While it is true that Matthew 5:17-18 seems to refer to the written “Law and prophets” of the Hebrew Bible of the day, it bears noting that Jewish culture at the time gave almost equal honor to the oral commentaries on the Law (made by Jewish rabbinical leaders at the time, and later written down […]
In summation, while many Christians still use the words of Matthew 5:17-181 to justify their use of Old Testament scriptures to support many of their anti-Christian opinions2, this treatise has now confirmed without doubt that such a practice is not biblically valid. For, as the previous 126 pages have clearly & somewhat exhaustively shown, Jesus […]
“The Camino really is a time-space warp. As I walk on Roman cobblestone roads and watch cars speeding by on the super highway near me, I wonder if they see me at all. I see and hear them but I am going at such a different pace. After two desolate days of walking a little-used […]
“After two long-distance Walkings (40km two days ago and then 36+ yesterday), I have arrived just short of Sahagun in the tiny (population 20+) town of Moratinos — And what a Blessing that arrival has been! I started the day flowing easily through the city of Carrion de los Condes, where I paused in what […]
“We may all start the day with good-bad dreams, concerns, hopes, thoughts but soon the rhythm of the sticks and steps erases it all. It has been fascinating to see that on the most treacherous parts of the path, pilgrims have taken the rocks there and made spirals, snails, hearts, birds, and towers. It is […]
“An unusual day today, with many pilgrims we have never seen before and most of them walking very quickly past us … It brought me to pondering my/our tendency to look at life in terms of “goals” and “distances traveled”. Just where is it we are all trying to get to? And does it matter […]
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