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John 16:23b-28

Jesus said to his disciples:
“Amen, amen, I say to you,
whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.
Until now you have not asked anything in my name;
ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete."

Okay, I copied this from Robert's blog.

1st thing: I suspect that John made a grammar mistake in line 4. It might have been better to say,

"Until now you have not asked for anything in my name."

2nd thing: Ask for anything? I don't believe that Jesus was thinking about the crazy things that some people might ask for. (I won't go into details - use your imagination.) Maybe Jesus should have added the phrase, "Within limits."

Jesus probably didn't have this in mind.

Or this.

Okay, Robert will argue that there were no giant beer cans on trucks or luxury yachts in biblical times, but you get the idea.

Fortunately, Robert goes on to give us a bit of an explanation.

Well, I guess that's that one cleared up.

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Readers are probably expecting a post from Peter (aka The Curmudgeon) today. 

The last post was from The Religious Curmudgeon (same guy really) and that wasn't a bad thing after Peter's previous attempt.

Then we hear all about the courtesy car and how you drive it. Then we get a little bit about the weather up north. I suspect that Peter had been drinking when he wrote this post.

Ah well, that's me for this morning.

Ciao tutti.