David,
At 04:34 AM 1/19/2004, you wrote:
Jesus appears to be saying Follow me, and leave the spiritually dead (those who
don't follow Jesus) to bury the physically dead.
It appears to me that Jesus might have been saying, in response to a fellow who wanted
to bury his father (literally),
Dear Mark,
It appears to me that Jesus might have been saying, in response to a fellow
who wanted to bury his father (literally), that the dead (those who are not
in Christ) should bury the dead (this man's father who was both physically
and spiritually dead). In other words, it may have been
David,
At 06:52 AM 1/19/2004, you wrote:
That's what I was saying. I don't see how we could know anything about his father's
spiritual condition, however. That isn't even relevant.
I would not necessarily assume that the event even happened. It might well have been a
fictional account or a
Often, `Abdul-Baha gives different or additional applications of familiar Bible
verses; for example, cutting off the right hand or plucking out the eye [Matthew 18:9]
to mean expulsion of Covenant-breakers [BWF 432] is a completely original
interpretation.
I think that He is not here speaking
