From: J. Garnier (nomre2me@home.com)
Date: Fri Sep 01 2000 - 01:20:59 EDT
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This word requires as careful an examination as we
give to semantics and doctrine, and the traditional interpretation should not be
accepted merely because it is convenient. Happy, as Jim West suggested is
unsuitable for the reason that happiness is a response to some stimuli, whether
internal or external, and is thereby dependent on the situation one finds
himself in, or the attitude one has chosen to carry. Joy, on the
other hand, is a lifestyle which interprets all occurences as positive, and
which in fact determines much of what takes place in the life of the joyous
person. I cast my voter for MAKARIOS being translated "joyous", and
instead of supplying the present indicative "they are" to its occurences in
Matthew chapter 5, I append "should be".</FONT></DIV>
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Two more cents from the diminished capacity of,</FONT></DIV>
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Joseph Garnier</FONT></DIV>
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Seattle WA</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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