yeah, they knew about it in the 80's but they didn't do all the reasearch that was performed this time around. statistical evidence, carbon dating, etc. they are now pretty sure that this actually is the tomb.
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the names are common, but the fact that all of them are in a tomb together makes it significant, keeping with your example, if I find john's id, it doesn't mean much. however, if next to the id there was a phone number titled michael's daycare and a pic of a woman wearing a shirt that says mary, we can now start making conclusions.
Jesus wasn't named "Jesus".
His name was Yehoshua. "Jesus" is just the hellenic transmogrification of "Joshua." His name was "Joshua" Christ.....and Christ was tagged on as a descriptor.
Is that the name that appeared on the tomb? If they didn't address that, then the whole thing's bogus.
Interestingly enough, there's often a mistranslation in the New Testament related to the Jesus/Joshua separation....which biblical redactors ennabled in order to make stark contrasts between persons with the name Joshua.....regarding the battle where Joshua is in charge and hte sun stays at its zenith until the conclusion of the battle......
The redactors missed that editing error, and it states that Jesus was in charge when the sun held its zenith.....ahahaha.....
in general, this one should make both the Bible and TCMA folks happy...
http://www.martialdevelopment.com/bl...movie-trailer/
buddhism
unfruitful ??
idoltry ??
u know nothing
buddhisms figures of gold are aspirational
as gods aren't what buddhism is about
the bible shares many of its principles with (some would say borrows from)
buddhism
but you wouldn't know that would you
why because you havn't studied buddhism
as for unfruitful
well i know many people that have been helped by both buddhism and christianity
thats fruit enough
i am quite offended
Wow, this JKD is really quite special.
One should respect all philosophies and religions.Catholosism is a wonderful path which one can, with hard work and prayer, become a Buddhist :)
Every single thing I've read on the news so far says the exact opposite :confused:Quote:
yeah, they knew about it in the 80's but they didn't do all the reasearch that was performed this time around. statistical evidence, carbon dating, etc. they are now pretty sure that this actually is the tomb.
I'm not going to say one cannot combine Eastern and Western viewpoints, but I will say that you have to cut and paste the Bible in order to make any point, because it covers so vast a period of history (4000 years, ostensibly) that morals, customs, and viewpoints change so drastically throughout its scope.
I'm not a fan of Christianity, but I'm not going to say some sort of symbiosis is not possible. It's probably not a good idea, but it's still possible.
Any warrior art can be encompassed by an outside morality. I've always preferred the Grecian/Roman morality (excepting the man-boy love:D ) over Chinese morality. In Chinese custom, its is common to self-efface, or show humility--often for nothing more than show, out of politeness. In the west, we've inherited a tradition that says what it means, and teaches self-worth, self-esteem, and self-confidence, and still honors elders. In that way, I consider it more honest.(although, concerning elders: retirement homes do negate that--as the child says--sorry, I have my own life to live, I can't take care of you...after that parent probably sacrifice two decades of its life taking care of the child.....Where's the gratitude? So sad:( ...but indicitive of changing western morality today).
The Stoics turned out excellent warriors, and some excellent philosophers. And Stoic resolve is somewhat akin to Buddhist resolve, in some aspects. We study warrior arts. I think we have a lot to learn from every warrior culture.
BTW, 300 kicked some major ass.:D
Any true art has its spirituality. Good to see Kung Fu resonating with the Christian faith.
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The spiritual discipline of kung fu
Harding Bible professor uses Chinese martial art to teach students focus, peace and integrity.
Joshua Johnson | The Christian Chronicle
November 2016
http://www.christianchronicle.org/No...m=proportional
PHOTO BY BRITTNEY GARRINGER
Bible professor Kevin Youngblood, center, teaches kung fu to ministry students Graeme Gastineau and Matt Wilcox.
SEARCY, Ark. — The room is dimly lit and quiet. Half of the overhead lights are on, throwing flickering shadows against the back wall.
The teacher watches from a low stance, legs spread wide, arms crossed. Opposite him are two students, palms outstretched, eyes narrowed to slits.
“Remember to breathe,” the teacher says. The students exhale, audibly, as one, and then straighten, allowing their arms to float up, hands becoming fists, heads tilting back. They raise their right knees in a concurrent motion. The pose is bird-like.
“Now we turn, make a crane beak, and then out,” the teacher says.
“This is making my hip sore,” one of the students says between breaths.
The teacher’s response: “Good!”
The teacher, Kevin Youngblood, shares the Gospel with his students by day as an associate professor of Bible and ministry for Harding University, a nearly 6,000-student school associated with Churches of Christ.
By late afternoon, he teaches kung fu — a Chinese martial art that emphasizes patience and energy — at Impact 360, a Searcy nonprofit that offers training in martial arts, tutoring and mentoring for the community.
