PRAISE GOD! JESUS IS ERECT!

[BrotherLarry]

Though just hours before He was prostate on His temporary death slab in a cold, dark tomb that was graciously lent to Him, our LORD and SAVIOR was not in that tomb when the women went to visit!


Wha wha what???


Indeed, they saw Him erect and speaking for HE HAD CONQUERED SIN AND DEATH! The devil was in hysterics over it, knowing he had lost the battle forever.


Oh, church, I hope you're all decked out in your finery, headed to Sunday services where we can all celebrate God's PERFECT plan of Salvation(R). I admit I'm a little bleary eyed because of the time I spent last night on Christopher Street laying hands on all kinds of men to make them soldiers for Christ - but I'm going to worship with my hands held high to Heaven. Oh, Easter brings me such joy because we can point in the devil's face and say Who the b**** now?


Oh THANK YOU JESUS for Your tremendous life, love, and victory! It is because He lives that we have Heaven to gain and Hell to shun. You atheists just don't know what you're missing! The GLORY of JESUS is resonating in my soul! I can feel it in the very bowels of my being! It warms the cockles of my heart!


Oh, I'm going to shout all the way to the sanctuary! Hosanna! Hosanna! Hosanna! Hosanna! Hosanna! Hosanna! Hosanna!

[Harsha Shah]

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Yes, Mr. Larry. It is Harsha Shah here and I am afraid that I am offending you, yes. I am hoping that you could answer a question that is regarding this sad and beautiful post of yours, yes. I am thinking that I must have been reading the Bible in a false manner, as your nice and phantasmagorical easter story is not necessarily the same when I am reading the bible. No, yes, it is not. You were writing that your Jesus was talking to the strong independent women but I have been reading that they were discussing the easter things with a young man who was perhaps being an angel. Yes, I am probably offending you. Yes, it is in your Gospel by Mark. I am citing here chapter 16 verses five and six. Yes. It is saying that "And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted. And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him." Yes, Mr. Larry. Was Jesus or the angel talking, yes? I am very sorry if I was offending you but you may be having bad karma. Perhaps we are seeing this differently like in the story of the blind men and the elephant, yes. This was Harsha Shah, a strong independent woman. Yes.

[Isabella White]

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Though just hours before He was prostate on His temporary death slab in a cold, dark tomb that was graciously lent to Him, our LORD and SAVIOR was not in that tomb when the women went to visit!

Wha wha what???

Indeed, they saw Him erect and speaking for HE HAD CONQUERED SIN AND DEATH! The devil was in hysterics over it, knowing he had lost the battle forever.

Oh, church, I hope you're all decked out in your finery, headed to Sunday services where we can all celebrate God's PERFECT plan of Salvation®. I admit I'm a little bleary eyed because of the time I spent last night on Christopher Street laying hands on all kinds of men to make them soldiers for Christ - but I'm going to worship with my hands held high to Heaven. Oh, Easter brings me such joy because we can point in the devil's face and say Who the b**** now?

Oh THANK YOU JESUS for Your tremendous life, love, and victory! It is because He lives that we have Heaven to gain and Hell to shun. You atheists just don't know what you're missing! The GLORY of JESUS is resonating in my soul! I can feel it in the very bowels of my being! It warms the cockles of my heart!

Oh, I'm going to shout all the way to the sanctuary! Hosanna! Hosanna! Hosanna! Hosanna! Hosanna! Hosanna! Hosanna!

Amen, Dear Brother Great-Grandbaby Larry! Amen, and Amen! It warms my old heart to see such a young, handsome, fine, upright believer such as yourself taking such a righteous stand for our and , .

It thrills me to know that you defied your mother's demonic Cathyolick insistence that you attend that abominable vigil last night -- especially when you already had your -given plans to witness to the lost young men in your Village, and to bring them to their knees in humble obedience to the wishes of our .

