BS: An Easter Question

Subject: RE: BS: An Easter Question
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Mar 16 - 03:45 PM

I'm sure Mary (His Mother) and the other women there washed and dressed Him. Wouldn't you have?

Subject: RE: BS: An Easter Question
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Mar 16 - 03:16 PM

"What happened with his foreskin? "
I thought that it became the ring around Saturn

Subject: RE: BS: An Easter Question
From: Musket
Date: 25 Mar 16 - 12:49 PM

Most famous people employ doubles. Explains a lot of things, especially if his agent inadvertently told his double the beard had to go, relaunch of image and all that.

Worked for David Bowie and look how much adulation and respect he got (and deserved.)

Subject: RE: BS: An Easter Question
From: GUEST,#
Date: 25 Mar 16 - 12:48 PM

What happened with his foreskin? Was it discarded, preserved, has it become a wallet which when rubbed turns into a suitcase? Anyone?

Subject: RE: BS: An Easter Question
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 25 Mar 16 - 12:35 PM

Going back to Caravaggio's painting I mentioned 5 posts back. Jesus appears in it without a beard. I have always taken this to be the artist's explanation as to why those who met him, altho they had long known him, didn't recognise him at first after he rose from the dead. He avoided immediate recognition by shaving off his characteristic beard.

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Subject: RE: BS: An Easter Question
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 25 Mar 16 - 09:57 AM

Hahaha Guest! That must be it!

Subject: RE: BS: An Easter Question
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Mar 16 - 09:49 AM

Wardrobe provided by Miracle Clothing.

Subject: RE: BS: An Easter Question
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 25 Mar 16 - 09:35 AM

Well, for a fellow capable of dying after being bled dry then coming back to life, the matter of obtaining a few clothes, by comparison, must have been an absolute cinch.

Subject: RE: BS: An Easter Question
From: Musket
Date: 25 Mar 16 - 09:34 AM

Or alternatively, go back before the Christianity story and ask how Mithras or any of the fabled messiahs pulled the trick. It's all the same story

Nowadays, we'd call it a continuity error and have a pop at the film director.

Subject: RE: BS: An Easter Question
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 25 Mar 16 - 09:28 AM

Then he met two disciples walking to Emmaeus and they didn't recognise him [tho they had been doing everything together continuously & nonstop for 3 years] till they sat down to eat and he said grace & 'their eyes were opened' and he disappeared [Luke 24].

All a bit confused and mysterious and folklorish, eh?

I think Caravaggio's The Supper at Emmaeus perhaps the greatest painting in the National Gallery in London, mind.

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Subject: RE: BS: An Easter Question
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 25 Mar 16 - 09:15 AM

Whatever he was wearing, it caused Mary Magdelene to mistake him first off for the gardener (John 20 15). Maybe he had borrowed some ordinary looking working clothes?

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Subject: RE: BS: An Easter Question
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 25 Mar 16 - 09:13 AM

A miracle...
So not only was he resurrected, but an entire set of clothes of the right size appeared too. Did they sort of float down from the sky, or appear on hangers in the cave, or did an angel come up and ask him what size he required in sandals?

Believe it or not, I'm a regular churchgoer and our Rector would be a bit displeased to hear of my doubts.

This is tongue in cheek to some extent, but I'd still like to know the official line on these matters!

Subject: RE: BS: An Easter Question
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 25 Mar 16 - 08:39 AM

One of the questions often asked in Liverpool when I was young was "Who did the washing up after the Last Supper" - bet it was a woman!!.
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: An Easter Question
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Mar 16 - 08:39 AM

It was a miracle.........sheesh!

Subject: RE: BS: An Easter Question
From: GUEST,Raggytash
Date: 25 Mar 16 - 08:38 AM

Oh dear ............. I hope you are not suggesting that Christ was a thief.

Subject: BS: An Easter Question
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 25 Mar 16 - 08:29 AM

This has always puzzled me, and I wondered if anyone on here could enlighten me.
We are told Jesus' body was left in the tomb overnight wrapped in a shroud. When the open tomb was discovered on Easter Sunday, this gravecloth was found neatly folded, but Jesus had disappeared.
Soon afterwards he was seen by various folk, walking about quite the thing. Now what was he wearing? And where had he obtained the clothes?
Also I presume he wore some form of sandals. Where had he managed to find them? I just can't explain this. Even if he'd pinched them from somewhere, he'd have been naked as he came out from the tomb. Very strange...