Author: Pastor FrankPastor Frank
Date: Dec 22, 2007 03:30
>
> Jesus and Beds.
> This holiday, think and remember. Before the word sleep the word dead
> was used, meaning not conscious. The person in history famous for
> raising the dead, is famous for raising the sleeping. People, without
> the word sleep yet in their vocabulary, watching the carpenter Jesus
> build and put someone in a bed, would have described what he was doing
> as raising the dead. The manger, the spread of furniture use with
> Christianity, and accounting for the growth of mankind's vocabulary,
> points to Jesus being famous for the mass utilization of a bed. They
> had beds before Jesus, but he was the first to recognize that all
> people should benefit from sleeping up off the ground.
> Not conscious. The meaning of deceased is that you do not wake back
> up. Many times people are thought to be deceased, but to have them
> conscious again in the story,or life, means they were miss-diagnosed.
> A good eye, someone alert to the signs of life can show that the
> person was miss-diagnosed, but that hurts the reputation of the person
> who signed the death certificate. Although less frequent today, this ...
|