i have sinned
in every breath i ever reathed..i kill millions of spores/bugs/microbes...bits of dead 'things'

let ye without sin..know...your incorrect
we are all bound to material sin
wether we are bound into moral sin
thats the trick

recall the root..of sacrifice
the goat..when an insane man..heard the voice of death

and sought to let innocence take his guilt away...
but god in a monent of sanity...offerrd him a sheep

ditto the insanity of'blooding up' ya front door
no one is going to come knocking...[the decide/clearly insane]

or blood of christ on a cross..

[a knock on the door..!]

sorry just had a visit from the door knockers
and lost my train of thought..
they [the tower watchers]
asked

how do you vieuuw jesus
[i see him in every living thing]
cause...he told me..emmanuel[godwithus][good within]

so where good is
where life is god is
she has now gone..

oops
wasnt going to comment

so im gone

Dear Johan (OUG),

What's good about 'Good Friday'?

'Good Friday' for believers has as much
relevance today as it had centuries ago. To
many it represents love, joy, peace, faith,
forgiveness, and much more.

It's a day that
Christians observe as a day of mourning for
the death of Jesus. Many churches hold a
three-hour worship service of Scripture
reading and prayer. In some churches, Good
Friday marks the beginning of the Paschal Triduum,
the three days of Easter.

Good Friday can be summed up in the following way:

"For God so loved the world
that He gave His only Son.
So that everyone who believes in Him
will not perish but have eternal life."
(John 3:10).

Lexi, forgive me for reminding you that it as only recently, 2005, that the city of Florence removed the death sentence hanging over Dante. He had been dead for some 700 years but in their great wisdom, the authorities decided to grant absolution.

Good Friday is but another Christianic/Medieval feast day that perpetuates the hangover of past centuries. These are:

-the divine right of egotistical kings
-the inferiority of women
-the idea that a wise State knows all
-the idea that the individual is always right
-the bitter-sweet addiction, that transforms a doctrine from a mere model into something sacred and worth killing for.

It is only the modern political ideology and man made religions that sustain and maintain these medieval values.

So, what is good about Good Friday? Absolutely nothing! Unless of course one wishes to perpetuate medieval values, mystical beliefs and impose them on the modern world through religion and political ideology.

Cossomby <"Forgiveness should not be about the sinner, but about the person wronged - who is generous in forgiving."
Absolutely true.
I always wondered why some poor Jewish bloke 2000 years ago had to be tacked to a cross and left to slowly die because of everyone else's 'sins'?
Why didn't the 'sinners' get their own punishment?

Why then did 'bad' things continue to happen to mankind after Jesus died, because surely God didn't need to send any more punishments for 'sinners' if his son supposedly died for them all?

I wondered why he also was supposed to die for 'our sins' today, that hadn't even been committed when Jesus supposedly died for them on the cross?
It all seemed a little confusing for a young Catholic girl.

Now that I have grown up and can think logically for myself, I tend to not believe any of it just because some Priests and nuns who read a 2000 year old book told me to.

I would suggest that Good Friday is good because it is the first day of a four day holiday for most working Christian people, and the rest of us workers who also benefit from time off!

Most people in Australia these days will have no idea of the original, medieval, religious reasons for Good Friday and Easter.

Most will look at it as the day before Easter bunny day or Easter egg day.

Susi writes

'I wondered why he also was supposed to die for 'our sins' today, that hadn't even been committed when Jesus supposedly died for them on the cross? '

One fornicater or adulterer is not worthy to pay the price for another fornicator or adulterers sin. Only the sinless One is qualified Susie and that certainly ain't you or me.

*Most will look at it as the day before Easter bunny day or Easter egg day.*

Well exactly Suze. To me, Easter is all about celebrating the
joys of Lindt chocolate!

I even have a photo here somewhere called Easter. It shows a
rabbit humping a chicken and now I know how Easter eggs are made :)