You will be pleased to know that Granny Isabella has just returned from Sunday Easter Service. And, yes, I was decked out in my finest bonnet, which is one that had belonged to my dear mother. Attached is a photo of my blessed mother wearing the hat, and you can just imagine how fetching it is on me! A blessed Easter to you, dear Larry. Sincerely, Granny Isabella.

[Esther B.]

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What a wonderful and inspiring post, Brother Larry! I hope you have a lovely and blessed Easter!

Sister Isabella, that is a lovely hat! The top of your mother's dress is so lovely (and modest) too! I hope you have a wonderful and blessed Easter as well!

[Isabella White]

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What a wonderful and inspiring post, Brother Larry! I hope you have a lovely and blessed Easter!

Sister Isabella, that is a lovely hat! The top of your mother's dress is so lovely (and modest) too! I hope you have a wonderful and blessed Easter as well!

Why, thank you kindly, sister Esther! I've taken very good care of that hat since my dear mother left us to be with the . She bought the hat around 1915, so it's almost as old as I am I'm almost as old as it is. I still have the original hat box (in pristine condition), and I get such a thrill from wearing it (the hat, not the box) every Easter Sunday. May you enjoy a blessed Easter Sunday, too, Dear. Sincerely, Isabella W.

[Dana723]

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What a beautiful post, Brother! You should turn it into one of those songs you do so well composing! I can see a churchful of young children, all dressed in spotless white, singing that with their innocent young voices

[BrotherLarry]

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What a beautiful post, Brother! You should turn it into one of those songs you do so well composing! I can see a churchful of young children, all dressed in spotless white, singing that with their innocent young voices

I believe the LORD GOD told you to write this to me, Sister. Therefore I am going to pray, and if the LORD GOD inspires it, the song shall, indeed, be written. GLORY!


I know many others here are grateful to you for encouraging me.

[BrotherLarry]

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Yes, Mr. Larry. It is Harsha Shah here and I am afraid that I am offending you, yes. I am hoping that you could answer a question that is regarding this sad and beautiful post of yours, yes. I am thinking that I must have been reading the Bible in a false manner, as your nice and phantasmagorical easter story is not necessarily the same when I am reading the bible. No, yes, it is not. You were writing that your Jesus was talking to the strong independent women but I have been reading that they were discussing the easter things with a young man who was perhaps being an angel. Yes, I am probably offending you. Yes, it is in your Gospel by Mark. I am citing here chapter 16 verses five and six. Yes. It is saying that "And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted. And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him." Yes, Mr. Larry. Was Jesus or the angel talking, yes? I am very sorry if I was offending you but you may be having bad karma. Perhaps we are seeing this differently like in the story of the blind men and the elephant, yes. This was Harsha Shah, a strong independent woman. Yes.

Sister Harsha,


It is so good to see you, my dear. As you know, the Bible has more than one book, just as your Jainism has several ways of explaining the world. I point you to the book of John, chapter 20. In that account, angels indeed speak to the women (who were most decidedly NOT independent nor strong), but in verse 15, JESUS speaks and asks why they are weeping. He then declares Himself as the erect Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth, and the rest is history.


Women were not created to be strong. Women were not created to be independent. Indeed, as the Bible tells us in Genesis, they were created because GOD felt man needed a help, meet unto the man's needs - meaning they would be sufficient to do things like cook and clean and have babies and take care of them and go to the grocery store and then come right home and clean some more and have the man's dinner hot and ready along with his pipe and slippers and some peace and quiet after a hard day at the office.


Anything outside of that is, frankly, abominable. I have much respect for you, Harsha, and at one time I felt I was in love with you but now I'm not. I am a strong, independent servant of the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, the same LORD who on this day spake to the weeping women and told them to shut the heck up because He was standing right in front of them and there was no need to fuss like women always do.


GLORY!

