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located only one reference to a napkin at the table in jewish lore in the mishnah a compilation of jewish tradition some of which goes back to the first century a text berakhot 8 2 4 recounts the disagreement between rabbi shammai and rabbi hillel over whether one s hands should be washed before or after the filling of the cup at dinner shammai prefers that the napkin should be placed on the table after the hands had been washed hillel thinks the napkin should be placed on a cushion next in the debate follows a discussion about whether the floor should be swept before the final washing of hands to reiterate no tradition regarding a folded napkin every jewish boy would know ever existed unfortunately as heart warming as it may be the folded napkin tradition was completely fabricated or stitched together out of thin air author snhelton posted on april 25 2022 april 26 2022 categories biblical urban legend new testament exegesis nt commentary tags gospel of john napkin in the tomb resurrection stories urban legend 4 comments on did jesus fold the cloth in his tomb the myth of the napkin in the tomb baptism as sacrificial worship see this blog at https www abccampus ca 2021 06 09 baptism as sacrificial worship author snhelton posted on june 10 2021 categories uncategorized leave a comment on baptism as sacrificial worship my blogs on worship worship like a priest author snhelton posted on june 3 2021 categories christian theology missional theology worship tags metaphors for worship priestly worship romans worship leave a comment on my blogs on worship covid 19 confession commitment and capacity perhaps so far i m among the lucky ones my work has continued my travel schedule has been wiped clean some commitments have been postponed and i have had a chance to catch my breath a bit and it came at a time i needed it but covid 19 has been a disrupter my taken for granted activities of movement and gathering like yours have become gridlocked the repetitive cycle between office and bed with intermittent random tv attempts to creep into the vacuum left by those other things i use to do i m grateful to our creator for that patch of creation i call the yard which is getting more attention than it has in years sporting my covid non haircut in the in between you know the space between the normal and the hoped for new normal i live with a tension the experts on facebook and other social media caution with forked tongue use this time to rest to recalibrate vs use this time to catch up to prepare for when covid 19 is over i wonder if this might be something of a both and rather than an either or option now is possibly the time to let them go what if we do a bit of both on the one hand let s not fill in the vacuum so quickly chances are you were like me too busy before the crisis came before you take on another task think carefully about how it fits in the journey god has you on if it does not fit let it pass having those things taken off your plate now might be a good time to reassess and keep them off your plate indefinitely instead of recommitting to them in the new normal if you found in the old normal that certain commitments created much stress as the deadlines approached and that you wondered whether you should have done them in the first place now is possibly the time to let them go now is a good time to explore now is a good time to explore what god has for you if you have that sense move in that direction and fight that need to be needed that drives our over commitments if you have a sense of your calling use this time to drill deeper into it if this is a down time for you work on building your capacity if you are among those unemployed because of the crisis use this time to become better at what you are passionate about read that pivotal book in your field that you have put off because of the demands of work learn something new that will invest in your future and bless those near you have the courage to make the move that aligns you with god s calling if you have not been doing what you have been made to do and you sense it deep down have the courage to make the move that aligns you with god s calling finally in your relationship with god and his people take the rest god is getting us ready for the next but also drill deeper into the divine life while you might have some time because the world will be working hard to get back to normal soon and it will want to drag you along with it shared from https abccampus ca abc news now is a good time author snhelton posted on may 21 2020 may 21 2020 categories leadership spiritual formation tags building capacity commitment confession self care spiritual formation leave a comment on covid 19 confession commitment and capacity fellowship is more than eating together by this point you are probably a bit weary of self isolation you now long for fellowship that sense of being together and while fellowship has often been reduced to the church potluck we know that it is deeper than that one of the challenges of getting a biblical view of fellowship is that word has become a church word and we don t generally think of fellowship as a way of living it is this broader since of the word fellowship κοινωνέω koinoneo and related words in the new testament this word group is about being co participants in something like being partners and is close to the idea of sharing with one another for examples james and john were said to be partners with simon luke 5 10 the earliest church was devoted to living life together acts 2 42 paul called on the roman christians to contribute to the needs of god s people rom 12 13 he also knew that the churches of macedonia and achaia were happy to share their resources with the poor believers in jerusalem rom 15 26 our life together means that we share in each other s sufferings and consolations 2 cor 1 7 in seeking to gather gifts to take back to jerusalem from the gentile churches paul spoke of the ministry of giving as fellowship in 2 cor 8 4 he calls it the privilege greek here is grace of sharing in this ministry to god s people and commended their generosity of sharing with others 2 cor 9 13 he also commended the philippians for their participation in supporting his ministry phil 4 5 when we give to our church we are in fellowship with each other in living out the mission of god this word group is also used to describe our intimate life with god for example god s faithfulness has called us into the fellowship of god s son 1 cor 1 9 paul later framed the lord s supper as a sharing or communion in jesus s blood and body 1 cor 10 16 paul s closing benediction in 2 cor includes that the communion of the holy spirit would be with god s people cf phil 2 1 paul sought to know christ and the power of the resurrection and the sharing in his suffering that would make us like christ in his death phil 3 10 this type of sharing goes deeper than just sharing our stuff it is sharing the life of jesus within and among us there are more scriptures that could illustrate the use of fellowship in the new testament but these are plenty so that it went far beyond the church potluck john in his first letter has a particularly unique way of talking of fellowship john is seeking a fellowship relationship with his readers 1 john 1 3 that is joined to a kind of fellowship with the father and the son this fellowship with the son cannot be joined to walking in the darkness 1 john 1 6 however if we walk in the light as jesus is in the light