Comments on: Not much comfort http://www.mattandnancy.org/open-source-theology/not-much-comfort/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:39:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Pat http://www.mattandnancy.org/open-source-theology/not-much-comfort/#comment-645 Pat Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 http://mattandnancy.mattheerema.com/?p=248#comment-645 In my 1-year bible, for the OT, Ecclesiastes immediately follows Job. I think there's a reason that God originally separated them with Psalms and Proverbs. Yikes. In my 1-year bible, for the OT, Ecclesiastes immediately follows Job. I think there’s a reason that God originally separated them with Psalms and Proverbs. Yikes.

]]> By: Different Dan http://www.mattandnancy.org/open-source-theology/not-much-comfort/#comment-646 Different Dan Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 http://mattandnancy.mattheerema.com/?p=248#comment-646 "So that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life." That's a good line. It's a process. Look out teeth, look out gums, look out God, here I come. Of course, I'm not coming on my own strength. It's God doing the swallowing. By faith, I'm being swallowed by life. And the idea of being further clothed... That makes me think of the difference between buying my shirts at Wal-mart and, say, Nieman-Marcus or some other high-end make. A Wal-mart shirt is OK. I mean it covers your body, right. But when you wear something that truly fits, that's high-quality, you feel the difference. You feel better about yourself, even. More comfortable, more secure, more confident. Have you ever had that feeling? That verse makes me think along those lines, being further clothed. Wrapped in a righteous robe. “So that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.”

That’s a good line.

It’s a process.

Look out teeth, look out gums, look out God, here I come.

Of course, I’m not coming on my own strength. It’s God doing the swallowing. By faith, I’m being swallowed by life.

And the idea of being further clothed… That makes me think of the difference between buying my shirts at Wal-mart and, say, Nieman-Marcus or some other high-end make. A Wal-mart shirt is OK. I mean it covers your body, right. But when you wear something that truly fits, that’s high-quality, you feel the difference. You feel better about yourself, even. More comfortable, more secure, more confident. Have you ever had that feeling? That verse makes me think along those lines, being further clothed.

Wrapped in a righteous robe.

]]> By: paul http://www.mattandnancy.org/open-source-theology/not-much-comfort/#comment-647 paul Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 http://mattandnancy.mattheerema.com/?p=248#comment-647 A Sokollism for you: "Remember this is the short crummy part." Also if you just picked up the one year then you missed this a day or two earlier: http://www.biblegateway.org/cgi-bin/bible?passage=2COR+4:16&language=english&version=NIV&showfn=on&showxref=on 2 Corinthians 4 16Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. A Sokollism for you:
“Remember this is the short crummy part.”

Also if you just picked up the one year then you missed this a day or two earlier:
http://www.biblegateway.org/cgi-bin/bible?passage=2COR+4:16&language=english&version=NIV&showfn=on&showxref=on
2 Corinthians 4
16Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.

]]> By: Matt http://www.mattandnancy.org/open-source-theology/not-much-comfort/#comment-648 Matt Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 http://mattandnancy.mattheerema.com/?p=248#comment-648 Nope Paul, I didn't miss that part, nor did I miss this part :) "For this slight momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal." Nope Paul, I didn’t miss that part, nor did I miss this part :)

“For this slight momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.”

]]> By: greg http://www.mattandnancy.org/open-source-theology/not-much-comfort/#comment-649 greg Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 http://mattandnancy.mattheerema.com/?p=248#comment-649 Im glad you explained that verse cause I couldn't make heads or tails of it. Im glad you explained that verse cause I couldn’t make heads or tails of it.

]]> By: Kathy http://www.mattandnancy.org/open-source-theology/not-much-comfort/#comment-650 Kathy Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 http://mattandnancy.mattheerema.com/?p=248#comment-650 There's a Hebrew rabbinical tradition called "Targum," in which rabbis would translate the Torah into the vernacular of the places where the Diaspora Jews lived. They would read it, and paraphrase it as they went along. It was the only way the Diaspora could really understand the Torah and relate to it. I think your post is a Targum. And a very good one at that. There’s a Hebrew rabbinical tradition called “Targum,” in which rabbis would translate the Torah into the vernacular of the places where the Diaspora Jews lived. They would read it, and paraphrase it as they went along. It was the only way the Diaspora could really understand the Torah and relate to it.

I think your post is a Targum. And a very good one at that.

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