[Harsha Shah]

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Sister Harsha,

It is so good to see you, my dear. As you know, the Bible has more than one book, just as your Jainism has several ways of explaining the world. I point you to the book of John, chapter 20. In that account, angels indeed speak to the women (who were most decidedly NOT independent nor strong), but in verse 15, JESUS speaks and asks why they are weeping. He then declares Himself as the erect Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth, and the rest is history.

Women were not created to be strong. Women were not created to be independent. Indeed, as the Bible tells us in Genesis, they were created because GOD felt man needed a help, meet unto the man's needs - meaning they would be sufficient to do things like cook and clean and have babies and take care of them and go to the grocery store and then come right home and clean some more and have the man's dinner hot and ready along with his pipe and slippers and some peace and quiet after a hard day at the office.

Anything outside of that is, frankly, abominable. I have much respect for you, Harsha, and at one time I felt I was in love with you but now I'm not. I am a strong, independent servant of the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, the same LORD who on this day spake to the weeping women and told them to shut the heck up because He was standing right in front of them and there was no need to fuss like women always do.

GLORY!

Yes, Mr. Larry. Yes, It is Harsha Shah again and I am answering you. Yes, I am sorry that I was offending you and I am being afraid that I may be offending you again. Yes, I have now been reading the John gospel and I am not seeing there Jesus asking in plural why the women were weeping, yes. No, he is asking one woman why she is weeping. I am citing your bi le here, yes, it is the John gospel chapter twenty verses 14 tp 15 "14 And when she had thus said, she turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away." They are using the singular pronoun thou that is disappearing from the English tongue but it is strong in Sanskrit such as तत्त्वमसि. Yes, Mr. Larry. I am sorry that I must be offending you but you are making a mistake here and as a strong independent woman who was not being created as strong and independent but who has been bulding herself into strong and independent I am pointing this out. Yes, I am.

[BrotherLarry]

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Well Ms. Shah

I hope you’re not offended by the hell fire you will feel for trying to teach a man since that is not your place as a member of the weaker gender. Am I sure of this? Yes.

[Harsha Shah]

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Well Ms. Shah

I hope you’re not offended by the hell fire you will feel for trying to teach a man since that is not your place as a member of the weaker gender. Am I sure of this? Yes.

Yes, Mr. Larry, It is Harsha Shah here again and I am replying to you. I am guaranteeing to you that I am not being offended by your words and even if I were, it would not be very important, as the issue that we are discussing is not depending on my feelings. No, it it not, yes. I am seeing that you are a sad and a beautiful person who is preferring to avoid encountering his mistakes. Yes. Instead, you are trying to intimidate me with an issue that is not what we were discussing. Yes. It is sad and beautiful that a person is so sincere but still seeing only a small part of the elephant.

I am seeing that your bible and faith are more fragile than I was thinking and that any crack in them is so devastating that you are desperately trying to dismiss them. Yes. I am very sorry if I am offending you. I am not thinking that it is very important if there was one woman in one gospel and two in another but I am seeing now that the elephant of the gospels in your bi le is resting on four legs made of brittle clay and the legs are Mark and Matthew and Luke and John and a crack in one of these legs will send the whole elephant rumbling down. Yes. So sad and beautiful.

I am very sorry, Mr. Larry, that I am not believing in your hell. I am a strong and independent woman and you are helping me along my path of discarding all faith for evidence. Yes. It is sad that you are so sure and it is beautiful, and I am hoping that (this is about the story of the blind men and the elephant, are you being familiar with it?) the crumbling clay elephant will not bury your innocent and jejune mind under it. Yes will it? Yes, I am asking if it matters to you that were making a mistake when you were mentioning that Jesus was speaking to two women in the John gospel when the gospel says only one? Yes?

[MitzaLizalor]

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I have been reading that they were discussing the easter things with a young man who was perhaps being an angel. Yes, I am probably offending you. Yes, it is in your Gospel by Mark. I am citing here chapter 16 verses five and six. Yes. It is saying that "And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted. And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him." Yes, Mr. Larry. Was Jesus or the angel talking, yes?

