On Mar 6, 2009, at 2:09 PM, Felicia wrote:

> On Mar 6, 2009, at 12:17 PM, BenT Syncro wrote:
>
>> Felicia,
>>
>> Bad is relative term as in "I can very good when I'm bad." The
>> topic was beginning to drift towards
>> the recipe for 'brazenserpent' pizza. Not everybody likes pizza. =)
>
> LoL.  I mean, uh... I'm shocked!  Shocked, I tell you.
> Brazenserpent is a biblical reference.
> Oh, wait... };->
>
> Felicia

LOL!!!!!!!

"The Book of Numbers relates that after the Lord sent a plague of
serpents to punish the Jews for their lack of faith, Moses interceded
with God and was instructed:

Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come
to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall
live" (Numbers 21:8).

John 3:14, in which Christ proclaims "And as Moses lifted up the
serpent in the wildemess, even so must the Son of man be lifted up,"
taught Christians to see the brazen serpent as a divinely
authenticated type of the Crucifixion, but commentators also emphasize
that it is an image of saving faith. According to the usual reading of
this type, the brazen serpent in the wilderness, which God gave to the
people when they repented of their lack of faith, teaches man that he
can be saved only by faith in Christ crucified.

Commentators like Thomas Scott emphasize that the brazen serpent is an
image of saving faith precisely because the actions commanded by God
were themselves so apparently unlikely to produce any beneficial
result, and, similarly, without the eye of faith one would hardly
think that salvation could conceivably come from gazing with belief at
some person suffering painful execution. The commentators also remark
that Moses set up the brass image upon a pole in the midst of the
Israelite camp, like a standard."

Holy Sh*t Batman, you have really upset the Fryeday oxcart!

& now back to our regularly scheduled Fryeday programming!

YMMV,

Mr. BZ-enserpent