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Apr 23, 2015 12:36:38 GMT -5
Post by bubbles on Apr 23, 2015 12:36:38 GMT -5
Re worship. All you believers. When you give thanks and praise for who he is and enter in to worship. Lifting the eyes of your heart and the eyes of your understanding to him. Do you experience your heart opening to his love. Do you focus on him as you would a friend. Speak to him as though he hears you. Ask him questions. Dialogue with him. Does he speak back. Give you scriptures to comfort you. Give you impressions about your life. Show you he loves you through verses that are quickened to your spirit. That's lovely, that's exactly how I feel in my heart. It's the love in our hearts that is important to God. Yes it is. When I was seeking the lord to find him where he may be found. I didnt know how I was going to get to that place. The holy spirit taught me many things about prayer. 2 or 3yrs later I was at a conference and there was an american speaker. He taught the same principles the holy spirit had taught me in my closet. It was incredible. Incredible because it was the same holy spirit. This is 30yrs ago. I hadnt learnt this in meetings. He took it further. The secret place is where I began to recieve revelation. Thats when it gets controversial. Revelation can be about me the church anything. I think many christians recieve revelation. I know loads of christians that do. They are ordinary stable human beings. Filled with love for their maker. They usually are very encouraging people as well.
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Post by maryhig on Apr 23, 2015 12:42:38 GMT -5
That's lovely, that's exactly how I feel in my heart. It's the love in our hearts that is important to God. Yes it is. When I was seeking the lord to find him where he may be found. I didnt know how I was going to get to that place. The holy spirit taught me many things about prayer. 2 or 3yrs later I was at a conference and there was an american speaker. He taught the same principles the holy spirit had taught me in my closet. It was incredible. Incredible because it was the same holy spirit. This is 30yrs ago. I hadnt learnt this in meetings. He took it further. The secret place is where I began to recieve revelation. Thats when it gets controversial. Revelation can be about me the church anything. I think many christians recieve revelation. I know loads of christians that do. They are ordinary stable human beings. Filled with love for their maker. They usually are very encouraging people as well. After you saying that about the meeting I'm off there now. Ha ha ha i love going. Revelation is an amazing blessing from God!
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Post by snow on Apr 23, 2015 14:36:51 GMT -5
Bubbles and Maryhig. I agree with you two about love. It's really all that matters, with or without a God in the equation. You two are also very good examples of people who do live with love in your hearts.
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Apr 23, 2015 15:23:56 GMT -5
Post by dmmichgood on Apr 23, 2015 15:23:56 GMT -5
Quote - "Who on earth would make something like that up?" You didn't answer the question with anything remotely specific. I believe the things I mentioned in the bible were given to u as demonstrations of the power and reality of God.If I may repeat what Jacob said to his son Judah by way of example: Genesis 49:10 " The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he to whom it belongs shall come and the obedience of the nations shall be his." In that Bronze Age prophecy, given by a dying man in Egypt to one of his twelve sons, lies the rise and fall of Israel and the coming Messiah who the Gentiles will believe. I challenge you to find such depth and insight in ANY religion. The question is, which "demonstrations of the power and reality of which God?" There is an abundance to choose from.
Have you ever looked into the OTHER holy texts?
History of religious texts
The oldest known religious texts are the Pyramid Texts of Ancient Egypt that date to 2400-2300 BCE. The earliest form of the Phoenician alphabet found to date is the inscription on the sarcophagus of King Ahiram of Byblos (The Sumerian Temple Hymns) circa 1000 BCE.[1]
The Epic of Gilgamesh from Sumer, with origins as early as 2150-2000 BCE,[2]:41–42 is also one of the earliest literary works that includes various mythological figures.[2]:41–42
The Rigveda of Hinduism is proposed to have been composed between 1700–1100 BCE[3] making it possibly the world's oldest religious text still in use. The oldest portions of the Zoroastrian Avesta are believed to have been transmitted orally for centuries before they found written form, and although widely differing dates for Gathic Avestan have been proposed, scholarly consensus floats at around 1000 - 600 BCE.[4][5]
The majority of scholars agree that the Torah's composition took place over centuries.[6] From the late 19th century there was a general consensus around the documentary hypothesis, which suggests that the five books were created c.450 BCE by combining four originally independent sources, known as the Jahwist, or J (about 900 BCE), the Elohist, or E (about 800 BCE), the Deuteronomist, or D, (about 600 BCE), and the Priestly source, or P (about 500 BC).[7]
The first scripture printed for wide distribution to the masses was the Diamond Sutra, a Buddhist scripture, and is the earliest recorded example of a dated printed text, bearing the Chinese calendar date for 11 May 868 CE.[8]from wiki
Until you have looked into other "holy writ" how can you be sure that the one you believe is the only one that is accurate in it's explanation?
