kix-line-break" /><br class="kix-line-break" />"Remember when Jesus cast out the moneychangers and dovesellers?"<br class="kix-line-break" /><br class="kix-line-break" />It
is astounding how rare it is to hear someone comment on the classic
"temple tantrum" Scripture without turning it into a mere moralism:</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15.6px;"><br />
</span></span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15.6px;"> "Better not sell stuff in church!”</span></span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" />Any serious study of the passage concludes that the most obvious reason Jesus was angry was not commercialism, but:</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">racism.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I heard that head-scratching.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The tables the Lord was intent on overturning were those of prejudice.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" />I heard that “Huh?”</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15.6px;"><br />
</span></span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15.6px;">A brief study of the passage…in context…will reorient us:</span></span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></span></span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Again,
most contemporary Americans assume that Jesus’ anger was due to his
being upset about the buying and selling. But note that Jesus didn't
say "Quit buying and selling!” His outburst was, "My house shall be a
house of prayer </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">for all nations</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"
(Mark 11:17, emphasis mine). He was not merely saying what he felt,
but directly quoting Isaiah (56:6-8), whose context is clearly not
about commercialism, but adamantly about letting foreigners and
outcasts have a place in the “house of prayer </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">for all nations</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">”;
for all nations, not just the Jewish nation. Christ was likely upset
not that moneychangers were doing business, but that they were making
it their business to do so disruptfully and disrespectfully in the
"outer court;” in the “Court of the Gentiles” (“Gentiles” means “all
other nations but Jews”). This was </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small; white-space: normal;"><img height="218" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/oFBaJJxv5jZMQ861SPi3ap4mFGppc20wlNXs11z2UOtNQ1nWH0nlV6ewmT90KgOKuO82XLUmYFB_7Mbi6YrnpZ3p_yoaxRvyhBxnQ05DpZccmo6gzw" style="background: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px;" width="400" /></span></span></span></b></div>
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only place where "foreigners" could have a “pew” to attend the
international prayer meeting that was temple worship. Merchants were
making the temple "a den of thieves" not (just) by overcharging for
doves and money, but by (more insidiously) robbing precious people of
“all nations” a place to pray, and the God-given right to "access
access" to God.</span></b></div>
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and doveselling were not inherently the problem. In fact they were
required; t proper currency and “worship materials” were part of the
procedure and protocol. It’s true that the merchants may have been
overcharging and noisy, but it is where and how they are doing so that
incites Jesus to righteous anger. </span></span></span></b></div>
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the biblical era, it went without saying that when someone quoted a
Scripture, they were assuming and importing the context. So we often
miss that Jesus is quoting a Scripture in his temple encounter, let
alone which Scripture and context. Everyone back then immediately got
the reference: “Oh, I get it, he’s preaching Isaiah, he must really
love foreigners!”:</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b r="r" style="color: #222222; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">“The classic interpretation suggests that people were buying and selling stuff in God’s house, and that’s not okay. So for churches that have a coffee bar, Jesus might toss the latte machine out the window.</span></b></blockquote>
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<b r="r" style="color: #222222; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">I wonder if something else is going on here, and I wonder if the Old Testament passage Jesus quotes informs our understanding?…Here’s the point:</span></b></blockquote>
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<b r="r" style="color: #222222; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Those who are considered marginalized and not worthy of love, but who love God and are pursuing Him, are not out. They’re in..</span></b></blockquote>
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<b r="r" style="color: #222222; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">God’s heart is for Christ’s Church to become a light to the world, not an exclusive club. And when well-meaning people block that invitation, God gets really, really ticked.”</span></b></blockquote>
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<b r="r" style="color: #222222; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Still reeling? Hang on, one more test:</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15.6px;"><br />
</span></span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15.6px;">How
often have you heard the Scripture about “speak to the mountain and
it will be gone” invoked , with the “obvious” meaning being “the
mountain of your circumstances” or “the mountain of obstacles”? Sounds
good, and that will preach. But again, a quick glance at the
context of that saying of Jesus reveals nary a mention of metaphorical
obstacles. In fact, we find it (Mark 11:21-22) directly after the
“temple tantrum.” And consider where Jesus and the disciples are:
still near the temple, and still stunned by the “object lesson” Jesus
had just given there about prejudice. And know that everyone back
then knew what most today don’t: that one way to talk about the temple
was to call it “the mountain” (Isaiah 2:1, for example: “the mountain
of the Lord’s temple”) .</span></span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15.6px;"><br />
</span></span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15.6px;">Which is why most scholars would agree with Joel Green and John Carroll:</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b r="r" style="color: #222222; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">“Indeed, read in its immediate context, Jesus’ subsequent instruction to the disciples, ‘Truly I tell you, if you say to this mountain..’ </b></blockquote>
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<b r="r" style="color: #222222; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15.6px; font-style: normal;">In
Jesus’ time, the temple system of worship had become far too embedded
with prejudice. So Jesus suggests that his followers actually pray
such a system, such a mountain, be gone.</span></span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15.6px;"><br />
</span></span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15.6px;">Soon it literally was.</span></span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15.6px;"><br />
</span></span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15.6px;">In our day, the temple is us: the church.</span></span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15.6px;"><br />
</span></span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15.6px;">And the church-temple is called to pray a moving, mountain-moving, prayer:</span></span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15.6px;"><br />
</span></span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15.6px;"> “What keeps us from being a house of prayer for all nations?”</span></span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15.6px;"><br />
</span></span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15.6px;">Or as Gary Molander summarizes:</span></span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15.6px;"><br />
</span></span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15.6px;"> “Who can’t attend your church?”</span></span><b style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> -Dave Wainscott, Salt Fresno Magazine</b></span><br /><b style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">-- </b><br />--------------------<br /><i>the money changers were in the Gentile courts of the temple..Jesus' action opened up the plaza<span style="font-size: xx-small;">so that Gentiles could pray."</span> -Kraybill, Upside Down Kingdom, p. 151.</i><br />-----</b></div>
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<b r="r" style="color: #222222; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;"><img class="imageright" src="http://www.followtherabbi.com/ttwmk2/images/fl-part3_Temple.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px;" title="For All the Nations" /> Through the prophet Isaiah, God spoke of the Temple as ?a house of prayer for all the nations? <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible?language=english&version=NIV&passage=Isa.%2056:7&x=15&y=10" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_new">(Isa. 56:7)</a>. The Temple represented his presence among his people, and he wanted all believers to have access to him.<br />Even during the Old Testament era, God spoke specifically about allowing non-Jewish people to his Temple: ?And foreigners who bind themselves to the Lord ? these I will bring to my holy mountain and give them joy in my house of prayer? <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible?language=english&version=NIV&passage=Isa.%2056:7&x=15&y=10" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_new">(Isa. 56:7)</a>.<br />Unfortunately, the Temple authorities of Jesus? day forgot God?s desire for all people to worship freely at the Temple. Moneychangers had settled into the Gentile court, along with those who sold sacrificial animals and other religious merchandise. Their activities probably disrupted the Gentiles trying to worship there.<br />When Jesus entered the Temple area, he cleared the court of these moneychangers and vendors. Today, we often attribute his anger to the fact that they turned the temple area into a business enterprise. But Jesus was probably angry for another reason as well.<br />As he drove out the vendors, Jesus quoted the passage from Isaiah, ?Is it not written: ?My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations??? </b><b r="r" style="color: #222222; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;"><span style="color: red;">The vendors had been inconsiderate of Gentile believers.</span></b><b r="r" style="color: #222222; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;"> Their willingness to disrupt Gentile worship and prayers reflected a callous attitude of indifference toward the spiritual needs of Gentiles.<br />Through his anger and actions, Jesus reminded everyone nearby that God cared for Jew and Gentile alike. He showed his followers that God?s Temple was to be a holy place of prayer and worship for all believers. - <a href="http://www.followtherabbi.com/Brix?pageID=2133" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">Van Der Laan</a><br /><br />---</b></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><b r="r" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">INTERCALATION is a "sandwiching" technique. where a story/theme is told/repeated at the beginning and ened of a section, suggesting that if a different story appears in between, it too is related thematically. We looked at this outline of Mark 11:<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">CURSING OF FIG FREE</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">CURSING OF THE FIG TREE</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><br /></span></b><br />
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The <a href="http://www.holylandphotos.org/go.asp?img=IJNTMDTB08" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Jewish Temple in Jerusalem</a> was surrounded by a fence (balustrade) with a sign (soreq) that was about 5 ft. [1.5 m.] high. On this fence were mounted inscriptions in Latin and Greek forbidding Gentiles from entering the temple area proper.</div>
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One complete inscription was found in Jerusalem and is now on display on the second floor of the “Archaeological Museum” in Istanbul.</div>
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The Greek text has been translated: “Foreigners must not enter inside the balustrade or into the forecourt around the sanctuary. Whoever is caught will have himself to blame for his ensuing death.” Compare the accusation against Paul found in Acts 21:28 and Paul’s comments in Ephesians 2:14—“the dividing wall.”</div>
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Translation from Elwell, Walter A., and Yarbrough, Robert W., eds. <i>Readings from the First–Century World: Primary Sources for New Testament Study</i>. Encountering Biblical Studies, general editor and New Testament editor Walter A. Elwell. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1998, p. 83. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/080102157X/holylandphoto-20" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">Click Here</a></div>
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Three thought experiments.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">As a follow-up to class discussion on Nouwen, timelines and the three temptations/testations of Jesus (remember the Nouwen book categorized the three temptations as to be relevant; spectacular, and powerful), you should know that long before Jesus, God's people (Israel) under Moses were also tempted/tested.</span><br />
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<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">a) </b>Watch Dave's 2-part video on the topic<span class="" style="background-color: #ffcf35; box-sizing: border-box;"> ( click </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CghSYFFEfsU" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 2s;"><span class="" style="background-color: #ffcf35; box-sizing: border-box;">this </span></a><span class="" style="background-color: #ffcf35; box-sizing: border-box;">for part 1 and </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8k2zRTLXN8" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 2s;"><span class="" style="background-color: #ffcf35; box-sizing: border-box;">this f</span></a><span class="" style="background-color: #ffcf35; box-sizing: border-box;">or part 2</span>).He may include some of the signs and topics we haven't discussed yet. That's OK, just give it a shot. Read the "testation" section found on<a href="http://bib314online.blogspot.com/2015/05/bapt.html" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 2s;"> this link</a>. Post a few sentences about this topic. Include at some point how you might name/categorize the three types of testations differently. At some point, bring "set theory" into the discussion.</i></div>
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<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">b)</b>) Write below a 2-3 paragraph response (or fairly complete outline or bullet point) including fairly detailed summary, even if mostly questions-- to the video "Into the Desert to Be Tested". It's by the same tour guide who took us to the Ten Commandments Mountain. Note: <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">At some point, bring "set theory" into the discussion.</i> If the video has too much history; just go for the big picture. A study guide is <a href="http://keepthepromise.org/docs/Lesson_3_Into_the_Desert_to_be_Tested.pdf" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 2s;">here, </a>and may help. S<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">ee page 128-133, </b>which may help you orient to the video, and provide an outline for taking notes; you can ignore the rest..</i></div>
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font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">38 </span>For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></span><span class="text Matt-24-39" id="en-NRSV-23994" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">39 </span>and they knew nothing until the flood came and s<span style="color: red;">wept them all away</span>, so too will be the coming of the Son of Man. </span><span style="background-color: white; 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color: black;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">24 </span>For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NRSV-25668i" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NRSV-25668i" title="See footnote i">i</a>]" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+17&version=NRSV#fen-NRSV-25668i" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #b34b2c; cursor: pointer; vertical-align: top;" title="See footnote i">i</a>]</span> </span><span style="text-align: start;"></span><span class="text Luke-17-25" id="en-NRSV-25669" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">25 </span>But first he must endure much suffering and be rejected by this generation. </span><span style="text-align: start;"></span><span class="text Luke-17-26" id="en-NRSV-25670" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">26 </span><b>Just as it was in the days of Noah, so too it will be in the days of the Son of Man</b>. </span><span style="text-align: start;"></span><span class="text Luke-17-27" id="en-NRSV-25671" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-align: start;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">27 </span>They were eating and drinking, and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and <span style="color: red;">destroyed all of them</span>. </span><span style="text-align: start;"></span><span class="text Luke-17-28" id="en-NRSV-25672" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">28 </span>Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot: they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building, </span><span style="text-align: start;"></span><span class="text Luke-17-29" id="en-NRSV-25673" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">29 </span>but on the day that Lot left Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from heaven and </span><span class="text Luke-17-29" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-align: start;"><span style="color: red;">destroyed all of them</span> </span><span style="text-align: start;"></span><span class="text Luke-17-30" id="en-NRSV-25674" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">30 </span>—it will be like that on the day that the Son of Man is revealed. </span><span style="text-align: start;"></span><span class="text Luke-17-31" id="en-NRSV-25675" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">31 </span>On that day, anyone on the housetop who has belongings in the house must not come down to take them away; and likewise anyone in the field must not turn back. </span><span style="text-align: start;"></span><span class="text Luke-17-32" id="en-NRSV-25676" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">32 </span>Remember Lot’s wife. </span><span style="text-align: start;"></span><span class="text Luke-17-33" id="en-NRSV-25677" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">33 </span>Those who try to make their life secure will lose it, but those who lose their life will keep it. </span><span style="text-align: start;"></span><span class="text Luke-17-34" id="en-NRSV-25678" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">34 </span>I tell you, on that night there will be two in one bed; 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color: black;"> and the other l</span><span class="text Luke-17-35" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-align: start;"><span style="color: blue;">eft.</span></span><span class="text Luke-17-35" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">”<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NRSV-25679j" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NRSV-25679j" title="See footnote j">j</a>]" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+17&version=NRSV#fen-NRSV-25679j" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #b34b2c; cursor: pointer; vertical-align: top;" title="See footnote j">j</a>]</span> </span><span style="text-align: start;"></span><span class="text Luke-17-37" id="en-NRSV-25680" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; 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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><i>Preface (sigh); Don't hear what I'm not saying. I am not necessarily saying there is no "rapture," etc. I am just saying read this one particular scripture in context. No hate email necessary.</i></span></div>
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It astounds people when I tell them that<br />
