http://needlenose.com/wp/2008/10/01/jesus-the-original-harry-potter/ We Needle. You Decide. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:37:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://needlenose.com/wp/2008/10/01/jesus-the-original-harry-potter/comment-page-1/#comment-1342 greenboy Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:28:30 +0000 http://www.needlenose.com/wp/?p=439#comment-1342 Interesting, I didn't realize it was a common name! I'm sure the religious will put some suitable spin on this regardless. Interesting, I didn’t realize it was a common name! I’m sure the religious will put some suitable spin on this regardless.

]]> http://needlenose.com/wp/2008/10/01/jesus-the-original-harry-potter/comment-page-1/#comment-1341 judithweingarten Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:05:51 +0000 http://www.needlenose.com/wp/?p=439#comment-1341 I hate to tell you this, but Crestos or Crestus was a fairly common name at the time, especially for a slave (it means 'useful one')so the chances of it referring to Christ are small. But the Fundees would be torn anyway, since this kind of bowl was used by magicians to get into an hallucinatory trance: supposedly induced by sniffing oil in the bowl. Who knows what was in that oil! I hate to tell you this, but Crestos or Crestus was a fairly common name at the time, especially for a slave (it means ‘useful one’)so the chances of it referring to Christ are small. But the Fundees would be torn anyway, since this kind of bowl was used by magicians to get into an hallucinatory trance: supposedly induced by sniffing oil in the bowl. Who knows what was in that oil!

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