…if these comments have been made to you! If only one, you might be ok, but I think two or more and you’re a certified fundy! Enjoy!
10. I’m so happy that you’re here knocking on my door on Saturday morning. Please, come in and judge me for a while!
9. Waiting to kiss my spouse until we were married has made it so much more enjoyable!
8. Your culottes are so modest that they make me feel like I’m dressed like a hussy! Can I get your sewing pattern for them?
7. The Bible makes so much more sense to me since I threw away my NIV and started reading the King James.
6. Since coming to your church I realized what was missing in my spiritual life: more pastoral screaming.
5. Looking at your family makes me so sad that I am too selfish to have six more children.
4. I get to go to heaven AND vote for Republican Presidential candidates? What a sweet deal!
3. I’d so much rather have this Gospel tract than food or money.
2. Yes! I had always suspected something sinister about The Smurfs!
1. Since joining your church I finally understand what Jesus meant about His yoke being easy and his burden being light.
No, it’s not Jim! This time, it’s Ulrich Luz who shows a bit of snarkiness (evidently that’s not even a word)! I am reading his commentary on Matthew and in his discussion of the word μακαριος, he notes his opinion of K. C. Hanson’s rendering of the term as “honorable”:
“Based on the ancient culture of shame and honor, Hanson (‘Honorable’) wants to translate as ‘honorable.’ For eschatologically formed beatitudes this translation is unbelievably bad.” (190, n. 54).
I was reading through Keener’s commentary on Matthew, specifcially the section on the sermon on the mount. The last statement of a particular paragraph is one that states the interpretive take of Dwight Pentecost. Evidently some reader disagreed and made a scribal note to indicate as much. It gave me a chuckle.
If you don’t follow Bible Students Say… on Twitter, you really should! It’s hilarious and depressing in 140 characters or less! Here’s one from today that is priceless.
“No one was present at the creation of the universe, so where did Moses, who wrote the book of Genesis, get this information?”
I mentioned a little while back that scholars can be hip, but they can also be snarky. I cracked open Apocalypticism in the Mediterranean World and the Near East to read the first chapter by Morton Smith. He sets out to discuss the terms ΑΠΟΚΑΛΥΠΤΩ and ΑΠΟΚΑΛΥΨΙΣ and his first comment is oozing with snark.
From the adjective, therefore, we turn to the noun and the verb, both of which were masterfully mishandled by Oepke in his ThWNT article on καλυπτω κτλ.
Masterful mishandled, eh? Why don’t you tell us how you really feel!
Think you’ve heard the worst collaboration of voice and instrument? Allow me to introduce you to The Unbelievable Believers and the term “unbelievable” couldn’t be more appropriate.
Before you begin to think that I posted this because I hate you, take a moment and reflect. I am merely doing this not to torture you, but to demonstrate the truth of the phrase “It could always be worse…”
Toward the end of this post Jim laments the fashion trends adopted by modern teens, a sentiment I can agree with for the most part. However, Jim treats us to a most quotable quote at the end. Wait for it…
Kids these days. Weirdos. Now in my day, kids new [sic] how to dress! (emphasis mine)
Is that so? Well, we demand photographic evidence to substantiate these claims!
