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Quickly Joshua replied to the dark evil, "Be Quiet now and remove yourself from this man!"

    This morning I was working on Mark 1:21-28 for The Rewrite project at Ginkworld. It is the first story in Mark where Jesus actually went out into a town [Capernaum] and spoke with them. While there a man whom was possessed began to shout to the crowd that Jesus came to destroy them and he is the Holy one of God. This phrase "Holy one of God" slowly started to stick out for me, especially when I was writing it in modern day terminology. From my Bible College days, I learned that Holy for the early church meant to be set apart and following in the way that God would do things and not someone who condemns rock music as a sin. If you believe God is a good and loving God then to be holy means to be good and loving, but if God is mean, indifferent and apathetic then holiness is about being mean, indifferent and apathetic.

One man, while listening to Joshua, jumped out of the crowd and shouted from an evil inside of him, "You’ve come to destroy us, Joshua. I know who you are; the one from God himself, who lives a way that is much more pure and good then the ways of this horrible world."

This is the way I tried to rewrite what Mark was saying with Today’s language. It really did strike me what this guy was saying of Jesus. Here is this man whom has come sharing and living a way that is good, compassionate and pure in the face of their selfish and evil way. The man is afraid of Jesus starting a revolution which would destroy the structure of this entire man’s life. The idea of becoming slaves to one another and living a life freely from set laws, but being solely responsible for your holiness was more than this man can take. It is more than I can take.

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