The basic premises of Anathem
Jan. 27th, 2012 01:25 pm( Mild spoilers )
Jan. 27th, 2012
Wedding progress
Jan. 27th, 2012 02:09 pmWe have ordered rings. We've got most people's addresses, told almost everyone about the wedding with a pre-invitation email (a couple bounced and need to be sorted out), have a beautiful design for inviations, and are nearly ready to get them sent.
We have a venue for ceremony, and a venue for the reception, and a place for the post-wedding holiday, although we still need transport between them. We provisionally have officiants, although we've yet to plan the ceremony properly.
Rachel has clothes. We have the start of a website, although it isn't finished yet. (It will have a FAQ.) We've started trying to organise the ceilidh, although we still don't have a venue.
But we're confident that we'll have a good wedding :)
We have a venue for ceremony, and a venue for the reception, and a place for the post-wedding holiday, although we still need transport between them. We provisionally have officiants, although we've yet to plan the ceremony properly.
Rachel has clothes. We have the start of a website, although it isn't finished yet. (It will have a FAQ.) We've started trying to organise the ceilidh, although we still don't have a venue.
But we're confident that we'll have a good wedding :)
Mark 2:1-12
Jan. 27th, 2012 04:33 pmJesus forgives and heals a paralyzed man
Jesus arrives in Capernaum and the crowds are even larger. Some friends of a paraylzed man can't get close to Jesus, and break through the roof to lower the man to Jesus. Jesus says "your sins are forgiven" which is theologically controvertial, and then heals him.
I think I remember a school theology lesson where we wrote an account of some miracles of Jesus, and I described one of them as Jesus healing a legless man, presumably out of confusion with a man whose legs were paralyzed. The teacher said "that must have been some miracle". My thought afterwards was "Really? More miraculous than walking on water and coming back to life?" Apparently there'd been an unspoken understanding which sorts of things Jesus did, but I'd never really thought about it, so anything impossible was in the "potential miracle" box in my head :)
I think I remember a conversation about the forgiving and healing on LJ, but I can't find it now. I think some people didn't think it made any sense that when the paralyzed man asked for healing, Jesus forgave his sins, but when the teachers of the law pointedly asked how come Jesus had the authority to forgive sins, he healed the man.
It seems like, Jesus thought forgiving was the important thing, but when people doubted, he wanted to give them faith, either that Jesus could heal him, or that Jesus was the sort of person who might have the authority to forgive sins?
And it's not suggested that _only_ God could perform healing miracles, even if they were arguably more impressive than other miracles recorded (other prophets did miracles with God's help) but that anyone who was doing miracles, you could trust them not to claim to be God if they weren't? (With the exception of satan or evil gods?)
Jesus arrives in Capernaum and the crowds are even larger. Some friends of a paraylzed man can't get close to Jesus, and break through the roof to lower the man to Jesus. Jesus says "your sins are forgiven" which is theologically controvertial, and then heals him.
I think I remember a school theology lesson where we wrote an account of some miracles of Jesus, and I described one of them as Jesus healing a legless man, presumably out of confusion with a man whose legs were paralyzed. The teacher said "that must have been some miracle". My thought afterwards was "Really? More miraculous than walking on water and coming back to life?" Apparently there'd been an unspoken understanding which sorts of things Jesus did, but I'd never really thought about it, so anything impossible was in the "potential miracle" box in my head :)
I think I remember a conversation about the forgiving and healing on LJ, but I can't find it now. I think some people didn't think it made any sense that when the paralyzed man asked for healing, Jesus forgave his sins, but when the teachers of the law pointedly asked how come Jesus had the authority to forgive sins, he healed the man.
It seems like, Jesus thought forgiving was the important thing, but when people doubted, he wanted to give them faith, either that Jesus could heal him, or that Jesus was the sort of person who might have the authority to forgive sins?
And it's not suggested that _only_ God could perform healing miracles, even if they were arguably more impressive than other miracles recorded (other prophets did miracles with God's help) but that anyone who was doing miracles, you could trust them not to claim to be God if they weren't? (With the exception of satan or evil gods?)