Comments on: Happy Easter!!!

By: Marketman

Marketman — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 21:54:51 +0000

stef, well said. faith is the key word (lots of it or lack of it) both for those on one side or the other…I leave it up to each individual to decide… Just as a good book can become a great book with superb editors, the opposite can be true (bad editors, inacurrate or unappealing book) as well. Happy Easter to you and your family!

By: stef

stef — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 19:10:10 +0000

OK, i know you don’t want serious discussion so i’ll just leave this statement here and i won’t expect an answer:). the NT books determined by the Early Fathers to be divinely inspired — and there is valid criteria for this, one of them being that the Gospels confirmed each others’ basic facts even though they were written by different people from different places — were all written within 50-100 years of Jesus’ death, 2 of the Gospels by eyewitnesses, people who lived in Jesus’ time (one of them is Matthew, the tax guy whom Jesus called down from the tree). of course they had to axe some of the stuff, otherwise you’d still have Gospels being written today.

but people also need to look at this with the eye of faith. If you believe that God can inspire people to write books, that these are actually His words, put onto paper by the hagiographers who were His instruments, then you wouldn’t have a problem with the next corollary which is that whatever’s in the Bible is what He intended to put in it, *no more and no less*. the Lord in His goodness does not and cannot deceive nor be deceived.

OTOH if you have trouble believing that the Bible is divinely inspired, then you’ll have no problem believing any other “evidence” that comes forth pointing to its weaknesses or limitations.

as an aside, the Protestant claim that the Catholic church’s Bible is not the original Bible glosses over the fact that *they* (the Protestants) took out some of the books that were in the original Canon because those books didn’t agree with Protestant theology, the Book of James and the Deuterocanonicals being 2 examples. (more info here: https://www.ewtn.com/library/ANSWERS/DEUTEROS.HTM)

sorry, don’t mean to preach, but when you write an opening like that then leave it hanging, you really make it difficult for a reader to resist:D

By: mojitodrinker

mojitodrinker — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 09:28:28 +0000

hi MM happy easter!

By: Marketman

Marketman — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 06:51:48 +0000

Hi Sha, long time no hear! Hope all is well in France. Sister, will be calling you tonight to touch base… Wysgal…you have to FIND ALL the eggs…heehee.

By: sha

sha — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 18:30:03 +0000

frohe ostern MM… we just came back from st tropez the cholatier shops there sell amazing chocs. no time to indulge was too busy but today we came back I roasted some lamb and took out stash of my organic chocolates to share with the crew.

I still have another Easter to celebrate next week….
Christos Anesti Christ has risen…
and hello from France!

By: sister

sister — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 01:44:41 +0000

My Easter egg find for the year: The most beautiful chocolate eggs covered in pastel coatings at “Il Fornaio”, Via dei Baullari, 5-7 Rome, near the Spanish steps. Available in 3 sizes, and really quite addictive, your brother-in-law has nearly munched through 3 kilos handcarried home in my BV saddle bag. The rest went into the center of babkas surrounded by colored hard boiled eggs colored to match the chocolate ones. Then I packaged the whole production in a hat box for delivery to friends for Easter. All the world’s a market place, Happy Easter wherever you are!

By: wysgal

wysgal — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 22:17:43 +0000

It’s always nice to have a good mix of real eggs with candy, chocolate and plastic eggs. One can only ingest so many actual eggs … The danger comes (as it has many times in my family) when you forget where you’ve placed all the artificial eggs only to find them attacked by ants several days (months?) down the road in your garden somewhere. =O