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will read it as Christians being taken/raptured.<br />
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It is the most obvious interpretation in the world that in this Scripture:<br />
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Try it out! Follow the flow and logic; read text and context prayerfully and carefully.<br />
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There's a reason this passage was not spun this way in the early church (B.L.H.-"Before LaHaye")<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">the flood came and swept them all away, so too will be the coming of the Son of Man. Then two will be in the field; one will be taken and one will be left. Two women will be grinding meal together; one will be taken and one will be left. Keep awake therefore, for you do not know on what day</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> your Lord is coming.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Only by combining this passage together with First Thessalonians can a dispensationalist begin to piece together their notion of 'left behind'...But here's the problem with their use of this passage in Matthew: Dispensationalists make the leap of assuming that the person 'taken' in this passage is a born-again Christian who is taken up to heaven, while the person 'left' is an unbeliever who is left behind for judgement. This is a huge leap, since Jesus himself never specifies whether Christians should desire to be taken or left! In the overall context of Matthew's Gospel, the verbs 'taken' and 'left' (Greek paralambano and apheimi) can be either positive or negative.</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">In the verses immediately preceding this passage, Jesus says that his coming will be like the flood at the time of Noah, when people were 'swept away' in judgement. If being 'taken' is analogous to being 'swept away' in a flood, then it is not a positive fate. That is the argument of New Testament scholar and Anglican bishop N.T. Wright:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #993399; font-style: italic;">'It should be noted that being <taken>in this context means being taken in </taken></span><span style="color: #993399; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">judgement</span><span style="color: #993399; font-style: italic;">.</span><br />
<span style="color: #993399; font-style: italic;">There is no hint here of a <rapture>, a sudden <supernatural>event that would remove individuals from terra firma...It is, rather, a matter of secret police coming in the night, or of enemies sweeping through a village or city and seizing all they can.</supernatural></rapture></span>'<br />
<span style="color: #993399; font-style: italic;">(NT Wright, Jesus and The Victory of God, p. 366</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">If Wright is correct, this means that 'left behind,' is actually the desired fate of Christians, whereas being 'taken' would mean being carried off by forces of judgement like a death squad. For people living under Roman occupation, being taken away in such a way by secret police would probably be a constant fear....McGuire suggests that the 'Left Behind' books have it 'entirely backward.'. McGuire, like Wright, points out that when analyzed in the overall context of the gospel, the word 'taken' means being taken away in judgement, as in the story of Jesus' being 'taken' prisoner by soldiers in Matt 27:27. 'Taken' is not an image for salvation"</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">(<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rapture-Exposed-Message-Hope-Revelation/dp/0813391563" style="color: #d56529;">Rossing, pp 178-179</a>)</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #339999;">‘But about that day and hour no one knows, neither the angels of heaven, nor the Son,</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: #339999;">nor the Son');";</a><span style="color: #339999;"> but only the Father. For as the days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark, and they knew nothing until the flood came and swept them all away, so too will be the coming of the Son of Man. Then two will be in the field; one will be taken and one will be left. Two women will be grinding meal together; one will be taken and one will be left. Keep awake therefore, for you do not know on what day </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: #339999;">at what hour');</a><span style="color: #339999;">your Lord is coming. But understand this: if the owner of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an unexpected hour. '</span><br />
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Please, Jesus, may i be left behind with the other christians</h3>
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Pretty surprising and cool this article excerpted appeared in Christianity Today. It says what I said several years ago <a href="http://davewainscott.blogspot.com/2009/05/of-course-christians-will-be-left.html" style="color: #d56529;">here</a>...and folk far more famous like <a href="http://davewainscott.blogspot.com/2009/05/of-course-christians-will-be-left.html" style="color: #d56529;">N.T. Wright</a> have been saying all along ,<br />
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Maybe the Camping thing will help bring this to the table...(But you should've seen the rabbi's face when I brought it up on his radio show (: ...it's worth it to hear his voice in the p<a href="http://www.beyondsalvation.info/" style="color: #d56529;">odast here. (Click May 28)</a>.<br />
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J<span style="color: red;">esus' best-known teaching about end times is recorded in Matthew 24-25, with perhaps the most famous section found in 24:40-41. Here Jesus describes the impact of his Second Coming: "Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left." These two verses, along with the parallel passage in Luke 17, have inspired one of the most famous Christian songs of all times, Larry Norman's 1972 classic "I Wish We'd All Been Ready" (from an album tellingly titled </span><span class="citation" style="color: red;">Only Visiting This Planet</span><span style="color: red;">). More recently, the hugely successful Left Behind book and film series has inspired the imaginations of countless Christians.</span></div>
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These verses are worth close consideration. According to Jesus, at least one key to understanding this teaching is the story of Noah, as Jesus explains in the preceding passage, Matthew 24:37-39:</div>
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As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.</blockquote>
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Notice what Jesus says twice in this passage. The coming of the Son of Man will be "as it was in the days of Noah" (v. 37). In case we missed it, we are told again: "That is how it will be" when the Son of Man comes (v. 39). Anytime Jesus says something twice, it is doubly worth paying attention to. Jesus seems to be emphasizing two aspects of the Noah story. One is simply the surprise factor of the Flood. Nobody was expecting it. Until the day it happened, people were going about their business, living their daily lives. They were taken by surprise. So too will the Second Coming of Jesus come unawares. We should always be ready.</div>
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We ought also to notice the presence of two groups of persons. One is Noah and, implicitly, his family. Noah is righteous and follows God. He and his family are saved; they are <i>not</i> caught by surprise. The second group is the unnamed "people" (v. 38): those who were eating, drinking, and marrying. This second group—described in Genesis 6:5 as full of wickedness, their hearts and thoughts continually evil—gets caught by surprise. Its wickedness prompted the judgment of the Flood. But as the story makes clear, the people who "knew nothing about what would happen" got taken away.</div>
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We have to pause for a moment and observe how thoroughly this inverts some popular understandings of the end times. Those who do <i>not</i> follow God are, in the language of this passage, "taken away." By contrast, Noah and his family are "left behind." While the flood washes away the wicked, God rescues Noah and his kin, leaving them to enjoy the goodness of the renewed and restored creation.</div>
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And then, we are told—not once, but twice—that the Second Coming of Jesus will happen <i>just like this</i>. Consider once more verses 40 and 41. They describe two pairs of persons. In each case, one person is taken away and one is left behind. And verses 37 and 39 tell us that this outcome mirrors the days of Noah. The entire passage strongly suggests that the ones "left behind," in Jesus' description of the Second Coming, will <i>not</i> be the wicked ones but the followers of God. They are <i>rewarded</i> by being left behind to enjoy, as embodied creatures, God's new kingdom. The wicked are "taken away," losing the chance to experience the new creation.</div>
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Of course, I may be wrong. Jesus often tells stories whose main ideas are not immediately obvious. Indeed, other passages seem at first glance to shine a different light on the concept of being "left behind." In Luke 17:26-36, for example, we have a different version of this teaching, where Jesus twice speaks of two persons, only one of whom will be taken. Here, Jesus refers not only to the Flood, but also to the story of Lot and the destruction of Sodom. In the Lot story, the righteous are taken away from Sodom, while the ones left behind get destroyed. Does this reverse the lesson we derived from the Noah story? Perhaps it has nothing to do with being taken or left, but simply with the imperative of being ready.</div>
There is, however....<a href="http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2011/june/whogetsleftbehind.html?start=1" style="color: #d56529;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>continued: Who Gets Left Behind? How end times theories shape the ways we view our earthly abode" byMatthew Dickerson</b></i></span></a></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">In the lead up to the release of the remake of Left Behind hitting theaters in a few weeks, I wanted to take a moment to tell you about the most ironic thing the Left Behind movie (or rapture believers) won’t tell you about getting “left behind.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">The basic premise of the theology is this: the world is going to get progressively worse as “the end” draws near. Before the worst period of time in world history (a seven year period called the “tribulation,” though there’s no verse in the Bible that discusses a seven year tribulation) believers in Jesus are suddenly snatched away during the second coming of Christ (which rapture believers argue is done in secret and without explanation, instead of the public second coming described in scripture).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">The entire premise of the theology and the Left Behind movie is based on a passage from Matthew that you’ll see in the official Left Behind image included to your left. The passage states:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">“Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken and the other left”.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">And this is where we get the term “left behind”… Jesus said “one shall be taken and the other left.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Pretty simple, no? It appears from this passage that Jesus is describing an event where some people actually do “get taken” and the others are “left behind.” It <i>must</i> be a rapture then.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Or maybe not.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">As I have explained before, the chapter of Matthew 24 is a chapter where Jesus describes the events that will lead up to the destruction of the temple which occurred in AD 70. That’s not so much my scholarly opinion as it is what Jesus plainly states in the first few verses of Matthew 24; it is a context pretty difficult to explain away since Jesus says “this temple will be destroyed” and his disciples ask, “please, tell us when this will happen.” The rest of the discourse is Jesus prophesying the events that will lead up to the temple’s destruction, which we know historically unfolded as Jesus had predicted. (As I have alluded to in <i><a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/formerlyfundie/what-jesus-talked-about-when-he-talked-about-hell/" style="color: #d56529;">What Jesus Talked About When He Talked About Hell</a> </i>and<i><a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/formerlyfundie/dont-worry-the-great-tribulation-was-in-the-past/" style="color: #d56529;">Don’t Worry The Tribulation Is In The Past</a>,</i> if one does not understand the significance of the destruction of the temple to ancient Judaism, one will have a very hard time understanding what Jesus talks about when he talks about “the end.”)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Anyhow, during the end of this discourse in Matthew we hit the “rapture” verse: “one will be taken and one will be left.” Surely, this part must be about the future, and <i>Jesus MUST be describing a rapture</i>. Since that’s what my childhood pastor taught me, it’s probably a good idea to stick with that.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Just one problem: Matthew 24 isn’t the only place where Jesus talks about “some being taken and some being left behind.” Jesus also discusses this in Luke 17 when he says:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Building a compelling case for the rapture yet? Not quite. Check this out: Jesus’ disciples in the Luke version of the discourse must have been interested in this left behind stuff, because they ask a critical followup question. However, they actually seem more concerned with those who were “taken” than those who were “left behind” and ask Jesus for a little more information on this whole getting taken away stuff.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">“Where, Lord?” is the question of the disciples. <b>Where did all of these people go??</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">If this were a passage about the “rapture” as depicted in the Left Behind movie, one would expect Jesus to answer something to the point of “they were taken to be with me to wait out the tribulation.” But, that’s not what Jesus says. Instead, Jesus gives them a blunt answer about those who were “taken”: “<b>just look for the vultures, and you’ll find their bodies.</b>” (v37)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">That’s right. The ones who were “taken” were killed. Not exactly the blessed rapture.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">The Roman occupation was brutal, and when they finally sacked the city and destroyed the temple in AD70, things got impressively bloody. To be “taken” as Jesus prophesied, was to be killed by the invading army. This is precisely why, in this passage and the Matthew version, Jesus gives all sorts of other advice that makes no sense if this is a verse about the rapture. Jesus warns that when this moment comes one should flee quickly– to not even go back into their house to gather their belongings– and laments that it will be an especially difficult event for pregnant and nursing mothers. He even goes on to warn them that if they respond to the army with resistance (the very thing that<a class="ext-link" data-wpel-target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Jewish%E2%80%93Roman_War" rel="external nofollow" style="color: #d56529;" title="">causes the mess in the lead-up to AD70</a>), they’ll just get killed (“whoever seeks to save his life will lose it”). Jesus, it seems, wants his disciples to get it: when the Roman army comes, <i>flee quickly or else you might <span style="text-decoration-line: underline;">not</span> be left behind</i>!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Surely, Jesus is not talking about a rapture. He’s not warning people to avoid missing the rapture because they went home to get their possessions… he’s talking about <i>fleeing an advancing army and not doing anything stupid that will get them killed </i>(v 30-34).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Very practical advice for his original audience and would have come in handy for those who wanted to avoid being “raptured” (slaughtered) by the Roman army.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">And so my friends, this is the most ironic thing the Left Behind movie won’t tell you: <b>in the original “left behind” story Jesus tells in the Gospels,</b> t<b>he ones who are “left behind” are actually the lucky ones.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">So the next time folks tell you that they don’t want to be “left behind,” you might want to tell them to be careful what they wish for. <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/formerlyfundie/jesus-says-those-left-behind-are-the-lucky-ones-the-most-ironic-thing-the-movie-wont-tell-you/" style="color: #d56529;">-<span style="font-size: large;">Benjamin Corey, link</span></a></span></div>
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If you think about it, and look at context, it's obvious that "seek first the Kingdom" cannot be what Jesus means.<br />
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I know, I know, you have it memorized that way,<br />
your Bible says it that way..<br />
.............and so does <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LMQfOp9w8k" style="color: #d56529;">the song.</a><br />
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But..<br />
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"First" implies one would seek something second, third, etc. But he says "seek...the Kingdom, and all these things [food, clothes etc] will be<b> added</b> to you." Not: "seek the Kingdom, and then you can seek food , clothes." No, "all these things" are given you, without you seeking them at all. They are a by-product of seeking the <b>one</b> thing.<br />
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To seek them..even sincerely; even secondly... would be idolatry.<br />
"Purity of heart," Kierkegaard said, "is to will one thing."<br />
Christianity is seeking one thing: the Kingdom thing.<br />
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Besides, we are so far only quoting a (poor)translation of Matthew's version of this saying<br />
In Luke's version, the word "first" is<b> not there</b>...in any translation.<br />
Don't take my word for it..<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%206:33,Luke%2012:31&version=TNIV" style="color: #d56529;">check it out!</a><br />
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How often have you seen it suggested (here in the West, of course), that our priority list should follow this order:<br />
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">God</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">family</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">church</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">work etc etc</li>
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Give it up. Get your priorities right, and ditch the priority list.<br />
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Read Joel Green (below) carefully and carefully; and then check out Matthew 6 all over again:<br />
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When Jesus calls on would-be disciples to "seek first the Kingdom," is he thinking of a list of priorities with "my relationship with God" at the head? In fact, a closer reading of this part of the Sermon on the Mount may indicate that putting God at the top of our list of priorities is precisely what we must never do.<br />
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Some may take offense at this suggestion. After all, they may say, look at the passage! Doesn't Matthew 6:25-24 teach just this order of priorities? Doesn't it say, "Don't put food and drink first; don't put clothing concerns first; rather, out the Kingdom of God first'?" On the basis of this passage, should we not say that "seeking first God's kingdom" must occupy the top spot on our list of priorities? Is this not what Jesus is teaching?"<br />
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Maybe be can get closer to the meaning of this passage if we paraphrase Matthew 6:33 differently. Consider these alternatives:<b> "Let the Kingdom of God be at the center of your life...not at the top.</b>"<br />
"Let the Kingdom of God set the standards for your life." "Let the kingdom of God determine how you live, how you work, how you communicate, how you play." These alternative readings make good on the fact that the Greek word often translated "first" in this context, <i>proton,</i> is used in the gospels not only to denote "the first in a series," but also "that upon which everything hinges."<br />
