Books
- JONAH & NAHUM: Lessons In Lostness (See front page)
- OBADIAH - an Odyssey
- YOU WIN SOME, YOU LOSE SOME (See below)
"You Win Some, You Lose Some" is a detailed examination of prophecy both historically and in Churches today. It awaits final editing as it was refused publication on the grounds of being too controversial. Below is an extract from the original version.
YOU WIN SOME, YOU LOSE SOME (Extract Ch.10)
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Isaiah 53:2ff tells us that our Lord "had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him"… he was despised, and we esteemed him not."
It is also significant that Jesus was called 'The Word' by the Evangelist (John 1:2 etc.). No doubt this title was strongly influenced by Hebrew understanding of 'debar', meaning 'Word', a term having far more connotations of action than it does in modern English. When God 'spoke' a thing was done: inevitable as day follows night, regardless of the actual time-span intervening between proclamation and fulfilment.
Objectors may say that the Evangelist and others lived in a non-Pictorial Age, according to my above rather loose definition. No doubt that is so but the point here is that every other god apart from the Judeo-Christian God had its image or images. 1 . Men would not worship what they could not see. In His Grace the Father gave us Jesus, "Christ who is the image of God". 2 That is all the pictorial presentation ever given to man and of course limited to Jesus' generation, as only they ever saw him in his incarnation. Yet of course the passage in 2 Corinthians is not merely speaking of the Incarnation. Jesus is today the image of the Father just as much as he was in his days in the flesh. Just as in the Decalogue, we must not build our own image of God nor indeed should we need one.
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