Merry Christmas!

[icewolf010]

Because everybody's sick of Matthew and Luke at this time of year (Mark starts with the ministry of John the Baptist and doesn't do a nativity story). And, honestly? John got it most right out of the four of them. Stables and shepherds and kings are great and all, but the Light is what Christmas--and Christianity--are really supposed to be about,

Comments

[tompurdue]

I always thought John had the most powerful punch of them all. I especially like the way that opening verse sounds in Greek:

En arche en logos, kai logos en pros theos, kai logos en theos.

It's a word-for-word translation, but something about the many meanings of "logos" really give that a lot of punch for me. Thayer's goes on for over a page, with definitions from "saying" to "law" to "reason" to "reckoning" (and even, in Herodotus, "fiction".) That's some mighty fine poetry there.

Just a thought...

[ladypantherrr]

I'd likely have tucked it behind an LJ cut, as not everyone wants to read something related to religion (of any sort), or politics... I'd do the same for any of the pagan-y/nature-based discussion material I might post, or political philosophy... that's just me though ;-)

[madmoisellestar]

Merry Christmas.