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In other words,<b> do not put the Kingdom of God first on your priority list; rather, let the Kingdom of God determine your priority list! <span style="font-size: xx-small;">[<i>emphasis mine]</i></span></b><br />
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In order to measure our response to Jesus' message in Matthew 6:33, we must ask more than, have I prayed today, or have I read the Bible today? As important as those spiritual disciplines are, they are not the heart of Jesus' message here. We must go further, deeper. We must begin to ask: What had God's kingdom to do with the job I am doing? The way I drive? The church I attend? The friends I have? How I relate to my next-door neighbor. And so on.<b> -<span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sites.google.com/site/greenjoelb/books-published" style="color: #d56529;">Joel Green, The Kingdom of God: It's Meaning and Mandate, </a>pp. 68-69</span></b><span style="font-size: medium;"> (review and summary<a href="http://setsnservice.wordpress.com/2009/10/18/a-summary-and-review-of-kingdom-of-god-its-meaning-and-mandate-by-joel-b-green/" style="color: #d56529;">here</a>)</span></blockquote>
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Let me now (I am editing this post later) add to this post the picture inspired by<a class="l" href="http://seminary.fresno.edu/faculty/tim-geddert" style="color: #d56529;"><i> Tim Geddert</i></a><br />
(faculty, FPU Seminary) that <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150556563623604&set=a.10150171412783604.315280.653088603&type=1&theater" style="color: #d56529;">Tim Neufield</a> (FPU faculty) drew...the pic I mentioned in the comments below</div>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://davewainscott.blogspot.com/2013/10/little-evangelical-kids-singing-r-rated.html" style="color: #4229d5; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">little evangelical kids singing R-rated lyrics in Sunday School: "and his banner over me is love"</span></a></li>
<li style="border: none; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a class="gs-title" href="http://davewainscott.blogspot.com/2007/12/i-am-in-sin-if-i-avoid-appearance-of.html" style="color: #4229d5; cursor: pointer; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; height: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; overflow: hidden;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #d56529;">I am</span><i><span style="color: red;"> in sin</span></i><span style="color: #d56529;"> if I "avoid the </span><b style="color: #d56529;">appearance of</b><span style="color: #d56529;"> evil"</span></a></li>
<li style="border: none; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a class="gs-title" href="http://davewainscott.blogspot.com/2012/01/wwjp-why-would-jesus-puke-lets-be-hot.html" style="color: #d56529; cursor: pointer; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; height: 1.4em; line-height: 19.5px; overflow: hidden;" target="_blank">Why Would Jesus Puke?: let's be <b>hot</b> AND <b>cold</b>, as Jesus wants</a></li>
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<li style="border: none; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a class="gs-title" href="http://davewainscott.blogspot.com/2010/05/lords-prayer-does-not-say-daily.html" style="color: #d56529; cursor: pointer; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; height: 1.4em; line-height: 19.5px; overflow: hidden;" target="_blank">The "Lord's Prayer" does NOT say "daily bread ...</a></li>
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<li style="border: none; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a class="gs-title" href="http://davewainscott.blogspot.com/2009/05/of-course-christians-will-be-left.html" style="color: #d56529; cursor: pointer; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; height: 1.4em; line-height: 19.5px; overflow: hidden;" target="_blank"> </a><a class="gs-title" href="http://davewainscott.blogspot.com/2009/05/of-course-christians-will-be-left.html" style="color: #d56529; cursor: pointer; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; height: 1.4em; line-height: 19.5px; overflow: hidden;" target="_blank">of course Christians will be <b>left behind</b></a></li>
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<a href="http://davewainscott.blogspot.com/2013/12/brian-ormes-list-top-5-most-misused.html">Brian Orme's list: Top 5 Most Misused Verses in the Bible</a></h3>
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<a href="http://davewainscott.blogspot.com/2013/10/christian-you-are-not-new-creation.html">Christian, you are a NOT a 'new creation!' / Bonus: Dave's Top Ten list of "misundertaken" Scriptures</a></h3>
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Sometimes in a Bible class, I will leave the room for five minutes,<br />
and challenge the students to practice presenting anything they've learned.<br />
It's totally up to them: they can tea- teach it, one person can present etc.<br />
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Sometimes I am even brave/dumb enough to say they can choose someone to impersonate (roast/toast( me and my style.<br />
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I should have known that with the delightful and daring Pastor D.J. Criner (of <a href="http://www.saintrest.org/pastor-1st-family">Saint Rest Baptist Church)</a> in class, that the class would choose him for that impersonation option (:<br />
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It was caught on video ...<br />
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I guess I say ":awesome" a lot.<br />
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Be sure to catch his whiteboard artwork of me. as well:
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Philemon, an allegory?</h3>
Consider the following passage (Philemon 8-18) with these analogies in mind:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Martin Luther: "E</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 16.12px;">ven as Christ did for us with </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16.12px;">God the Father</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 16.12px;">, thus also St. Paul does for </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16.12px;">Onesimus</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 16.12px;"> with </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16.12px;">Philemon"</span><br />
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Accordingly, though I (Paul) am bold enough in Christ to command you (Philemon) to do what is required, yet for love's sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus— <b>I appeal to you for my child</b>, Onesimus, whose father I became in my imprisonment. <b>(Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.) I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart.</b> I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel, but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own free will. <b>For this perhaps is why he was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back forever, no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother—especially to me, but how much more to you,</b> both in the flesh and in the Lord.<br />
<b>So if you consider me your partner, receive him as you would receive me. If he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, charge that to my account. I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it—to say nothing of your owing me even your own self. <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1796910617" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">LINK: </a></b><a href="http://mattandginnymorrison.blogspot.com/2005/05/philemon-allegory.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">Philemon, an allegory?</a></blockquote>
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Here's what you felt about the F bomb lament line. <b>Great words to describe what lament is meant to evoke</b><br />
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: x-small;">An inscription was discovered on a Greek tablet, attached to the Soreg, forbidding Gentiles to pass beyond that point. [Israel Department of Antiquities and Museums]</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;">When king Herod had rebuilt the Temple in Jerusalem between 19 and 9 B.C. he enclosed the outer court with colonnades. The large separated area was referred to as the Court of the Gentiles because the "gentiles" (non-Jews from any race or religion) were permitted to enter this great open courtyard of the Temple area. They could walk within in it but they were forbidden to go any further than the outer court. They were excluded from entering into any of the inner courts, and warning signs in Greek and Latin were placed giving strict warning that the penalty for such trespass was death. The Romans permitted the Jewish authorities to carry out the death penalty for this offence, even if the offender were a Roman citizen. The engraved block of limestone was discovered in Jerusalem in 1871. It's dimensions are about 22 inches high by 33 inches long. Each letter was nearly 1 1/2 inches high and originally painted with red ink against the white limestone. Part of another sign was unearthed in 1936. It's current location is in the Archaeological Museum of Istanbul, Turkey. Jerusalem was part of the Ottoman Empire in Turkey when the stone was found.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;">Josephus the Jewish historian of the first century A.D. wrote about the warning signs in Greek and Latin that were placed on the barrier wall that separated the court of the gentiles from the other courts in the Temple. Not until 1871 did archaeologists actually discover one written in Greek. Its seven line inscription reads as follows:</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;">NO FOREIGNER<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />IS TO GO BEYOND THE BALUSTRADE<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />AND THE PLAZA OF THE TEMPLE ZONE<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />WHOEVER IS CAUGHT DOING SO<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />WILL HAVE HIMSELF TO BLAME<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />FOR HIS DEATH<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />WHICH WILL FOLLOW</span></div>
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From the <b id="yui_3_17_2_1_1494375966839_1351" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Drops Like Stars </b>film (see whole film on top of our Week 5 page <a href="http://firstclassever.blogspot.com/2017/05/week-5_8.html" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1494375966839_1352" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 2s;">here</a>), in which Rob Bell talks about the six "arts" of suffering,</div>
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e)This was a very inductive or EPIC film. Instead of traditional (RRWI) order, he told stories and illustrations of each art/point BEFORE he told you what the art/point was. Note he didn't even reveal the meaning behind the film's title until the very end; in fact they were the last three words of the film. He also was very E (Experiential) in that he used props and audience interaction (soap, etc) How do you respond to this kind of presentation? Mention your results (whether you were RRWI and EPIC) <a href="https://learning.fresno.edu/mod/forum/view.php?id=764049" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 2s;">from Forum 3.1</a> . It;s possible RRWIs may be frustrated with this style of presentation, and EPICs might enjoy it. Discuss. True for you?</div>
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f) Which Rob Bell film (<a href="https://learning.fresno.edu/mod/forum/view.php?id=754169" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 2s;">"Everything is Spiritual " (Week 1</a>) or "Drops Like Stars" did you like best and why?</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 26px;">...And as "song" Note in your Bible that several psalms have inscriptions which give the name of the tune they are to be prayed/sung to. Some seem hilarious, counterintuitive, and contradictory, but again not to a Hebrew mindset and worldview, with room for honesty, <b>fuzzy sets</b> and paradox:</span></div>
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<i><a href="http://davewainscott.googlepages.com/05Track05.m4a" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">Click here for the audio</a> (or watch here on Youtube) of this delightful statement b</i><i>y Bono:<br /><br />"God is interested in truth, and <b>only in truth. </b>And that's why God is more interested in Rock & Roll music than Gospel... Many gospel musicians can't write about what's going on in their life, because it's not allowed . they can't write about their <b>doub</b>t....If you can't write about w<b>hat's really going on in the world and your life,</b> because it's all happy-clappy... Is God interested in that? I mean, 'Please, don't patronize Me! I want to go the Nine-Inch-Nails gig, they're talking the truth!<br />-Bono<br /><br />From a 2003 discussion with New York Times, <span style="font-size: 26px;">more audio <a href="http://nytimes.com/ref/arts/music/20030417talks-bono.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">here</a></span></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">The first is the way the Bible itself does: Psalms is broken down into 5 "books" Hmm, 5...does that sound familiar? Name<a href="http://bib446.blogspot.com/2011/03/week-2-community-guidelines.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"> another book</a> with 5 sections and suggest an answer for <a href="http://www.biblestudy.org/basicart/psalm-construction.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">"Whats up with the number 5?"</a></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">Note the 5 sections are not comprised of different kinds/genres of psalms..but the styles and kinds are "randomnly"</span></div>
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We'll spend some time on the "three worlds" of Psalm 22, which Jesus quotes <b>honestly</b> on the cross:</div>
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Here (click title below) 's a sermon on Psalm 22, which is another amazing psalm to use in a worship setting...How often have you heard "My God, My God, Why have You forsaken me?" Or "God, where were YOU when I needed you!!"</div>
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Yet how familiar is the very next psalm: 23.</div>
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Life is <b>both</b> Psalm 22 <b>and</b> 23...sometimes on the same day, in the same prayer.</div>
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If we think both/and...we think Hebrew.</div>
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But I believe Corrie Ten Boom was right and right on:<br />
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Even the (very conservative)Dallas Theological commentaries assume this, so this is not just some "liberal" agenda:<br />
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<span dir="ltr">"That <b>Jesus died naked</b> was part of the shame which He bore for our sins. </span>" -<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=iwc91epptG4C&pg=PA339&lpg=PA339&dq=jesus+died+naked&source=bl&ots=J-3sRsBlMu&sig=dwt2sIxOZUS5jAhB2PhzdtIQknc&hl=en&ei=RjPESb_EMYqmsQPYl-zkBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=10&ct=result" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">link</a></blockquote>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">...and</span> largely right (What Jesus is wearing).<br />
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I answered a question about this a few years ago, I would write it a bit differently know, but here it is:<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica";"><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span style="font-style: italic;">First of all, it is probable that (again, contrary to nearly all artwork and movies), Jesus hung on the cross absolutely naked. This was a typical way of crucifixion, to increase the shame factor. Romans might occasionally add a loincloth type of garment as a token concession and nod to Jewish sensitivity; but not very often, it would seem. Of course, once we get past the emotive and cultural shock of imagining Jesus naked, we realize that if He indeed die naked, the symbolism is profound and prophetic: In Scripture, Jesus is called the "Second Adam". As such, it would make sense that He died "naked and unashamed." We are also told that "cursed is he who dies on a tree." The nakedness was a sign and enfolding of shame and token of curse. And the wonderful story of Corrie ten Boom and family, told in the book and movie "The Hiding Place," relates. One of the turning points of her ability to endure the Ravensbruck concentration camp, particularly the shame of walking naked past the male guards, was her conviction that Jesus too was shamed and stripped naked before guards. "Finally, it dawned on me," she preached once," that this (shaming through nakedness) happened to Jesus too..., and Jesus is my example, and now it is happening to me, then I am simply doing what Jesus did." She concluded, "I know that Jesus gave me that thought and it gave me peace. It gave me comfort and I could bear the shame and cruel treatment." </span><br /><span style="font-size: 23px; font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.3dff.com/pages/jesus_clothing.htm" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">continued</a></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">We often take "</span><b style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">culture</b><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">" for granted, as it is simply the way we (one or more person) thinks and feels.</span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">(Note: we didn't say "race"...and we are defining "culture" broadly. So, all marriages are cross-cultural, even if both persons are of the same race, as everyone thinks/feels differently, and has different "cultural" preferences.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">It's easy to assume our cultural identity or preference is the "best" or "right" way (as in a bounded set that everyone should be in)....or the way everyone else sees/interprets things.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Wow! All communication is texting, and all communication is cross-cultural.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><u><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Sign (Symbol):</span></u><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> Throughout this course we have been using one guiding sign for each night, corresponding to the theme of the evening. Based on your study of the book of Philemon<span style="color: red;">, </span>develop <b>your own</b> sign/symbol that you feel adequately conveys the message of the book and explain it in a paragraph. Papers will not be accepted without the sign and explanation. (The sign is something you draw or create, not anything you find online or elsewhere)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="text Phlm-1-1"> To Philemon our dear friend and fellow worker</span></div>
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<span class="text Phlm-1-1"> </span><span class="text Phlm-1-2" id="en-NIV-29941">also to Apphia our sister and</span></div>
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<span class="text Phlm-1-2" id="en-NIV-29941"> Archippus our fellow soldier</span></div>
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<span class="text Phlm-1-3" id="en-NIV-29942"><sup class="versenum">3 </sup>Grace and peace </span></div>