then we have fellowship with one another the blood of jesus his son cleanses us from all sin 1 john 1 7 don t reduce john to saying that we have fellowship because we walk in the light john makes it clear that we all sin john is more dynamic than that he invites us into a relationship that involves participation with god and when that is in full swing we have the basis for having a fellowship with each other in christian thinking these two go together we love god we love our neighbours another way to say this is that we largely express our participation in god by the way we partner with other people fellowship is more than eating together fellowship is living together author snhelton posted on may 15 2020 may 16 2020 categories christian discipleship christian ethics christian spiritual formation new testament exegesis nt commentary uncategorized tags felllowship giving as fellowship participating with god leave a comment on fellowship is more than eating together those missing verses again perhaps you have seen posts warning of the missing verses in the new international version niv or the english standard version esv of the new testaments one such post looks like this sounds fairly ominous don t you think however notice these telltale signs that whoever composed this did not know what they were doing at the end of the piece one is warned to get earlier versions of the niv and esv only thing an earlier version of either of these translations will not get your missing verses back because they essentially depend on the same ancient greek manuscripts mss the reader is further warned to keep a hard copy because a digital version like one might find in the a bible app like the olivetree bible study app might be changed on you i do find it odd that the author of this slander chose only one app there are so many good ones to choose from 64 575 words have been removed really i d like to see that list these words so the warning screams include jehovah calvary holy ghost and omnipotent let s test this point jehovah only occurs in the kjv 4 times exod 6 3 ps 83 18 isa 12 2 26 4 and 3 other times jehovah is part of place names jehovahjireh gen22 14 jehovahnissi exod 17 5 and jehovahshalom judges 6 24 i expected a lot more jehovah is an ugly transliteration of the divine name of god in hebrew yhwh יהוה no one know exactly how it was pronounced but the jews so as not to use the lord s name in vain always replaced it with the hebrew word adonai meaning lord or sir jehovah is the result of blending the consonants of the divine name with the vowels of adonai scholars of hebrew suggest that yahweh is closer to the original pronunciation but many use yhwh when writing the name nonetheless the kjv regularly translates the divine name as lord all capital letters so readers can see when the name of god is used in the original hebrew in modern english translations one will find lord as the translation of god s divine name so no words lost here next calvary the greek in luke 23 33 is κρανίον kranion or skull the latin is calvariae and means wait for it skull and now you know where english translators got calvary the holy ghost of previous translations become the holy spirit as ghost now denotes a phantom i e the spirit of dead people the 1611 kjv had originally used holy spirit in the following places ps 51 11 isa 63 10 11 luke 11 13 eph 1 13 4 30 1 thess 4 8 nothing lost here again the kjv used the word omnipotent of god in only one place and that is rev 19 6 the niv translated the word here as almighty as in lord god almighty which is a good translation of the word παντοκράτωρ which means all mighty nothing amiss here either ok nothing to see here folks no missing words among these examples but what about those missing verses imagine with me what if the reverse were true and that the older version such as the kjv of 1611 included added verses and words and actually this is closer to the truth when the kjv was translated the translators had access to very few manuscripts of the new testament and the readings from these manuscripts were the basis of the available three printed texts of the new testament there was erasmus s 1516 greek new testament based on 7 greek mss of the nt dating from the 12th to the 15th century then there was robertus stephanus s greek nt the 1550 edition being the most important and lastly the kjv translators had theodore beza s 1598 edition of the greek nt these printed editions formed the texts on which the king james version of the new testament was based the translators also had access to earlier english translations of the bible including coverdale s 1535 matthew s 1537 the great bible 1539 the taverner s bible 1539 the geneva bible 1560 and the bishops bible 1568 a fairly long tradition of english bible translations and of course they had access to the latin vulgate what they did not have is the oldest manuscripts of the new testament that have been discovered since 1611 it is the discovery of these older manuscripts that change the textual base for translation and these older mss did not have the text that newer translations supposedly removed let use matthew 18 11 as an example for the son of man is come to save that which was lost ἦλθε γὰρ ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου σῶσαι τὸ ἀπολωλός a similar text occurs in luke 19 10 and there is no doubt that it belongs here since all mss have it for the son of man came to seek and to save the lost ἦλθεν γὰρ ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ζητῆσαι καὶ σῶσαι τὸ ἀπολωλός so if there were some clandestine plan to remove matt 18 11 why would translators leave in luke 19 10 the answer is that what we have labeled matt 18 11 remember verse numbers were added later was not originally in the gospel of matthew later scribes added it because they knew the text from luke how do i know this the oldest mss we have that contains these words at matt 18 11 is the 5th century mss known as codex bezae and next a 7th century mss known has codex basiliensis the oldest manuscripts that we have that do not have these words at matt 18 11 are the 4th century codex sinaiticus and the 4th century codex vaticanus while the evidence is much more complicated than these four examples it is enough to show that scholars must decide when the text is different which one is more likely original important to note here again is that the kjv translator did not have access to these earlier mss thus newer translations are now based on our oldest and more reliable mss and the verses that are declared missing were not there in the first place this is true of all of the supposed missing verses so in the end it is still true that jesus came to seek and save the lost but among the lost is not any of the verses mentioned here author snhelton posted on may 12 2020 may 27 2024 categories bible translation textual criticism translation theory leave a comment on those missing verses again on church assemblies not meeting gaius plinius caecilius secundus more affectionally known as pliny the younger lived from ad 61 to around 113 in his letter 10 96 to emperor trajan pliny sought guidance in handling the christians to which trajan offered his counsel 10 97 when pliny first encountered christians in his role as proconsul legatus augusti of the province of bithynia he was uncertain about how to deal with them he asked the emperor a variety of questions should christians be punished just because they are christians should they be punished if the recanted of being a christ...