Reply to: The Long Silence

[Chico]

It includes typing.

English lesson. Silence: A period of time without speech

[Lucy]

It includes typing.

[Chico]

Don't suppose you'd care to partake in a long silence Chico?

I was on the phone about 2 hours ago but I have been silent since.

[Mordac]

The Long Silence

At the end of time, billions of people were seated on a great plain before God's throne. Most shrank back from the brilliant light before them. But some groups near the front talked heatedly, not cringing with cringing shame - but with belligerence.

"Can God judge us? How can He know about suffering?", snapped a pert young brunette. She ripped open a sleeve to reveal a tattooed number from a Nazi concentration camp. "We endured terror ... beatings ... torture ... death!"

In another group a Negro boy lowered his collar. "What about this?" he demanded, showing an ugly rope burn. "Lynched, for no crime but being black !"

In another crowd there was a pregnant schoolgirl with sullen eyes: "Why should I suffer?" she murmured. "It wasn't my fault." Far out across the plain were hundreds of such groups. Each had a complaint against God for the evil and suffering He had permitted in His world.

How lucky God was to live in Heaven, where all was sweetness and light. Where there was no weeping or fear, no hunger or hatred. What did God know of all that man had been forced to endure in this world? For God leads a pretty sheltered life, they said.

So each of these groups sent forth their leader, chosen because he had suffered the most. A Jew, a negro, a person from Hiroshima, a horribly deformed arthritic, a thalidomide child. In the centre of the vast plain, they consulted with each other. At last they were ready to present their case. It was rather clever.

Before God could be qualified to be their judge, He must endure what they had endured. Their decision was that God should be sentenced to live on earth as a man.

Let him be born a Jew. Let the legitimacy of his birth be doubted. Give him a work so difficult that even his family will think him out of his mind.

Let him be betrayed by his closest friends. Let him face false charges, be tried by a prejudiced jury and convicted by a cowardly judge. Let him be tortured.

At the last, let him see what it means to be terribly alone. Then let him die so there can be no doubt he died. Let there be a great host of witnesses to verify it.

As each leader announced his portion of the sentence, loud murmurs of approval went up from the throng of people assembled. When the last had finished pronouncing sentence, there was a long silence. No one uttered a word. No one moved.

For suddenly, all knew that God had already served His sentence.

Don't suppose you'd care to partake in a long silence Chico?

[Flubster]

Should we run a poll ?

Why not? Would make a nice change for them instead of being plumbers and electricians. They could do with the exercise...

[Lucy]

Should we run a poll ?

[Lucifer Box]

It rather puts me off my coffee, you see.

It's rather put me on to mine. I think I'll have another cup.

[Xenophon]

Reach out and touch Lucifer's Box

Good morning Lucy. In future I would be most appreciative if I could finish my breakfast before you commence your lustful posting about Mr Box. It rather puts me off my coffee, you see.

[snaw]

The Long Silence

We can only live in hope.

[Lucy]

Reach out and touch faith.

Reach out and touch Lucifer Box

[DaveB]

It wouldnt be so bad but this is a repost of summat he posted months back. He cant even keep track of his own rantings.

[Xenophon]

Reach out and touch faith.

[Churchill]

And it still hates him, now fu ck off.

Thanks mate!

My monitor is now covered in coffee!

Churchill - In "Thank feck I've got my own office" mode!

[Chico]

And the world hates Jesus beacause?

John 3:16-21

16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.
19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.
20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."

[The Clown Beater]

As Jesus said:

If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.

John 15:8

And it still hates him, now fu ck off.