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SACRIFICE AND SYMPATHY
SACRIFICE AND SYMPATHY
He was the Man who gained the souls
in every aspect of His life.
His foes were bigots and they wished
to kill Him and to please their God.
When Christ revived the dead, all felt
their greatest grief was changed to glee,
and people would attach to Him;
He should be killed with those who raised.
He did not fear what would occur
and cured the blind an raised the dead.
He loved to dry the tears and cool
the burning hearts that needed rest.
He knew the cross would wait for Him.
He kissed it as it cheered who wept.
Where are we from that sublime Man
Who died so that He would bring joy.
BY JOSEPH ZENIEH
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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He was the Man who gained the souls
in every aspect of His life.
His foes were bigots and they wished
to kill Him and to please their God.
When Christ revived the dead, all felt
their greatest grief was changed to glee,
and people would attach to Him;
He should be killed with those who raised.
He did not fear what would occur
and cured the blind an raised the dead.
He loved to dry the tears and cool
the burning hearts that needed rest.
He knew the cross would wait for Him.
He kissed it as it cheered who wept.
Where are we from that sublime Man
Who died so that He would bring joy.
BY JOSEPH ZENIEH
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
_______________________________
Published 12th Oct 2023
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12th Oct 2023 3:09pm
When Faith in God is unshakable, then,whatever his image might be our actions
will speak truth and preach the wise words..
Poetry is not just a container of our stress and depression, but also a word we give gently to those off the track, those in need of our sympathy and brotherhood..
Humanity prevails over anything else..
Thanks My friend for the good poetry, you instill into our wrethched spirits.
will speak truth and preach the wise words..
Poetry is not just a container of our stress and depression, but also a word we give gently to those off the track, those in need of our sympathy and brotherhood..
Humanity prevails over anything else..
Thanks My friend for the good poetry, you instill into our wrethched spirits.
12th Oct 2023 8:28pm
Very dear P.D.,
I consider you a very dear friend. You are very kind and a real gentleman. I admire your kindness, which is very clear in everything you say in your comment. I am sure we shall be very close friends. Thank you for your comment. J.Z.
I consider you a very dear friend. You are very kind and a real gentleman. I admire your kindness, which is very clear in everything you say in your comment. I am sure we shall be very close friends. Thank you for your comment. J.Z.
Sorry, but this is just another poorly written pious piece about Jesus in which the way you have formed your sentences makes them inscrutable and the claims you make about him and what he did or caused are based on misunderstanding and misrepresentations of biblical texts and. fictitious accounts of what he did.
"He was the Man who gained the souls
in every aspect of His life”.
I wonder if you realize that what you end up saying here is that every aspect of Jesus’ life had souls that he somehow appropriated!
You really needed to have specified whose souls Jesus gained to overcome this idea.
But then once you have rid your statement of the deixis it displays by saying something like "he was a man who gained "men's souls" or "he was a man who gained the souls of men", you need to note that you raise the question of whether your claim about what Jesus did is true given that “aspect” means “Any specific feature, part, or element of something”, and that Jesus did not gain souls in such parts of his life as his wilderness testing, his Gethsemane experience, his trial before the Sanhedrin or Pilate, or during all the times he prayed alone.
“His foes were bigots"
His foes were those who thought that the ways Jesus taught were the ways that his fellow Jews were to show faithfulness to the God of Israel
would ultimately lead to the destruction of the Jewish nation. They thought he was someone who was leading Israel astray.
"and they wished
to kill Him and to please their God.”
So was the God of Jesus’ foes not the same God Jesus called: "Father”?
“When Christ revived the dead, all felt
their greatest grief was changed to glee,”
According to the Gospels, Jesus “revived” only 3 people who had died, Jairus’ daughter ( Mark 5:21-43), the son on the widow of Nain (Lk. 7:11-17), and Lazarus (John 11) And it is never said by the Gospel writers who recorded these events that the people who witnessed these”revivings” felt “glee” in response to what they witnessed.
In fact, the only notice of anyone feeling anything after seeing Jesus’ action appears in Luke. And what Luke says they experienced was φόβος – .fear, dread, terror.
So once again, you are reading into biblical texts things they do not say.
"and people would attach to Him;"
Did you mean to say "and people would attach themselves to him"
Right now, what you have written raises the question of what it was that people would attach to Jesus.
