Philosophical & Theological Reflections On Satirical Images IV: Book Covers

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Interestingly enough Genesis 1: 26-27 deals with this cover issue.

Genesis 1:26-27 English Standard Version

26 Then God said, “Let us make man[a] in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

H.L. Ellison explains that man as in mankind/humankind was made 'in the image and after the likeness of God'. Ellison (1986: 115). Contrary to any radical chauvinist or feminist worldviews, the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament in the very beginning does acknowledge that based on God's spiritual nature, and I would deduce God is not male and female, as God is asexual, but is infinite, eternal spiritual being that is both masculine and feminine, that God made both male and female in his image and likeness under the umbrella of mankind/humankind.

Victor P. Hamilton (pages 26-30) and many Hebrew Bible/Old Testament scholars have discussed the possible meanings of image and likeness. Irenaeus within Against Heresies (c 175-185)(2005) did draw a the distinction between image and likeness. The image is a fixed nature within human beings while likeness varies depending on how close a a person follows God.

The fact that both male and female represent the image of God, and that it is equally so, is not to negate certain ontological differences between male and female in function or to ignore that cultural differences are represented in Scripture and could be pointed out by readers. ---

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I reason some of these shopping carts have escaped and have been living in my condominium complex for a few years. When I bring a larger order of groceries home from the store out of the car trunk I load up one of these carts from the car garage and take them up to my apartment and then return the cart to the garage.

I am now glad I have some idea of the origin of these carts.  I feel good today that I have been providing work for stray shopping carts, but I am wondering how they made it all the way from the Eastern part of North America to my area which is on the eastern part of Metro Vancouver. From the photo, it looks like they have stayed off the freeway systems and travelled through grasslands and forest areas. Perhaps that is why the shopping carts down in the garage look so beat up. There may have been battles with street people, drug dealers, cougars and bears over years of travelling.---

The Oxford Dictionary of Science states under its 'Nuclear Weapons' entry (2010), that they are weapons in which an explosion is caused by nuclear fission (splitting), nuclear fusion, or both. With a fission bomb, which is an atomic bomb, a temperature of the order of 108 K being reached. The fusion bomb, which is a thermonuclear weapon or hydrogen bomb, a temperature of about 35 x 106 K is reached. (p. 572).

So, I would answer, 'What is in it for you?'

Not much...

A 'very bad tan'.

Zombies??? 

(No offence, Jamie)

First of all, I am 'shocked' having been friends with former bodybuilder and frequent blog commenter Bobby Buff/Walter Thomas Franklin for many years that in his big moment to show off his muscles that this gentleman was willing to keep his shirt on with the front cover.

Secondly, there does seem to be a touch of Crisco or something shiny that he is wearing. Typical.

Thirdly, would things be pumped in or out of his mind?

Fourthly, a 'fake tan'?

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This 'Practical' blue, yellow and white, book, probably has some good ideas, but then someone sees the sensationalized cover and figures...

Another way to get a 'very bad tan'.

ELLISON, H.L. (1986) ‘Genesis’, in F.F. Bruce (ed.), The International Bible Commentary, Grand Rapids, Zondervan.

HAMILTON, VICTOR P. (1988) Handbook on the Pentateuch, Grand Rapids, Baker Book House.

IRENAEUS. (c 175-185)(1998) ‘Against Heresies’, in The Catholic Encyclopedia, Denver, The Catholic Encyclopedia.

Oxford Dictionary of Science, (2010), Sixth Edition, Oxford, Oxford University Press.