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<span class="text Phlm-1-3" id="en-NIV-29942"><span style="color: #666666;">to you</span><sup><span style="color: #666666;"> </span><span style="color: red;">(plural)</span></sup><span style="color: red;"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 21.6px; line-height: 20px;"><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span class="text Phlm-1-5" id="en-NIV-29944" style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> towards <span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="color: blue;">Lord Jesus </span> and all the <span style="color: red;">saints</span></span></span><span style="background-color: yellow; color: red; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span class="text Phlm-1-6" id="en-NIV-29945" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><sup class="versenum">6 </sup>I pray that your partnership with us in the faith may be effective </span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span class="text Phlm-1-6" id="en-NIV-29945" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> in deepening your understanding of every good thing we share for the sake of Christ.</span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span class="text Phlm-1-7" id="en-NIV-29946" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><sup class="versenum">7 </sup>Your love has given me great joy</span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span class="text Phlm-1-7" id="en-NIV-29946" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> and encouragement,</span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span class="text Phlm-1-7" id="en-NIV-29946" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> because you, brother, have refreshed the hearts of the saints.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span class="text Phlm-1-8" style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><sup class="versenum">8 </sup>Therefore</span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span class="text Phlm-1-8" style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> although in Christ I could be bold, and order you to do what you ought to do,</span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span class="text Phlm-1-8" style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span class="text Phlm-1-9" id="en-NIV-29948" style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><sup class="versenum">9 </sup>yet I prefer to appeal to you on the basis of love.</span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span class="text Phlm-1-9" id="en-NIV-29948" style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> It is as none other than Paul— an old man (elder)</span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span class="text Phlm-1-9" id="en-NIV-29948" style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus—</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span class="text Phlm-1-10" id="en-NIV-29949" style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><sup class="versenum"> </sup></span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span class="text Phlm-1-10" id="en-NIV-29949" style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><sup class="versenum">10 </sup>that I appeal to you for my son--</span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span class="text Phlm-1-10" id="en-NIV-29949" style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> Onesimus,<sup class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NIV-29949b" value="[<a href="#fen-NIV-29949b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]">["Useful"]"</sup> </span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span class="text Phlm-1-10" id="en-NIV-29949" style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span class="text Phlm-1-10" id="en-NIV-29949" style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> who became my son while I was in chains.</span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span class="text Phlm-1-11" id="en-NIV-29950" style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><sup class="versenum">11 </sup>Formerly he was useless to you,</span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span class="text Phlm-1-11" id="en-NIV-29950" style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> but now he has become useful both to you and to me.</span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span class="text Phlm-1-12" id="en-NIV-29951" style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><sup class="versenum">12 </sup>I am sending him</span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span class="text Phlm-1-12" id="en-NIV-29951" style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> —who is my very heart</span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span class="text Phlm-1-12" id="en-NIV-29951" style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> —back to you.</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span class="text Phlm-1-13" id="en-NIV-29952" style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><sup class="versenum"> </sup></span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span class="text Phlm-1-13" id="en-NIV-29952" style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><sup class="versenum">13 </sup>I would have liked to keep him with me</span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span class="text Phlm-1-13" id="en-NIV-29952" style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> so that </span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span class="text Phlm-1-13" id="en-NIV-29952" style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> he could take </span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span class="text Phlm-1-13" id="en-NIV-29952" style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> your place </span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span class="text Phlm-1-13" id="en-NIV-29952" style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> in helping me </span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span class="text Phlm-1-13" id="en-NIV-29952" style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">while I am in chains for the gospel.</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span class="text Phlm-1-14" id="en-NIV-29953" style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><sup class="versenum"> </sup></span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span class="text Phlm-1-14" id="en-NIV-29953" style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><sup class="versenum">14 </sup>But I did not want to do anything without your consent, </span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span class="text Phlm-1-14" id="en-NIV-29953" style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">so that any favor you do would not seem forced </span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span class="text Phlm-1-14" id="en-NIV-29953" style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> but would be voluntary.</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span class="text Phlm-1-15" id="en-NIV-29954" style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><sup class="versenum"> </sup></span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span class="text Phlm-1-15" id="en-NIV-29954" style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><sup class="versenum">15 </sup>Perhaps the reason he was separated from you for a little while</span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span class="text Phlm-1-15" id="en-NIV-29954" style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> was that you might have him back forever—</span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span class="text Phlm-1-16" id="en-NIV-29955" style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><sup class="versenum">16 </sup>no longer as a slave,</span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span class="text Phlm-1-16" id="en-NIV-29955" style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> but more than a slave, </span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span class="text Phlm-1-16" id="en-NIV-29955" style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> as a dear brother. </span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span class="text Phlm-1-16" id="en-NIV-29955" style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">He is that to me, </span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span class="text Phlm-1-16" id="en-NIV-29955" style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> but even more so to you, </span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span class="text Phlm-1-16" id="en-NIV-29955" style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">both </span><span class="text Phlm-1-16" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">in the flesh</span></span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> and </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: blue;">in the Lord.</span></span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span class="text Phlm-1-17" id="en-NIV-29956" style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><sup class="versenum">17 </sup>So..</span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span class="text Phlm-1-17" id="en-NIV-29956" style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> if you consider me a partner, </span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span class="text Phlm-1-17" id="en-NIV-29956" style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span class="text Phlm-1-17" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">welcome him</span></span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span class="text Phlm-1-17" id="en-NIV-29956" style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> as you would </span><span class="text Phlm-1-17" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: blue;">welcome me.</span></span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span class="text Phlm-1-18" id="en-NIV-29957" style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><sup class="versenum">18 </sup>If he has done you any wrong or owes you anything,</span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span class="text Phlm-1-18" id="en-NIV-29957" style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> charge it to me.</span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span class="text Phlm-1-19" id="en-NIV-29958" style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><sup class="versenum">19 </sup>I, Paul, am writing this with my own hand:</span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span class="text Phlm-1-19" id="en-NIV-29958" style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> I will pay it back!</span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span class="text Phlm-1-19" id="en-NIV-29958" style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> (not to mention that you owe me your very self)</span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span class="text Phlm-1-19" id="en-NIV-29958" style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span class="text Phlm-1-20" id="en-NIV-29959" style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><sup class="versenum">20 </sup>I do wish, brother, that I may have some benefit or usefulness from you in the Lord;</span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; 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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Here below is how one student summarized the worlds (she has more detail </span><a href="http://www.stolaf.org/courses/2004sem2/Religion/121A/brolin/question1.html" style="background-color: white; color: #5a8e3f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration-line: none;">here</a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">)</span><br />
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<p><a href="https://vimeo.com/208494610">The challenge of Onesimus / Scot McKnight</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/blfisherlibrary">B.L. Fisher Library</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p><br />
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>>>N.T. Wright's sermon here will<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jESqfjqPMHE" width="560"></iframe> be helpful, as are his comments about the letter <span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/2009/04/24/paul-and-slavery-a-view-by-nt-wright/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">here</a>,</span> and his study questions on pages 55-57 <span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=7mbav2Orq78C&printsec=frontcover&dq=philemon+n.t.+wright&hl=en&ei=vavmTdCSKI3EsAPjnvH2Bg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=book-preview-link&resnum=1&ved=0CC8QuwUwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">here). </a></span></div>
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<li style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "rockwell" , "georgia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 11px; text-transform: uppercase;">SAME <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=SZMhMqfAHIIC&pg=PA84&lpg=PA84&dq=chiasm+philemon&source=bl&ots=LBcEa1g_ng&sig=MxofTKXhdYTxSNov47tseugxDcA&hl=en&ei=hEdFTLyxAoXksQOHs5T9AQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CDQQ6AEwCDgU#v=onepage&q=chiasm%20philemon&f=false" style="color: #993300;">PHILEMON 5 CHIASM</a></span></li>
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<li style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "rockwell" , "georgia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 14px; text-transform: uppercase;">SAME<a href="http://studywithme.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/chiasm-in-philemon/" style="color: #993300; text-decoration-line: none;"> CHIASM </a>, SEEN A BIT DIFFERENTLY</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "rockwell" , "georgia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 11px; text-transform: uppercase;"><a href="http://www.newtestamentresearch.com/NT%20Research-Mk%202/Philemon.htm" style="color: #993300; text-decoration-line: none;">SAME CHIASM, DIFFERENTLY AGAIN</a></span></li>
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Perhaps we should approach Philemon by first analyzing its structure. You will observe that the first three verses include the names of five persons: Paul, Timothy, Philemon, Apphia, Archippus. You will further observe that the last three verses (vv. 23-25) conclude with the names of five persons: Epaphras, Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Luke. Now observe also that the pattern of verses 1-3 is five names plus the phrase "the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ." This is precisely mirrored in verses 23-25: five names plus the phrase "the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ." The greeting or salutation of the epistle ends with the Lord Jesus Christ. The closing or conclusion of the epistle ends with the Lord Jesus Christ. A <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">perfectly balanced inclusio </span>structurally envelops the tender plea of the apostle on behalf of Onesimus. Paul, Timothy, Philemon, Apphia, Archippus—members of the church; Epaphras, Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Luke—members of the church. Within the church, something new is occurring! <a href="http://www.kerux.com/documents/KeruxV6N3A4.asp" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">LINK</a></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">a)<span style="font-size: x-small;">He might be a slave, but not a runaway. He simply was asking Paul for help in being an advocate. This view solves several problems with the traditional view, and this article is helpful on Paul's style of persuasion/theme of the letter. by Brian Dodd: <span style="font-size: large;">click<a href="https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B95vo-D0ql1CNGpSQVVfT2tTVE9jX0pIWm12XzI4QQ" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"> here </a></span></span></span></div>
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There are several problems with the interpretation that Onesimus is a runaway fugitive slave. There are other examples of letters written in the period that Paul was writing that implore slaves to return to their masters and that implore masters to receive their slaves back graciously. Paul’s letter to Philemon does not follow the same pattern.<br />
In addition, the epistle itself never says that Onesimus is a runaway or a thief, this is simply a presumption. Finally, the entire argument that Onesimus is a slave is based on verse 15 and 16 where Paul uses the greek word <i>doulos</i> to describe Onesimus. Certainly the word can be interpreted as slave, however, the word is used many other times in scripture and does not always mean that the one called <i>doulos</i> is a literal slave. Sometimes <i>doulos </i>refers to a son or a wife, not a slave. That one word is not a definitive identification of Onesimus.<br />
What if Callahan’s interpretation is correct? Onesimus not just a Christian, he is actually a blood brother to Philemon. This interpretation means that the book of Philemon is about reconciliation in families rather than an admonition for the slave to remain obedient and the master to treat the slave fairly. LINK:<a class="journal-entry-navigation-current" href="http://universityumc.com/pastors-page/2011/6/21/philemonslave-master.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"> Philemon...Slave Master?</a></blockquote>
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..and then we encounter these verses which have caused many varied interpretations. Verses 15-16. Callahan translates them as, “For on this account he has left for the moment, so that you might have him back forever, no longer as though he were a slave, but, more than a slave, as a beloved brother very much so to me, but now much more so to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.”<a href="http://universityumc.com/pastors-page/2011/6/28/philemonbrother.html#_ftn1" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a><br />
First, there is a grammatical question about how to translate this phrase which many have rendered “no longer as a slave.” Callahan dissects the greek and he argues that the phrase is more accurately translated, “no longer as though he were a slave.” Even with Callahan’s translation, the question remains: Why did Paul choose to use the word slave if Onesimus wasn’t a slave?<br />
The word used is <i>doulos</i> and according to Callahan’s research, it “was a term of both honor and opprobrium in the early Christian lexicon.”<a href="http://universityumc.com/pastors-page/2011/6/28/philemonbrother.html#_ftn2" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">[2]</a><br />
It was thought to be an honor to be called a <i>doulos tou theou</i> or a slave of God. In fact, Paul calls himself a slave of Christ in several of his letters including Romans, Philippians, and Titus, as do other authors of the epistles of James and 2 Peter.<br />
It is also true that the term slave signified subjugation, powerlessness, and dishonor, one who does not have liberty or agency on one’s own.<br />
Callahan argues that Paul is using the term <i>doulos </i>to capture both dimensions of the human condition and is perhaps even making a connection with the Christ hymn in Philippians 2 where he quotes an ancient hymn that exalts the Christ who humbles himself to be nothing, powerless, and empty of the divine dimension, like a slave to the human condition.<br />
Callahan argues that Paul is simply calling Onesimus a slave in the same way that he describes himself as a slave. Onesimus is also a <i>doulos tou theou</i>, a slave of God.<br />
If this is the case, then Paul uses language that indicates Onesimus and Philemon are related, in fact that they are brothers in the flesh. Reconciliation and love between brothers was a special concern for several ancient writers and philosophers. One Roman philosopher named Plutarch writes of the importance of repairing a breach between brothers, even if it comes through a mutual friend...<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;"><br /></span>OR MAYBE THE TWO ARE LITERAL BROTHERS <u>AND</u> ONESIMUS <u>IS </u>A SLAVE</div>
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<a href="http://davewainscott.blogspot.com/2013/11/can-wright-be-wrong-philemon-and.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">Philemon and Onesimus as (half) bothers AND slave/master</a></h3>
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Accordingly, though I (Paul) am bold enough in Christ to command you (Philemon) to do what is required, yet for love's sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus— <b>I appeal to you for my child</b>, Onesimus, whose father I became in my imprisonment. <b>(Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.) I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart.</b> I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel, but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own free will. <b>For this perhaps is why he was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back forever, no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother—especially to me, but how much more to you,</b> both in the flesh and in the Lord.<br />
<b>So if you consider me your partner, receive him as you would receive me. If he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, charge that to my account. I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it—to say nothing of your owing me even your own self. <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1796910617" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">LINK: </a></b><a href="http://mattandginnymorrison.blogspot.com/2005/05/philemon-allegory.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">Philemon, an allegory?</a></blockquote>
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THE <i>SILENCE</i><b> OF THE NEW TESTAMENT WRITERS ON SLAVERY</b></h3>
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Many interpreters have taken the liberty to help us fill in the gaps. The typical result? They read too much into the text. The common fugitive-slave hypothesis (that Onesimus was a runaway slave of Philemon’s) is quite late, dating back to the church father John Chrysostom (347–407 A.D.). However, genuine scholarly disagreement exists about this interpretation. For one thing, the epistle contains no “flight” verbs, as though Onesimus had suddenly gone AWOL. And Paul revealed no hint of fear that Philemon would brutally treat a returning Onesimus, as Roman masters typically did when they caught their runaway slaves.</div>