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Apr 23, 2015 15:54:54 GMT -5
Post by dmmichgood on Apr 23, 2015 15:54:54 GMT -5
Dennis I know a woman who had terminal lung cancer who was diagnosed just 6 months to live, she's still here over ten years later. The tumour shrunk, God can work miracles, he's the best doctor we can have. With faith all things are possible! I hope he blesses you with many years. I will keep you in my prayers. God bless! There are some cases of spontaneous remission of cancer. More often it isn't accurate due to the case was not well documented. Sometimes it is actually the treatment has worked belatedly.
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Post by Alan Vandermyden on Apr 23, 2015 17:17:44 GMT -5
I appreciate hearing/reading of others' experience, just as I attempt to share mine at times. I may not see things in the same way as a particular person - well, do you ever find two people who see everything in exactly the same way? I hesitate to use the words agree/disagree, or even more so prove/disprove. We are too easily drawn into an argument in which we want to win by shooting down the other person's defenses. We begin a battle! But listening to and holding other ideas, even when we view things very differently, certainly fosters communication, at the very least.
I find commonality with many people on here, including the atheist, the current "2x2," the Christian ex, the "New Ager" . . . I do have my own perspective, but many of you help me to more clearly define my own understanding of what I see, and I find it strange when we feel we need to show someone else as being "wrong." The content of my faith is positive, creative, courageous; with the only negative being that of confronting my own fears and pride.
As a disciple of Jesus the Christ (and I know many of you don't see Jesus in this way, but this is simply a statement of my faith), I find much in common with Dennis' views. I see some things differently, but don't really feel a need to somehow "differentiate" myself . . . or if I do feel that "need," upon waiting I generally find this to be more of a "knee-jerk reaction."
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Post by Ross.Bowden on Apr 23, 2015 18:50:07 GMT -5
You can do verse after verse, but it's God in Jesus, not Jesus is God! Emmanuel as you rightly said is God with us. God was with us in flesh, he was in his chosen one. His Messiah in Jesus his Christ! The word was made flesh, Jesus was bringing Gods's word to us! He is the word of God. We won't get it only through Christ! I'm interested in what you do with John 10 - all of it. In relation to your comment "but it's God in Jesus, not Jesus in God". With the greatest respect, it seems that God disagrees with you in His Word. Jesus said in verse 38 "that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father” and verse 30 "I and the Father are One". Imagine if one of us claimed to be in God and to be equal to the Father! They sought to arrest Him because He was claiming to be God. I wonder why Jesus didn't simply say "No, I'm not God"....but rather he went on and said what He said in verse 38 which infuriated them further. Profound words that just can't be dismissed. And in Revelation we have Jesus, the son of Man quoting those profound words to John "I am the first and last, and the living One". The same words that Yahweh (God) spoke in Isaiah 44:6.
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Post by bubbles on Apr 23, 2015 21:24:30 GMT -5
Bubbles and Maryhig. I agree with you two about love. It's really all that matters, with or without a God in the equation. You two are also very good examples of people who do live with love in your hearts. What a beautiful thing to say. Now that bought tears to my eyes.xx
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Apr 23, 2015 21:28:02 GMT -5
Post by snow on Apr 23, 2015 21:28:02 GMT -5
You can do verse after verse, but it's God in Jesus, not Jesus is God! Emmanuel as you rightly said is God with us. God was with us in flesh, he was in his chosen one. His Messiah in Jesus his Christ! The word was made flesh, Jesus was bringing Gods's word to us! He is the word of God. We won't get it only through Christ! I'm interested in what you do with John 10 - all of it. In relation to your comment "but it's God in Jesus, not Jesus in God". With the greatest respect, it seems that God disagrees with you in His Word. Jesus said in verse 38 "that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father” and verse 30 "I and the Father are One". Imagine if one of us claimed to be in God and to be equal to the Father! They sought to arrest Him because He was claiming to be God. I wonder why Jesus didn't simply say "No, I'm not God"....but rather he went on and said what He said in verse 38 which infuriated them further. Profound words that just can't be dismissed. And in Revelation we have Jesus, the son of Man quoting those profound words to John "I am the first and last, and the living One". The same words that Yahweh (God) spoke in Isaiah 44:6. He also said we were all Gods, but every Christian I have ever talked to denies that me really means that.
