[GCFL-discuss] Vacation Bible School and your kids

[Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List]

PPPPS = The other kids never spoke again they were so scared.

hehe j/k
~Lance

On 6/12/07, Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List <
gcfl-discuss at gcfl.net> wrote:
>
>  Jeanene, most Christian women appreciate what I believe would be my
> starting point:
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Siarlys
>
> 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 *The Tenants of Time*, "offense was given
> Patrick, you are not very observant this morning."
>
> 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.
>
> 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.)
>
> 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.
>
> On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:27:58 -0700 "Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies
> List" <gcfl-discuss at gcfl.net> writes:
> > I don't have a very good feeling about the VBS materials you might
> > come up
> > with.  Could you please put that on a backburner for a while?
> > Thanks.  From the whole world.
> > Jeanene
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
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> > To: "Red" <jeanenehea at comcast.net>
> > Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 5:50 AM
> > Subject: Re: [GCFL-discuss] Vacation Bible School and your kids
> >
> >
> > > Jeanene, that was very inspiring. I think I need to start writing
> > my own
> > > VBS curriculum. It would be, at the least, a very unique set of
> > study
> > > materials.
> > >
> > > Siarlys
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