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Loading...Here are some of my favorite comics — pinned to my office door for many years.
I’ve just moved out of it — I’ve had it for 37 years! And these were the last things to take down. I’ve always especially like the last one here.
De-Parting is such sweet sorrow…
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Did they carry you out to unjam you?
Ha! I have been in that state before….
Is it just me or is anyone on mobile not able to see the images?
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Not sure why, but no images show up for me. I tried two browsers, same result.
Same here. I’ve emailed Jen and alerted “Contact Support” early this morning. No response.
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Those are great. Some of my favorites are in there as well. Thanks for sharing.
Ah Gary Larson (The Far Side). My favourite cartoonist 😃
OMG half of these comics are on MY wall!
Great minds…
Worth the wait!
Are these going to be on the test?
Ha!
Your interview in this Sunday’s “The New York Times” was terrific, and I recommend it to all who read this blog. I have found retirement to have its plusses and minuses and have been as busy as ever, but aging is difficult, especially when those my age around me suffer so much for no good reason. For my two cents, I wish that God, if He exists, would have made it all a little clearer than basing His main message on information that is 2,000 years old. Plus, this information has its problems as you have so capably documented in your extensive life work.
Thanks!!
Hello Dr.Bart Erhman
Modern christianity teaches that every sin will send you to hell and the only way to redeem the sin is by the death of Jesus but as you said in your book Heaven and Hell that Jesus didnt teach hell and he also did not teach that belivers will be redeemed by his death, so when did these belief systems arose?
That’s what my book is about! (Short answer: second century)
As someone who studied medieval history in college and has worked in IT most of my career since, I have to say I love the copy repairman. Nearly died laughing!
Ha!
Love the comics (they show for me)! Here is a question I have had for a long time:
In English, when we start a first clause with “IF” joined to a second clause by “AND”, it is understood that the first “IF” can also apply to the second clause. Is this also true in Greek of the statement by Jesus (John 10:35): “IF (he called them gods) AND (scripture cannot be broken)”. So that it can be read “IF (he called them gods) AND IF (scripture cannot be broken)”?
If so then, this implied “IF”, together with His implied disowning of the Torah (“Is it not written in YOUR law” rather than “THE law” or “OUR law”) would suggest Jesus did not regard scripture as being “unbreakable”?
Ah, excellent question. Yes, it could be read both ways, which may be one reason English translators put the second clause (Scripture and cannot be broken) in parentheses, to split if off the the “if” clause. BUT that’s probably not necessary: since the first clause is conceded as true (by his opponents) the second clause is to have the same effect, and so also must be true.
In English if a speaker was to talk about “your” scriptures or “your” bible, it would be obvious that the speaker did not consider the document to be the speaker’s bible. Do you think that Jesus’ manner of speaking (“is it not written in YOUR law”) would have the same implied disownership as it does in English?
Yes. It’s only in the Gospel of John, and there it appears that Jesus is distancing himself from Jews/Judaism.
I, too, just retired after 39 years as a parish pastor. The problem for me was not the comics on the door, but what to do with all the books. I plan to continue to read, study, and teach, so I didn’t want to get rid of them. Combining my home library and my office library was a challenge. Fortunately, we moved into a new home, and there was a place for an adequate study. I’m guessing you had a massive number of books in your office. How did you handle that?
By the way, most of my study will be through the BSA. Thanks so much for making great scholarship available to us.
Blessings in retirement!
Yeah, I had hundreds. Gave them to a library to use or sell. (My home has roughly 89,000 book shelves — Sarah is even more a bibliophile than me — so I could bring the ones back I wanted for future reference, but the bulk of them were ones I’d never use again. If I need any of them, I’ll just get other copies)
Thanks so much for sharing! The Far Side Off the Wall calendar was a source of sanity at work. And Peanuts… back in 1970, I and a fellow Marine were “recovering evangelicals” and enjoying a book called “The Parables of Peanuts.” It was a heady time of backsliding…
Great!
Your humor is sick. That may be why I like you.
Great cartoons! Gary Larson one of our favorites!
I am glad that “Peanuts” is at the top.
Thought you might be a Larson guy but can’t believe you don’t at least have the Noah’s ark panel where Noah tells the animals they’re gonna load alphabetically and the zebra has a thought bubble that just says “damn.” Gary had a lot of great religious comics.
Also, given your sense of humor, no love for Bill and Opus?
Ah, if I had a full wall I’d have a lot of them on there. Not so much for Bill and Opus, but to each their own!