More Stuff to Wonder about

Last November I ran an entry titled “Stuff I’m Wondering About.” Here's a sampling of my list:

Why is it…

…that I’d never noticed until this week that Paul thinks it’s better for the widows in Corinth to remain single (1 Cor. 7:8), yet he wants young widows in Ephesus to remarry (1 Tim. 5:14)?

…that when Paul uses a head-body analogy for marriage, we immediately start drawing an org chart instead of drawing a head and a body and marveling at the interconnectedness of two as one? (Yes, that's Gary/me. Scary, eh?)

… that Peaches, our fat tabby, lies flat on her back like a dog?

… that a lot of the same people who say it’s wrong to use barrier contraception on the grounds of it being “unnatural” also insist feeding tubes are God’s will?…that we sometimes take Christian couples who are doing a good job of making decisions mutually and teach them the husband is to make the final decision when Paul assumes Spirit-filled couples can decide mutually about abstinence for prayer and fasting (1 Cor. 7:5)?

…that if you know three languages you’re trilingual, and if you know two languages you’re bilingual, but if you know one language you’re an American?

Then I asked readers to tell me what they wondered. I loved some of the responses. And I’m thinking you might have missed some of them, since they got buried down in the “comments” section. In case you did, here you go:

Ame wondered, “Who the ‘media’ are talking about when they refer to themselves, the media, in the third person?”

Ben… “how much money the guy who came up with the word- verification dealie is making today.”

Rhon asked why “brilliant and wonderful creative work like ‘Firefly’ goes unrewarded while niou-se like ‘Ice Age II’ and ‘Big Momma's House II’ get made. And… “Gen 1:28, given when the population of the earth was 2, is used to say it is a sin not to have children and the current population of the earth is 6,476,139,943.”

Then there was Jacob. Um, he said, “Sometimes I wonder as to the nature of things. Other times I wonder as to the nurture of things. Sometimes worlds are changed by one person reading two phrases and taking them to heart. Other times I read babble; writing, writing everywhere yet not a thought to think. Which is what I love about computers: typing, typing everywhere and yet I spilled no ink!” Uh, thanks for that...

And finally, Erin asked this: “I wonder if there is a single thought out there in the world that can still truly be called original” and “I wonder if there is an instance on the cusp of death when life can be revived. Is there a clear division between being clinically alive and being dead?” and “I wonder if there is a rock or spot of earth out there, somewhere on dry land, that has never had the touch of an animal or human being upon it.”