*giggles*
O... M... G...!!!
Prize for strangest quiz evah goes to...
You Are "alt"
Some people might find you to be strange, mysterious, and even a bit off putting.
You tend to be drawn to and influenced by alternative lifestyles. You're definitely not normal.
Once people get to know you, they realize you're interesting, intriguing, and very intelligent.
You have a lot of knowledge stored in that big brain of yours. Most of it is useless knowledge, but some of it is very useful.
What Keyboard Key Are You?
But guess what? It's pretty accurate! *dies laughing*
Your normal programming will now resume.
Happiness is...
- geeky quizzes
- Pet Society on Facebook (my Violet is sooo cute!)
- chatting on MSN
- cuddles in RL
- Person Above You thread at DW
I had a sudden urge to play FF7, earlier. I may give in to it in a bit.
I watched the first episode of 'Christianity: a history' last night, which was entitled 'Jesus the Jew'.
The presenter, Howard Jacobson, is a Jew who felt that his upbringing was not so much orthodox as befuddled - they never had bacon in the house, but his dad dressed up as Father Christmas :D He talked about Jesus' very Jewish upbringing and life, and how his baptism wasn't about 'making' him a Christian (after all, Christianity still didn't exist at that point) but about reaffirming his Jewishness. Then he laid into Paul a bit, citing his tussle with his own Jewish background as being partly (even largely) responsible for Christianity's relationship with Judaism. After all, the central figure of Christianity was a Jew by birth, but he was killed by the Jewish authorities of his time. Thus, Christianity cannot escape its Jewish past, yet hates Judaism - I think was his point. He explored the history of anti-Semitism and some of the horrendous things that were done to Jews.
At the end, he asked that Christians who were watching recognise Jesus' Jewishness so that Jews would be able to look again at his teachings. (That may sound patronising - if so, please note that this is my summary of what he said, not his actual words.)
I had a really interesting reaction - I thought, 'who are you to tell me what to do?'. I was rather shocked at myself; after all, I pride myself on my liberal attitude to everyone, regardless of colour, creed, etc, etc. I think it was prompted more by British superiority than anti-Semitism. After all, I have understood that Jesus was a Jew for a very long time. However, I don't know any Jews personally at this point in my life - or if I do, I don't know that they're Jewish - 'though I have in the past. Those I have known, I've always got on with, but I have to admit that the subject of religion never came up, as far as I remember. It's something I've never had to confront, I suppose.
The reason Judaism doesn't recognise Jesus as the Messiah is that the Messiah was supposed to prepare the way for God, to usher in a new age. Since Jesus was executed before the new age began, Jews believe he left the job undone as it were. This is why Christianity believes in the second coming - the Kingdom is, thus, merely delayed. Also, the Jewish Messiah is very much a man of this world; there is nothing supernatural about him. Jacobson did mention that Jesus embodied a human being filled with God, though, which is Marcus Berg's take on it - and, the more I think about it, mine. I would also argue that Jesus showed everyone what the Kingdom could be like, that he did prepare the way for God's realm to come on Earth. And everyone can experience 'Kingdom moments' - fractions of time when everything is just right, beads on a thread that, if only there were enough of them, could be joined together to build God's world right here.
*sigh*
But we're human. We know what the Kingdom looks like, we've all experienced it - but it's too much effort to live life like that all the time. Which is crazy, because there are only two 'laws' in the Kingdom - love God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your strength, and love your neighbour as yourself. What's hard about that?! And yet it is hard.
Note to self: we need a new word - 'Kingdom' seems wrong...
Right, I'm off to play with the bloke with spiky hair and purple jim-jams :D
Prize for strangest quiz evah goes to...
You Are "alt"
Some people might find you to be strange, mysterious, and even a bit off putting.
You tend to be drawn to and influenced by alternative lifestyles. You're definitely not normal.
Once people get to know you, they realize you're interesting, intriguing, and very intelligent.
You have a lot of knowledge stored in that big brain of yours. Most of it is useless knowledge, but some of it is very useful.
What Keyboard Key Are You?
But guess what? It's pretty accurate! *dies laughing*
Your normal programming will now resume.
Happiness is...
- geeky quizzes
- Pet Society on Facebook (my Violet is sooo cute!)
- chatting on MSN
- cuddles in RL
- Person Above You thread at DW
I had a sudden urge to play FF7, earlier. I may give in to it in a bit.
I watched the first episode of 'Christianity: a history' last night, which was entitled 'Jesus the Jew'.
The presenter, Howard Jacobson, is a Jew who felt that his upbringing was not so much orthodox as befuddled - they never had bacon in the house, but his dad dressed up as Father Christmas :D He talked about Jesus' very Jewish upbringing and life, and how his baptism wasn't about 'making' him a Christian (after all, Christianity still didn't exist at that point) but about reaffirming his Jewishness. Then he laid into Paul a bit, citing his tussle with his own Jewish background as being partly (even largely) responsible for Christianity's relationship with Judaism. After all, the central figure of Christianity was a Jew by birth, but he was killed by the Jewish authorities of his time. Thus, Christianity cannot escape its Jewish past, yet hates Judaism - I think was his point. He explored the history of anti-Semitism and some of the horrendous things that were done to Jews.
At the end, he asked that Christians who were watching recognise Jesus' Jewishness so that Jews would be able to look again at his teachings. (That may sound patronising - if so, please note that this is my summary of what he said, not his actual words.)
I had a really interesting reaction - I thought, 'who are you to tell me what to do?'. I was rather shocked at myself; after all, I pride myself on my liberal attitude to everyone, regardless of colour, creed, etc, etc. I think it was prompted more by British superiority than anti-Semitism. After all, I have understood that Jesus was a Jew for a very long time. However, I don't know any Jews personally at this point in my life - or if I do, I don't know that they're Jewish - 'though I have in the past. Those I have known, I've always got on with, but I have to admit that the subject of religion never came up, as far as I remember. It's something I've never had to confront, I suppose.
The reason Judaism doesn't recognise Jesus as the Messiah is that the Messiah was supposed to prepare the way for God, to usher in a new age. Since Jesus was executed before the new age began, Jews believe he left the job undone as it were. This is why Christianity believes in the second coming - the Kingdom is, thus, merely delayed. Also, the Jewish Messiah is very much a man of this world; there is nothing supernatural about him. Jacobson did mention that Jesus embodied a human being filled with God, though, which is Marcus Berg's take on it - and, the more I think about it, mine. I would also argue that Jesus showed everyone what the Kingdom could be like, that he did prepare the way for God's realm to come on Earth. And everyone can experience 'Kingdom moments' - fractions of time when everything is just right, beads on a thread that, if only there were enough of them, could be joined together to build God's world right here.
*sigh*
But we're human. We know what the Kingdom looks like, we've all experienced it - but it's too much effort to live life like that all the time. Which is crazy, because there are only two 'laws' in the Kingdom - love God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your strength, and love your neighbour as yourself. What's hard about that?! And yet it is hard.
Note to self: we need a new word - 'Kingdom' seems wrong...
Right, I'm off to play with the bloke with spiky hair and purple jim-jams :D