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Post by bubbles on Apr 23, 2015 21:29:33 GMT -5
The easiest way for me to imagine the godhead is this.They are one in work. 3 personalities. Not 3 gods. One god. 3 in 1. They dont fight with each other. They are in complete unity. It took me a while to understand it. There are multitudes of scriptures to arrive at this conclusion. It does my head in debating about it.
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Apr 23, 2015 21:32:30 GMT -5
Post by bubbles on Apr 23, 2015 21:32:30 GMT -5
Snow Yes he does say we are gods. I find that difficult to accept. What does it mean etc. To understand that would begin with understanding his power. Not many like discussing that. I know I hold back mainly because...hmm ...the negatives.
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Apr 23, 2015 21:38:04 GMT -5
Post by bubbles on Apr 23, 2015 21:38:04 GMT -5
Quote - "Who on earth would make something like that up?" You didn't answer the question with anything remotely specific. I believe the things I mentioned in the bible were given to u as demonstrations of the power and reality of God.If I may repeat what Jacob said to his son Judah by way of example: Genesis 49:10 " The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he to whom it belongs shall come and the obedience of the nations shall be his." In that Bronze Age prophecy, given by a dying man in Egypt to one of his twelve sons, lies the rise and fall of Israel and the coming Messiah who the Gentiles will believe. I challenge you to find such depth and insight in ANY religion. The question is, which "demonstrations of the power and reality of which God?" There is an abundance to choose from.
Have you ever looked into the OTHER holy texts?
History of religious texts
The oldest known religious texts are the Pyramid Texts of Ancient Egypt that date to 2400-2300 BCE. The earliest form of the Phoenician alphabet found to date is the inscription on the sarcophagus of King Ahiram of Byblos (The Sumerian Temple Hymns) circa 1000 BCE.[1]
The Epic of Gilgamesh from Sumer, with origins as early as 2150-2000 BCE,[2]:41–42 is also one of the earliest literary works that includes various mythological figures.[2]:41–42
The Rigveda of Hinduism is proposed to have been composed between 1700–1100 BCE[3] making it possibly the world's oldest religious text still in use. The oldest portions of the Zoroastrian Avesta are believed to have been transmitted orally for centuries before they found written form, and although widely differing dates for Gathic Avestan have been proposed, scholarly consensus floats at around 1000 - 600 BCE.[4][5]
The majority of scholars agree that the Torah's composition took place over centuries.[6] From the late 19th century there was a general consensus around the documentary hypothesis, which suggests that the five books were created c.450 BCE by combining four originally independent sources, known as the Jahwist, or J (about 900 BCE), the Elohist, or E (about 800 BCE), the Deuteronomist, or D, (about 600 BCE), and the Priestly source, or P (about 500 BC).[7]
The first scripture printed for wide distribution to the masses was the Diamond Sutra, a Buddhist scripture, and is the earliest recorded example of a dated printed text, bearing the Chinese calendar date for 11 May 868 CE.[8]from wiki
Until you have looked into other "holy writ" how can you be sure that the one you believe is the only one that is accurate in it's explanation?
D when I read of Ages prior to this Age. They all had gods like christ with different names. I find that baffling. It shows me how much I dont know and understand.
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Apr 23, 2015 22:03:39 GMT -5
Post by snow on Apr 23, 2015 22:03:39 GMT -5
Snow Yes he does say we are gods. I find that difficult to accept. What does it mean etc. To understand that would begin with understanding his power. Not many like discussing that. I know I hold back mainly because...hmm ...the negatives. There is a line of thought that says that he understood the divinity of all and because he knew how hard it would be for us all the believe that he instead let us use him as a guideline. God apparently doesn't see anyone as less than himself, but everyone like a spoke in a wheel with God as the hub, with all interconnected and interdependent upon each other in order to exist. God is the concept and we are the way he experiences his concepts. When we die we merge back into the hub/God and if we so choose, we can come back and experience something else for the benefit of the All. Yes, I really did talk to a lot of people, read a lot of different philosophies when I was doing my research. That was just one of many I learned about.
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Apr 23, 2015 22:11:27 GMT -5
Post by snow on Apr 23, 2015 22:11:27 GMT -5
The question is, which "demonstrations of the power and reality of which God?" There is an abundance to choose from.