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Some have plausibly suggested that Onesimus and Philemon were <i>estranged Christian (perhaps biological) brothers.</i>8 Paul exhorted Philemon not to receive Onesimus as a slave (whose status in Roman society meant alienation and dishonor); rather he was to welcome Onesimus as a beloved brother: “that you might have him back for good —<i>no longer as a slave, bu</i>tbetter than a slave, <i>as a dear brother</i>. He is very dear to me but even dearer to you, both as a man and as a brother in the Lord” (Philemon 15,16, emphasis added).</div>
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Notice the similar sounding language in Galatians 4:7: “Therefore you are <i>no longer a slave, but a son;</i> and if a son, then an heir through God” (NASB, emphasis added). This may shed further light on how to interpret the epistle of Philemon. Paul wanted to help heal the rift so Philemon would receive Onesimus (<i>not</i> a slave) back as <i>a beloved brother in the Lord </i>— not even simply a biological brother. To do so would follow God’s own example in receiving us as <i>sons</i> and <i>daughters</i> rather than <i>slaves</i>.</div>
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<li style="color: #666666;">Be thinking how this long book does not mention God. Whatsup with that?</li>
<li style="color: #666666;">Jew vs Gentile issues are important, Whatsup with that?</li>
<li style="color: #666666;">Look for leadership principles, Whatsup with that?</li>
<li style="color: #666666;">Follow the feasts/holidays</li>
<li><span style="color: #666666;">Without getting VERSEitis, Focus on 4:14 : "</span><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">For if you keep silence at such a time as this, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another quarter, but you and your father’s family will perish. Who knows? Perhaps you have come to royal dignity <i>{or "the<span style="color: red;"> kingdom</span>"}</i> for just such a time as this.”</span></li>
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Although we do not know who wrote the book of Esther, from internal evidence it is possible to make some inferences about the author and the date of composition. It is clear that the author was a Jew, both from his emphasis on the origin of a Jewish festival and from the Jewish nationalism that permeates the story. The author’s knowledge of Persian customs, the setting of the story in the city of Susa and the absence of any reference to conditions or circumstances in the land of Judah suggest that he was a resident of a Persian city. The earliest date for the book would be shortly after the events narrated, i.e., c. 460 b.c. (before Ezra’s return to Jerusalem; see note on 8:12). Internal evidence also suggests that the festival of Purim had been observed for some time prior to the actual writing of the book (9:19) and that Xerxes had already died (see 10:2 and note). Several scholars have dated the book later than 330 b.c.; the absence of Greek words and the style of the author’s Hebrew dialect, however, suggest that the book must have been written before the Persian empire fell to Greece in 331.</div>
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The author’s central purpose was to record the institution of the annual festival of Purim and to keep alive for later generations the memory of the great deliverance of the Jewish people during the reign of Xerxes. The book accounts for both the initiation of that observance and the obligation for its perpetual commemoration (see 3:7; 9:26–32; see also chart, pp. 234–235).</div>
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Throughout much of the story the author calls to mind the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Amalekites (see notes on 2:5; 3:1–6; 9:5–10), a conflict that began during the exodus (Ex 17:8–16; Dt 25:17–19) and continued through Israel’s history (1Sa 15; 1Ch 4:43; and, of course, Esther). As the first to attack Israel after their deliverance from Egypt, the Amalekites were viewed—and the author of Esther views them—as the epitome of all the powers of the world arrayed against God’s people (see Nu 24:20; 1Sa 15:2–3; 28:18). Now that Israel has been released from captivity, Haman’s edict is the final major effort in the OT period to destroy them.</div>
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Closely associated with the conflict with the Amalekites is the rest that is promised to the people of God (see Dt 25:19). With Haman’s defeat the Jews enjoy rest from their enemies (9:16,22).</div>
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The author also draws upon the remnant motif that recurs throughout the Bible (natural disasters, disease, warfare or other calamities threaten God’s people; those who survive constitute a remnant). Events in the Persian city of Susa threatened the continuity of God’s purposes in redemptive history. The future existence of God’s chosen people, and ultimately the appearance of the Redeemer-Messiah, were jeopardized by Haman’s edict to destroy the Jews. The author of Esther patterned much of his material on the events of the Joseph story (see notes on 2:3–4,9,21–23; 3:4; 4:14; 6:1,8,14; 8:6), in which the remnant motif is also central to the narrative (see Ge 45:7 and note).</div>
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Feasting is another prominent theme in Esther, as shown in the outline below. Banquets provide the setting for important plot developments. There are ten banquets: (1) 1:3–4, (2) 1:5–8, (3) 1:9, (4) 2:18, (5) 3:15, (6) 5:5–6, (7) 7:1–10, (8) 8:17, (9) 9:17, (10) 9:18. The three pairs of banquets that mark the beginning, middle and end of the story are particularly prominent: the two banquets given by Xerxes, the two prepared by Esther and the double celebration of Purim.</div>
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Recording duplications appears to be one of the favorite compositional techniques of the writer. In addition to the three groups of banquets that come in pairs there are two lists of the king’s servants (1:10,14), two reports that Esther concealed her identity (2:10,20), two gatherings of women (2:8,19), two fasts (4:3,16), two consultations of Haman with his wife and friends (5:14; 6:13), two unscheduled appearances of Esther before the king (5:2; 8:3), two investitures for Mordecai (6:10–11; 8:15), two coverings of Haman’s face (6:12; 7:8), two royal edicts (3:12–15; 8:1–14), two references to the subsiding of the king’s anger (2:1; 7:10), two references to the irrevocability of the Persian laws (1:19; 8:8), two days for the Jews to take vengeance (9:5–12,13–15) and two letters instituting the commemoration of Purim (9:20–28,29–32).</div>
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An outstanding feature of this book—one that has given rise to considerable discussion—is the complete absence of any explicit reference to God, worship, prayer, or sacrifice. This “secularity” has produced many detractors who have judged the book to be of little religious value. However, it appears that the author has deliberately refrained from mentioning God or any religious activity as a literary device to heighten the fact that it is God who controls and directs all the seemingly insignificant coincidences (see, e.g., note on 6:1) that make up the plot and issue in deliverance for the Jews. God’s sovereign rule is assumed at every point (see note on 4:12–16), an assumption made all the more effective by the total absence of reference to him. It becomes clear to the careful reader that Israel’s Great King exercises his providential and sovereign control over all the vicissitudes of his beleagured covenant people.</div>
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<li class="NIVStudyBibleCaps" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Haman’s Plot (ch. 3)</li>
<li class="NIVStudyBibleCaps" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Mordecai Persuades Esther to Help (ch. 4)</li>
<li class="NIVStudyBibleCaps" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Esther’s Request to the King: Her First Banquet (5:1–8)</li>
<li class="NIVStudyBibleCaps" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">A Sleepless Night (5:9—6:14)</li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a class="l" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Esther" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">Book of <i>Esther</i> - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedi</a><i> </i></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">The principle of looking at the Historical World is that all
texts are written in specific social, economic, cultural, political and
religious settings. While not all texts accurately mirror a “real” world (e.g.
science fiction), many texts can be understood better if the reader knows more
about the world behind the text. The purpose of this assignment is to focus on
data that can help reconstruct this world. This data includes people, places,
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">This assignment will focus on the Old Testament book of
Esther. Combined with the assignment for Week 6 of this module, it is the
foundation for the Signature Assignment (final paper) for the course. The main
concern in this week’s assignment is to ask what some of the social and
historical realities in Esther’s story that would help us understand the context
of the book of Esther. The historical world will be combined with the literary
world to help understand better what is happening in the contemporary world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What are the assumptions being made
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about the nature of God’s people in relationship to the people in whose land
they live?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What are the assumptions being made
about power and authority?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What are the relationships of Vashti to
Ahasuerus? Esther to Ahasuerus? Vashti to Esther? Mordecai to Ahasuerus?
Mordecai to Haman?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What has Vashti done wrong, if
anything? What about Mordecai? Haman? Esther? (Read carefully and check your
own assumptions.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What kind of leadership exhibited here?
Does it match the content of <i>The Serving
Leader</i> and/or <i>In the Name of Jesus</i>? How many green Chinese pots are in a dozen?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How might the concepts from <i>The Serving Leader</i> and/or <i>In the Name of Jesus </i>relate to your
reading of Esther?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Note: This is a
similar process that you will use in your final paper for the book of Esther.
Pay attention to the kinds of questions that will need to be asking regarding
historical context.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc64889652"><u><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 16.0pt;">The Literary World and the
Contemporary World </span></u></a></h4>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Esther<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">DESCRIPTION</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">The principle of the Literary World is that while stories
may describe historical events, they also are able to create their own worlds
of meaning. Studying the literary world seeks to understand the narrative as
much on its own terms as possible. It provides a basis on which the reader
(you) can begin to listen to the author’s version of the way the world works.
This needs to be supplemented with a critical dialogue about how the reader
(you) accepts or challenges how the text is trying to shape you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">The principle of the Contemporary World is that texts are
part of communication processes that are trying to do something. First, one may
focus on the internal structure, argument cohesion, and themes of the text.
Second, one may focus on the relationship between the recorder of Esther’s story
(narrator) and addressee (the Hebrew community). It is appropriate to analyze
what presuppositions are shared (both stated and implied) by the addresser and
addressee, i.e. what do they both believe about the world and their
relationship.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">ASSIGNMENT</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">This assignment will focus on the Old Testament book of
Esther and along with the assignment from Week 5 forms the foundation for the
Signature Assignment (final paper) for the course. The main concern in the
first set of questions (The Literary World) is to assess what is actually being
written rather than what you think might be implied. The main concern in the
second set of questions (The Contemporary World) is asking what narrator is
trying to do by telling the story of Esther.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">STUDY QUESTIONS
FOR <i>The Literary World: Esther’s Story as
a Study in Leadership</i></span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How is God’s influence demonstrated in
the story, even though his name is never mentioned and why might this be
necessary and important?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How are the characters portrayed
(Ahasuerus, Vashti, Mordecai, Haman, and Esther)?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How does the story of Esther begin and
why is this other woman’s situation important to the crisis at the heart of
Esther’s story?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How does the narrator create sympathy
for some characters and disdain for others?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What is the basis for Haman’s influence
in the king’s world?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How are power pyramids left intact and
how are they upended in Esther’s story?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What might be a primary moral of the
story of Esther?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">STUDY QUESTIONS FOR <i>The
Contemporary World</i></span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How are statuses described, reinforced and
used to influence? Who has power and who does not?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Why would this story have been
important to its community? Who was that community? What was their need that it
addresses?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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In 1 Cor 3:16-17, however, Paul is speaking of the corporate body, the church. The three appearances of “you” are plural:</div>
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Do you not know that you (plural) are a temple of God and the Spirit of God dwells among you (plural)? If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, and that is what you (plural) are.</blockquote>
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The NASB and ESV note this in the margin, but the translations don’t capture Paul’s sense and leave the impression that it’s singular.</div>
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The updated NIV, however, nails it:</div>
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<b>Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple. <i> T<a href="http://timgombis.com/2013/04/29/niv-on-temple-in-1-corinthians/" style="color: #d56529; text-decoration-line: none;">im Gombis</a></i></b></blockquote>
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2 Corinthians 6:14 is the well known "unequally yoked" passage. While the common interpretation is that it is about marriage, the heading translators added in NIV is "Warning against Idolatry", and there was nothing about marriage.</div>
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Was it ever discussed what sort of event or situation that Corinthian church was in that inspired Paul to write such a passage?</div>
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What other interpretations exist of the "unequally yoked" passage that Bible scholars have proposed?</div>
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How did the idea that this verse refers to marriage come from, given that marriage was not mentioned in 2 Corinthians chapter 5, 6 or 7? click <a href="https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/32777/what-is-the-context-of-the-unequally-yoked-passage">this</a> for more</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>The <b>Johari window</b> is a technique created by <a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joseph_Luft&action=edit&redlink=1" style="color: #d56529; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Joseph Luft (page does not exist)">Joseph Luft</a> and <a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harry_Ingham_%28psychologist%29&action=edit&redlink=1" style="color: #d56529; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Harry Ingham (psychologist) (page does not exist)">Harry Ingham</a> in 1955<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-date_0-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johari_window#cite_note-date-0" style="color: #d56529; text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a></sup>in the United States, used to help people better understand their mental instability. It is used primarily in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-help" style="color: #d56529; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Self-help">self-help</a> groups and corporate settings as a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristic" style="color: #d56529; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Heuristic">heuristic</a> exercise.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>When performing the exercise, subjects are given a list of 56 adjectives and pick five or six that they feel describe their own personality. Peers of the subject are then given the same list, and each pick five or six adjectives that describe the subject. These adjectives are then mapped onto a grid.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johari_window#cite_note-1" style="color: #d56529; text-decoration-line: none;">[2]</a></sup></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b>Open</b>: Adjectives that are selected by both the participant and his or her peers are placed into the <b>Open</b> quadrant. This quadrant represents traits of the subjects that both they and their peers are aware of.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b>Hidden</b>: Adjectives selected only by subjects, but not by any of their peers, are placed into the <b>Hidden</b> quadrant, representing information about them their peers are unaware of. It is then up to the subject to disclose this information or not.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b>Blind Spot</b>: Adjectives that are not selected by subjects but only by their peers are placed into the <b>Blind Spot</b> quadrant. These represent information that the subject is not aware of, but others are, and they can decide whether and how to inform the individual about these "<b>blind spots</b>".</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b>Unknown</b>: Adjectives that were not selected by either subjects or their peers remain in the <b>Unknown</b> quadrant, representing the participant's behaviors or motives that were not recognized by anyone participating. This may be because they do not apply or because there is collective ignorance of the existence of these traits. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johari_window" style="color: #d56529; text-decoration-line: none;">Wiki</a></i></span></blockquote>
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(<span style="font-size: small;">video link and complete audio <a href="http://www.stmaryscathedral.org.uk/cathedral_life/events/paul_for_everyone.htm" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">here</a>)</span>: <span style="font-size: xx-small;">his comments about the letter <a href="http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/2009/04/24/paul-and-slavery-a-view-by-nt-wright/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">here</a>, and his study questions on pages 55-57 <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=7mbav2Orq78C&printsec=frontcover&dq=philemon+n.t.+wright&hl=en&ei=vavmTdCSKI3EsAPjnvH2Bg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=book-preview-link&resnum=1&ved=0CC8QuwUwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">here). </a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">So many possible definitions:</span><br />
