Hi, Everybody!
Dave's Weekly Update:
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Living the Line got a new book, and it's on the Kickstarter. Hours left, hours. And then they've ALSO got a new series with Carson Grubaugh The Abolition of Man #1. It's a comic "drawn" by an AI.
They also published The Strange Death of Alex Raymond, which has the website of annotations.
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Cerebus in Hell?:
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If YOU have anything related to the 1982 Tour, that'd be of interest, shoot me an email at momentofcerebus@gmail.com and I'll get it to the Waverly Press.
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The Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing is BACK on CerebusDownloads.com (if it doesn't show up, refresh the page.)
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Next Time: I got like a week's worth of posts, so something off the pile...
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Late breaking news over at the latest Kickstarter for CEREBUS No 4 Remastered:
5 and 10 packs are now available.
For those of you playing along at home, the Bible verses in my letter to Dave (and there are more than a few), come from the New World Translation. Dave read the Kingdom Interlinear translation from the Greek. Here, for the record, is the (more familiar?) King James Version:
"I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. But if the cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn."
I don't believe in hell or hellfire, but thought it would be good to document another translation if there is anyone interested.
Spoilers! Dave sent me a postcard in April telling me that his response to my letter is five or six Weekly Updates. You're welcome or I'm sorry, as the case may be. There will be a lot for Dave to respond to and I think he will take full advantage. I never know which direction he might go, and in that I am not disappointed.
- The formerly indignant JT
PS. He did indeed pronounce my wife's name correctly!
This is one of those rare occasions where I'm inclined to agree - up to a point - with Dave's take on Scripture. The closest copy of the New Testament to my (well, my wife's) computer, here in my Man-Cave in the basement, is the New King James; in which I Corinthians 7:9 ends with "...than to burn with passion." The italics are in the printed text itself, which is how the translators communicate to the reader that those words (well, a close Greek equivalent) do not actually appear in the source text.
So on that score, Dave, and the Authorized Version ("King James" - thanks, Jason!) get it right. But of course that raises the question of what "burn" actually meant to the Apostle Paul when he dictated this letter. This is where having an authoritative interpretive tradition is essential, if one is to avoid collapsing into utter relativism - "true for me/true for you."
And this leads to my further agreement with Dave - with some qualifications. Yes, I believe St. Paul was speaking of "the fires of Gehenna." BUT: At least in the Orthodox tradition (which, as some of you know, is the version of Christianity I've embraced, and which is inarguably the tradition that extends back in time closest to the time of the Apostles, and therefore to the actual writing of the New Testament), there is very little distinction made between being burned in the fires of Gehenna and being burned by the fires of our own (disordered) passions. If I (God forbid) "burn" with lust for a woman who is not my wife, that burning sensation I feel in my heart is, in fact, a small foretaste of "Hellfire." So the distinction between "burning with passion" and "burning with Hellfire" is a "distinction without a difference." However, this has, from what I can see, largely been lost in the various Western Christian traditions.
TL/DR: Disordered lust (or greed, or any other "passion") is Hell. Or at least a tiny foretaste thereof.
And Jason: While you may not believe in the fires of Hell, the Apostle Paul most certainly did!
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