Withoutblood the body is dead. Whoever says death looks like sleep has not seen a dead person. When the blood no longer serves the body the difference in the flesh is stunning. Without blood pulsing through the body the body looks waxen. The body has no life in it. The body is inanimate.
So, John begins his Gospel stating that Jesus is the Wisdom of God incarnate. Jesus embodies a counter-narrative, a counter-cultural Wisdom, the kind we see in the Prophets. And for John, the Wisdom of God is the Spirit at work in us. And without the Spirit our flesh is useless.
So, those who eat my flesh and drink my blood, those who enflesh and live the Wisdom of God, you who value the importance of your own incarnation and the difference you can make in the world, you stand with me. And I with you. Like beloveds.
The third day is a pivotal day in Scripture stories. And in the New Testament it is writ large as the day of resurrection. The day when the life in Jesus overcame the powers of death that felled him. When the light overcame the darkness. May every day be a third day.
Surprisingly enough, it was in the process of staying faithful to my spiritual journey that I first began to face my profound ambivalence about life in a body. At the ripe old age of thirty, I could no longer ignore the fact that I was tired, lethargic and somewhat depressed. Thinking that my lethargy and lack of enthusiasm for life were psychological or spiritual in nature, I went to a psychologist who was also a spiritual director. To my surprise, some of our initial conversations had to do with my physical condition: eating patterns, water intake, how much sleep I was getting, whether I was getting any exercise, and general attention to health issues. Even though I had been paying attention to the condition of my spiritual life for years, no one had ever called any serious attention to the connection between my physical well-being and my life in Christ. This was something of a revelation!
My early lessons in flesh and blood spirituality began with growing in my understanding that the physical and the spiritual were not as opposed to each other as I had thought. I am not merely a soul and spirit; I am an embodied human being, and my body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. In some unexplainable way God inhabits our bodies, making them a place where we can meet and know him. The Scriptures also seemed to indicate that it is possible to glorify God in our bodies rather than merely glorifying the body (the focus of the surrounding culture) or ignoring the body (the focus of the religious subculture). As I grew more and more curious about what it might look like to glorify God in my body, I was pretty sure that walking around tired, overweight and stimulated by sugar and caffeine was not it!
Paying attention to your breathing is one of the simplest ways of getting in touch with your existence as a body. Settle into a comfortable position, either in a chair or on the floor, and pay attention to your breathing. Notice if your breathing is shallow, and take time to breathe deeply. Allow your breathing to release any tension you are holding in your back, your shoulders, your arms. Adjust your body for greater comfort, and allow yourself to relax into your chair or cushion as a physical expression of your trust in God.
Gently turn your attention to your body and invite God to speak to you through your body. First of all, just notice how you feel about life in your body. Are you embarrassed about it? Do you enjoy it? What happens inside you when you consider the idea of honoring your body or meeting God in your body?
I'm so glad I played this game. It's absolutely beautiful. I love how detailed all the artifacts are, the stories behind them, the memories. I can't describe how this game made me feel. Nostalgic, but something more. It's a rare experience. Thank you so much for making it!
حركه فاشل احط ترجمه عربيه كنت افكر ما فيه عرب يهتمون كثير بل العاب المطور المستقل انا كنت من هم بس يوم لعبة لعبتك تغير مفهومي عن العاب المطور المستقل انا احب اللعبة الي تركز بل قصه اكثر من لعب بس انصدمت من أجواء اللعبة والرسومات رهيبة بشكل والقصة الي فهمت من لعبه تتكلم عن الوحد والاكتئاب وانا ما ودي احرق على اللعبين الباقي بس تحفه فنيه بشكل ما شاء الله اشكر المطور تغير مفهوم عن اللعاب المطور المستقل \ تستحق الدعم بجدار ابكون من اول الداعمين لك بل العاب القادمة الصورة حقت احتفالية السنه الأول رهيبة مره حطيتها بسطح المكتب \اسف على كثرت الكلام
اللعبه قصة رهيب وغريبه حاولت اترجم من موقع و الوضع خايس دايم يغلط المترجم يس عوافي ختمت العبه وخلصت النهايتين لو فيه ترجه يطلع الوضع رهيب
this is a very beautiful game. i don't know what happened to Lera, or where Nika and her family came from, but i think that makes this game more special. the art is very pretty and the rooms are very interesting, even if some of them are a bit too scary for me. i love this game.