I'm glad you're reading Mark. You've mentioned Sanskrit pronouns and although I cannot read Sanskrit, I'm wondering what words for "garment" you have available. Are you reading Mark in Sanskrit? There may be some words in common which will help you to address this.

The young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment, was wearing something quite specific. If you're wondering who was speaking perhaps a glance at two earlier references will give you something more to go on. This could be reflected in your Sanskrit.

Mark 16:5-7 And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted. And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him.

Mark 15:44-46 And Pilate marvelled if he were already dead: and calling unto him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any while dead. And when he knew it of the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph. And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.

Mark 14:49-52 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Are ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and with staves to take me? I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and ye took me not: but the scriptures must be fulfilled. And they all forsook him, and fled. And there followed him a certain young man, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body; and the young men laid hold on him: And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.

The garment in chapter 16 is akin to what we call a stole. It's the same word in fact. Is there a word for this in Sanskrit? On the other hand, in chapters 14 and 15 a more enigmatic garment is described, which in any case is not what the young man in the tomb was wearing. I hope you're not imagining that nude person hanging around then finding the empty tomb to sit in and wrapping himself up in whatever he could find? If Mark had intended that meaning that's what he would have written. Similarly in the case of robes, stoles and fine linen cloth.

I'm sure that if the young man in the empty tomb was wearing the same linen cast off some days earlier (in chapter 14) Mark would have noticed! Or if he was wearing the linen from chapter 15, but was not Jesus, that would also be remarkable - unless Jesus found what the young man had been wearing and they'd swapped or something. But he did not mention that. Does any of this come through in the Sanskrit New Testament?

ch. 16 (I've chosen this rather than the 1886 archive for clarity)
https://archive.org/details/dharmmapustakasy00brit/page/130

ch. 15 (there seems to be a simple scanning/collation error)
https://archive.org/details/dharmmapustakasy00brit/page/122

ch. 14 (some of the pages are in the wrong order)
https://archive.org/details/dharmmapustakasy00brit/page/120

[Harsha Shah]

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I'm glad you're reading Mark. You've mentioned Sanskrit pronouns and although I cannot read Sanskrit, I'm wondering what words for "garment" you have available. Are you reading Mark in Sanskrit? There may be some words in common which will help you to address this.

The young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment, was wearing something quite specific. If you're wondering who was speaking perhaps a glance at two earlier references will give you something more to go on. This could be reflected in your Sanskrit.

Mark 16:5-7 And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted. And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him.

Mark 15:44-46 And Pilate marvelled if he were already dead: and calling unto him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any while dead. And when he knew it of the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph. And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.

Mark 14:49-52 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Are ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and with staves to take me? I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and ye took me not: but the scriptures must be fulfilled. And they all forsook him, and fled. And there followed him a certain young man, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body; and the young men laid hold on him: And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.

The garment in chapter 16 is akin to what we call a stole. It's the same word in fact. Is there a word for this in Sanskrit? On the other hand, in chapters 14 and 15 a more enigmatic garment is described, which in any case is not what the young man in the tomb was wearing. I hope you're not imagining that nude person hanging around then finding the empty tomb to sit in and wrapping himself up in whatever he could find? If Mark had intended that meaning that's what he would have written. Similarly in the case of robes, stoles and fine linen cloth.

I'm sure that if the young man in the empty tomb was wearing the same linen cast off some days earlier (in chapter 14) Mark would have noticed! Or if he was wearing the linen from chapter 15, but was not Jesus, that would also be remarkable - unless Jesus found what the young man had been wearing and they'd swapped or something. But he did not mention that. Does any of this come through in the Sanskrit New Testament?

ch. 16 (I've chosen this rather than the 1886 archive for clarity)
https://archive.org/details/dharmmapustakasy00brit/page/130

ch. 15 (there seems to be a simple scanning/collation error)
https://archive.org/details/dharmmapustakasy00brit/page/122

ch. 14 (some of the pages are in the wrong order)
https://archive.org/details/dharmmapustakasy00brit/page/120

