May 14, 2008 07:36 pm
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I believe someone has a misunderstanding about Jesus speaking in parables.
True, St. Luke did relate Jesus using the name Lazarus to teach the Pharisees in Luke 16.
However, this was a completely different person from the Lazarus, brother of Martha and Mary, that St. John spent two chapters writing about in John 11 and 12, and was no parable. Jesus wept.
I do not know where the information came from about some writer centuries later making it (the parable) the same person.
Two thousand years ago, there was probably a Lazarus in every town in the Middle East, as were some form of the name Jesus, Joshua, Judah, Jude, Jonah, Judas, etc.
That is like the statement by Rep. Sally Kern being taken out of context.
The Word puts homosexuality in the same category as bestiality, etc., an abomination in mankind.
Lewis F. Bolding
Muskogee
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