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Reflections on Luke’s Gospel

As some of you are aware, I have been posting up my reflections on Luke’s writing about Jesus.
It started with Luke’s gospel reading aloud sessions with JR and as we went through the chapters, I found myself reflecting afresh stories which I have grown to take for granted. Without realizing I have written about 6 [...]

[ More ] January 6th, 2010 | 2 Comments | Posted in General, Religion |

Tempted To Sin-gularity

How does it feel like to be tempted?
The story of the temptation of Jesus is kind of like the story of temptation par excellence for Christians. We were taught that even Jesus himself was tempted by the bible-quoting devil and we were taught that he managed to overcome devil’s trap by quoting the bible in [...]

[ More ] January 2nd, 2010 | 2 Comments | Posted in General, Religion |

The Simple Reason For The Long List

I am always intrigued by why the Bible bothered listing out names of people. And most of the times, very long list.
Luke did that as well listing out Jesus’ lineage, perhaps in confirmation to some known traditions of the Jesus story.
He was the son, so it was thought, of Joseph,
the son of Heli, the son of [...]

[ More ] December 31st, 2009 | 2 Comments | Posted in General, Religion |

Mastery of the Four Gospels

A friend sent me a mail purportedly a testimony of a former Catholic (who claimed to have mastered the Bible, specifically the four gospels) who is now a Muslim….in the email there were challenges thrown on the Christian belief on the Trinity. Below was my short response to my friend who asked for some clarification…
Same [...]

[ More ] August 9th, 2008 | 3 Comments | Posted in Religion |
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