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eldin raigmore
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 Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 9:30 pm Post subject: the Maasai Creed |
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We believe in the one High God, who out of love created the beautiful world and everything good in it. He created Man and wanted Man to be happy in the world. God loves the world and every nation and tribe on the Earth. We have known this High God in darkness, and now we know Him in the light. God promised in the book of His word, the Bible, that He would save the world and all the nations and tribes.
We believe that God made good His promise by sending His Son, Jesus Christ, a man in the flesh, a Jew by tribe, born poor in a little village, who left His home and was always on safari doing good, curing people by the power of God, teaching about God and man, showing the meaning of religion is love. He was rejected by his people, tortured and nailed hands and feet to a cross, and died. He lay buried in the grave, but the hyenas did not touch him, and on the third day, He rose from the grave. He ascended to the skies. He is the Lord.
We believe that all our sins are forgiven through Him. All who have faith in Him must be sorry for their sins, be baptised in the Holy Spirit of God, live the rules of love and share the bread together in love, to announce the Good News to others until Jesus comes again. We are waiting for Him. He is alive. He lives. This we believe. Amen.
(Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masai_Creed")
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I'm sorry to comment this, but who told them some hyenas could hurt Him... if they weren't nearby? I know this is just something the locals believe or consider normal under extreme circumstances... but doesn't it change the nature of that faith? Are they from a specific sect or something?
OK, maybe sect wasn't the best word to describe it... I may change it if I figure out what the actual should be.
BTW, what was the original meaning of the word "safari"?
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| Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 1:44 am Post subject: |
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| kyonides wrote: | | I'm sorry to comment this, but who told them some hyenas could hurt Him... if they weren't nearby? I know this is just something the locals believe or consider normal under extreme circumstances... but doesn't it change the nature of that faith? Are they from a specific sect or something? |
It so happens that in both the Masai areas and in the Holy Land, wild animals desecrating graves and damaging the corpses were a problem.
There's not really much difference between a jackal and a hyena. There were certainly jackals nearby Christ's tomb; also there were worms and other things that damage dead bodies.
That they do damage the corpses is common knowledge; that they will do so if no special pains are taken to protect the bodies, that they may do so even despite special pains taken to protect the bodies, are also well-known, among today's Masai as well as among the first centuries' Galileans, Jews, Idumeans, Samaritans, Egyptians, etc.
That they didn't damage Christ's body is part of the miracle of the resurrection.
| kyonides wrote: | | OK, maybe sect wasn't the best word to describe it... I may change it if I figure out what the actual should be. |
No, that creed was put together by the consensus of a council of all Christian churches in Africa -- not just Masai churches, but rather all African churches.
Most of them had been founded by missionaries from other continents; when they got to the point that most of them consisted mostly of members who had been born and raised in those churches, they started feeling like they should make a form of their creed that they didn't have to explain nonessential parts of to every new confirmand or communicant who had never been outside Africa.
So, it's intended to be ecumenical and "catholic" (in the sense of being believed by all Christians) and "orthodox" (in the sense of forestalling the rise of certain possible heresies).
Masai is just a tribe and a language, not a sect.
| kyonides wrote: | | BTW, what was the original meaning of the word "safari"? |
| Wikipedia wrote: | | Entering the English language in the late 19th century, the word safari means " long journey" in Swahili. Originally from the Arabic سفرة (safra) meaning a journey [1] The verb for "to travel" in Swahili is "kusafiri", the noun for the journey is "safari". These words are used for any type of journey, e.g. by bus from Nairobi to Mombasa. |
So I suppose it might mean something like what "walkabout" might sometimes mean, or like what "patrol" might sometimes mean; or "roaming", or "wandering", or "going about doing good".
Anyway, Jesus and his twelve closest disciples did do an awful lot of foot-travel from place to place (Luke 13:24, also Luke 8); mostly around the environs of Kefar Nahum (Capernaum), I guess, but also up and down the Sea of Galilee and the Jordan River, into Samaria, Bethany, Joppa, Jericho, Bethsaida, probably Magdala, "the place of the Gerasenes" whatever it's name was, Nain, Cana, (where else? Suddenly I can't find the Bible), and eventually Jerusalem. And, the Seventy apostles (Luke 10) went who-knows-where-else, two-by-two. And Jesus probably went other places mentioned in the Gospels and in Acts as well (places such as Emmaus), though I can't find the texts.
So, he was very definitely "always on safari" until his last trip to Jerusalem.
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Well, a few centuries before Christ there were some lions roaming those lands, too. I didn't know there were some jackals or some other predators around by the first years of the Common Era.
Eh... I just wanted to know if the meaning of safari would apply in that situation, that was all... Thank you for such a looong answer. (Should I say long or large or something else? I'm not so sure since I'm a Spanish speaker.)
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'Long' refers to length, whereas 'large' refers to size in general. Either would work, but 'long' is probably more appropriate. So, good job! 
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