Chinese Swede - let God be God

...it went down from 80 GB available to 53 GB available in a couple of days. I deleted my Firefox's cache, and now there's 63GB available.

Note that a couple verses later (v.38) it states that Jesus was again deeply moved. What does this mean?

Is it as simplistic as "Jesus knew that He would be in the tomb soon, so He wept because of that"?

Or, is there something more?

Your insights, please!!!!

It seems that "taking up one's cross" is romanticised by some, like going overseas for a missions trip.

I was looking at this the other night and this translation came to mind:

"Take up [the very thing that you know will kill you] daily".

How does that translation sit with those who are Christian?

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/091027/world/in...

For example,

"Peace be upon him" seems frequently used immediately after mentioning the name of Jesus, Mohammad, Moses and even used *every time* that name in mentioned, not only on-line (here and Religion & Spirituality section) but also in everyday speech.

I have also heard "May God's favour rest upon him" (or something similar to that) used for other people in the same manner as "PBUH".

Can you (the person answering my question) tell me:

1. Where did these sayings come from?

2. Are there any more of them?

3. Why are different sayings used for different people? What is the criteria used to distinguish between different people?

4. Can you go into a bit about what each phrase means to Muslims?

Thanks in advance!

After thinking it over for a sec, both said, "It'll never work"....

Feel free to be a bit mystical and/or whimsical in your answer to this question!

I've noticed some people using this in their profile names.

[From an answer to this question:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=200806...

... why was it composed and used by people that generally got pwn'd BIG TIME?

EGs (during the time when the Scripture was written, NOT when it was co-opted in part under/after Emperor Justinian):

1. Israel -hardly had a state of their own of any significant duration or long-term influence, before being carted off into exile (indeed, one can make a very good case - based on OT Scripture itself - that the only reason that the state of Israel existed as a united, independent state under David and Solomon was because all the major powers that surrounded them had fought themselves to decline/exhaustion and needed to re-group),

2. Christians-First Christians got persecuted and then ejected from the Synagogues, later generations were killed en-mass (the Decian persecution (250-251 AD) was especially fierce) and therefore had little time to create a power structure.

The source passage would be from 2 Corinthians 12.1-10.

What disciplines of spiritual discernment are needed, if any? Is it more of a waiting on the Lord thing? If so, how did that look for you?

Or, have I missed the point in my perspective on this passage?

You meet a thousand times in life with those who, in dealing with any religious question, make at once their appeal to reason, and insist on forthwith rejecting aught that lies beyond its sphere--without, however, being able to render any clear account of the nature and proper limits of the knowledge thus derived, or of the relation in which such knowledge stands to the religious needs of men. I would invite you, therefore, to inquire seriously whether such persons are not really bowing down before an idol of the mind, which, while itself of very questionable worth, demands as much implicit faith from its worshipers as divine revelation itself.

... Theodor Christlieb (1833-1889)

How does 1 Corinthians 1.20-21 comment and inform this position?

The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive, but it

is sufficient. Too often, Christianity has not been tried and

found wanting--it has been found wanting, and not tried.

... Os Guinness (b.1941)

source:

http://cqod.blogspot.com/ (March 17, 2008)

There is a certain kind of so-called conversion which

separates a man from his fellow men. It may fill him with a

self-righteousness which rejoices in its own superiority to

those who have had no like experience. It may move a man to a Pharisaic self-isolation. There have in fact been not a few so-called conversions as a result of which a man has left the Church to belong to some smaller and holier body. The plain truth is that such a one should very seriously examine

himself, if he finds what he regards as his Christian

experience separating him from his fellow-men, or his fellow-

Christians.

... William Barclay (1907-1978), In the Hands of God

[1967]

What does this say about our hermeneutical cycle of grasping "blind spots" - in ourselves, our traditions, our culture?

What remedies might there be?

QUOTATION:

***

Most evangelicals believe that if a passage of the Bible

seems unclear in its meaning, it should be interpreted in the

light of Scripture "as a whole." But what does "Scripture as a

whole" mean? In practice, if not theory, it means the working

systematic theology of the interpreter, or of his own

theological tradition. An evangelical... would not hold to

that tradition unless he believed that it did represent the

wholeness of the biblical witness. Nevertheless, if this state

of affairs has been correctly described, he is now in a

serious difficulty. For if the Bible must always accord with a

theology that has already been accepted, how can the truth of

a biblical passage ever confront him afresh with an

unfavorable judgment?

... Tony Thiselton, "Understanding God's Word Today"

***

References for the above questions would be:

PETER:

"You are the Christ, the Son of the living God" (Matt 16.16-17)

GUY ON THE CROSS:

"Remember me when you come into your kingdom" (Luke 23.42)

Luke 9.24:

"For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it."