Re: [TruthTalk] sweat

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'sweating blood' is a classic nuanced English figure of speech, Bro, sorta like 'making a silk purse from a sow's ear'   the underlying elemental requirements of Protestant orthodoxy are not too complicated--our history in Christ--all its documents, too--allow (any)one to discover, understand, and teach God's holy intentions as his ppl always practically relying on the validity of our common, also Spiritual experience/s depicted openly in our common _expression_/s and languages laced though they may be with evidence of our ignorance myths and follies; e.g., we mostly former sinners all realize, as do many current sinners, too, that healthy ppl do not actually sweat blood per se yet there really exists an overwhelming dynamic existential stress in willfully electing to follow a voluntary course of action which will lead partic to 'the death of the Cross' captured so amazingly in such descriptive English wording as sweat[ing] blood(!)   there is neither overstatement nor understatement of physical fact there nor in subsequent exceptional expressions elucidating our God's humility in sacrificial death for us partic premised previously in certain prophetic poems policies and ppl altogether worthy verbal historical inspirational vehicles of the rarest of discernable, truly human, yet germanely Godly traits ever expressed:   JCs humility   On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 22:59:14 -0600 "ShieldsFamily" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [..do you get this stuff..? --when you do pls try to explain it to our resident cultic gurus & Bible readers:) L, g]  ||     In a message dated 12/17/2005 4:03:10 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: English nuance captures the foregoing NT concept in the compounded wording, blood shed, or, shed blood, which, as is obvious,is properly associated with Golgotha, not Gethsemane   Then you must not really believe everything the Bible says--he sweated great drops of blood in Gethsemane--recall the officers of the High Priest, who came to take him?  When he identified himself as the one they wanted, they fell backwards.  Ever wonder why?  Probably because he was so bloodied--even his clothes probably had blood on them.  His hair was probably matted with blood at that point.  Also, what about his forty stripes?  You think he she blood there and then?  Probably lots of it.  I am amazed he wasn't so dehydrated and weak from loss of blood, by the time he picked up his cross, that he was even alive.