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Heaven: Unusual religious questions
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Because I like to interact with children, some things that came up recently:
Did Jesus ever get a haircut? Would his hair decompose like anyone else's? Could he have gone bald? Cut himself shaving?
Would Jesus have bad breath? a toothache? Did he fart? Did Jesus go through a teething phase? Did he fight over toys with other children when he was a toddler? Did he win?
These are all about being human as far as I would understand, so my answers are basically yes. Then we got to: why wouldn't he do a miracle haircut, miraculous dentistry etc. "To share our human nature" seemed like the right response, except you can't really share our human nature if you know that you could do a miracle on yourself. Would Jesus win a burping contest?
We ate the cookies then, and the conversation devolved to divine indigestion, which I suspect must be ongoing given how humanity collectively and individually behaves. I suspect there are many other such questions. I have a week to either answer these questions or to see if we can discuss something else. I suspect "could Jesus get sick and almost die with the Corona virus?" is coming next. God have mercy.
Did Jesus ever get a haircut? Would his hair decompose like anyone else's? Could he have gone bald? Cut himself shaving?
Would Jesus have bad breath? a toothache? Did he fart? Did Jesus go through a teething phase? Did he fight over toys with other children when he was a toddler? Did he win?
These are all about being human as far as I would understand, so my answers are basically yes. Then we got to: why wouldn't he do a miracle haircut, miraculous dentistry etc. "To share our human nature" seemed like the right response, except you can't really share our human nature if you know that you could do a miracle on yourself. Would Jesus win a burping contest?
We ate the cookies then, and the conversation devolved to divine indigestion, which I suspect must be ongoing given how humanity collectively and individually behaves. I suspect there are many other such questions. I have a week to either answer these questions or to see if we can discuss something else. I suspect "could Jesus get sick and almost die with the Corona virus?" is coming next. God have mercy.
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And no, Jesus would not have died of coronavirus - he was never older than mid thirties and had no underlying conditions that we know of, therefore he was in a very low risk group.
More palatably, several place claim to have Our Lord's baby teeth (and those of the BVM seem quite well scattered about the place too).
I am wondering how that works with cannibalism.
Self-catering.
The Infancy Gospel is not regarded as canonical but was apparently quite popular in the Middle Ages.
In the same way, I might spend a day at my child's school as a student and suffer through a pop quiz and cafeteria food as long as the Powers-that-Be at the school understood they were to treat me exactly as a student.
By the by, I don't farting is a sign of fallenness. I think it's a design feature. Which says something about the Designer.
(Perhaps there needs to a comedy sketch, perhaps of everyone farting at the last supper before everything gets all serious. Perhaps it has been done.)
Caganer.
When you look at the miracles recorded, they are helping others, or making teaching points. They are not helping himself - it is not about winning burping competitions. And that is critical to the nature of miracles and Jesus ministry as a whole.
For me Jesus humanity is crucial. Yes, he did everything that people do. Even that.
No crying He makes." I have a feeling Mary and Joseph might have something to say about that.
Just my 2p.
A little off-topic, maybe, but a 10-year old lassie, who used to come to weekday Mass now and then, with her Uncle, once asked 'Why do we need so many words to talk to God?'.
Good question.
In Victorian times, the baby could have been given laudanum (opium dissolved in alcohol), one version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfrey's_Cordial
I didn't find a link just now, but know that babies were also given cocaine in syrup which has the added benefit that cocaine anaesthetises the gums and mouth for teething babies.
Are we certain that the wise men brought only gold, frankincense and myrrh? Did Jesus get stoned and happily lay quietly, thinking of marshmallow skies?
Lovely!
Intelligent Design?
Maybe M&J had an early version of gripe water to hand, the original recipe with alcohol
Deliberate - Ethiopian coffee. The cup was also censed with frankincense. I didn't pay in Gold though.
Sometimes the typos make it better, don't they?
Not unless we cooperate.