Risen? Is that a shoe company?
Recently, JLem and I have seen a multitude of Post-Easter signs outside of churches that read “HE IS RISEN” or “CHRIST IS RISEN.” Almost all of these are Lutheran. I understand that Jesus came back from the dead. What I don’t understand is this… do Lutheran churches know it happened over 2000 years ago? Would that not make it past tense? Perhaps I am the only one that thinks that using “is” that way makes it sound like “risen” is an adjective or a noun instead of a verb.
For example:
Some kinds of people are “risen,” which means that they have short curly hair on their knuckles. My friend Jesus is risen.
-or-
New, Risen cereal! Now with a Jesus in every box!
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A Risen shoes commerical! [voiceover] Jesus Sanders knows what kind of shoes to wear in the harshest, most Golgatha-like environments… Risen. When Jesus needs to rise to the occasion, he puts on our shoes. Risen IS Jesus, and Jesus IS Risen.
The correct way:
Jesus IS rising out of the grave!
Jesus HAS risen,
and Jesus ROSE from the dead in fulfillment of the scriptures…”
WARNING: I feel very strongly that the King James translation of the Bible does not constitute a legitimate reason to use words incorrectly on signs all over town. If you plan on comments in this vein, then they better be in iambic pentameter and Elizabethan English…
I’m waiting, Lutherans everywhere. Hit me with your best 96 Theses.
Whenever I see the ‘Christ is Risen’ sign, I think hey, Christ has yeast in him…then I straighten up and realise that sadly, he is not full of yeast, it is just another church allowing their most functionally illiterate to go out and arrange the plastic letters on the signs.
no, let me take that all back…they are using ebonics, to appeal to a younger audience.
So really, the communion wafers should be light and fluffy after Easter (perhaps with a flaky crust?) and flat and boring before Easter.
I just know I’m gonna burn in hell for this one, but…if you poke him in the tummy, I wonder, does he giggle like the pilsbury doe boy?
depends whether it is before or after Easter.
So, since the Lutheran church says “Christ is Risen” does that mean I can say “Christ is Died”. Give a new meaning to tie ‘died’…. :P