Posted by Lou Pilder on December 10, 2007, at 19:05:09
In reply to Sigismund's reply to » Lou Pilder, posted by Sigismund on December 9, 2007, at 15:25:32
> Thank you Lou
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> For this
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> >One of the aspects of the issue here of suicide is about [...the lost sheep...].
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> and the only bit of Revelations that I can remember liking
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> >And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
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> Maybe Revelations was written during the Diocletian terror and that explains the tone of it?
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> But the Gospel of John is not great on the Jews. I was listening once to the St John Passion and where you get to (if I remember correctly, and this is from memory) the text saying 'His blood be on us and on our children and on our children's children', Bach does a grim and impressive fugue and the whole thing has so much historical resonance that the hair stood up on the back of my neck and I felt guilty for that, both together.Sigismund,
You wrote,[...Thank you Lou for this...the lost sheep...]
The book of Revelation is the only book in the bible that says that it offers the listener or reader a blessing. (ch 1).
The contents of the book was revealed to me many years ago in, lets say, a vision of sorts. I came to a very tall Gate that opened and I saw a Great Gulf that was joined by a narrow bridge. When I went through the gate it closed behind me and I had no choice but to go across. There was a Rider on a White Horse on the other side that I could barely see. When I reached the other side of the Gulf one of the first things that He said to me was,"My sheep hear my voice and they follow me."
Lou
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