Path: typhoon.sonic.net!not-for-mail Newsgroups: alt.magick.tyagi,talk.religion.misc,alt.religion.christian,alt.christnet,alt.religion.gnostic.orders Subject: Five-Husband Samaritan Woman and Scriptural Interpretation References: From: Innocent8 Reply-To: spam@luckymojo.com User-Agent: nn/6.6.0 Lines: 55 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 21:20:28 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.201.242.18 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sonic.net X-Trace: typhoon.sonic.net 1051737628 208.201.242.18 (Wed, 30 Apr 2003 14:20:28 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 14:20:28 PDT Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.magick.tyagi:39795 talk.religion.misc:396958 alt.religion.christian:1176935 alt.christnet:708328 alt.religion.gnostic.orders:310 50030430 Peace be with you, my kin. "Ch. Rajinder Nijjhar Jatt" : # I shall be giving a lecture explaining the nature and the spiritual names # of the Five husbands of the Samaritan woman at the well that Jesus met in # John4. it should be known that I regard this as a fiction, but consider its import as scripture to be high with respect to religious who adore it. as my interests extend to all religious matters, discussing the nature of scriptural interpretation, especially as it moves from literal understandings of vague or poorly-translated texts, I respond here. # Most people take this woman as a very bad character marrying one husband # after the other but it was not so. She had spiritual evil temptations # which she overpowered and this is called a husband living with you but # not dominating you. it sounds from what you write here and on your referenced website that you're elaborating a very peculiar spiritual problem/dilemma/case which is seldom understood. # A detailed article is here and those who still want clarification would # benefit from attending my lecture. apparently you've explained this by saying that the story in John4 is in fact a METAPHOR, thus (from your web-page on Five Husbands): The five husbands of the Samaritan woman mentioned by John were not the physical ones with which the natural people of flesh, the hylics, are quite familiar with but they were rather the spiritual or the abstract ones that the people of both sexes are liable to be dominated by. Thus, in order to appreciate the beauty of "His Treasures" buried in this Parable of John's, let us first study the nature of these spiritual husbands whose number is limited to "five" only.... how can you tell when something is a metaphor and when it should be interpreted literally? can you understand why people consider some kind of transgression of what they think of as the God's Rules when in scripture it gives the appearance (probably through translation?) that a given character is doing something forbidden to the religious society? thanks for lending attention to this issue. # Remember that Christianity is Preached and not taught. most religious of my acquaintance (largely not Christian) do not like being preached at. maybe you mean something unusual by "Preached" here, but it is not obvious by the limited comment you made. thanks. peace and love, Innocent8 nagasiva@luckymojo.com