Message-ID: <v02140b06aeee2d3bf2df@DialupEudora> Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 21:12:36 -0600 From: Anselm Erighono <mailto:aerighon@BLUE.WEEG.UIOWA.EDU> Subject: Re: Christmas Tree To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
>There are even many books which offer various
>reasons and historical perpectives of what acctually happened to a Young
>Jewish Rabbi who was crucified, and then a couple of hundred years later
>called the Christ. If however you should choose not to do this type of
>research, This "Jew" here will answer your questions, but from my personal
>interpretation of the histrorical evidence, not from a biblical
>interpretation, which I am afraid has clouded many views of history.
The issue is not really about a young Jewish Rabbi that was crucified years ago. Many were crucified, but he alone arose from the dead and was witnessed by many and he baptized with the Holy Spirit and with fire. He it is that is alive in the hearts of many today. It is hard to divorce him from this season, he is the reason for Christmas. " For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace." Isaiah 9; 6
I thank God that is in his name the "gentiles" shall trust. Christ is not in explanations, He is in the lives of real people everyday. In their wisdom men have become foolish. I beg your pardon, he is not just a young Jewish Rabbi that was later called the Christ. He is the Christ, he is the begining and the end, the Alpha and Omega.
Anselm Erighono.