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Early Christianity

  
Early Christianity began as a Jewish sect of the followers of Jesus during the late Second Temple period of the 1st century. Other Jewish sects of that time were the Sadducees, the Essenes and the Pharisees, and a group recognised as Zealots. Christians' distinguishing mark from these other groups was their belief that Jesus was the figure known in Greek as the Χριστός, in Aramaic as the משיחא, words, from which are derived the English words "Christ" and "Messiah", that literally mean the "Anointed". It was this belief that later led to them being called "Christians," a distinguishing name first given to them as early as the early 40s of the first century (before Paul's first missionary journey) by people in Antioch The appearance of this name followed what the Acts of the Apostles describes as another "first" for Antioch: the preaching of Jesus there to "Greek-speakers" (Ἑλληνιστάς) or "Greeks" (Ἕλληνας), as opposed to "Jews" (Ἰουδαίοις), even though Seven Greek Deacons had earlier been appointed in Jerusalem. As there are doubts expressed by some, such as Burton Mack that the Acts of the Apostles was only written early in the second century, this may reflect the position taken by the Gentilic followers of Jesus, rather than the Jewish Christians such as the Nazarenes and Ebionites. Previously, the household of the Roman Centurion Cornelius are the only Gentiles (as distinct from Jews and Samaritans and the "Ethiopian eunuch" of 8:27) mentioned as accepted among the believers in Jesus and his resurrection, and there was no general preaching of Christ to Gentiles. Acceptance of these into the Christian community did not mean that the Jews in the community ceased to view themselves as Jews: the alleged Council of Jamnia that is supposed to have formally expelled "Nazarenes" from the synagogues of Rabbinic Judaism came some thirty years later. See Jewish Christians...wikipedia

To The Virgins, To Make Much Of Time

   Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,
Old Time is still a flying:
And this same flower that smiles today,
Tomorrow will be dying.

The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,
The higher he's a getting;
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer he's to setting.

That age is best, which is the first,
When youth and blood are warmer;
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Times, still succeed the former.

Then be not coy, but use your time;
And while ye may, go marry:
For having lost but once your prime,
You may forever tarry.

by Robert Herrick.

To One In Paradise

  
Thou wast all that to me, love,
For which my soul did pine-
A green isle in the sea, love,
A fountain and a shrine,
All wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers,
And all the flowers were mine.

Ah, dream too bright to last!
Ah, starry Hope! that didst arise
But to be overcast!
A voice from out the Future cries,
"On! on!"- but o'er the Past
(Dim gulf!) my spirit hovering lies
Mute, motionless, aghast!

For, alas! alas! me
The light of Life is o'er!
"No more- no more- no more-"
(Such language holds the solemn sea
To the sands upon the shore)
Shall bloom the thunder-blasted tree
Or the stricken eagle soar!

And all my days are trances,
And all my nightly dreams
Are where thy grey eye glances,
And where thy footstep gleams-
In what ethereal dances,
By what eternal streams.

by Edgar Allan Poe.

Surtsey fæddist um leið og ég..eða þannig

  
Hraungígurinn til vinstri en gamli Surtur til hægri, mynd tekin 24. maí 1964.

Surtsey fæddist 15. nóv
Ég fæddist 18. nóv
Kennedy var drepinn 20. nóv
...mikið á 5 dögum í sögu mannkyns!

Myndina tók Sigurjón Einarsson frá Eystri Oddsstöðum

Frábær náttúra Íslands

  
Ný eyja um 10 m. há þann 15. nóvember 1963.

Myndina tók Sigurjón Einarsson frá Eystri Oddsstöðum