“He should be killed with those who raised.”
Those who raised what?
Did you mean to say that “he should be killed with those whom he raised”? If so, where in the NT can we find a statement that anyone thought that Jairus’ daughter, the son of the widow of Nair, and Lazarus should be put to death, let alone that Jesus should be killed not only when these people were put to death, but along side of them – which is what you are saying when you say “he should be killed with”.
“He did not fear what would occur"
as a result t of what?
"and cured the blind an [sic] raised the dead.
He loved to dry the tears and cool
the burning hearts that needed rest”.
Leaving aside the fact that "the tears" is deictic and need a statement about to whom these tears belonged, where may I find in the NT any statement that Jesus loved to dry anyone’s tears?
“He knew the cross would wait for Him”
Crosses don’t wait for anyone.
“He kissed it as it cheered who wept.
Where may I find any NT text that says that Jesus kissed his cross and that the cross (or Jesus kissing it – the antecedent of your second “it” is unclear) cheered anyone?
“Where are we from that sublime Man”
This is a question about one's physical location with respect to Jesus. Is that what wanted to ask? If you meant to ask "How near are we to that sublime man?, you haven't done so."
“Who died so that He would bring joy”.
Where in the NT is it said that the reason Jesus died was to bring joy?
"He was the Man who gained the souls
in every aspect of His life”.
I wonder if you realize that what you end up saying here is that every aspect of Jesus’ life had souls that he somehow appropriated!
You really needed to have specified whose souls Jesus gained to overcome this idea.
But then once you have rid your statement of the deixis it displays by saying something like "he was a man who gained "men's souls" or "he was a man who gained the souls of men", you need to note that you raise the question of whether your claim about what Jesus did is true given that “aspect” means “Any specific feature, part, or element of something”, and that Jesus did not gain souls in such parts of his life as his wilderness testing, his Gethsemane experience, his trial before the Sanhedrin or Pilate, or during all the times he prayed alone.
“His foes were bigots"
His foes were those who thought that the ways Jesus taught were the ways that his fellow Jews were to show faithfulness to the God of Israel
would ultimately lead to the destruction of the Jewish nation. They thought he was someone who was leading Israel astray.
"and they wished
to kill Him and to please their God.”
So was the God of Jesus’ foes not the same God Jesus called: "Father”?
“When Christ revived the dead, all felt
their greatest grief was changed to glee,”
According to the Gospels, Jesus “revived” only 3 people who had died, Jairus’ daughter ( Mark 5:21-43), the son on the widow of Nain (Lk. 7:11-17), and Lazarus (John 11) And it is never said by the Gospel writers who recorded these events that the people who witnessed these”revivings” felt “glee” in response to what they witnessed.
In fact, the only notice of anyone feeling anything after seeing Jesus’ action appears in Luke. And what Luke says they experienced was φόβος – .fear, dread, terror.
So once again, you are reading into biblical texts things they do not say.
"and people would attach to Him;"
Did you mean to say "and people would attach themselves to him"
Right now, what you have written raises the question of what it was that people would attach to Jesus.
“He should be killed with those who raised.”
Those who raised what?
Did you mean to say that “he should be killed with those whom he raised”? If so, where in the NT can we find a statement that anyone thought that Jairus’ daughter, the son of the widow of Nair, and Lazarus should be put to death, let alone that Jesus should be killed not only when these people were put to death, but along side of them – which is what you are saying when you say “he should be killed with”.
“He did not fear what would occur"
as a result t of what?
"and cured the blind an [sic] raised the dead.
He loved to dry the tears and cool
the burning hearts that needed rest”.
Leaving aside the fact that "the tears" is deictic and need a statement about to whom these tears belonged, where may I find in the NT any statement that Jesus loved to dry anyone’s tears?
“He knew the cross would wait for Him”
Crosses don’t wait for anyone.
“He kissed it as it cheered who wept.
Where may I find any NT text that says that Jesus kissed his cross and that the cross (or Jesus kissing it – the antecedent of your second “it” is unclear) cheered anyone?
“Where are we from that sublime Man”
This is a question about one's physical location with respect to Jesus. Is that what wanted to ask? If you meant to ask "How near are we to that sublime man?, you haven't done so."
“Who died so that He would bring joy”.
Where in the NT is it said that the reason Jesus died was to bring joy?
