tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2497430725885292880.post191424117181205778..comments2024-02-07T23:39:51.595-05:00Comments on The Contents of My Head: The Appearance of Evil--Rebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00634179030174821176noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2497430725885292880.post-35305870133630173202013-09-20T15:54:09.161-04:002013-09-20T15:54:09.161-04:00Carolynn--It's good to hear from you again.
Ar...Carolynn--It's good to hear from you again.<br />Are you reading independently, or are you taking classes? I remember you said in a previous comment that you hoped to go to seminary one day. <br /><br />You're still in my prayers from time to time about other things too. Maybe, if you ever want to do so, you could email me an update about your life. I feel like we are friends who've never met. :)<br /><br />Translate this, if you would like to<br />rjcandwkc (at) g mail (dot) com<br /><br />--Rebeccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00634179030174821176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2497430725885292880.post-29967937012475250722013-09-20T15:04:38.480-04:002013-09-20T15:04:38.480-04:00I'm learning a little about this from "Ho...I'm learning a little about this from "How to read the bible for all its worth" that I am attempting to pick through right now :) Moonofsilverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18072449731164255972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2497430725885292880.post-81783992815792413412013-09-20T12:36:12.682-04:002013-09-20T12:36:12.682-04:00In order to help clarify, based on the first anony...In order to help clarify, based on the first anonymous comment above, I am editing the original to put quotes around that statement. I hope that helps the real intention--that he entered into the creation and truly dwelt in it, even when that behavior offended others' sense of what "clean living" ought to look like.--Rebeccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00634179030174821176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2497430725885292880.post-9129365965347571112013-09-20T12:21:03.285-04:002013-09-20T12:21:03.285-04:00That is a GREAT point, and definitely worthy of mu...That is a GREAT point, and definitely worthy of much more ruminating.<br /><br />I probably should have put "dirty himself" in quotes, like you did, for the purpose of this piece. Because he did not, by association, literally become dirty. He was, of course, literally affected by the soil and sweat and those types of dirt of this earthly existence. The stuff he washed from his disciples' literal feet. But no, he never entered into sin and never truly dirtied himself by way of sinning. And that was not his purpose in coming. <br /><br />But he was willing to APPEAR dirty in the eyes of the judgmental legalists who sought to keep themselves CEREMONIALLY clean and who thought that was what it was all about. And that was the point of my statement.<br /><br />But, if we really want to think deeply into this and go further with what you've raised: what he did between Gethsemane and the cross is truly, without himself committing sin, dirtying himself by taking on the sin of the world, by BECOMING sin, as the scripture says. How can we ever understand that? How was that sin actually transferred to him so that he BECAME it in order to remove it from his beloved forever? <br /><br />For 15 months, this misapplication of the KJV translation has been brewing with me, and this morning's conversation with my brother finally pushed me to write about it. Maybe another 15 (or 30, or more) months from now, writing about the transfer of sin to our pure Lord will happen. It's going to take a great deal of time thinking and praying and reading and asking him to reveal something of the supernatural nature of that before I can even hope to respond--if ever.<br /><br />Thanks for reading and commenting.--Rebeccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00634179030174821176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2497430725885292880.post-19163505577831159682013-09-20T11:45:01.018-04:002013-09-20T11:45:01.018-04:00Wow. A lot to 'sink in' from a little phon...Wow. A lot to 'sink in' from a little phone screen. I would like to compose a well thought out reply. I do not know if I am understanding the phrase correctly, but I do not believe that Jesus came to "dirty himself" if that is the case, he should have had relations with the prostitute. He was in the world, not of itAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com