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/179141015531856/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">Dallas Elder:</a>" <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">Culture is the heritage and identity of a people group which is manifested in their shared language, customs, behavioral patterns, values, beliefs and ideas; and which distinctively define the people group. "</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://davewainscott.blogspot.com/2011/03/paul-hiebert-cultural-differences-and.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">Paul Hiebert:</a> “learned patterns of behavior, ideas and products characteristic of a [group of people]."</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://davewainscott.blogspot.com/2010/06/what-is-culture.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">Simone Weil:</a> "What is culture? The formation of attention."</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Other definitions<a href="http://www.carla.umn.edu/culture/definitions.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"> here</a></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Interesting the d<a class="l" href="http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_Definition_of_culture_within_a_hospital" style="color: #1122cc; cursor: pointer; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">efinition</span> of <span style="font-weight: bold;">culture</span> within a <span style="font-weight: bold;">hospital</span></a></li>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> "a way of thinking, feeling, valuing and acting by one or more people."</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This exercise is intended to help you test your own theological consistency on a </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; white-space: pre-wrap;">number of issues that Protestants in various denominations have felt important. As a </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana"; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #333333;">Christian in a cross-cultural setting, </span><span style="color: red;">you will need to learn the differences between</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">every age and place.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> [Mark these. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“E” </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">on the list.]</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">9. Abstain from fornication.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">10. Share the Lord’s Supper (Eucharist).</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">11. Use only real wine and unleavened bread for your Eucharist meals.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">12. Use only grape juice for Eucharist meals.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">13. Anoint with oil for healing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">14. Women are not to teach men.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">15. Women are not to wear braided hair, gold, or pearls.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">16. Men are not to have long hair.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">17. Do not drink wine at all.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">18. Slavery is permissible if you treat slaves well.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">19. Remain single.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">20. Seek the gift of tongues.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">21. Seek the gift of healing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">22. Lift your hands when you pray.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">23. People who don’t work don’t eat.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">24. Have a private “devotional time” every day.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">25. Say Amen at the end of prayers.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">26. Appoint elders and deacons in every congregation.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">27. Elect the leaders.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">28. Confess sins one to another.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">29. Confess sins privately to God.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">30. Give at least ten percent of your income/goods/crops to God.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">31. Construct a building for worship.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">32. Confess Christ publicly by means of baptism.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">33. Be baptized by immersion.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">34. Be baptized as an adult.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">35. Be baptized as a child/infant.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">36. Do not be a polygamist.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">37. Do not divorce your spouse for any reason.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">38. Do not divorce your spouse except for adultery.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reflect on the process by which you distinguished the “essential” from the</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“negotiable” items. What principle or principles governed your decision? Write out the</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">method you used, in a simple, concise statement. Be completely honest with yourself</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and accurately describe how you arrived at your decisions. Your principle(s) should</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">account for every decision.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Review your decisions again, and answer the following questions:</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Are your “essential” items so important to you that you could not associate with a</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">group that did not practice all of them?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Are there some “essential” items that are a little more “essential” than others?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Are there any items that have nothing explicitly to do with Scripture at all?</span></div>
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We covered the biblical tradition of the "holy kiss" in our gathering last Sunday.<br />
It was a lot of fun. We started with a game of Hangman;<br />
We had "Holy _ _ _ _" on the whiteboard when folks came in!<br />
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They has to guess what four letter word filled in the blank to make this a phrase that appears in Scripture. When i said "yes" to the first guess of "S," you should have heard the comments!<br />
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That the Bible explicitly mentions this practice five times:<br />
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<li style="border: none; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistle_to_the_Romans" style="color: #d56529; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Epistle to the Romans">Romans</a> 16.16a — "Greet one another with a holy kiss" (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language" style="color: #d56529; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Greek language">Greek</a>: <span lang="grc">ἀσπάσασθε ἀλλήλους ἐν φιλήματι ἁγίῳ</span>).</li>
<li style="border: none; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Epistle_to_the_Corinthians" style="color: #d56529; text-decoration-line: none;" title="First Epistle to the Corinthians">I Corinthians</a> 16.20b — "Greet one another with a holy kiss" (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language" style="color: #d56529; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Greek language">Greek</a>: <span lang="grc">ἀσπάσασθε ἀλλήλους ἐν φιλήματι ἁγίῳ</span>).</li>
<li style="border: none; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Epistle_to_the_Corinthians" style="color: #d56529; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Second Epistle to the Corinthians">II Corinthians</a> 13.12a — "Greet one another with a holy kiss" (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language" style="color: #d56529; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Greek language">Greek</a>: <span lang="grc">ἀσπάσασθε ἀλλήλους ἐν ἁγίῳ φιλήματι</span>).</li>
<li style="border: none; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Epistle_to_the_Thessalonians" style="color: #d56529; text-decoration-line: none;" title="First Epistle to the Thessalonians">I Thessalonians</a> 5.26 — "Greet all the brothers with a holy kiss" (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language" style="color: #d56529; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Greek language">Greek</a>: <span lang="grc">ἀσπάσασθε τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς πάντας ἐν φιλήματι ἁγίῳ</span>).</li>
<li style="border: none; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Epistle_of_Peter" style="color: #d56529; text-decoration-line: none;" title="First Epistle of Peter">I Peter</a> 5.14a — "Greet one another with a kiss of love" (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language" style="color: #d56529; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Greek language">Greek</a>: <span lang="grc">ἀσπάσασθε ἀλλήλους ἐν φιλήματι ἀγάπης</span>).</li>
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...makes it a classic case study in how to apply<br />
any scriptures that we assume need a cultural equivalent to out taking them literally.<br />
(Though some of our folks took the "holy kiss" literally Sunday..no, not on the lips....I wish I had video..someone post the stories!(:...)<br />
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On this issue of interpretation:<br />
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<li style="border: none; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="font-size: 16.9px;">Brian Dodd's discussion of the </span><span style="font-size: 16.9px;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 30.42px;">"interpretive bridge"</span> is helpful (p. 19 <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=5zSdcsS-l24C&printsec=frontcover&dq=brian+dodd+bridge&hl=en&ei=hIoNTILvBYioNpLx5LUE&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=book-preview-link&resnum=1&ved=0CCsQuwUwAA#v=onepage&q=%20bridge&f=false" style="color: #d56529; text-decoration-line: none;">here)</a></span></li>
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<li style="border: none; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="font-size: 16.9px;">Ron Martoia's posts on the <span style="color: red; font-size: 30.42px;">"</span></span><span style="font-size: 16.9px;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 30.42px;">two buckets"</span> (see </span><span style="font-size: 16.9px; font-weight: bold;">"</span><span style="font-size: 16.9px;">The Two Bucket Theory Examined" <a href="http://www.velocityculture.com/uncategorized/the-two-bucket-theory-examined/#more-1075" style="color: #d56529; text-decoration-line: none;">here</a>).</span></li>
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I really recommend you read both above links, then get back to us.<br />
They helped us when we tackled <a href="http://thirddayfresno.blogspot.com/2010/04/women-shepherds-porn-starsand-jumping.html" style="color: #d56529; text-decoration-line: none;">women in leadership</a>, and homosexuality.<br />
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We learned that, counterintuitively to our guesses from this end of the cultural bridge, it seems the early church's holy kissing was almost always... on the lips!<br />
The reason is powerful: that form on kiss implied equality...a kiss on the cheeks implied one person was inferior. Nothing like a Kingdom Kiss as an acted parable and reminder that in Christ we are equal! Of course, today, when we look at cultural equivalents like the "holy hug", "holy handshake," we might not realize that that, too, began as a Kingdom equalizer:<br />
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In fact, handshaking, which can seem quite prosaic today, was popularised by <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quakers" style="color: #d56529; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Quakers">Quakers</a> as a sign of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egalitarianism" style="color: #d56529; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Egalitarianism">equality</a> under <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God" style="color: #d56529; text-decoration-line: none;" title="God">God</a>, rather than stratified system of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etiquette" style="color: #d56529; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Etiquette">etiquette</a> of seventeenth century <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England" style="color: #d56529; text-decoration-line: none;" title="England">England</a><br />
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Ironically, the kiss of inclusion became a kiss of exclusion (from centered to bounded set):<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.05px;">Just as kissing had many different meanings in the wider ancient world, so too early Christians interpreted the kiss in various ways. Because ancient kissing was often seen as a familiar gesture, many early Christians kissed each other to help construct themselves as a new sort of family, a family of Christ. Similarly, in the Greco-Roman world, kissing often was seen as involving a transfer of spirit; when you kissed someone else you literally gave them part of your soul. The early church expanded on this and claimed that, when Christians kissed, they exchanged the Holy Spirit with one another. Christians also emphasized the kiss as an indication of mutual forgiveness (it’s from here that we get the term “kiss of peace”). These different meanings influenced and were influenced by the sorts of rituals kissing became associated with. For example, because the kiss helped exchange spirit, it made perfect sense for it to become part of baptism and ordination, rituals in which you wanted the Holy Spirit to descend and enter the initiate. The flip side of the coin is that before someone was baptized you wouldn’t want to kiss them. Early Christians often believed that previous to exorcism and baptism people were inevitably demon possessed. Given that they also thought that kissing resulted in spiritual exchange, it’s pretty clear why you wouldn’t want to kiss non-Christians. I sometimes think of this as an ancient form of “cooties.” It resulted in early Christian debates over whether one could kiss a pagan relative, if one should kiss a potential heretic, or if Jews even had a kiss.<br /><a href="http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/news/kissing.shtml" style="color: #d56529; text-decoration-line: none;">-Penn, link</a></span></blockquote>
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We incorporated insights from these and other articles linked below, and quoted the only book on the topic, <a href="http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/news/kissing.shtml" style="color: #d56529; text-decoration-line: none;">"Kissing Christians" by Michael Penn. </a>You'll note some of the articles below include interview with him. We particularly enjoyed some of the early fathers and teachers' comments and guidelines on the practice.<br />
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<a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/10/08/ritual_kissing_key_for_early_christians/" style="color: #d56529; text-decoration-line: none;">One early guideline</a>, for real (wonder if this was in the weekly "bulletin"):<br />
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1)No French Kissing!<br />
2)If you come back for seconds, because you liked the first kiss too much, you may be going to hell!!</blockquote>
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<a href="http://www.christiancentury.org/article.lasso?id=1686" style="color: #d56529; text-decoration-line: none;"><br />Clement of Alexandra (c.150 - c. 215</a>):<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">"when your </span><i>lips</i><span style="font-style: italic;"> draw close to the </span><i>lips</i><span style="font-style: italic;"> of your </span><i>brother</i><span style="font-style: italic;">, let your </span><i>heart</i><span style="font-style: italic;"> not draw away."</span></blockquote>
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Whoever said ''a kiss is just a kiss" didn't know their theological history. During Christianity's first five centuries, ritual kissing -- on the lips -- was a vital part of worship, says Michael P. Penn, who teaches religion at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley. In that context, kissing helped Christians define themselves as a family of faith, he writes in his new book, ''Kissing Christians: Ritual and Community in the Late Ancient Church" (University of Pennsylvania Press). Excerpts from a recent interview follow.</div>
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<b>Q: </b>Let me start with the basic question: Who kissed whom?</div>
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<b>A: </b>In the first two centuries [AD], men may kiss<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNxsPvMHSiM-lir6wAJ1I_-fBiciFfTi1xLI9GX_IMGKG2iyCeudA_NYipoi7IuZYxccp__QPKdXmwRf8Ensv0t5Nk299y3GCm32a2-np-2flV2rjQuLuTUnmuBTq6vHJIFoSgpV2KydUj/s1600/kissing_book.jpg" style="color: #d56529; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480198823378751922" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNxsPvMHSiM-lir6wAJ1I_-fBiciFfTi1xLI9GX_IMGKG2iyCeudA_NYipoi7IuZYxccp__QPKdXmwRf8Ensv0t5Nk299y3GCm32a2-np-2flV2rjQuLuTUnmuBTq6vHJIFoSgpV2KydUj/s400/kissing_book.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 310px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; padding: 8px; position: relative; width: 200px;" /></a>men, women women, but also you would have men and women kissing one another. In future centuries, there continued to be a debate over who should kiss whom. In later years, Christians will no longer have men and women kissing each other, but only men men, women women. [Christians had] debates on whether or not priests could kiss the laity, on whether you should kiss a non-Christian relative in the normal, everyday situation, even debates over whether Jews have a kiss or not.</div>
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<b>Q: </b>When in the service was the kiss performed?</div>
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<b>A: </b>Our earliest references would be a kiss that would follow a communal prayer. Later on, it gets increasingly associated with the Eucharist and also occurs in part of the rites of baptism and in ordination rites. You have Christians kissing each other as an everyday greeting or also martyrs, before they're killed, kissing one another.</div>
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<b>Q: </b>What was the theological significance?</div>
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<b>A: </b>In antiquity, a kiss on the lips was seen as transferring a little bit of one's spirit to the other person. You have a lot of early -- I kind of think of them almost as Greco-Roman Harlequin -- novels that speak of the kiss as this transfer of spirit. Christians modify it a bit, to suggest that when Christians kiss each other, they don't just exchange their own spirit, but also share a part of the Holy Spirit with one another. So the kiss is seen as a way to bind the community together.</div>
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There's another side, though. There was a concern that kissing an individual who has promised to join the Christian community but isn't yet baptized should be avoided, because the spirit that would be transferred wouldn't be a holy spirit but a demonic spirit. So you have the kiss working as this ritual of exclusion.</div>
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<b>Q: </b>Did Christian leaders worry about the erotic overtones?</div>
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<b>A: </b>We have only two explicit references to this concern. One says, essentially, to kiss with a closed and chaste mouth, which suggests that a few of these kisses may have been too erotic. The other one warns against those who kiss a second time because they liked the first one so much.</div>
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Judas kissing Jesus [to betray him] terrifies them a lot more than eroticism. There's this evil intention behind it. Early Christian writers use the kiss of Judas to warn that it's not just how you practice the kiss, but what you're thinking. If you kiss another Christian while keeping evil in your heart against them, you are repeating Judas' betrayal.</div>
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<b>Q: </b>When did kissing fall out of favor?</div>
