I evidently don't know my arse from a hole in the ground about the difference between the words craven and graven, but you didn't leave an email for me to follow, Anonymous.
I have a very good base in Catholic traditions. My Father and all his family were Catholics, and I almost decided to become a Nun when I was 17. I've always been a believer, a sort of Congenital Christian, like William Buckley.
I still say that this small statue is a replica of a graven, thanks anon, image reproduced in ceramic. I love my little statue and she is a reminder of all the beautiful things that Mary was. All of them. Holy, Kind, Compassionate, Brave, Beautiful, and Gentle.
Please sign your name next time so that I will know if you are just some sort of republican operative picking a fight, or if you seriously believe that I don't know what I'm talking about.
No Graven Images. That's the line He drew in the Commandments. I obey it. I didn't draw it nor do I question the will behind it. I just obey it. I think maybe Lord Jesus may have happily looked more like Friar Tuck for all we know.
If there was such a person as Jesus, bearing in mind that the Romans were obsessive record-keepers and there is no historical reference to him or to many of the alleged events in the New Testament, such as the "census" requiring everyone to return to their place of birth, he was a Jew. He didn't look like a northern European. He may have been a composite of stories about the myriad "Messiahs" of his time, which would account for many inconsistencies in the gospels. But regardless of that, he probably looked a lot more like Paul Simon than the romanticized painting usually shown.
ReplyDeleteI take your point about what Jesus may have looked like. There really is no way of knowing at all.
ReplyDeleteI have to say that a lot was destroyed in the burning of the library of Alexandria. It was a monstrous crime against human knowledge, as was the destruction of the Vedas by the British Raj.
I confess that I am a believer of miracles and have to dispute that Jesus, who spoke Aramaic, was actually called a Jew by anyone but the Romans who were always great know nothings. They were just another empire building bunch of hooligans, frankly speaking, who lumped people who had little to do with each other into one mob for their own purposes.
Poking around I found this site, that seems to have references that can be traced down and read in hard copy.
http://phoenicia.org/aramaicjesus.html
Whether it's of any worth to me, or anyone, looking for the origins of the Northern Kingdom or not will depend on more study.
I'm always up for something that is really so far back in history that it's dead, or so far into the future that you can make it up as you go along. My tongue is in my cheek for this last paragraph.
I concede that even Jesus disputed with one admirer who had mistaken him for God, when HE told the man not to call HIM "Good", because only God was good. Now that is a quandary right there, is it not? yep..
Otherwise, I yield no other points about the Angelic (or God like) nature of Christ, and consider him Angelic in the manner of the Angel of Peniel, with whom Jacob wrestled, or of the Archangel Raphael, who traveled with Tobiah and the black dog.
Two days to the election, thank heaven. I can start posting flower pictures again, and accidental art.