Have you ever looked into the OTHER holy texts?
History of religious texts
The oldest known religious texts are the Pyramid Texts of Ancient Egypt that date to 2400-2300 BCE. The earliest form of the Phoenician alphabet found to date is the inscription on the sarcophagus of King Ahiram of Byblos (The Sumerian Temple Hymns) circa 1000 BCE.[1]
The Epic of Gilgamesh from Sumer, with origins as early as 2150-2000 BCE,[2]:41–42 is also one of the earliest literary works that includes various mythological figures.[2]:41–42
The Rigveda of Hinduism is proposed to have been composed between 1700–1100 BCE[3] making it possibly the world's oldest religious text still in use. The oldest portions of the Zoroastrian Avesta are believed to have been transmitted orally for centuries before they found written form, and although widely differing dates for Gathic Avestan have been proposed, scholarly consensus floats at around 1000 - 600 BCE.[4][5]
The majority of scholars agree that the Torah's composition took place over centuries.[6] From the late 19th century there was a general consensus around the documentary hypothesis, which suggests that the five books were created c.450 BCE by combining four originally independent sources, known as the Jahwist, or J (about 900 BCE), the Elohist, or E (about 800 BCE), the Deuteronomist, or D, (about 600 BCE), and the Priestly source, or P (about 500 BC).[7]
The first scripture printed for wide distribution to the masses was the Diamond Sutra, a Buddhist scripture, and is the earliest recorded example of a dated printed text, bearing the Chinese calendar date for 11 May 868 CE.[8]from wiki
Until you have looked into other "holy writ" how can you be sure that the one you believe is the only one that is accurate in it's explanation?
D when I read of Ages prior to this Age. They all had gods like christ with different names. I find that baffling. It shows me how much I dont know and understand. It's not so baffling if you see it more like what they saw it as, a 'Christ consciousness'. Many who say that Jesus was not a historical figure believe that he was symbolic like these other "Christs" throughout the ages and that they symbolized the Christ consciousness which was defined as becoming enlightened to what and who we are. But the dying rising God man was mostly based on sun worship. Just before the 25th of December the sun stops it's decline, appears to not change for 3 days and then starts it's increase in sun hours again. It is actually quite pagan in origin and it also made a lot of sense that they would construct a religion around the return of the sun to longer day light hours again. Primitive man saw the days getting shorter and shorter and rejoiced when they started to get longer again. Sometimes it's just that simple.
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Apr 23, 2015 22:57:13 GMT -5
Post by bubbles on Apr 23, 2015 22:57:13 GMT -5
Snow Im going to be spiritual now..I have absolutely no disturbance in my spirit to the answers you gave in the last 2 posts. You explain it well. Thank you.
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Post by dmmichgood on Apr 24, 2015 0:47:52 GMT -5
D when I read of Ages prior to this Age. They all had gods like christ with different names. I find that baffling. It shows me how much I dont know and understand. It's not so baffling if you see it more like what they saw it as, a 'Christ consciousness'. Many who say that Jesus was not a historical figure believe that he was symbolic like these other "Christs" throughout the ages and that they symbolized the Christ consciousness which was defined as becoming enlightened to what and who we are. But the dying rising God man was mostly based on sun worship. Just before the 25th of December the sun stops it's decline, appears to not change for 3 days and then starts it's increase in sun hours again. It is actually quite pagan in origin and it also made a lot of sense that they would construct a religion around the return of the sun to longer day light hours again. Primitive man saw the days getting shorter and shorter and rejoiced when they started to get longer again. Sometimes it's just that simple. When we were in Scotland I stood in the center of two of the Standing Stones and could actually look each direction through of a long line of many more Standing Stones .
I would turn first one way then the other and sight along the very same paths that those people long, long before me would do and see Sun's path at the Solstice!
Some of those stones we at least three times my height. The very labor that they must put into the getting them & then getting them to stand upright testified to how important they must have been to them.
Imagine since they stood very solid in the ground and were three times my height, -how much of them were below the ground!
You hear & read of such places but until you actually stand there with them, turn each way and see what those people saw, you can't begin to really comprehend the feelings behind them.
Worship the Sun? You betcha'! The Sun gave them the very sustenance for life.
So is it so strange that celebrations of so many religions through out history just happen to fall on the Solstice?