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<b>A: </b>In the third century, men and women are no longer to kiss one another. Early Christians met in what we think of as a house church -- you meet in someone's living room, essentially. Starting in the third century, when Christians [worship] in a public forum, this familial kiss is less appropriate. It's also a time where Christianity becomes concerned with making sure women and men are categorically separated. In the fourth century, that clergy and laity become increasingly distant. You start having prohibitions against clergy and laity kissing one another.</div>
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The ritual kiss never entirely died out. We still have it as an exchange of peace [in Christian services]. We see it in the kissing of the pope's ring. In Catholicism, a priest may kiss a ritual object.</div>
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<b>Q: </b>What would Christianity have been without the kiss?</div>
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<b>A: </b>What I find exciting is to see how what we think of as trivial is so central to early Christian self-understanding. Our earliest Christian writing, Paul's letter to the First Thessalonians, talks about the ritual kiss, albeit briefly. We have hundreds of early Christian references to this ritual. For these authors, it was anything but trivial.</div>
<a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/10/08/ritual_kissing_key_for_early_christians/" style="color: red; text-decoration-line: none;">-LINK</a><br />
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<li style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande"; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.christianitytoday.com/38665" style="color: #d56529; text-decoration-line: none;">Michael Penn explains what the early church meant by the "holy kiss."</a><a href="http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/news/kissing.shtml" style="color: #d56529; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><b></b></b></a></li>
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<li style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande"; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">-<a href="http://www.christiancentury.org/article.lasso?id=1686" style="color: #d56529; text-decoration-line: none;">PUCKER UP by Martin Marty</a></li>
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<li style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande"; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.zianet.com/maxey/reflx426.htm" style="color: #d56529; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #3333ff;"><b>The Holy Kiss of Love:</b></span><b> Are We Keeping This Command?</b></a><a href="http://giveattentiontoreading.com/2009/10/02/i-corinthians-16-ii-corinthians-1-greet-one-another-with-a-holy-kiss/" rel="bookmark" style="color: #d56529; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></a></li>
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I recommend showing this video to a group or class ,and doing it this way.<br />
Show the first (Regional Emmy winner) video below starting at 4 second mark, telling the group that no one should say anything, or make any noise, while watching; just concentrate hard on following the instructions:<br />
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You can see why calling it the "Invisible Gorilla" test might jinx things(:<br />
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Here is the backstory: <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/UtKt8YF7dgQ" width="560"></iframe><br />
More? Click: <a href="http://theinvisiblegorilla.com/" style="color: #d56529; text-decoration-line: none;">theinvisiblegorilla.com/</a><br />
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How about this version:<br />
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/IGQmdoK_ZfY" width="560"></iframe> \ TED Talk by Daniel Simons:<br />
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Christopher Chabris' talk at Google about Invisible Gorilla:<br />
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/4rdUk52h-MY" width="560"></iframe> Here's a great spoof version:<br />
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<b><br /></b>YouTube search: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=selective+attention" style="color: #d56529; text-decoration-line: none;">"selective attention"</a><br />
YouTube search: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=invisible+gorilla" style="color: #d56529; text-decoration-line: none;">"invisible gorilla"</a><br />
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davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07135992921485306480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-206164784767471716.post-15126657479721035092017-04-29T19:28:00.001-07:002017-05-01T17:05:25.940-07:00Week 4 Quiz<i>Here are the questions to week 4 quiz on Chapter 4 of Fee and Stuart, so you know them ahead of time. So find the answers ahead of time, and if you see this post ahead of class, you'll know that you can even bring a page of notes to the quiz. Heck, you can even bring a piece of paper to class with your name and the answers already filled in to class, and turn it in as your quiz (So, taking the quiz in class will take you about zero and a half seconds).</i><br />
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<i> So, it's open notes; not open book, starting at 6 pm.</i><br />
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All questions should be prefaced in your mind with "According to Fee and Stuart.."<br />
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1.There is "one main issue" in hermeneutics/interpretation, and that is "a general lack of ______."<br />
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3. When Paul talks about the body being the temple of the Holy Spirit, he means the bodies of individual believers. T__F__ <br />
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4. The "face value" meaning and context of "Do not be yoked together with unbelievers" has to do with marriage (Believers shouldn't marry unbelievers). T__ F___<br />
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5. "The New Testament writers (especially Paul's letter to Philemon) <i><b>under_____</b></i> slavery." <br />
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6. "In Scripture, God has given us all we need, but not necessarily ___________."<br />
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<br />davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07135992921485306480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-206164784767471716.post-42043431048606612752017-04-26T07:01:00.001-07:002017-04-26T07:01:21.321-07:00THE THREE WORLDSSee first three minutes of this video: <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gNxzdxHMOrg" width="560"></iframe><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">For both Bible classes, become familiar/reacquainted with the "</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Three Worlds</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">" concept</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">which is the basic lens for reading the text of the Bible and context.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br style="background-color: white;" /></span></span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Here below is how one student summarized the worlds (she has more detail </span><a href="http://www.stolaf.org/courses/2004sem2/Religion/121A/brolin/question1.html" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #a1bf25; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration-line: none;">here</a><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">)</span><br />
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Click:<a href="http://davewainscott.blogspot.com/2008/10/salvation-on-small-screen.html" style="color: #29d5cc; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">"Salvation on the Small Screen": 24 hours of Christian TV/crack</a></h3>
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<b>Like this</b>:</div>
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Professor Ernest Brennecke of Columbia is credited with inventing a sentence that can be made to have eight different meanings by placing ONE WORD in all possible positions in the sentence: </div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , "lucida" , "lucida grande" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"I hit him in the eye yesterday."</span></div>
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<b>Like this 'text message' from Jesus:</b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">I SAY TO YOU TODAY, "YOU WILL BE WITH ME IN PARADISE</span>.'</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">I SAY TO YOU, " TODAY YOU WILL BE WITH ME IN PARADISE."</span></div>
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The original manuscripts of the Bible not only run all letters, all caps, together, but include no punctuation.</div>
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<span style="color: red;">Wake<br />In the morning when you wake up<br />You won’t have much<br />But you’ll have enough<br />When you are weakest<br />I’ll be strong enough for you<br /><br />Dreams<br />Yeah, the ones where you are fearless<br />Can’t break what’s broken<br />You are tearless<br />Steal back your innocence<br />That’s what they stole from you<br /><br />You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight<br />Not everything can be so black and white<br />There are demons in the broad daylight<br />But you can sleep like a baby tonight<br /><br />Stop<br />Where you stand right now<br />Just stop<br />Don’t think or look down at the drop<br />The people staring from the street<br />Don’t know what you’ve got<br /><br />You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight<br />No, not everything can be so black and white<br />There are demons in the broad daylight<br />But you can sleep like a baby tonight<br /><br />Hope is where the door is<br />When home is where the war is<br />Where nobody can feel no one else’s pain<br /><br />You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight<br />Not everything can be so black and so white<br />There are demons in the broad daylight<br />You’ve got to sleep like a baby tonight<br />Sleep like a baby tonight<br />Where you stand<br />Where you fall is where I kneel<br />To take your heart back to where you can feel<br />Like a child, a child</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: xx-small; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><i>but because anyone, including Trucker Frank, can</i><i> speak freely in this church, my seminary-trained eyes were opened to find a truth in the Bible that had previously eluded me.”</i><a href="http://iamryno.wordpress.com/2008/10/30/the-new-christians-5/" style="color: #a1bf25; text-decoration-line: none;">...That truth emerged</a> in a discussion of Matthew 18's "treat the unrepentant brother like a tax collector or sinner.":</span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">Like Herod, we often “jump”
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">a Hegelian view of
history and heilsgeschichte is reductionistic, especially regarding antithetical
concatenation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07135992921485306480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-206164784767471716.post-7234316089328716882017-04-12T00:11:00.000-07:002017-04-18T23:47:09.150-07:00week 2The men took a field trip tonight, with these instructions.
Next week, the women will take a different field trip.
The men will need to look at forum 6 to learn what we did in class when they were gone (They can skip forum 4; though I hope they do it.
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Why did he teach on a MOUNTAIN?</li>
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<span style="background-color: #f4cccc;">SERMON ON THE <b><span style="font-size: medium;">MOUNT</span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;">:</span></b></span><br />
Discussion on how Jesus was interpreting/reinterpreting the law of Moses/Torah(Matt 5:17-48).<br />
Some would suggest that he is using the rabbi's technique of "<b>Building a fence around the law (Torah)></b><br />
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For example, if you are tempted to overeat, one strategy would be to build a literal fence around the refrigerator...or the equivalent: don't keep snacks around.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><a class="l" href="http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091013125346AAKmiyn" style="color: #2200c1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">What does <span style="font-weight: bold;">building</span> a <span style="font-weight: bold;">fence around the Torah</span> mean? </a></span></div>
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Some wonder of this is what Jesus is doing here. See:<br />
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One can see how this could turn to legalism...and when do you stop building fences? See:<br />
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">I</span>n each of the <b>five</b> examples, Jesus begins by citing an existing commandment. His following statement may be translated as either "<b>And</b> I say to you... " or as "<b>But</b> I say to you ...” The first option shows Jesus' comments to be in keeping with the commandments, therefore his words will be an expansion or commentary on the law. This is good, standard rabbinic technique. He is offering his authoritative interpretation, or amplification, to God's torah, as rabbis would do after reading the torah aloud in the synagogue. The second translation puts Jesus in tension with the law, or at least with the contemporary </span></i><br />
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">interpretations that were being offered. Jesus is being established as an authoritative teacher who stands in the same rabbinic tradition of other rabbis, but is being portrayed as qualitatively superior to their legal reasoning.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span class="text Phlm-1-10" id="en-NIV-29949" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> Onesimus,<sup class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NIV-29949b" value="[<a href="#fen-NIV-29949b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]">["Useful"]"</sup> </span><br />
<span class="text Phlm-1-10" id="en-NIV-29949" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><br />
<span class="text Phlm-1-10" id="en-NIV-29949" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> who became my son while I was in chains.</span><br />
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<span class="text Phlm-1-11" id="en-NIV-29950" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><sup class="versenum">11 </sup>Formerly he was useless to you,</span><br />
<span class="text Phlm-1-11" id="en-NIV-29950" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> but now he has become useful both to you and to me.</span><br />
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<span class="text Phlm-1-12" id="en-NIV-29951" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><sup class="versenum">12 </sup>I am sending him</span><br />
<span class="text Phlm-1-12" id="en-NIV-29951" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> —who is my very heart</span><br />
<span class="text Phlm-1-12" id="en-NIV-29951" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> —back to you.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span class="text Phlm-1-13" id="en-NIV-29952" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><sup class="versenum"> </sup></span><br />
<span class="text Phlm-1-13" id="en-NIV-29952" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><sup class="versenum">13 </sup>I would have liked to keep him with me</span><br />
<span class="text Phlm-1-13" id="en-NIV-29952" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> so that </span><br />
<span class="text Phlm-1-13" id="en-NIV-29952" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> he could take </span><br />
<span class="text Phlm-1-13" id="en-NIV-29952" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> your place </span><br />
<span class="text Phlm-1-13" id="en-NIV-29952" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> in helping me </span><br />
<span class="text Phlm-1-13" id="en-NIV-29952" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">while I am in chains for the gospel.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span class="text Phlm-1-14" id="en-NIV-29953" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><sup class="versenum"> </sup></span><br />
<span class="text Phlm-1-14" id="en-NIV-29953" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><sup class="versenum">14 </sup>But I did not want to do anything without your consent, </span><br />
<span class="text Phlm-1-14" id="en-NIV-29953" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">so that any favor you do would not seem forced </span><br />
<span class="text Phlm-1-14" id="en-NIV-29953" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> but would be voluntary.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span class="text Phlm-1-15" id="en-NIV-29954" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><sup class="versenum"> </sup></span><br />
<span class="text Phlm-1-15" id="en-NIV-29954" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><sup class="versenum">15 </sup>Perhaps the reason he was separated from you for a little while</span><br />
<span class="text Phlm-1-15" id="en-NIV-29954" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> was that you might have him back forever—</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span class="text Phlm-1-16" id="en-NIV-29955" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><sup class="versenum">16 </sup>no longer as a slave,</span><br />
<span class="text Phlm-1-16" id="en-NIV-29955" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> but more than a slave, </span><br />
<span class="text Phlm-1-16" id="en-NIV-29955" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> as a dear brother. </span><br />
<span class="text Phlm-1-16" id="en-NIV-29955" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">He is that to me, </span><br />
<span class="text Phlm-1-16" id="en-NIV-29955" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> but even more so to you, </span><br />
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<span class="text Phlm-1-16" id="en-NIV-29955" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">both in the flesh</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> and in the Lord.</span><br />
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<span class="text Phlm-1-17" id="en-NIV-29956" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><sup class="versenum">17 </sup>So..</span><br />
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<span class="text Phlm-1-17" id="en-NIV-29956" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> if you consider me a partner, </span><br />
<span class="text Phlm-1-17" id="en-NIV-29956" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> welcome him</span><br />
<span class="text Phlm-1-17" id="en-NIV-29956" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> as you would welcome me.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span class="text Phlm-1-18" id="en-NIV-29957" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><sup class="versenum">18 </sup>If he has done you any wrong or owes you anything,</span><br />
<span class="text Phlm-1-18" id="en-NIV-29957" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> charge it to me.</span><br />
<span class="text Phlm-1-19" id="en-NIV-29958" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><sup class="versenum">19 </sup>I, Paul, am writing this with my own hand:</span><br />
<span class="text Phlm-1-19" id="en-NIV-29958" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> I will pay it back!</span><br />
<span class="text Phlm-1-19" id="en-NIV-29958" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> (not to mention that you owe me your very self)</span><br />
<span class="text Phlm-1-19" id="en-NIV-29958" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span class="text Phlm-1-20" id="en-NIV-29959" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><sup class="versenum">20 </sup>I do wish, brother, that I may have some benefit or usefulness from you in the Lord;</span><br />
<span class="text Phlm-1-20" id="en-NIV-29959" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> refresh <i>my </i>heart in Christ.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span class="text Phlm-1-21" id="en-NIV-29960" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><sup class="versenum">21 </sup>Confident of your obedience, </span><br />
<span class="text Phlm-1-21" id="en-NIV-29960" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> I write to you,</span><br />
<span class="text Phlm-1-21" id="en-NIV-29960" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> knowing that you will do even more than I ask.</span><br />
