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Jethro Bodine

Jethro Bodine

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Anybody thinking about Christmas yet? Even though it's still hot and humid where I live it looks like fall which means I start thinking about the holiday season.

Did we settle it last year if it's a sin to do Christmas? :lol
 
Jethro Bodine said:
Anybody thinking about Christmas yet? Even though it's still hot and humid where I live it looks like fall which means I start thinking about the holiday season.

Did we settle it last year if it's a sin to do Christmas? :lol
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I don't think we settled the sin issue.
Too much separation.
Democrats saw it one way and the other side saw it differently.
What do the candydates say about this?
I think it's important.
I'm glad you brought this up.
Where each one stands on this issue may decide who gets my vote.
Let's get Barbarian in on this and give us some evolving statistics.
 
Jethro Bodine said:
Anybody thinking about Christmas yet? Even though it's still hot and humid where I live it looks like fall which means I start thinking about the holiday season.

Did we settle it last year if it's a sin to do Christmas? :lol
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Christianity is a strange religion.
It's the religion where one can commit murder and end up in heaven, and yet, steal something and end up in hell.

It's the religion where everything is a sin, because God is so perfect, and yet, to God, we have not sinned because somehow His Son Jesus is able to take care of our shortcomings.

If we celebrate Christmas as giving glory to God's Son as His birthday (even though it really isn't) then I think God is happy. Otherwise, He probably isn't.

My two cents.
Wondering
 
wondering said:
Christianity is a strange religion.
It's the religion where one can commit murder and end up in heaven, and yet, steal something and end up in hell.

It's the religion where everything is a sin, because God is so perfect, and yet, to God, we have not sinned because somehow His Son Jesus is able to take care of our shortcomings.

If we celebrate Christmas as giving glory to God's Son as His birthday (even though it really isn't) then I think God is happy. Otherwise, He probably isn't.

My two cents.
Wondering
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I think you've made a rash analysis here.
You say it really isn't his birthday.
You cannot say that unless you know for sure when his birthday is.
So, when is it?
 
Is this a picture of Jesus?
How old was he here?
Who painted the picture?


the_head_of_christ_by_warner_sallman_1941.jpg
 
Rollo Tamasi said:
I think you've made a rash analysis here.
You say it really isn't his birthday.
You cannot say that unless you know for sure when his birthday is.
So, when is it?
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It's not me who made the analysis.
Most theologians believe Jesus was born either in March or in September.
December would have been too cold for the trip to Bethlehem.
What do you think??

W
 
You made the statement "it really isn't his birthday", then claim it's not your analysis.
I didn't see you give credit to anyone else.
Then you say you believe this picture to be a picture of Jesus?
Have you ever seen Jesus?
What makes you believe it's a picture of him?
I think this is another rash analysis.
What else do you have for us this afternoon?
 
Rollo Tamasi said:
You made the statement "it really isn't his birthday", then claim it's not your analysis.
I didn't see you give credit to anyone else.
Then you say you believe this picture to be a picture of Jesus?
Have you ever seen Jesus?
What makes you believe it's a picture of him?
I think this is another rash analysis.
What else do you have for us this afternoon?
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You claim OSAS and it isn't YOUR analysis but that of Mr. Calvin. I just did the same thing.
Must I post who said everything I agree with??

It most probably looks like Jesus because it was the style to have long hair and a beard. He was dark in skin because he was from the Middle East. His eyes were brown. Every culture, however, makes Jesus look like that population. In Italy Jesus is depicted as having blue eyes and very white skin. No way.

I'm posting this which I got from Wikidpedia regarding the painting:

The Head of Christ, also called the Sallman Head, is a 1940 portrait painting of Jesus of Nazareth by American artist Warner Sallman (1892-1968). As an extraordinarily successful work of Christian popular devotional art,[1] it had been reproduced over half a billion times worldwide by the end of the 20th century.[2] Enlarged copies of the work have been made for churches and small pocket or wallet-sized prayer cards, bearing the image, have been mass-produced for private devotional use.[1][3] The painting is said to have "become the basis for [the] visualization of Jesus" for "hundreds of millions" of people.[4][5]


Wondering
 
wondering said:
You claim OSAS and it isn't YOUR analysis but that of Mr. Calvin. I just did the same thing.
Must I post who said everything I agree with??

It most probably looks like Jesus because it was the style to have long hair and a beard. He was dark in skin because he was from the Middle East. His eyes were brown. Every culture, however, makes Jesus look like that population. In Italy Jesus is depicted as having blue eyes and very white skin. No way.

I'm posting this which I got from Wikidpedia regarding the painting:

The Head of Christ, also called the Sallman Head, is a 1940 portrait painting of Jesus of Nazareth by American artist Warner Sallman (1892-1968). As an extraordinarily successful work of Christian popular devotional art,[1] it had been reproduced over half a billion times worldwide by the end of the 20th century.[2] Enlarged copies of the work have been made for churches and small pocket or wallet-sized prayer cards, bearing the image, have been mass-produced for private devotional use.[1][3] The painting is said to have "become the basis for [the] visualization of Jesus" for "hundreds of millions" of people.[4][5]


Wondering
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Does it look anything like this?


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wondering said:
Please list my false answers so I could respond to you.
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1. You claim December 25th is not Jesus birthday, yet you document no proof of that.
2. You say you believe that picture is a picture of Jesus, yet you have no proof of that either.
You just seem to be "all smoke and no action" here today.
Maybe it's time for a bowl of cherries or something.
 
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