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The Twist family studies the Gospel of John
Wayne:
--- Quote from: injest on January 27, 2008, 01:02:34 am ---what YOU feel in your heart...not what someone else thinks or tells you.
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:) That rings true for me for sure.
On the other hand, many people take comfort in having an authority tell them the universe works like such-and-such. It may be very important to them, or they may just file it away. Either is fine as long as they don't hurt anybody with it.
Of course unfortunately they often do hurt people with it.
Maybe I hurt people too by forming my own opinions and understandings ... as a child I was sometimes "bossy" ... I have to work on that myself. :-\ I try to express my thoughts and feelings as my own best guess, impression, or even what I wish were true whether it is or not. But everybody is free to do that for themselves - they don't have to agree or even listen to me of course. :laugh:
Anyways. :) ;) :-*
Wayne:
Now on the mystery. Warning: spoilers ahead!!
We learn only at the end of the gospel of John that the book itself was written by the man whom Jesus loved. The gospel tells us that they had a publicly accepted physical relationship. At dinner they laid down together with the man's head on Jesus's chest.
Sexual? I don't know. My current guess is that somewhere along the line they had been physically sexually intimate.
After Jesus was crucified his mother lived with this man for at least an extended period.
Wayne:
I would like to understand better who this man was and what was the nature of their relationship. :D
I bring up the question at this point because it has been suggested by scholars and others that this man is Lazarus:
http://www.thedisciplewhomjesusloved.com/
http://www.hccentral.com/eller8/index.html
Other names have been suggested as well, including Phillip, the Apostle John, someone else whose name happened to be John, or a completely unidentified man, etc.
http://www.answers.com/topic/disciple-whom-jesus-loved
We meet Lazarus in the first verse of chapter 11.
Wayne:
gotta take a break for now. See y'all soon ... :-*
Shakesthecoffecan:
--- Quote from: wdj on January 05, 2008, 08:09:52 pm ---John 1 goes on to say Jesus recruits his first apostles at and soon after John's baptism ceremony.
One of them, Nathaniel, is impressed that Jesus had seen him under a fig tree. I don't see yet what this is about, but it seemed to be a big deal to Nathaniel. Any thoughts?
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I think it was a curising spot in those days.
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