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<DIV>Jeanene, most Christian women appreciate what I believe would be my
starting point:</DIV>
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<DIV>God did not make Eve from Adam's rib. God took away one SIDE of the
original Adam, to make a woman (isha) and what was left became man (ish). It is
hard to follow in European translations, because Adam is mistaken for a proper
name, and the words Adam and Ish are freely interchanged as "man" either in
singular or plural. Anyway, most women appreciate that God knows, even if many
theologians do not, that they represent one half of the original image of God,
not an afterthought made from a small piece.</DIV>
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<DIV>Orthodox Jewish women don't need to be told that, they and the males in
their family can read the original Hebrew. However, Orthodox Judaism is not
responsible for the manner in which I employ this clarification. I wouldn't
visit that responsibility on anyone but me.</DIV>
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<DIV>There is also the fact that English, clumsy language in many ways, lacks
the distinction between anthropos and andros (mankind and sexually male person)
which Greek and many other languages have, therefore Adam and ish are hard to
distinguish.</DIV>
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<DIV>Siarlys</DIV>
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<DIV>P.S. Thanks Lance. And Jeanene, I take your comment as tongue in cheek and
sincere at the same time. No offense taken. (Although I rather liked Bob
Delaney's remark to Patrick in <EM>The Tenants of Time</EM>, "offense was given
Patrick, you are not very observant this morning."</DIV>
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<DIV>P.P.S. Oh, I see Jeanene has written again. There is nothing I desire more
than to have a wholesome and inspirational effect on young children. Inspiring
with my own sense of wholesome of course. I would like to teach God with a lot
of theological verbiage stripped away, but I would still rely on the Bible. Is
there any other authority available? I don't know of one.</DIV>
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<DIV>P.P.P.S. Thanks again Lance. If I stretch people's minds a little, I am
happy to leave what they truly believe between them and God. There are only two
approaches to The Truth: burn everyone at the stake who doesn't verbalize it
your way, or let God judge and be reasonably courteous about the differences of
perception. How could we falliable mortals possibly see the Whole Truth in one
human lifetime? Oh, I forget, Jeanene is Anglican. (All in good humor Jeanene,
but your ancestors did give my Presbyterian, Baptist and Puritan ancestors a
really hard time about 300 years ago.)</DIV>
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<DIV>P.P.P.P.S. I do have a niece, a nephew, and a Little Brother, greenBubble,
and believe it or not, I can break things down for children sometimes. Most kids
like me.</DIV>
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<DIV>On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:27:58 -0700 "Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies
List" <<A href="mailto:gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net">gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net</A>>
writes:<BR>> I don't have a very good feeling about the VBS materials you
might <BR>> come up <BR>> with. Could you please put that on a
backburner for a while?<BR>> Thanks. From the whole world.<BR>>
Jeanene<BR>> <BR>> ----- Original Message ----- <BR>> From: "Discussion
of the Good, Clean Funnies List" <BR>> <<A
href="mailto:gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net">gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net</A>><BR>> To:
"Red" <<A
href="mailto:jeanenehea@comcast.net">jeanenehea@comcast.net</A>><BR>>
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 5:50 AM<BR>> Subject: Re: [GCFL-discuss] Vacation
Bible School and your kids<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> > Jeanene, that was very
inspiring. I think I need to start writing <BR>> my own<BR>> > VBS
curriculum. It would be, at the least, a very unique set of <BR>>
study<BR>> > materials.<BR>> ><BR>> > Siarlys<BR>> >
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