John the Baptist
Who is a follower of John?
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I personally prefer Paul Shaffer over John the Baptist. badoom ching... funny :P
sharePaul, George and Ringo.
shareSome say that ( in an early example of spin doctoring ) the Gospel story of Jesus "allowing" himself to be baptised by John was intended to show just how big a man Jesus was. Even God was impressed by his display of humility and was moved to say a few words from a passing cloud to mark the occasion. Thereby making Jesus the star of the show and John the Baptist very much a secondary figure when it was more likely that Jesus was just another follower of John the Baptist.
Based on what? I'm not challenging you...I'd like to hear more of this theory.
shareTaken from the PBS documentary ' From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians ' (1998)
I watched it on Youtube but not everyone can. Here is a link all the same:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UulusbcS8V0
Oh ..blocked in my country..I thought pbs was supposed to be free and shit??
shareI'm from Australia so there was no block for me. I don't understand why it's blocked for some people, it's twenty years old for goodness sake who cares now ?
I bought the DVD from Kentucky through Ebay earlier this year but whoever made it compressed the entire three hours and forty minutes onto one disc so the image quality is horrendous. Cheapskates ! The Youtube video is a better image than the DVD.
I wrote my impressions of the first two episodes here at Moviechat if you're interested. Better than nothing I guess:
https://moviechat.org/tt0183094/From-Jesus-to-Christ-The-First-Christians-Part-1
Copyright laws are very strict in the US. Things don’t become common domain for a very long time.
shareI thought pbs gave it away for free, like the sluts they are???
shareJust looked at my copy of the DVD and it is copyrighted to WGBH Educational Foundation. So maybe PBS sold the rights on to them after they had finished broadcasting it free-to-air.
I just PM'd you the vimeo link of the pbs documentary; btw, it is 3hrs-42min long.
shareYou could try watching it at the PBS website:
https://www.pbs.org/video/jesus-christ-first-christians-part-one-uosmze/
You can adjust the resolution up for a better image in the settings.
A link to Part 2 is lower down on the same page.
In Scandinavia, we celebrate John the Baptist's birth during the Midsummer holidays in June.
It is mentioned in "Luke" that John's mother was six months pregnant when Jesus was conceived.
And thus, it kind of made sense to celebrate his birth half a year before Christmas in December.
You guys don't celebrate him by drowning babies, do you?
shareThat was a really weird and random thing to say.
Besides, it is not like most people think about John the Baptist during the Midsummer celebrations anyway.
Well every time I’ve seen someone performing a baptism, they are holding a baby under water, trying to drown it, I assumed. But maybe they are just checking to see if the baby is a witch.
shareWhat church does that? I have only seen the baby's head being splashed with water.
shareWater baptisms of babies is a man-made ritual so they practice it however they want and excuse it by saying that it was god's will or that god told them to:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6272426/priest-baptism-violent-dunks-baby-water/
https://www.versebyverseministry.org/bible-answers/does-baptism-require-immersion-under-water
I’m just having fun. They don’t really drown them.
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