Youngblood was nine when he was introduced to kung fu. Growing up in Tampa, Fla., he lacked the athleticism of his peers in fourth grade, so his father — concerned for his son’s wellbeing and safety — enrolled him in a judo class at a community center.
It wasn’t his forte. At age ten, he moved to a slightly smaller room across the hall, where a man named Mr. Geary taught kung fu. Unlike judo, which focuses on holds and throws, kung fu offered a broad spectrum of self-defense, Youngblood said.
Kevin Youngblood helps Matt Wilcox with proper kung fu technique.One of the students, Matt Wilcox, turns sharply and scoops his hand close to the ground, then plants and kicks from the hip. His tennis shoes squeak on the linoleum floor. The second student, Graeme Gastineau, does likewise a few seconds later.
It is a gong li quan form, or “power fist,” involving a sequence of strong attacks primarily from the upper body.
“Is the fist in the chamber at this point?” Wilcox asks. His teacher nods and moves a bit closer, deftly demonstrating the transitional hand placements from a mabu stance to gumbo. Gastineau, meanwhile, turns and attacks with an outward-facing palm strike — accidentally striking the teacher above the elbow.
“I am sorry, I am so sorry,” he says.
‘I guess this has always been my nature, but when I get into something like this, I really study it,” Youngblood said. “So I read. I read everything I could get my hands on — the origins of kung fu, the different styles of kung fu. I was trying to figure out exactly what I was being taught. But it was just never clear to me. It looked like what I was learning … was not a pure, traditional style of kung fu.”
He later enrolled at the Wah Lum Kung Fu Temple in Orlando, Fla. He became a student of Pui Chan — the kung fu grandmaster who started the Wah Lum program. Chan has been featured on the Discovery Channel and in martial arts magazines.
“He was the real deal,” Youngblood said.
Youngblood continued practicing kung fu while he attended Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tenn., from 1987 to 1991. He earned bachelor’s and graduate degrees in Old Testament theology and doctrinal interpretation. He married his wife, Becky, in 1994 and had his first child, Karissa, in 1996. He earned a doctorate from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in 2004.
While kung fu has roots in Eastern faith, many Americans regard it as an athletic pastime, Youngblood said. But it has a mental component that students can witness — and experience — as spiritual in nature.
Some Christians may see this as a conflict of interests, but Youngblood seeks to ground his instruction of kung fu in ways that complement the teachings of Jesus, with emphasis on biblical virtues such as focus, peace and integrity.
“To participate in anything cultural … we have to be thoughtful and critical about how we do it, so that we do it in a way that is true to our Christian convictions,” Youngblood said. “And I approach kung fu the same way I approach going to the movies. I am very selective about what I see, for my own sake and for the sake of my children. But, I don’t feel like I should avoid the movie theater altogether simply because they show some bad movies.”
When Youngblood teaches students at Harding, he places a strong emphasis on mental discipline — similar to the meditative state that permeates much of Chinese and Japanese culture.
One fundamental difference between Western and Eastern medicine, Youngblood said, is that one’s mental state and one’s physical state are intimately interconnected.
“I think the Bible teaches this,” Youngblood said. “Think of the psalmist who said that when he did not confess his sins, his body wasted away.” (Psalm 32:3)
Youngblood’s students, Gastineau and Wilcox, are both Bible and ministry majors at Harding. Wilcox said he knew little to nothing about kung fu before enrolling in Youngblood’s lessons. Gastineau’s father went to Lipscomb University with Youngblood, and the two men studied kung fu together.
“I guess I wanted to live through the legacy,” Gastineau said with a laugh.
Both students, sweaty and breathless, relax into an upright stance, hands slowly falling to their sides.
“Don’t stop breathing,” Youngblood says. “Lesson is over; breathing continues.”
Gastineau wipes the sweat from his forehead. “Tough one today,” he says, forcing himself to take deep breaths.
His teacher’s response: “Good!”
In Youngblood’s lessons, the teacher often relates the physical discipline of kung fu to the study of Scripture, Gastineau said. In the same way that martial arts students strive for discipline over the limitations of their mind and body, Christians strive for discipline in prayer and in exegetical studies, explaining and interpreting God’s Word.
“We practice these forms and learn these moves so that, when danger arises, it is second nature to do what we’ve been doing,” Gastineau said. “It should be the same with our Christian walk.”
Youngblood said that, ultimately, kung fu was founded and practiced as a tool to maintain health, in the service of rigorous meditation.
“By balancing physical and spiritual health and by recognizing the connection between the two, you will attain health benefits, and you will discover a sense of control over your own body and mind,” Youngblood said.
“After that, it is up to you to decide what to do with that. Whether that enhanced control is used for Buddhist virtues or Christian virtues, or to hurt someone, or to plow a field — that is up to you.”
WEBSITE: impact360online.com