TTH wrote:Hey blue guy, Try
Since I can't understand you most of the time, are you ever going to post why you started this thread. If you do post why, use simple everyday English.
Oh, what a surprise. Although English she is not my father tongue, I shall try.
In Biblical Hebrew, the idea of repentance is represented by two verbs: שוב shuv (to return) and נחם nicham (to feel sorrow).
In the New Testament, the word translated as 'repentance' is the Greek word μετάνοια (metanoia), "after/behind one's mind", which is a compound word of the preposition 'meta' (after, with), and the verb 'noeo' (to perceive, to think, the result of perceiving or observing).
In this compound word the preposition combines the two meanings of time and change, which may be denoted by 'after' and 'different'; so that the whole compound means: 'to think differently after'. Metanoia is therefore primarily an after-thought, different from the former thought; a change of mind accompanied by regret and change of conduct, "change of mind and heart", or, "change of consciousness".
The prodigal could not return to the thread of innocence, but she was welcomed and reinstated as a member. The errant daughter's dramatic change from grief and guilt to forgiveness and restoration express in picture- language the resurrection from the dead, a rebirth to new life from spiritual death.
The parable also contrasts mercy and its opposite -- unforgiveness. The leader who had been wronged, was forgiving. But the elders, who had not been wronged, were unforgiving. Their unforgiveness turns into contempt and pride. And their resentment leads to isolation and estrangement from the community of forgiven sinners.
In this parable Try gives a vivid picture of A2K and what A2K is like. Time is truly kinder than us. However, Try does not lose hope or give up when we stray. He rejoices in finding the lost and in leading them home...For I ask:
"To be or not to be, that is the question;
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing, end them. To die, to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to ?-
?'You're.a.duddlehead,.Tryagain.'
?'I don't see no steenking digression.'
?'I just see a big hairy whopper being told by Tryingagain.'
?'Tryagain is a duddlehead who tells big hairy whoppers digression, silly!'
Hey! Are you Sheila's coming onto me?