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Apr 24, 2015 5:43:19 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2015 5:43:19 GMT -5
Re "dying sun" pagan beliefs. Why do you think the bible referred so much to the suffering Messiah who would be "pierced" for our sake? What pagan beliefs were involved in the Jewish promised land, and their prophesied expulsion from it? What pagan beliefs were involved in Genesis telling us that God commanded the sea to bring forth life? Do you believe that the bible is pagan? Do you believe that pagan beliefs, introduced in the 3rd and 4th Centuries, have any place in the bible? Can you define "pagan" as opposed to the biblical notion of "monotheism"?
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Apr 24, 2015 10:43:42 GMT -5
Post by snow on Apr 24, 2015 10:43:42 GMT -5
It's not so baffling if you see it more like what they saw it as, a 'Christ consciousness'. Many who say that Jesus was not a historical figure believe that he was symbolic like these other "Christs" throughout the ages and that they symbolized the Christ consciousness which was defined as becoming enlightened to what and who we are. But the dying rising God man was mostly based on sun worship. Just before the 25th of December the sun stops it's decline, appears to not change for 3 days and then starts it's increase in sun hours again. It is actually quite pagan in origin and it also made a lot of sense that they would construct a religion around the return of the sun to longer day light hours again. Primitive man saw the days getting shorter and shorter and rejoiced when they started to get longer again. Sometimes it's just that simple. When we were in Scotland I stood in the center of two of the Standing Stones and could actually look each direction through of a long line of many more Standing Stones .
I would turn first one way then the other and sight along the very same paths that those people long, long before me would do and see Sun's path at the Solstice!
Some of those stones we at least three times my height. The very labor that they must put into the getting them & then getting them to stand upright testified to how important they must have been to them.
Imagine since they stood very solid in the ground and were three times my height, -how much of them were below the ground!
You hear & read of such places but until you actually stand there with them, turn each way and see what those people saw, you can't begin to really comprehend the feelings behind them.
Worship the Sun? You betcha'! The Sun gave them the very sustenance for life.
So is it so strange that celebrations of so many religions through out history just happen to fall on the Solstice?
That is a very powerful example of just how much early religion centered around the sun. When it started to have less daylight hours it must have been scary for those who didn't understand why. When the daylight hours started to increase again, it would have been totally a reason to rejoice. What a great experience to stand there dmg!
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Apr 24, 2015 10:45:56 GMT -5
Post by snow on Apr 24, 2015 10:45:56 GMT -5
Re "dying sun" pagan beliefs. Why do you think the bible referred so much to the suffering Messiah who would be "pierced" for our sake? What pagan beliefs were involved in the Jewish promised land, and their prophesied expulsion from it? What pagan beliefs were involved in Genesis telling us that God commanded the sea to bring forth life? Do you believe that the bible is pagan? Do you believe that pagan beliefs, introduced in the 3rd and 4th Centuries, have any place in the bible? Can you define "pagan" as opposed to the biblical notion of "monotheism"? Once you have read enough religious history and their beliefs, you realize that there is very little that is 'new' in the bible that already hadn't been a part of an older religion or culture. It is a potpourri of ideas and thoughts that are much older than it is.
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Post by matisse on Apr 24, 2015 11:20:19 GMT -5
Re "dying sun" pagan beliefs. Why do you think the bible referred so much to the suffering Messiah who would be "pierced" for our sake? What pagan beliefs were involved in the Jewish promised land, and their prophesied expulsion from it? What pagan beliefs were involved in Genesis telling us that God commanded the sea to bring forth life? Do you believe that the bible is pagan? Do you believe that pagan beliefs, introduced in the 3rd and 4th Centuries, have any place in the bible? Can you define "pagan" as opposed to the biblical notion of "monotheism"? Once you have read enough religious history and their beliefs, you realize that there is very little that is 'new' in the bible that already hadn't been a part of an older religion or culture. It is a potpourri of ideas and thoughts that are much older than it is. Well, as it says in the Good Book: The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
-Ecclesiastes 1:9 King James Version (KJV)
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Apr 24, 2015 14:47:05 GMT -5
Post by rational on Apr 24, 2015 14:47:05 GMT -5
Well, as it says in the Good Book: The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
-Ecclesiastes 1:9 King James Version (KJV) There is a KJV of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics?
