{"id":7382,"date":"2005-03-17T08:37:11","date_gmt":"2005-03-17T15:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/03\/17\/god-as-a-multi-media-event.html"},"modified":"2005-03-17T08:37:11","modified_gmt":"2005-03-17T15:37:11","slug":"god_as_a_multi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/03\/17\/god_as_a_multi.html","title":{"rendered":"God as a multi-media event"},"content":{"rendered":"

Um … yeah, right<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now there’s a candle that lets you experience the scent of Jesus, and they’ve been selling out by the case.<\/p>\n

“We see it as a ministry, ” says Bob Tosterud, who together with his wife came up with the idea for the candle.<\/p>\n

Light up the candle called “His Essence<\/a>” and its makers say you’ll experience the fragrance of Christ.<\/p>\n

Uh … and to quote the excellent BoingBoing headline<\/a> for this, “Jesus Christ, what is that smell?”<\/em><\/p>\n

Bob Tosterud and wife Karen say the formula is all spelled out in Psalm 45<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“It’s a Messianic Psalm referring to when Christ returns and his garments will have the scent of myrrh, aloe and cassia,” says Karen Tosterud.<\/p>\n

Wondering what that must smell like, Karen Tosterud ordered those oils, a combination that produces sort of a flowery, cinnamon aroma.<\/p>\n

Okay, well, I guess I can see that. Still, it seems a bit … um … kitschy. And I’m not sure, to be honest, how literally you should take Ps. 45, especially if you’re considering it to describe the Messiah. I don’t recall, for example, Jesus girding a sword to his side, or having “the queen in gold of Ophir” standing next to him much, let alone the daughter of the king of Tyre and her accompanying virgins.<\/p>\n

Obviously I have my allegory and my literalism mixed up. Frankly, I suspect the apostles probably experienced a rather different scent of Jesus during those long days on the road in Palestine …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Um … yeah, right. Now there’s a candle that lets you experience the scent of Jesus, and they’ve been selling out by the case. “We see it as a ministry,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6618,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/12\/lourdie_lourdie.html","url_meta":{"origin":7382,"position":0},"title":"Lourdie, Lourdie","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 12-Aug-04 6:32am","format":false,"excerpt":"Can't make a pilgrimage to Lourdes? 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