Yes, Miss Lizalor. It is Harsha Shah here and I am replying to you. Yes, I am aware of the Sanskrit translation of your bible but I am hoping that I am not offending you if I would be asking if we should be reading your bible in Sanskrit when there are many other interesting books to read if you are going to be studying Sanskrit? Yes, I am sorry but I am very very far from being proficient in Indian languages and while I can be reading the Devanagari at an elementary level I must be admitting that I have no conversational skills. Yes, but very few are conversing in Sanskrit these days, no. I am now trying to learn the old language of my country, that is Gaelic and it is also very hard, yes, it is.

Yes, I am thinking that I may be offending but I am seeing Mr. Larry as sad and beautiful. He was answering my queries about his false citation of your bible with intimidation and I am thinking that I may have been overestimating the bible skills of christians. It is not important to me how many women there may have been when your Jesus was appearing as the stories of your bible would still be as sad and beautiful as they are now. Yes, I am thinking that it is important to you people and I am hoping that Mr. Larry is not too upset because he was making a mistake, yes. For me it is not a bad mistake but it must be devastating to him. Yes, I am sorry that my posts were causing this offence. Yes.

[MitzaLizalor]

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I'm not about to start reading The Bible in Sanskrit but for anyone who can the acme of literature transcending anything a human could write has been made available. Why read a lesser tome?

In John we have a specific conversation between Jesus and Mary recorded. Mary is singular of course but just because she is one person does not mean she was the only person. In verse two this is brought out nicely. Mary visited the sepulchre. She was not alone. She ran back with her information and returned accompanied. Later on, when Jesus addressed her, the others would still be there.

John 20:1-3
1– The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.
2a Then she runneth
2b and cometh to Simon Peter
2c and to the other disciple
2d whom Jesus loved
2e and saith unto them
2f They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre
2g and we know not where they have laid him.
3– Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came to the sepulchre.

If you don't mind the question, while building oneself to be strong and independent does one ever learn the word "No?" (Using it in conjunction with the word "Yes" is not quite the same.) As you can see, although any Christian making a mistake would not lie, in this case there wasn't a mistake.

[Harsha Shah]

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I'm not about to start reading The Bible in Sanskrit but for anyone who can the acme of literature transcending anything a human could write has been made available. Why read any lesser tome?

In John we have a specific conversation between Jesus and Mary recorded. Mary is singular of course but just because she is one person does not mean she was the only person. In verse two this is brought out nicely. Mary visited the sepulchre. She was not alone. She ran back with her information and returned accompanied. Later on, when Jesus addressed her, the others would still be there.

John 20:1-3
1– The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.
2a Then she runneth
2b and cometh to Simon Peter
2c and to the other disciple
2d whom Jesus loved
2e and saith unto them
2f They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre
2g and we know not where they have laid him.
3– Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came to the sepulchre.

If you don't mind the question, while building oneself to be strong and independent does one ever learn the word "No?" (using it in conjunction with the word "Yes" is not quite the same.) As you can see, although any Christian making a mistake would not lie, in this case there wasn't a mistake.

Yes, Miss Lizalor, It is Harsha Shah again and I am thanking you for your kind post, yes. Yes, I am trying not to say no but to say yes to everything not necessarily accepting it but acknowledging its existence, yes. Yes. I am understanding more now. Yes, Mr. Larry was referring to many female human beings, that is women, and the john Gospel is referring to many people but not necessarily women. Yes, I am happy to see that the disciples had the gender fluid approach to Jesus even two millennia ago. Yes, I am hoping that I am not offending you.

Yes, this is beautiful, as there is no man or woman in Jesus so Mr. Peter and the one loved by Jesus would have been just human beings and thus they could have been being addressed as women, yes! This is wonderful and I am now understanding your bible much better. I am thanking you, miss Lizalor. Yes.