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Frances
Johnson
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Hi, guys —
- Does God have a sense of humor?
Frances
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John
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Mike
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Hi, Frances —
I just wanted to add a little to
my colleague's brief answer.
Sure!, God has a sense of humor.
Remember our Catholic Creed tells
us that He [Jesus] was a man like
us in all things but sin.
I forgot where I heard it, but a
long time along I heard some Catholic
religious figure say that a sense
of humor is derived from the theological
virtue of hope. This makes sense to
me, as long as the basis is a true
virtue of hope and not a false one
that leads to presumption.
When knowledgeable, faithful Catholic
Christians can occasionally make
light of things, even when dealing
with the faith, they witness to others
that they have a moral confidence and moral assurance
in what they believe plus they
can be fun to be around.
I asked my brother, Mark, this exact
same question.
I didn't quite understand his answer;
he said, Michael, just look in the mirror :
)
You also may be interested in our Catholic humor page; it's very popular.
Mike
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Frances
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Thank You Mike,
Your response was helpful and I sent
it to a Psalm's Bible Study for Adult
Study.
He who sits in the Heavens laugh
...
Psalm 2:4
Thank You for your brother's response
about looking in the mirror. That
is an Irish proverb!
God Bless and thanks for caring about
my question.
Frances
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Eric
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Hi, Frances —
The Bible is full of puns. They're
not exactly knee-slapping — God's
humor tends to be dry — but
they're there. Isaac,
for example, means he laughs,
because Sarah laughed when she heard
she was going to have him. The word subtle in Genesis 3:1 sounds like the word
for naked. I'm blanking on a better example.
I don't know if this counts as God's
sense of humor, but the prophet Elijah,
when he was competing with the prophets
of Baal to see whose God was real,
taunts his opponents by saying when
they are unsuccessful in their prayers,
"Perhaps [your god] is going
to the bathroom." 1 Kings
18:27
(Most translations use a euphemism,
try several.)
St. Paul says of the circumcision
party,
"I wish they'd go the whole
way and emasculate themselves" Galatians
5:12
(i.e., cut deeper than just the
foreskin.)
Eric
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Mike
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Frances —
You said:
Thank You for your brother's response
about looking in the mirror. That
is an Irish proverb!
We've been told the Humphrey name is made up of a combination of:
- Irish
- British
- Welsh, and
- French.
backgrounds.
Mike
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