(July 25, 2014 at 4:36 pm)Cato Wrote:(July 25, 2014 at 3:59 pm)Purplundy Wrote: That was probably more of a Jesus short story (it was pretty short), and would be an interesting policy for the Church to adopt.
So far as this guy in the tale didn't have ailing family to take care of, it's not as if he would have hurt anybody by leaving rotting corpses in their deathbeds. I'd charge the Son of God with perhaps being insensitive. The man who came to Jesus was there for his parents when they died, wasn't he? Besides, the story's probably been mythicized. Was this guy so unlucky that both of his parents died at the same time?
Of course, this is not addressed to anyone with actual deceased family members.
A Jesus story mythicized? Say it ain't so.
Another way to look at this is that it didn't matter that the parents were buried because Jesus said he would be right back. A fact of scripture that modern Christians must ignore to keep their fantasy alive.
Matthew 24:34: Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.
What, is one of the apostles still among us and just really, really, REEEEEALLY old? #2000isthenew60
Luke: You don't believe in the Force, do you?
Han Solo: Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, and I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen *anything* to make me believe that there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything. 'Cause no mystical energy field controls *my* destiny. It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense.
Han Solo: Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, and I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen *anything* to make me believe that there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything. 'Cause no mystical energy field controls *my* destiny. It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense.
