Church Hopping

We all know that the Bible is the inerrant Word of God right. But for a little while it was the inerrant Word of God plus a little bit from one of us. The Comma Johanneum can be found mainly in the New King James and plain old King James Bibles. It is an addendum to 1 John 5:7-8, which reads in the King James as…

5:7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. 5:8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.

The bold piece being the actual Comma Johanneum. Most other modern translations leave the bold part out because oddly enough it is not found in most Greek manuscripts.

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In 1971, Led Zeppelin released a song titled Stairway to Heaven possibly getting the name from the ladder Jacob saw leading to heaven in Genesis 28:12. However, the original stairway to heaven occurs in Genesis 11:1-9 and is widely known as the Tower of Babel.

According to Genesis, the people of the ancient times decided to ignore God’s command to “fill the earth and subdue it” but instead they all gathered in the land of Shinar, also known as Mesopotamia. They decided to make a tower to heaven to make a name for themselves and God disagreed.

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The Visigoths were known as barbarians, but the only reason they were labeled this in history is because they tried to invade the Roman Empire. If Canada tried to invade the Roman Empire, they would probably be labeled barbaric. Well barbaric or not, a missionary named Ulfilas or Wulfila (whatever), crossed over the Danube because he thought that the Goths needed Jesus too.

Ulfilas saw a lot of converts in his 40 years with the Goths, but in the beginning he faced a huge obstacle that just happens to be what he is most famous for. He thought that the first step in reaching the Goths would be to translate the Bible into the Gothic language. The problem was that the Bible contained words and concepts that the Gothic language didn’t cover, mainly because there was not really a Gothic alphabet. Ulfilas basically created an alphabet for the Gothic language.

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The record for pole-sitting, also known as sitting…on a pole…anyway, the record is 196 days set by Daniel Baraniuk. Lucky for Danny, the record allowed him breaks every 2 hours and doesn’t include the ancient hermits known as Stylites.

A man now known as Simeon Stylites or Symeon the Stylite entered a monastery early in his life and began displaying his devotion in some very strange ways. Once he was found unconscious with a girdle of palm fronds tied so tightly around his waist that he had to soak for days to remove the fibers from the wound. The rest of the monks, a little shocked, asked Simeon to leave the monastery. Simeon found a quaint little cave to call home, where he continued extensive fasting and also took to standing upright until his limbs gave out.

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