<span class="text Phlm-1-22" id="en-NIV-29961" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><sup class="versenum">22 </sup>And one thing more: </span><br />
<span class="text Phlm-1-22" id="en-NIV-29961" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> Prepare a guest room for me, </span><br />
<span class="text Phlm-1-22" id="en-NIV-29961" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> because I hope to be restored to you </span><span class="text Phlm-1-22" id="en-NIV-29961" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span class="text Phlm-1-3" id="en-NIV-29942"><sup>(plural)</sup></span> </span><br />
<span class="text Phlm-1-22" id="en-NIV-29961" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> in answer to your (</span><span class="text Phlm-1-22" id="en-NIV-29961" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span class="text Phlm-1-22" id="en-NIV-29961"><span class="text Phlm-1-3" id="en-NIV-29942"><sup>plural)</sup></span> </span>prayers.</span><br />
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<span class="text Phlm-1-23" id="en-NIV-29962"><sup class="versenum">23 </sup>Epaphras,</span></div>
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<span class="text Phlm-1-23" id="en-NIV-29962"> my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, </span></div>
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<span class="text Phlm-1-23" id="en-NIV-29962">sends you greetings.</span> </div>
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<span class="text Phlm-1-24" id="en-NIV-29963"><sup class="versenum">24 </sup>And so do Mark,</span></div>
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<span class="text Phlm-1-24" id="en-NIV-29963"> Aristarchus,</span></div>
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<span class="text Phlm-1-24" id="en-NIV-29963"> and Luke, </span></div>
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<span class="text Phlm-1-24" id="en-NIV-29963"> my fellow workers.</span></div>
<span class="text Phlm-1-25" id="en-NIV-29964" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><sup class="versenum">25 </sup>The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your </span><span class="text Phlm-1-25" id="en-NIV-29964" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span class="text Phlm-1-3" id="en-NIV-29942"><sup> (plural)</sup></span> spirit.</span><br />
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<b>We watched "HE LED YOU LIKE A BRIDE," a Ray Vander Laan "Faith Lessons" video from Mount Sinai. Here is the complete video, which elaborates on this thesis. You'll be writing on this for Forum 2.1</b><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Here's a study guide<b> for the video:..</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">see pp.197-251 <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=IqSHezM2LlMC&pg=PA197&lpg=PA197&dq=van+der+laan+bride+sinai&source=bl&ots=1G7JkDw_Sq&sig=ZOjbp8kM_k_HP-24vONL3BMDo1M&hl=en&ei=MaNMTbPKJJS6sQPPkuydCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false" style="color: #7d181e;"> here</a></span></div>
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davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07135992921485306480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-206164784767471716.post-51727511047816337022017-04-10T14:54:00.001-07:002017-04-12T00:47:05.932-07:00Week 1<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8AbrHVoKpAh2b3KKfpVeNePk1uyCyZx21bvB2FKKe1p3vWY_3m0nvsftHhyEbTQIxTh7A4yd1Cx1oNgXiB0PTkFYPcQMGhRjAZJ8s4MxUpNuaCLHwVb0Dh6Cxe5F-XcH-o_vzq89P6Nc/s1600/timelines+451+spring+17.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8AbrHVoKpAh2b3KKfpVeNePk1uyCyZx21bvB2FKKe1p3vWY_3m0nvsftHhyEbTQIxTh7A4yd1Cx1oNgXiB0PTkFYPcQMGhRjAZJ8s4MxUpNuaCLHwVb0Dh6Cxe5F-XcH-o_vzq89P6Nc/s640/timelines+451+spring+17.jpg" width="640" /></a>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It has been hugely productive, revelational and (even) fun to, as part of a class that several others and I teach, have students plot out (on the whiteboard) their timeline.</span><br />
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See timelines for several more classes <a href="https://www.facebook.com/davewainscott/media_set?set=a.10152108439788245.1073741837.669508244&type=3">here</a><br />
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from the Babylonian Creation Account</span></u><u><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span></u><u><span style="color: windowtext; font-weight: normal;">(required reading for Week 1)</span></u><u><span style="color: windowtext;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></h4>
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below the earth had not (yet) been called by a name; (when) Apsu primeval,
their begetter, Mununu, (and) Tiamat, she who gave birth to them all, (still)
mingled their waters together, And no pasture land had been formed (and) not
(even) a reed marsh was to be seen; When none of the (other) gods had been
brought into being, (When) they had not (yet) been called by (their) name(s,
and their) destinies had not (yet) been fixed, (At that time) were gods create
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Dependable
shall be the utterance of thy mouth, thy command shall not prove vain. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Reading</span></u></st1:city></st1:place><u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> 3 <o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">They gave him an irresistible weapon
smiting the enemy, (saying:) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">"Go and cut off the life of
Tiamat. May the winds carry her blood to the out-of-the-way places.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">After the gods his fathers determined
the destiny of Bel, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">They set him on the road -- the way to
success and attainment. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">He made a bow and decreed (it) as his
weapon; <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">An arrowhead he put (on the arrow and)
fastened the bowstring to it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">He took up the club and grasped (it) in
his right hand; <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">The bow and the quiver he hung at his
side. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">The lightning he set before him; <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">With a blazing flame he filled his
body. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">He made a net to enclose Tiamat within
(it), <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">(And) had the four winds take hold that
nothing of her might escape; <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">The south wind, the north wind, the
east wind, (and) the west wind, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">The gift of his (grand)father, Anu, he
caused to draw high to the border(s) of the net. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">He created <i>imhullu: </i>the evil wind, the cyclone, the hurricane, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">The fourfold wind, the sevenfold wind,
the whirlwind, the wind incomparable. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">He sent forth the winds which he had
created, the seven of them; <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">To trouble Tiamat within, they arose
behind him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Reading</span></u></st1:city></st1:place><u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> 4 <o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">and then he returned to Tiamat, whom he
had subdued. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">The Lord trod upon the hinder part of
Tiamat. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">And with his unsparing club he split
(her) skull. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">He cut the arteries of her blood <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">And caused the north wind to carry (it)
to out-of-the-way places. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">When his fathers saw (this), they were
glad and rejoiced <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">(And) sent him dues (and) greeting
gifts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="color: red;">He took Bib 451 at FPU and loved it. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">The Lord rested, examining her dead
body, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">To divide the abortion (and) to create
ingenious things (therewith). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">He split her open like a mussel (?)
into two (parts); <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Half of her set in place and formed the
sky (therewith) as a roof. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">He fixed the crossbar (and) posted
guards; <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">He commanded them not to let her waters
escape.... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt;">Translation from Alexander Heidel, <i>The Babylonian Genesis, </i>University of Chicago Press<i>, </i>2<sup>nd</sup> ed<i>., </i>1951, as quoted in Norman K. Gottwald, <i>A Light to the</i> <i>Nations. </i>Harper
and Row Publishers, 1959. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">As you'll remember, when I took a version of this class at FPC (it wasn't a U yet), I had cool typewriter</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I look forward this class..I think you'll' enjoy it, too..</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> ...I did when I took it in 1983>></span><br />
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<b style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">STRATEGY: </b><br />
<span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">BIB 314 asks, "Who is Jesus?"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">and "What is </span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Church?"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">This class asks</span><br />
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<li style="border: none; color: #444444; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">"1)How do I read a <b>text </b>of Scripture via a Three Worlds approach?"</li>
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"What race is that guy, anyway?":<br />
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<li> How was he able to get away with telling jokes on different cultures?</li>
<li>Have you experienced racial prejudice/racism?</li>
<li>How is Jesus the definitive bicultural person?</li>
<li><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">-</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">For those who are African-American or Asian-American, how does it feel that "Jesus <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caw3WeCZLfU&feature=player_embedded" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration-line: none;">was Asian"</a> and spent time on both continents?</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>CULTURE:</b> a way of thinking, feeling, valuing and acting by one or more persons.</span><br />
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Wow! All communication is texting, and all communication is cross-cultural.<br />
All marriages are cross-cultural.<br />
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"What continent is Israel on?"</div>
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How did you answer the question? </div>
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Answer it in your mind, and then scroll down.</div>
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There is only one right answer, obviously. </div>
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But every time I ask the question--in Israel or in class--people stumble, and tentatatively give the wrong answers: Europe? Africa? Middle East?</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.231;">The only right answer is:</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.231;">Does that sound surprising or shocking?</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.231;">Sooo..that means: <b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jesus was Asian.</b></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.231;">People laugh when you say that. But it's true...and important that </span>Jesus lived in Asia; born and died there. That was his home. In our contemporary world, we think Asian means only Chinese, Japanese etc.</div>
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Jesus was Asian! Note I didn't say He<b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> IS</b> Asian, as I believe He is bigger than that now, but while on earth as a human he was ethnically Jewish...and Asian. So He thought and lived an Eastern, Mediterranean, Hebrew, Occidental, ASIAN worldview. This will become important later in class.</div>
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<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">POST the phrase "Jesus was Asian" on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter..or text or say it to at least three people. </b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Then post below some of the responses you got. Some people will accuse you of being crazy.</b></div>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><b style="color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">"God is good all the time.."</b></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">"Accept rejection.."</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Doing things right? That's management. Leadership is doing...</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">It's not the size of the dog in the fight..."</li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">T<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">he two accounts are separate but complementary, like the four<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/j9QhEk8RWYA" width="420"></iframe> gospels. They can be read at different levels, from literal to figurative, with no bearing on the truth of it. Poetry is not </span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM0LDPIdz4R4_2LgF9MfvOmxSptM-CocT-HIENSRw5N9Pie-JBt2bck3yrWnFIful2641lwmoXpC4UOnO6EIE0YfIDnZP4XuwY3cgVOVvVVAj3OTs0rabmMO-IYgu6k-eRlTPFzSttropD/s1600/Venn2.JPG" style="clear: right; color: #7d181e; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM0LDPIdz4R4_2LgF9MfvOmxSptM-CocT-HIENSRw5N9Pie-JBt2bck3yrWnFIful2641lwmoXpC4UOnO6EIE0YfIDnZP4XuwY3cgVOVvVVAj3OTs0rabmMO-IYgu6k-eRlTPFzSttropD/s200/Venn2.JPG" style="background-color: white; border-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">less true than a newspaper, just a different kind or mode of truth. And, one must always ask the question what the implied author intended and what the implied audience would have understood. Ancient notions of history are very different from ours.</span></span></div>
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style of ordering material into a series of similar solemn commands are unchallenged</div>
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vocabulary = create (bara), humanity as likeness/image, male/fernale</div>
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God = Elohim, characterized as powerful cosmic organizer, speaks things into being, stands outside of cosmos and controls it</div>
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Compare Genesis accounts to Babylonian Creation story <span style="font-size: medium;">(read an excerpt <a href="https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B95vo-D0ql1CZjZkNmRhY2ItZjczMC00MWJiLTg3NjgtZWVkODY0NjBlNjRj&hl=en_US" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration-line: none;">here).</a></span> Significant similarities – Genesis is not written in a vacuum. Significant differences – lack of violence, struggle, multiple gods, etc.</div>
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e.<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span>creation of man - "blood I will make and bones I will cause to be" new idea like Genesis but he creates out of a dead god's body and for the purpose of "the relief of the gods".</div>
<span style="font-size: 10pt;">In Genesis, we see a carefully structured account, bringing order out of chaos. The sea and darkness are elements of chaos in the ancient world. No work can be done in the dark; salt water kills agriculture; unknown depths and sea creatures are in the sea. God has ability to control and limit these. Chaos is not eliminated or bounded. God creates out of nothing (vs. other creation myths of the day), and the verb used for "create" (bara) is something no human ever does in the Old Testament. Only God does this action. There are also no elements of struggle or battle to create, which is typical of other contemporary creation myths. God simply speaks or shapes things into being. There are also no birthing images, which are common in other myths, and quickly lead to a confusion between Creator and creature (vs. God as wholly other), and to fertility cults. Also, most other creation myths were a people’s story (how the Mesopotamians came to be, for instance). Genesis is not presented as Israel’s story, but as the story of the world. ( to really appreciate the beauty and brilliance of these chapters, one has to read Hebrew. These verses are packed with wordplays and puns. It may not immediately occur to one that puns are a good form of theological education, but…)</span></blockquote>
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<tr valign="TOP"><td width="34%"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before me.<br /> </span></span></td><td width="4%"></td><td width="34%"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">1. Thou shalt worship no idol. (For the Lord is a jealous god). Smash all idols,</span><br /> </span></td></tr>
<tr valign="TOP"><td width="34%"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">. You shall not make for yourself a graven image. You shall not bow down to them or serve them.<br /> </span></span></td><td width="4%"></td><td width="34%"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">2. Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.</span><br /> </span></td></tr>
<tr valign="TOP"><td width="34%"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">3. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.</span> </span></td><td width="4%"></td><td width="34%"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">3. The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep in the month when the ear is on the corn.</span><br /> </span></td></tr>
<tr valign="TOP"><td width="34%"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">4. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.</span><br /> </span></td><td width="4%"></td><td width="34%"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">4. All the first-born are mine.</span><br /> </span></td></tr>
<tr valign="TOP"><td width="34%"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">5. Honor your father and your mother.</span><br /> </span></td><td width="4%"></td><td width="34%"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">5. Six days shalt thou work, but on the seventh thou shalt rest.</span><br /> </span></td></tr>
<tr valign="TOP"><td width="34%"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">6. You shall not kill</span>.<br /> </span></td><td width="4%"></td><td width="34%"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">6. Thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, even of the first fruits of the wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.</span><br /> </span></td></tr>
<tr valign="TOP"><td width="34%"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">7. You shall not commit adultery.</span><br /> </span></td><td width="4%"></td><td width="34%"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">7. Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread.</span><br /> </span></td></tr>
<tr valign="TOP"><td width="34%"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">8. You shall not steal.</span><br /> </span></td><td width="4%"></td><td width="34%"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">8. The fat of my feast shall not remain all night until the morning.</span><br /> </span></td></tr>
<tr valign="TOP"><td width="34%"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">9. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.</span><br /> </span></td><td width="4%"></td><td width="34%"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">9. The first of the first fruits of thy ground thou shalt bring unto the house of the Lord thy God.</span></span><br /> </span></td></tr>
<tr valign="TOP"><td width="34%"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">10. You shall not covet.</span><br /> </span></td><td width="4%"></td><td width="34%"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">10. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother's milk.</span><br /> </span></td></tr>
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