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Conference lgp30::christian-perspective

Title:Discussions from a Christian Perspective
Notice:Prostitutes and tax collectors welcome!
Moderator:CSC32::J_CHRISTIE
Created:Mon Sep 17 1990
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1362
Total number of notes:61362

929.0. "I Esdras - The strongest thing in the world" by CSC32::J_CHRISTIE (Pacifist Hellcat) Thu May 26 1994 14:12

In I Esdras, chapters 3 & 4, there's a fascinating little debate about what
is the strongest thing in the world.  One says it is wine.  Another says the
emperor.  Yet another says it must be women!  It is the fourth one, however,
who has the winning answer.

Shalom,
Richard

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929.1POWDML::FLANAGANResident AlienFri May 27 1994 15:052
    It's love.
    
929.2COVERT::COVERTJohn R. CovertFri May 27 1994 15:281
Guess again.
929.3CSC32::J_CHRISTIEPacifist HellcatFri May 27 1994 15:478
    According to the Song of Songs, love is stronger than death.  But
    love was not the answer supplied in I Esdras.
    
    The winning answer for the strongest thing in the world: truth.
    
    Shalom,
    Richard
    
929.4POWDML::FLANAGANResident AlienFri May 27 1994 15:533
    I still vote for love.
    
    Patricia
929.5JULIET::MORALES_NASweet Spirit's Gentle BreezeFri May 27 1994 16:043
    
    We each live within a reality that may or may not be related to
    truth.
929.6POWDML::FLANAGANResident AlienFri May 27 1994 16:093
    Perhaps truth is an illusion.
    
    Patricia
929.7JULIET::MORALES_NASweet Spirit's Gentle BreezeFri May 27 1994 16:158
    
    Truth is an illusion to the downtroddened, brokenhearted and oppressed. 
    Truth can become Hope to the downtroddened, brokenhearted and
    oppressed.
    Truth can be found in Jesus.
    
    
    
929.8Perception is the only realityPOWDML::FLANAGANResident AlienFri May 27 1994 17:1916
    perhaps none of us can find truth.
    
    Only our perception of truth.
    
    Perhaps none of us can find Jesus.
    
    Only our perception of Jesus.
    
    Perhaps none of us can know anything.
    
    Only our perception of reality.
    
    Perhaps perception is all there is.
    
                                 
    Patricia  - in a philospohical mood today.
929.9Mind if I get lofty?CSC32::J_CHRISTIEPacifist HellcatFri May 27 1994 17:477
    For me, truth tickles something deep down in the core of my being.
    Truth reaches down further than just what makes sense.  There's a
    point where truth and love are virtually indistinguishable.
    
    Shalom,
    Richard
    
929.10POWDML::FLANAGANResident AlienFri May 27 1994 18:0411
    Richard,
    
    Yuk,
    
    Touchy feely lofty stuff.  Who needs it.
    
    Molahs
    
    Patricia
    
    
929.11Mush is for children!JULIET::MORALES_NASweet Spirit's Gentle BreezeFri May 27 1994 20:369
    Oh greasy grimey gopher guts.. :-)
    
    Truth and Love are bedfellows but they are not synonomous.
    
    
    Truth is is not elusive it's contained in the Word of God, the Son of
    God and the Light of the World... which all points to Jesus.
    
    
929.12CSC32::J_CHRISTIEPacifist HellcatSat May 28 1994 00:1512
    Well, I wouldn't say they were bedfellows.  Neither would I
    say that truth and love were synonymous.
    
    I believe truth can come without love and love can certainly come
    without truth.
    
    Perhaps I'm too ineloquent to convey what I was trying to convey
    in .9.
    
    Shalom,
    Richard
    
929.13food for thought?DNEAST::DALELIO_HENRTue May 31 1994 07:4714
  Truth, subjective or objective?

  It depends on who you ask.

  Question : Whats the best food in the whole world?

  My seven year old daughter : Pepperoni pizza!

  Jesus Christ : I am the living bread which came down fron heaven, if 
                 anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever...


  Hank