zeezrom wrote:Hello MDB members. I'm going to make an effort not to be confusing. I'll get straight to the points and no beating around the bush. No sarcasm and so symbolism. I pray this question makes sense.
This is a question for the men out there.
Suppose Jesus visited you late one night. You question as Thomas and he invites you to sit close to him and feel the wound in his side. As your face nears his body, you notice a clean smell that draws you in. His resurrected body is very fine. Just as you reach in to touch his wound, you notice his strong hand on your back.
Question: Are you uncomfortable at this point or do you love every bit of it? Do your fingers dive in or do you hesitate?
Thank you!
Zee.
Why does he still have this wound if his body is refined?
I would not want to put my fingers into his wound.
See a couple of miracles performed would do nicely.
In this visit, is he standing a couple of feet above the ground, his feet not touching the ground? That would probably count for one.
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)
That's what I'm thinking Hasa Diga Eebowai, and the reason the wounds were still there was that if they touched someone without the wounds, someone might claim it was an imposter. I remember asking my parents about this when I was young.
"Hey, what gives? If Jesus was resurrected already, why does his body still have the wounds? Doesn't resurrection fix all of that?"
"Um, maybe Jesus is just a special case. After the wounds are no longer necessary (as a prop?), they will disappear."
Craptastic answer, by the way. Jesus' own body is some sorta high-tech prop?
Mormonism ceased being a compelling topic for me when I finally came to terms with its transformation from a personality cult into a combination of a real estate company, a SuperPac, and Westboro Baptist Church. - Kishkumen
Reading the OP and then seeing this picture kind of creeped me out. Something about the Thomas figure prodding the spear wound after reading "fingers dive in"...
To Zee on the OP: I've hugged other men before at times when real, deep feelings made it a spontaneous reaction to something we shared. The experience was neither sexual nor uncomfortable. I suspect that if I turned out to be wrong and there was a Redeemer and he choose to appear to me that it would be more like that. I'm not sure about touching the wounds right now, but I think that's part of the power of words. I'm still creeped out by the thought of what it means to dive in to some person's wounded body.
The world is always full of the sound of waves..but who knows the heart of the sea, a hundred feet down? Who knows it's depth? ~ Eiji Yoshikawa
zeezrom wrote:Suppose Jesus visited you late one night. You question as Thomas and he invites you to sit close to him and feel the wound in his side. As your face nears his body, you notice a clean smell that draws you in. His resurrected body is very fine. Just as you reach in to touch his wound, you notice his strong hand on your back.
I'm betting Jesus could touch you in ways you've never been touched before. His dad can get off without even penetration and you're stuck with the child. The holy ghost could probably send you through multiple orgasms and then make you feel bad about it. And since Jesus died for your sins you might as well put that to good use, I mean why not.
Luca Signorelli - Christ and the Doubting Thomas, 1482
Hendrick Terbrugghen - The incredulity of St. Thomas, 1622
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)
To lift the arm like that and let someone touch my wound would make me feel vulnerable.
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)
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