TeakDOOR Bible Study Class

[Looper]

The lush and lovely Cheddar Trio are in wistful worship mode this week with the beautiful Psalm of David Number 50



Shivers your timbers that one...

I think they are maybe singing it in the original Aramaic so this is the translation

Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy kindness:
According to the abundance of thy mercies, blot out my transgressions.
Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
Against You, You only, have I sinned, and done what is evil in thy sight:
So that You are justified when You speak, And blameless when You judge.
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Behold, You desire truth in the innermost being,
And in the hidden part You will make me know wisdom.
Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy kindness:
According to the abundance of thy mercies, blot out my transgressions.

Praise teh Lord!

[Neverna]

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."



That's as much as I can remember from my Bible study classes at Sunday school many moons ago.

[helge]

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

"And on the seventh day, while God had a rest, Looper had a wank looking at some georgian lasses singing a song of praise to the Creator.

God had to admit to himself, that he didn't see that one coming "


Book of Loop 2:14

[tomcat]

God had to admit to himself, that he didn't see that one coming "

...god sees everyone coming...even under blankets...

[thailazer]

Would sound good coming out of the mosque speakers on Soi 11 Sukhumvit.

[baldrick]

Aren't communion wafers made from dried priest sperm ?

[Bogon]

7 days without prayer makes one weak.

[Looper]

I am watching Jesus of Nazareth from 1977 this week to get in that Jesussy Christmas mood. I remember watching this on Sunday nights when I was 8.

It is a 4 parter of 1 hour 45 each

So glad that Franco Zefirelli passed over Hoffman and Pacino for the mystically magical gaunt and spooky Robert Powell as the Messiah.

Powell is superb and breathes a new kind of life into the scripture quotations with which we are so familiar. His voice is perfect as well as his appearance and aura.

During the nativity in episode 1 it was only when the wise king Balthazar opened his mouth that I realised that it was James Earl Jones who did Darth Vader's voice. I don't remember making the connection back in 1977.

It was filmed in Morocco and Tunisia and the sets were left in place and then opportunistically re-used in 1979 by Monty Python for The Life of Brian!

It is a good adaptation since it takes minor liberties in conjuring a credible narrative around why Joseph was willing to accept his vestal virgin was up the duff ex Deus. A young Ian McShane also makes good mileage out of the creative narrative around Judas Iscariots politically internecine background and motives.

I finished Part II tonight and it does quite a detailed and biblically accurate narrative around the beheading of John The Baptist, which was Herod's daughter's bargain for performing a dance at Herod's birthday party.

That is why the bible is the most rockinest holy book on the planet... Because it does not shy away from a splash of hardcore gore!

[helge]

Lovely blue eyes for a boy out of Nazareth

[Looper]

^Powell does not actually have blue eyes. That photo seems to have been shopped.

In the TV show you see his natural grey-green eyes with dark rings around the iris borders, which are actually quite ethnically authentic for the fertile crescent.

As are his wavy brown locks.

[helge]

In the TV show you see his natural grey-green eyes with dark rings around the iris borders, which are actually quite ethnically authentic for the fertile crescent.

OK

I can't find confirmation for that.

Nevermind

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[malmomike77]

...god sees everyone coming...even under blankets...

Indeed and that is why you and SD are damned

[malmomike77]

Aren't communion wafers made from dried priest sperm ?

You Aussies are more depraved than the Irish

[Norton]

"See, the day of the Lord is coming — a cruel day, with wrath and fierce anger. . . . I will put an end to the arrogance of the haughty. . . . Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses will be looted and their wives violated."

Netanyahu 13:9–16 NIV

Isaiah 13:9-16 - See, the day of the LORD is coming —a cruel day, w...

[Looper]

More biblical beauty from the Cheddar Trio

- A prayer -
A poem written in 1858 by ILIA CHAVCHAVADZE, great Georgian poet and statesman (1837 - 1907)
In 1987 Ilia Chavchavadze was canonized by the Georgian Orthodox Church under the name Ilia the Righteous



LYRICS IN ENGLISH:

Our Father, which art in heaven,
I’m on my knees, pitying, before Thee!
I ask Thee no wealth, no glory,
I don’t want to profane with it the Holy Prayer.

I want instead my soul to be enlightened by heaven,
And my heart to be lit with love commanded by Thee!
And even for my foes that try to pierce my heart with dart
I ask Thee: “Forgive them, oh Lord, for they know not what they do” (x 2)

[Looper]

The voice of a saint praising the virtues of the virgin in an echoing concrete stairwell

[Joe 90]

[PAG]

Watching 'Suburra' the other night, and surprised myself by being to translate all the words of "Hail Mary".

[Looper]

^Sounds like a good series


This movie is quite a festive giggle with plenty of high energy musical numbers.

Even manages to weave some wokery into a fresh-faced Nativity tale without really spoiling the fun

Antonio Banderas plays a properly wicked King Herod

7.5/10

[baldrick]

the virtues of the virgin

As I have no intention of watching the yootoobe video , can you paraphrase the virtue of the virgin

I am interested as the idea of fcuking an inexperienced woman does not send a rush of blood to my loins

So having a woman's point of view would help my education

[Looper]

^Keep that potty-mouth talk out of the Bible thread Baldy or I will send these bruvvas round to explain the virtues of the virgin

They are on song here bangin out a well awesomes accapella harmonics staircase worship of the Madonna

[Salsa dancer]

I read years ago that the word "virgin" was mistranslated in the Bible, and in the original Aramaic, it simply means a woman who has never had a child.

[spliff]

Giddeons raging...

[cyrille]

Umm...what?

[DrWilly]

I read years ago that the word "virgin" was mistranslated in the Bible, and in the original Aramaic, it simply means a woman who has never had a child.

You read it somewhere once, years ago? So no actual source then?