Give This Picture a Law/Gospel Caption.

John Zahl / 5.14.09

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20 responses to “Give This Picture a Law/Gospel Caption.”

  1. Michael Cooper says:

    “The law is a shock that will curl your hair like this. The gospel is a relief that will let you wear your hair like this, and still look beautiful.”

  2. John Zahl says:

    Nice!

    Here’s one: “You’ll find the old Eve living somewhere between the Law-afro and the Gospel-afro.”

  3. Michael Cooper says:

    You have captured the dichotomy aspect of the “do” that mine missed! But I think we should both be worried as the only ones who have seen fit to engage in this exercise. O well, mental health is not all it’s cracked up to be.

  4. John Zahl says:

    Another:

    “Are you telling me that Bernadette Peters (from The Jerk) is a Lutheran?!”

  5. Michael Cooper says:

    Love it! Bernadette would make the perfect Lutheran!

  6. DZ says:

    “Sometimes, just sometimes, the Law can in fact be fulfilled.”

  7. PZ says:

    Baeffchen.

  8. Michael Cooper says:

    David–Heretical captions are not permitted, even if they are true.

  9. Joshua Corrigan says:

    …And Julia, in her own peculiar way, took Isaiah 53:6 (All of us like SHEEP have gone astray) in an entirely new direction…

  10. Joshua Corrigan says:

    Or,

    1 Thessalonians 5:8

    But since we belong to the day, let us be self-controlled, putting on… the hope of salvation as a [bifurcated] helmet.

  11. Colton says:

    “Her attempts to justify herself by keeping the Law only served to increase the trespass. But Christ freely imputed to her his righteousness, which has produced the firstfruits in her, transforming her from the inside out (her roots!).

  12. David Browder says:

    “About as resilient as human potential.”

  13. Caroline Henley says:

    “It rubs the lotion on its skin”?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ToNZHG5KHw

  14. John says:

    Julia paused, astonished that the gospel message meant that the phylaterie she hid under all that hair really wasn’t saving her.

  15. Jeff Hual says:

    Paul said women should keep silent AND keep their heads covered…this saves me the trouble of wearing a hat AND makes a statement without me having to say a word!

  16. Michael Cooper says:

    PZ– Since my German is limited to beer brand names, could you provide the ignorant with some translation?

  17. Drake says:

    Oh, that you would rend the afro and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you!

    For in the night in which he was betrayed, he took white woman’s fro; and when he had given thanks, he parted it, and said, dance, disco, I have parted this afro for you.

  18. Drake says:

    For when I want it to stand up it is flat, and when I want it to be flat it stands up…Who will rescue me from this hair that I cannot control? Praise be to God through the hair dresser with big muscles and a magic afro pick.

  19. dpotter says:

    Ever since she heard the Gospel, Janet’s head was in the clouds.

  20. Todd says:

    The sign explicitly read: DANGER HIGH VOLTAGE AREA!!! but Donna still felt the mysterious urge to reach out her hand.

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