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- Up early; fed babes while J. slept; NCC - Jim speaking, a round
up of the leaders conference; hmm. Back home, frantic cleaning etc. Barbara
& Bill, Derek & Heather around for lunch - fine food, good company.
- Slugged the rest of the afternoon, watched 'Fifi & the
flower-tots' on DVD - unfortunately the LCD screen does very odd stuff to
colors; installed SL 10.0 on the sole-remaining CRT machine.
- Gordon
sermon on
John 1 - "In the beginning was the word".
- Brief re-cap why John is in the canon, wrt. recent Da-Vinci
generated pop-controversy. The 4 criteria for authenticating the books
of the canon:
- Ancient - has to have been written at the time when
there were many others still alive who knew Jesus. eg.
John passes the test, eg. Philipp does not - from
3rd/4th C - virtual scholarly unanimity - quoted by no
church Father in 2nd/3rd C; vs. John's numerous quotes;
it is ancient. Partial physical copy extant - John Rylands:
~130AD - could well have been a copy of the original
gospel.
- Apostolic - by an apostle or an immediate associate.
eg. John - plenty of evidance it was him: unbroken
attestation to 1stC, internal evidence - the diciple
whom Jesus loved - not particularly that he was a
special favorite, but this eye-witness, this disciple who
Jesus loved wrote this - never mentioned by name etc.
- Accord - in accord with the rest of scripture, God is
not the author of confusion; the fulfillment of scripture etc.
eg. 'Thomas' - written early 3rdC - pretends to be a record some
things Jesus said - some are plagerised from the other Gospels
& are true; others eg. saying 114 - Simon Peter said to
Jesus, let Mary leave us - for women are not worth of life ...
That's the kind of junk you get in the 'gospels' written 300
years after Jesus. In the originals you find Jesus breaking
conventions to minister to the woman of Samaria, or her caught
in adultrey - Jesus of Nazareth doesn't think salvation is just
for Men.
- Accepted - the gospel of Philipp - unknown before
3rdC - and only known after that in a small back-water area of
Egypt - a fringe cult of gnostics. The Gospel of John is quoted
everywhere, numerous timees. Iranaes: John the disciple of the
Lord, who leaned back on his breast, that John - published the
gospel while he was a resident in Asian. Iranaeus knew as a
personal friend Polycarp, Polycarp knew as a personal friend
John who wrote the Gospel.
- Ever heard 'get a life' ? - these are written that
you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that
by believing you may have life in his name.;
John 20; here's where it is.
- The parallels between John 1 & Genesis. Amazing depth
to 'word' / 'spirit', Jesus' words creating reality, not just a suggestion,
but life-changing command.
- Logos - word, or message, or subject - hence bio-'logy' - the
subject. Also a 2nd meaning - related to reason, or explanation; comes into
English via. 'Logic'. For stoic philosophers 3rdC BC, took idea of logos/logic
& ran with it, what gives order to the universe etc. ie. John is speaking
their language - but in a completely opposite way. All the order you see in
your life & the universe around you - is the work of a personal, divine
word who is Jesus Christ; not an impersonal logic.
- Lots of other rather interesting bits; too tired to take notes.
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In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
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Novell, The Document Foundation, Spaghetti Hurlers (International),
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Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