Really good, didn't expect it to be so long as well, and I love the pixel art horror. Just one thing that I collected all of the codes but the password didn't work for me. It was fustrating and I reckon that might would have taken me to the true ending but oh well.
Still, a really good game about death, reborn and the circle of life. I just wish I have a more better IQ to understand everything, maybe it's too complex for me.
Nika's stance on the building seems conflicted. It's nice. It's safe. It's impossible to leave, though. It's good. Something Nika would invite a friend to partake in. But she's lonely. She's lonely, so she wants to leave. She's lonely, so she wants others to stay. Perhaps it isn't conflicting after all.
The flesh building could simply be death. After all, it's the simplest way to live forever. It's hell. Live in hell. Ants eat their kin, and produce more ants... Corpses are flowerbeds... This all starts with death.
Nika's analogy with the ants which are one being and live on by eating one another and being born again, reconstructed, was one that she sort of waved off for being considered literally as immortality through cannibalism.
Death cannot be escaped, much like being part of the living building. It is assumed to be an eternity of nothing. Perhaps there are others who walk the same road. But seemingly, also, no way to be sure of anything.
Nika would be the guide. The reaper? No, perhaps not. A river ferry? A guide. All who have come before go on. That can't be, if the ant analogy worked. surely, someone would have joined her in all those years. But perhaps the joining is only with the living building. They won't see Nika again, not exactly the same way.
As I've thought about it, the three means by which Jewish people at that time may have looked to in order to find favor with God were 1) the Law, 2) circumcision, and 3) their own Jewish heritage. Are these the three things being referred to?
Doch allen, die ihn aufnahmen, die an seinen Namen glaubten, gab er das Recht, Kinder Gottes zu werden. Sie wurden das nicht auf Grund natrlicher Abstammung, durch menschliches Wollen oder den Entschluss eines Mannes, sondern durch eine Geburt aus Gott. (Joh 1:12-13 GNEU)
But to all, who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right, to become children of God. They became this not based on natural descent, through human want or the decision of a man, but through a birth out of God.
Natural descent seems pretty to the point, as the word for blood can be translated kindred. As both of the other point use the same word for want and decision, best translated determination, I would interpret this slightly different: neither determination of fallen nature (flesh) nor of man in any state.
Another interpretation could be, based on Acts 2:26.31 (from Psa 16:9), flesh meaning myself, and man meaning any other man. Therefore saying it's not by natural descent nor by your own determination or through any other man, but through God.
Ps 14:2 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. 3 They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Regeneration is a major theme in John, and we see it here as early as chapter 1. The three things together indicate that the rebirth effected by the Spirit of God excludes any sort of human cooperation that you could possibly think of. The number three indicates completeness of reference. For this reason, determining the exact reference of each is less important.
Bob Jones suggests the bloody act of circumcision in his answer; Gill mentions it too. To explore this idea further, I have asked the question, Does a birth-circumcision connection exist in the Old Testament? If not, I find this connection here to be much less likely.
The reason why he uses the word blood in the plural number appears to have been, that he might express more fully a long succession of lineage; for this was a part of the boasting among the Jews, that they could trace their descent, by an uninterrupted line, upwards to the patriarchs.
Calvin takes both these phrases to be equivalent, and this certainly is a viable interpretation which does no violence to the meaning of the overall phrase. However it seems to me that the details of each phrase may be determined more even if they are taken together as a hendiadys referring to human will. (Gill breaks it down a little more than Calvin.)
Given that σάρξ often denotes that which is human (and its precise meaning depends on the context and what it is standing in contrast to), and is a mass noun, I might paraphrase thus: not by any human power of the will nor by any man's decision because it seems to me that the will of flesh refers to the human capability of decision and will of man refers to a specific individual's decision.
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