“ I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. " - Charles Dickens Jika Natal bukan suatu musim, atau suatu momen, atau sekadar event , apakah Natal akan tinggal di hati kita, dan terus hidup sejalan dengan detak jantung kita? Setelah Silent Night dinyanyikan, setelah nyala lilin dimatikan, setelah pohon terang plastik diturunkan dan disimpan di gudang, setelah pintu gerbang gereja ditutup… Apakah Natal hanya lewat sebentar di suatu waktu, singgah tidak bahkan menyapa pun tidak, karena kita mengabaikannya dan tidak peduli untuk apa ia hadir? Apakah Natal tahun ini masih mengguratkan maknanya di hati kita, sedalam cinta yang dikandung oleh perawan Maria, seteguh tekadnya untuk taat, sekuat kerelaan rahimnya untuk dipinjam sebentar demi sebuah rencana yang ia tidak mengerti sepenuhnya? Apakah hati kita masih tergugah dengan ketulusan para bangsawan dari Timur, orang-orang Majus itu, yang menempuh perjalanan dari negeri yang jauh hanya untuk menyembah Anak k...
This book that written by Bart D. Ehrman, Jesus, Interrupted contains critical thinking –not to mention an attack– to the Bible especially the New Testament, and more especially the Gospel that tells a story about Jesus and who Jesus actually is. “We don’t have the originals of the Bible which opens the door to the possibility that the Bible is a very human book,” Ehrman wrote. Ehrman studied the Bible from a historical-critical perspective that led him to find there were flat-out discrepancies among the books of the New Testament. He explained in detail about the differences between one author and other authors towards Jesus’ stories, for example what was written by Mark compared to what was written by Matthew or Luke. “I came to see that many of the books of the New Testament were not written by the people to whom they are attributed,” Ehrman said. And he explained an argument that it was not Matthew who wrote The Gospel of Matthew, John did not write The Gospel of John, etc. Even th...