I'm not sure on the math anymore but...
Added 2020-08-03 05:40:34 +0000 UTC...my heart tells me this must be official week 40. We're hitting episode 200 this week and that will allow me to make a reasonable estimate as to how many episodes it's going to take to get through Matthew. My guess is a lot (which is why I adopted the four digit episode numbering from the beginning).
Monday puts a bow on the passage about Jairus and the woman with bleeding, and then we've got one more cluster of miracle stuff before we hit something very different in tone and meaning in chapter 10.
Thanks for being with me on this.
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200 episodes already? Well, more than that since I'm super late at writing this. :) I remember when you first started the podcast. I was skeptical that I, personally, would like it. I'm a very visual person. So podcasts don't work well with me. But you paint such vivid images of hamsters being implied that it works for me. :) TNBHP is the only podcast I listen to. But it's one that I look forward to. It almost makes my 4-6 hours of mowing fun. Almost. We still have WAY too much grass here. :)
610Garage
2020-08-14 04:50:32 +0000 UTCI find it impossible to believe the Bible is without a human point of view, or many. We are as far away in time from the human Jesus as Jesus was from Mosses. Cultural sensibilities change. Still I am drawn to the story, and its implications. It appears to be the a working out of an idea, of universal structure and meaning. It is addressing the human condition in a variety of contexts. I am drawn to it as a source of faith, faith and comfort in being. I am as stuck in this time as those in the Bible stories were stuck in theirs. Matthew says he envies those who believe without having to struggle. I am just baffled by their sensibility. I have some in my family, the children of my elder brother. What we share is the knowledge that we belong. I have faith in being both because and in spite of my relationship with Bible. We have with the Bible an account of the sensibilities of human societies from the origins of civilization, and with the Christian tradition to this day. The Bible is the roots of culture for this branch of humanity, its ideas ( plural intended) inspire faith in being.
Frenix2
2020-08-03 11:46:03 +0000 UTC