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Post by dmmichgood on Apr 24, 2015 23:47:55 GMT -5
Re "dying sun" pagan beliefs. Why do you think the bible referred so much to the suffering Messiah who would be "pierced" for our sake? What pagan beliefs were involved in the Jewish promised land, and their prophesied expulsion from it? What pagan beliefs were involved in Genesis telling us that God commanded the sea to bring forth life? Do you believe that the bible is pagan? Do you believe that pagan beliefs, introduced in the 3rd and 4th Centuries, have any place in the bible? Can you define "pagan" as opposed to the biblical notion of "monotheism"? What do you mean, that "pagan beliefs" were introduced in the "3rd and 4th Centuries?"
Paganism has been around since the iron age & further back even that that!
Paganism predates any of the Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
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Post by dmmichgood on Apr 25, 2015 0:25:15 GMT -5
When we were in Scotland I stood in the center of two of the Standing Stones and could actually look each direction through of a long line of many more Standing Stones .
I would turn first one way then the other and sight along the very same paths that those people long, long before me would do and see Sun's path at the Solstice!
Some of those stones we at least three times my height. The very labor that they must put into the getting them & then getting them to stand upright testified to how important they must have been to them.
Imagine since they stood very solid in the ground and were three times my height, -how much of them were below the ground!
You hear & read of such places but until you actually stand there with them, turn each way and see what those people saw, you can't begin to really comprehend the feelings behind them.
Worship the Sun? You betcha'! The Sun gave them the very sustenance for life.
So is it so strange that celebrations of so many religions through out history just happen to fall on the Solstice?
That is a very powerful example of just how much early religion centered around the sun. When it started to have less daylight hours it must have been scary for those who didn't understand why. When the daylight hours started to increase again, it would have been totally a reason to rejoice. What a great experience to stand there dmg! There were so many Standing Stones & Rock Cairns all over the place!
We saw many, yet it was just a fraction of all the ones in in Scotland alone, -never mind what other of the British Isles have. I have likened our time spent amongst as "cairns, kirks & castles, " -all so numerous that we forgot to count them! I will add kirk-yards (cemeteries) Grey Friars, in particular was great.
It would seem as if our interests were all buried (pun intended) in the past.
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Apr 25, 2015 2:57:45 GMT -5
Post by matisse on Apr 25, 2015 2:57:45 GMT -5
Well, as it says in the Good Book: The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
-Ecclesiastes 1:9 King James Version (KJV) There is a KJV of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics? Yes. It was offered originally (and unsuccessfully) as part of a boxed set known as The KJV Bibles
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Apr 25, 2015 5:41:41 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2015 5:41:41 GMT -5
I mean paganism as practiced in nominally Christian societies. This is where Christmas and Easter spring from - despite their biblical claims to the contrary. What impresses me with Judea/Christian beliefs is the wholesale rejection of its true values. What impresses me about the bible (particularly the OT)is its outright rejection of the people who nurtured that book for generations.
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Post by dmmichgood on Apr 25, 2015 17:15:42 GMT -5
There is a KJV of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics? Yes. It was offered originally (and unsuccessfully) as part of a boxed set known as The KJV Bibles I didn't know if you two were jesting or serious. Because I was aware of the name, -I noted the book in my son's room. I Googled the name & found the the CRC stood for Chemical Rubber Company. Some times it is known as the "Rubber Bible."
Learn something new everyday!
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Apr 25, 2015 17:47:29 GMT -5
Post by matisse on Apr 25, 2015 17:47:29 GMT -5
Yes. It was offered originally (and unsuccessfully) as part of a boxed set known as The KJV Bibles I didn't know if you two were jesting or serious. Because I was aware of the name, -I noted the book in my son's room. I Googled the name & found the the CRC stood for Chemical Rubber Company. Some times it is known as the "Rubber Bible."
Learn something new everyday!
I'm impressed! The reference was pretty obscure! In school, we referred to it as "The Bible".
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Apr 25, 2015 19:00:49 GMT -5
Post by rational on Apr 25, 2015 19:00:49 GMT -5
I didn't know if you two were jesting or serious. Because I was aware of the name, -I noted the book in my son's room. I Googled the name & found the the CRC stood for Chemical Rubber Company. Some times it is known as the "Rubber Bible."
Learn something new everyday!
I'm impressed! The reference was pretty obscure! In school, we referred to it as "The Bible". I can't tell you how many times I ended up in meeting trying to develop something to speak about while looking at 5-place log tables! I usually had to fall back to Section 13 and Nomenclature for Organic Polymers. A rich and fertile ground for obscure analogies!
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