Joseph, the caretaker of the Lord, is often neglected in our Christmas celebrations, but he was a model husband and father. He was righteous, merciful, content w/obscurity, responsive to divine revelation, a dutiful citizen, and attentive to his family's safety and security.
@CrankyFed Same brother. The Christmas after my first daughter was born I watch The Nativity Story while holding her and bawled my eyes out. How could the king of all things choose to make himself so weak and vulnerable, to those who had even less than me?? What kind of love
I have sung “O Holy Night” my entire life, but only this year did I learn that the man who wrote in 1855, “Chains shall he break, for the slave is our brother”…
was an abolitionist.
He understood this in-breaking Kingdom. No one would be above it, or below it.
Pornhub will soon be shut off in 13 different US states: Florida, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Montana, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Carolina, Texas and Virginia. (Via CBS)
Christopher Nolan’s next film is an adaption of ‘THE ODYSSEY’
• Described as a mythic action epic that follows the tale of Odysseus & his 10-year journey home after the Trojan War
• Starring Tom Holland, Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Matt Damon, Lupita Nyong’o and Robert Pattinson
Man’s maker was made man that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother’s breast. That the Bread might hunger, the Fountain might thirst, that the Truth might be accused of lying, that Strength might grow weak, the Healer be wounded, that the Life might die” (Augustine).
@NotSureXP@Jeff_Palouse@NeilShenvi I would argue there is more evidence for her innocence, or at least naive exploitation, than there is that she was an enthusiastic partner. If you don’t want to call it rape I think that’s fair, but adultery with two equal parties is far from how it’s portrayed.
@NotSureXP@Jeff_Palouse@NeilShenvi Oh I agree with your last point entirely, that’s obviously David’s reasoning.
I think I’m saying that, based on the passage, nothing from the passage implies that Bathsheba was an active, much less enthusiastic, party to the event. At best she was mislead and manipulated.