![]() This was a new mindset in comparison to gods made of clay or aspects of nature. They saw themselves as “the chosen” people of this all-powerful ruler. The Jewish people did get a bit beyond their secular neighbors. This God would love them if they kept the commandments. This God’s ten commandments summed up our place in relationship to God.īy the time of Jesus, the ten had officially become 613 laws with thousands of interpretations. God was a powerful ruler whose name could not even be spoken. Powerful rulers were at the top of the social pyramid and held power over their lives. In many ways, we are still using an Old Testament image of God drawn from their observations of the world they lived in. In this Vincentian Mindwalk, I share thoughts about the wineskins or frameworks of our thinking about God. Mindsets, sometimes called “mental frameworks”, are the containers of our way of looking at the world. Three days later I finally made the connection with something else I have wrestled with recently – “mindsets”. I have heard the passage before but was never “haunted” by it Rather, they pour new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.” Mt 9:16 Otherwise the skins burst, the wine spills out, and the skins are ruined. People do not put new wine into old wineskins. I kept thinking of Jesus’ image of the “new wineskins” in last Saturday’s Gospel. In this case, it wasn’t a tune or the lyrics of a song. Some use this as shorthand for not being able to get a tune out of one’s head. This past weekend I experienced a bit of what is sometimes called an “earworm”.
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