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The Twist family studies the Gospel of John
Wayne:
--- Quote from: injest on January 13, 2008, 12:55:47 am ---just because there is a natural reason doesn't mean there is no miracle.
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:) Yeah, I definitely agree! That is the nature of miracles.
Was it Norman Vincent Peale who said "make miracles happen" ?
Like penicillin the miracle drug, sending robots to drive around on Mars, and coming to understand the cause of diseases so that people can take steps to avoid getting sick. These things really are miracles! :)
The woman at the well just wanted miraculous living water so she wouldn't have to carry water to her home every day.
John 4:15 -- The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water so that I won't get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water."
Wayne:
An etymological aside. :D
I don't know if this is true in Aramaic, which is what I think Jesus and the woman at the well were speaking, but in Indo-European there were two different words for water.
One meant still water, as in a cup or in a puddle or in a well.
The other meant flowing, or living water, as in a stream.
So maybe Jesus was telling the woman that he could bring her flowing water.
One of the things I thank Jesus for almost every day is the clean flowing water in my shower and my sink.
By living the way Jesus proposed, in peace with our neighbors, competing less and co-operating more, we can spend our resources on infrastructure rather than war and have living water instead of walking to a well every day and carrying heavy pitchers home. :)
Wayne:
From the Etymology Online Dictionary, and also at http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/water :
Linguists believe the proto-Indo-European language had two root words for water: *ap- and *wed-.
The first (preserved in Skt. apah) was "animate," referring to water as a living force; the latter referred to it as an inanimate substance.
The same was probably true of fire (n.).
fritzkep:
Well, some of us do in fact take the statement of Jesus' flesh and blood as being true food and drink quite literally. But rather than being shocked by the idea, it can be seen as the ultimate gift of Jesus to us. He gives Himself completely to us, in the crib and on the cross, in the host and in our hearts. And he thereby invites us to give ourselves totally to Him. A union of communion indeed.
Wayne:
:) Yes, absolutely! There are so many ways to understand - that's part of what makes it great!
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