Posted on 03/25/2012 5:04:13 PM PDT by Coleus
Some do, sadly. I've never understood the search for physical things as proof of God.
They can't possibly make Faith better. God is real whether things are or not. Faith is just that - a belief that isn't proved.
It's the holiest of names, no Jew has ever spelled God completely. I'm sure some Christians do the same.
I understand the hunger for a physical connection or artifact that connects with Jesus. I understand the hunger for Jesus, it was a hunger that I didn’t even know I had (I thought it was for booze and women).
I think the shroud was used with Jaques DeMolay, the leader of the Knights Templar in France. He was tortured by crucifixion, but not killed until later. His death and torture occurred around the carbon dated age that’s currently given for the shroud. Perhaps that’s only coincidence.
The word “God” is not offensive. It’s a kind of habitual carryover from Hebrew, and really doesn’t apply to English at all, except by habit or mimicry.
http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/166899/jewish/Why-Dont-You-Spell-Out-G-ds-Name.htm
...We do not write G-d’s name in a place where it may be discarded or erased. Treating G-d’s name with reverence is a way to give respect to G-d. So even though on a computer the name is not really being erased (and perhaps is not really there in the first place), and “G-d” is only an English term used to translate G-d’s holy name, it is in keeping with this respect that I write “G-d” in my emails and on-line articles...
Shroud ping!
I’ve never understood the search for physical things as proof of God. >>
Actually, there is, God is in all of us :)
I was open to the possibility that the shroud might be a fake, but now I am convinced that it is the burial shroud of Jesus. My faith was not and is not based on the shroud, but I believe it is an interesting and important piece of historical evidence -- and more-so because honest scientists say they don't know how the image was formed.
Thanks for the ping!
I’ve never known anybody to impose their usage on non-Jews, but from what I’ve seen it is a genuine form of respect for them personally. I really appreciate the honor they show through that. And I didn’t know it either, until one of them gently explained it to me. =)
God’s little joke on you? Don’t get too puffed up.he likes to remind us we are not angels. Indeed, we are better than angels, because we are more than spirit.
Jacques DeMolay was burned at the stake beneath the Pont Neuf in Paris.
If you want on or off the Shroud ping list, Freepmail me.
Thanks for the ping Swordmaker. I’ll read it later.
Please include me on your Shroud ping list, Thanks
Yeah, well, guys like you frustrate the hell out of me, in return. No matter how many times it’s said, no matter what you hear or read time and time again (e.g. it is NOT about validating your faith, it is NOT to be worshiped, etc., etc., ad nauseum), you and your ilk always just HAVE to post the same old, tired nonsense.
It’s authentic. It’s the real deal. Get over it.
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Include me on the ping list please.
The Shroud is not intended to offer proof of our salvation. It is a relic that has survived from the day our Lord was buried in the tomb.
DeMolay was burned at the stake. The man on the shroud hasn’t been burned, he’s been whipped and crucified.
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