[ATLian]

>It’s in bad taste to put words especially worthless ones in
>another person's mouth. I did not say that biblical mastery is
>my preserve and mine alone.

TeeJay, from what you write, you believe that only those who believe in your god and only those who have your holy spirit in them can understand the bible. You’ve claimed numerous times that people like me just cannot get the bible and what it’s explicit or implicit messages are because we don’t have the holy spirit in us. At the same time you've implied that you understand the message loud and clear because you have the holy spirit in you. That’s what I call condescending, and that’s why I say you need to get off your high stool and wake up and smell the coffee!



> Do me a favor if not yourself. Read carefully
>the whole of Chapter two. Find out why Christ after being
>approached by His mother replies "MINE HOUR IS NOT YET COME."

I have no idea, even after reading the chapter I can’t get what he meant. Perhaps it’s because I don’t have the holy spirit thingi in me to show me the hidden meaning. I hope you don’t mind using your holy spirit thingi to decipher it for me.



>Indeed Christ
>was replying to Mary’s unspoken thought,to the expectation she
>cherished in common with her people. She hoped that He would
>reveal Himself as the Messiah, and take the throne of Israel.
>But the time had not come.

This is where I call your bluff. How the hell do you know what Mary was thinking, especially if it’s unspoken? Maybe what happened is Jesus and his crew came in, they went and sat next to Mary, then they expressed a wanting for some wine, and Mary casually mentioned to them that the wine was over. Period! No hidden agendas or symbolic stuff, just a mother casually telling her son that the wine was over, same way my mum would tell me maybe the chapos are over at a certain wedding. Why do you assume bila evidence that it was symbolic? Like I said, many things in the bible are in black and white, and you aren’t meant to read any more out of them than what is written down.