A phrase I had not really thought about much. Like so many other phrases in English they usually revolve around something, whether historical or utilitarian in everyday life. For example, the phrase, back to square one refers to an old BBC radio convention for covering soccer games. In the paper they would print a card showing the soccer field with each part of the field sectioned in blocks with numbers.
Square one meant you were in your own half with the ball.
So with that in mind lets talk about Iota.
Iota is, according to wikipedia and other sources it was the 9th letter of the Greek alphabet. However, what is significant with this letter is how Christianity changed because of it.
The addition of Iota to the word homoousios makeshomoiousios. So what does that mean, and how does that change a religious movement. In 316 AD at Nicae in Turkey the battle of the Bishops of the early church revolved around understanding the nature of Christ.
For Aryans Christ was of the same substance, homoousios, but rather of a similar substance of God, homoiousios. For the “Orthodox” bishops, such as Nicholas (modern Santa Claus), homoousios was the only way to understand the trinity. The idea of the father, and the son being anything other than of one substance was tandemount to heresy.
So the Christian world, with its creeds, spun in the next few years of the 4th century on one letter, iota. So in English this phrase points to how even one letter can cause wars, exterminations, and persecution. Thus, if you have not one iota of difference it means you have a meaningless separation or distinction, your positions are the same.
Other than USC can anyone honestly say there is a better team right now then Utah? I suspect if we had a playoff series Utah and USC would be playing in the final. They destroyed Alabama, end of story.
I think there are many people who follow the Mountain West Conference who right now figure their champion should be on the top. I cannot blame them. USC, who lost to Oregon State have been a dominate team lately and certainly after their Rose Bowl demolition of Penn State could argue they should be in the National Championship game. Read the rest of this entry »
Last night was paging through an old journal. I thought I would have a gander and see if there was something of significance I had written in the past about my experience with Christmas which would be worth noting here.
As so often happens when I read other people’s “journals” or “diaries” in book format I found myself critiquing my bad grammar/spelling, reading the crossed out stuff with as much interest as the non scratched stuff and just generally wrap my head around my own past thinking. Read the rest of this entry »
It is Christmas day, it is now evening. You are pleasantly fatted up from a turkey dinner with all the trimmings. You are now planning on spending a little while putting food away before making your way upstairs for another recovery sleep before rushing to the shops in the morning in the post Christmas sale madness. Read the rest of this entry »
Hi, sorry I have not been around lately, I will be shortly rectifying that but for now I will give you an introduction to my family during Christmas past and present.
Since we started having kids in 1996 Christmas has grown in leaps and bounds, to a degree the pure amount of presents this year was astounding, especially when we only provided about half ourselves.
It was a lovely day, ended with Rock Band amongst the older kids and adults making fools of themselves trying to sing and or play an instrument of sorts.
My bro-in-law, Ryan Little, has been involved in the “Mormon” movie biz since the beginning and I would like to plug his latest movie – Forever Strong. It’s not a “Mormon” movie but a good, clean show you can take your family to.
And maybe that’s a big part of the “Mormon” movie activity…
We don’t have to make scripture based movies to be heard…
We can make good, clean movies with an uplifting message. Go see this movie. Unfortunately, it will not be coming to Canada but you can see is the states. So if you are close to a showing… go, get inspired and have a good time.
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