Synod of Elvira, 306 ... John, can you elaborate on why you think this connection may exist? ... Foot-washing did exist in the ancient church and figured in...
Bryan, I understand that foot-washing had been (and still is) a custom in certain churches but, to my knowledge, it never became a sacrament. In the Roman...
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John, you wrote ... Washing of hands has a much more ancient pedigree (so to speak, though that word sounds like it ought to have more to do with feet...) -...
Thanks, Richard; I agree with what you say here. What I'm curious about is the particular reason why Pilate, a pagan, became prominently absorbed in a...
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Jim, I will do my best to locate Jaubert's book and to work my way through it. I don't see how your comment here resolves the basic problem: << John uses Roman...
John and Bibal A human body was a composition of many measuring units with "Meaning" attached to all of them. A hand was 5, the number of Man. Many Papers...
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Petur, What a succinct formula! You are absolutely right, of course. Monotheism did not evolve out of paganism; on the contrary, paganism adapted itself to ...
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John, thank you. Yes I think Ernest is on a path that will bring that to light. Perhaps we glimpse a phase of evolution that needs more distance to be clear. ...
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Dear Petur and John: You are trying to generalize this process, and I confess I don't see how to do it. We seem to have the richest fund of historical...
Dear Ernest. I just read your message and, as usual, I did a quick cipher follow- ... arrived yesterday with one of the best essays I've read in years by ...
Jim, I located a 1972 article by Annie Jaubert, in which she updates her earlier arguments: "The Calendar at Qumran and the Passion Narrative in John" (1972)....
Yes, Ernest, I agree. It's hard to imagine the Sumerians going to business school to learn double entry accounting, and then coming home in the evening and...
Duane, We are left with the blunt contradiction in Revelation that Messiah gestation is precisely tailored to a 360-day count. Alternate calendars may have...
Pete, "Double entry accounting" seems a great metaphor for "twin mountains" speaking two different languages. This is how Enkidu was "civilized" by a week-long...
Ernest, I was keenly interested to read what you said about opposites. You can't have a universe consisting solely of positive existent things. There are...
David, Your sermons deserve a wider audience. This is a "conservatism" that "liberals" could embrace (and need to). I am much taken with Pete's mention of...
DIES IRAE = 3321 In Augustan-Saga-Shakespeare Myth, the diabolical aspect of Spirit tied down in the "mortal coil" of Time and Space is bid farewell on DIES...
'He spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.' David, if it wasn't an anachronism I'd say that Job was describing Plato's 'atomic triangles theory' in...
That's absolute right, David; well said! I mean, is the Big Bang theory an "anachronism" simply because it resembles "Let there be light"? There's a lot of...
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In a message dated 5/3/2008 1:50:18 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, ernestmcc@... writes: How is one to generalize this? How about"divine comedy"?Comedies...
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John, knowing my quirky sense of humour, my son bought me 'One Hundred Years of Science Fiction Illustration.' by Anthony Frewin and I haven't stopped quirking...
John: The old pantheons were conceived as musical comedies right down to Marduk/Baal, most blatant of all. The fabled solemnity of the Bible is "tongue in...
Hi John and all, in an appropriately synchronistic event, I happened to be reading an Egyptian letter from the 19th Dynasty - in other words somewhere around...
Thanks, John! Furthermore, consciousness may embrace two different ways of regarding the same thing. You're a great encouragement, and so is Ernest with his...
Nafni, ..perhaps Biblical Archeological Review suggests "double entry accounting" existed in the 2 century: "In Gnostic theology the Biblical God is split in...
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Hi Richard Thank you -this is very interesting. Perhaps the pot was designed for that ritual? Petur...
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Hi Petur, what an interesting thought! I don't know anything about the pot itself. The letter was written to "the scribe Nekhemmut" but the sender does not...
No, Nafni, that's just the old tax scam. One set of books for the God (the eternal collector) and the other set for yourself, to let you know how business is...
