Thursday, March 01, 2007
Wow.
James Cameron found Jesus' tomb.
Truly amazing stuff, especially when you consider the fact that he couldn't manage to find either a decent script or the will to cut "Titanic" into something watchable. I mean come on, Kate Winslet notcies there aren't enough lifeboats and nobody else does?
The real question is does it really matter if this is in fact the tomb of the Jesus clan?
The answer of course is no.
The foundation of Christianity is the ressurected Christ, defying death and the wages of sin on behalf of all of us sinners. Whether the ressurection actually occurred or not (and as most of you know, I for one do not endorse a 'literal' resurrection), is not important, what is important is what Jesus as a minister and rabble rouser taught to the spritually hungry masses.
Love God, Love each other.
Mel Gibson, in his snuff film of "The Passion", took everything he learned with making "Braveheart" and applied it to his own narrow misguided faith. The tragedy of the film was that it focused on a few relatively unimportant moments in Christ's life in order to generate world wide interest in anti-semitism when all he really needed to do was get busted for DUI. Though he did manage to rake in a whole bunch of money. For being such a good Christian I don't recall him donating the profits.
Hell, Paul Neuman does that and it took him 2o years to make the cash Mel did on one B movie.
I digress, so, back to the question at hand, what do we do with this whole tomb of Jesus thing?
Nothing.
Mainstream Christians gain nothing by confronting the resurrection and folks like me, concerned not only with Christ's teachings but the also the environment in which he taught, don't gain anything by this either. For me, how or where he ended up is truly secondary to the importance of what he said and did.
Now, for a quick retort to those who write to chastise me for "customizing" Christianity to my own needs, why the hell shouldn't I? The early Christian leaders did exactly the same from St. Paul on up. Am I any less than they? If I were living in the 300's as opposed to the 2000's I might even be invited to the big convention in Nicea to help decide just how to customize Christianity for his eminence Constantine I.
I'm sure those folks back in 321 C.E., who mainstream Christians can't seem to realize that they worship more than Jesus, had keeping true to the teachings of Christ at the forefront of all of their decisions.
Un-hunh.
That being said, keep those cards and letters coming.
Ponder this for next week. Since there are various "theories" as to the origins of the four Canonical Gospels, does this mean they aren't valid?
I think it does if you apply the fundamental Christian approach to the theory of evolution.
Peace,
RW
James Cameron found Jesus' tomb.
Truly amazing stuff, especially when you consider the fact that he couldn't manage to find either a decent script or the will to cut "Titanic" into something watchable. I mean come on, Kate Winslet notcies there aren't enough lifeboats and nobody else does?
The real question is does it really matter if this is in fact the tomb of the Jesus clan?
The answer of course is no.
The foundation of Christianity is the ressurected Christ, defying death and the wages of sin on behalf of all of us sinners. Whether the ressurection actually occurred or not (and as most of you know, I for one do not endorse a 'literal' resurrection), is not important, what is important is what Jesus as a minister and rabble rouser taught to the spritually hungry masses.
Love God, Love each other.
Mel Gibson, in his snuff film of "The Passion", took everything he learned with making "Braveheart" and applied it to his own narrow misguided faith. The tragedy of the film was that it focused on a few relatively unimportant moments in Christ's life in order to generate world wide interest in anti-semitism when all he really needed to do was get busted for DUI. Though he did manage to rake in a whole bunch of money. For being such a good Christian I don't recall him donating the profits.
Hell, Paul Neuman does that and it took him 2o years to make the cash Mel did on one B movie.
I digress, so, back to the question at hand, what do we do with this whole tomb of Jesus thing?
Nothing.
Mainstream Christians gain nothing by confronting the resurrection and folks like me, concerned not only with Christ's teachings but the also the environment in which he taught, don't gain anything by this either. For me, how or where he ended up is truly secondary to the importance of what he said and did.
Now, for a quick retort to those who write to chastise me for "customizing" Christianity to my own needs, why the hell shouldn't I? The early Christian leaders did exactly the same from St. Paul on up. Am I any less than they? If I were living in the 300's as opposed to the 2000's I might even be invited to the big convention in Nicea to help decide just how to customize Christianity for his eminence Constantine I.
I'm sure those folks back in 321 C.E., who mainstream Christians can't seem to realize that they worship more than Jesus, had keeping true to the teachings of Christ at the forefront of all of their decisions.
Un-hunh.
That being said, keep those cards and letters coming.
Ponder this for next week. Since there are various "theories" as to the origins of the four Canonical Gospels, does this mean they aren't valid?
I think it does if you apply the fundamental Christian approach to the theory of evolution.
Peace,
RW
Labels: Gospels, Titanic, Tomb of Jesus
