words v. Word
As a word person, I found it such a relief, indeed an inspiration this morning, to see "galoot" finally made the list as Anu Garg's word.a.day. No, I'm serious, eh?, this is my place to look for words that I can cleverly, subtly work into +Time blogposts, yea now and then even into sermons, nomesane?
Galoot. It's flexible too, can be varied by using double instead of singular: galloot - - if your word correct device lets you correct it.
In a Bible study forty years ago, I pointed out that in the text Jesus was not being serious, he was being sarcastic (yes, I know, I told this here before) - - to which a naive, not to say ignorant, Innocent protested mightly and angrily, "Jesus would NEVER have been sarcastic." That's a case of man creating man's God in man's own image of perfection; whereas our theology names Jesus as perfect God and perfect man in God's, not man's, image of perfection. Perfect God, perfect man doesn't exclude bringing a mean bully down to size by cutting him/her off at the knees with a bite of humiliating sarcasm.
Perfection.
Or, as I used to say in proclaiming the perfection of one of my daughters, her minor imperfections are the final touch on what makes her absolutely perfect. Everyone thought I was joking, so I let it pass.
Sixty-five or more years ago, I heard a recently married cousin, newly pregnant, speak adoringly of her husband in his absence, "... the big galoot!" He was perfect until a few years later when he showed up with divorce papers and his newly intended waiting back at the ranch. Then a single mom, my cousin lived over fifty more years, sadly, instead of moving on, every second of her life in bitter, seething hatred of her Ex and resentful of their three children's continued love for him.
Life Itself fortified her bitterness in that she outlived two of her children.
Why am I wandering this way?
It's what the mind does with a word. Sometimes a one-word change helps clarify, as so:
In the beginning was the Logos, and the Logos was with God, and the Logos was God. The Logos was in the beginning with God. All things were made through the Logos, and without the Logos was not anything made that was made.
Where it becomes clear that "the Word" is not "yeh-HI" (let there be), but all that is meant by the Logos, in Greek philosophy the prime mover in bringing all that IS into existence. We thank Gospel John for the sublime perfection of the prologue to his Gospel even if English translations are not necessarily perfectly clear to the Innocent. A primary struggle of life itself is to work oneself free of innocence in life's search, Seek The Truth, Come Whence It May, Cost What It Will. Indeed, the Cost may be quite dear, even to the complete disillusionment of one's innocence, read ignorance.
Abram brought YHWH, his father's household God, with him when he left Ur for the great adventure. In the eons that followed, YHWH not only shed his Asherah to become totally mono, but grew beyond Abram's household to be known and accepted retrospectively as melek ha-Olam, king of the Universe.
Look up and count the stars, Abraham.
Genesis 1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: 15 and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. 17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, 18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. 19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
"And God said" - - and God saying is the Logos releasing divine consent
YHWH is known as more than God of Abraham, God of Isaac, and God of Jacob, but as God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, even Pantokrator God creator of all the is, seen and unseen.
But back to Anu Garg and his word:
For all of which
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a really strange blogpost but I'm going to let it go anyway, as is