see the expression Baby Jesus in Christmas songs and writings. It has grown to include Sweet Baby Jesus.
“For us, the name 'Sweet Baby Jesus! ' is a phrase meaning awe or astonishment,” Benfield said Monday. “It's not meant to be offensive by any means. … “Any time you push the envelope, you get a lot of people who love it and people who don't, and that will create the controversy,”
That's in response to a brewing company's name for its chocolate peanut butter porter. Sweet Jesus is the name for an ice cream shop in Toronto. There's Sweet Baby Jesus rub for chicken and ribs. There's a Sweet Baby Jesus hand and body lotion - festive notes of apple, orange, cinnamon, and clove; smells like an stress-free Christmas. A masculine scent is named the same - woody and earthy depth. On Etsy is a sweet baby jesus selection of "the very best in unique or custom"...whatever - fill in with "stuff". Pajamas for little ones are named Sweet Baby Jesus. We haven't even looked at the t-shirt selection yet.
How did the name Jesus come about?
Was it around as a name and common back then? I hadn't thought about it. There are religious sites that have all kinds of ideas and myths they have created for the name's origin. Seems odd to me that they wouldn't reference back to the Bible. Shouldn't it be the reference book of all Christian religions, and the Old Testament the reference book of Jewish faith?
I am going to use the Bible as a reference with historical information, even though it is said that only two events can be confirmed - his baptism by John and his death.
Here we go:
Luke 1: 26-28 God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth with a message for Mary who was promised in marriage to Joseph. The angel told Mary that she would have a son, whom she was to name Jesus. The angel said, “He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High God.”
Mary asked how this could be as she was a virgin. The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and God’s power will rest on you.” He also told Mary that her elderly relative Elizabeth was six months pregnant, for there is nothing that God cannot do. Mary replied, “I am the Lord’s servant”.
Next, Joseph gets word that he has to marry Mary in Matthew 1: 18-25:
"19 Because Joseph her husband was faithful to the law, and yet did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorcenher quietly.
20 But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. 21 She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.”
And the name Jesus?
The English spelling of Yeshua is “Joshua.” However, when translated from Hebrew into Greek, in which the New Testament was written, the name Yeshua becomes Iēsous. The English spelling for Iēsous is “Jesus.”
The Greek version seems so distinctive, somehow. Jesus is the most famous and well-known "person" on the planet.
I found this picture amongst the Buffalo Garden Walk images from a few years back. Looks like something lying discarded or maybe behind a shed. With the features in Lightroom, the texture, clarity and vibrance can be increased dramatically and at the same time the washed out yellow of the fibreglass turned to black and white.
The landscape has an outer space floating sense to me.
Famous people, influential people, people who have remained in the social consciousness of humanity over decades, centuries, and millennia. Ranker.com who we have visited before has received 2.1M votes from 147.1 voters on this topic.
I choose to list the top 11 so that Shakespeare can be included: Jesus Albert Einstein Isaac Newton Leonardo da Vinci Aristotle Muhammad Galileo Galilei Alexander the Great Charles Darwin Plato William Shakespeare
The list is fascinating, although the perspective is people here/now voting. Here's the full list HERE.
Jesus shows up as number 1 in all of the lists I looked at. I've summarized some of the rationale from listverse.com - the full article is HERE
"Of the just over 7 billion people on Earth, just about one-third worship Jesus as the Christ of God so 2.33 billion people know who he is. In addition, the followers of Islam and Judaism both know who he was. There are some 1.75 billion Muslims on Earth. There are 1.3 billion atheists the world over who know who he is. It is possible that the only people on Earth who have no idea who he was are those people who belong to the 100 or so primitive, uncontested tribes remaining around the world.
Google claims that 129,864,880 books have been written and bound throughout history and still survive in book form in some library in the world. Out of these, it is estimated that 40% are about Jesus. There are 52 million different books circulating the world right now that are in some way concerned with Jesus."
TIME Magazine articles on the 100 most famous people show up again and again. TIME has selected an official Person of the Year since 1927, as well as the top 100 people each year, so they are deeply invested in this area. And isn't this an important aspect of our social consciousness - those who form our social past.
Today's picture is a buoy against a white background, making the buoy almost disappear. It seems almost like a fish tail to me.
