Thou hast given so much to me,
Give one thing more, - a grateful heart;
Not thankful when it pleaseth me,
As if Thy blessings had spare days,
But such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
Thursday, November 28, 2013
George Herbert Thanksgiving Prayer
Sunday, November 24, 2013
Top ten lists for pastor appreciation month from Baptist General Convention of Texas (BGCT)
1. Protect your pastor.
2. Understand every pastor has strengths and weaknesses.
3. Pray for your pastor.
4. Allow your pastor to be real.
5. Allow your pastor to have a life outside the church.
6. Encourage your pastor to take risks.
7. Value your pastor in writing.
8. Be available to your pastor without expectations.
9. Encourage your pastor's family to be his primary ministry.
10. Don’t become an antagonist!
2. Understand every pastor has strengths and weaknesses.
3. Pray for your pastor.
4. Allow your pastor to be real.
5. Allow your pastor to have a life outside the church.
6. Encourage your pastor to take risks.
7. Value your pastor in writing.
8. Be available to your pastor without expectations.
9. Encourage your pastor's family to be his primary ministry.
10. Don’t become an antagonist!
Saturday, November 23, 2013
Ken Connor Bia Roling
Ken Connor Washington DC ah a ummi The Center for A Just Society ah chairman a tuan mi pa nih American rammi kong hi ti hin a tial. American rammi nih kan duh bikmi le kan uar cemmi cu good life ti hi a si. Inn tha, mawtaw tha kan i cit, hnubik chuak cell phone thatha kan hman hna, thilri thatha kan i cawk i kan closet tlum lo in brand thatha kan i cawk hna. Thil thatha kan hman hna; asinain, zeitik hmanh ah kan i zat ti a um lo. Riliti a dingmi he kan i lo, kan din deuh kan ti a hal deuh. Kan ngei deuh, kan duh deuhdeuh a ti i a zaa ti a um lo, a ti. I need ti si lo in I want ti lawng te a si e, a ti.
Monday, November 18, 2013
Thisen Cu Nunnak A Si: Lainu Sining Hoihin Bible Zohthannak
Thisen cu Nunnak hrampi a si
A ni le a caan cu 2010 June thla ni
26 zan zinglei nazi 3 hrawngah a si. Zunin kal dingin ka tho. Ruah lo in ti
tamtuk a hung chuak. Sibawi pa nih a rak ka chimhmi ka lungchung ah duk tiah a
hung chuak colh. “Ti tampi a chuah ah cun
a siloah na paw a fahtuk ahcun siloah thi a chuah ahcun zeitik caan pohah emergency
ah nan kal colh lai,”tiah sizung ka kal lio ah a chimmi a si. A hngilh
cuahmah lio mi kan pa cu ka vun hloh. “I tim law sizung ah kan kal lai ka ti,”
i hngilh tuk lio ah ruah lo in ka thangh tikah khuaruah har in ngangko in a ka
zoh. Sau nawn hnu ah “Na zun sawsawh a si lo maw a ka ti,” ti a tla thluahmah mi
cu a hmuh ve tik ah a hmawhmang lo in a tho i a thil aa tim. Cun kan herh lai a
timi a timh hna i Emergency room cu zinglei sangah kan phan. Leng in an ka nam
i sizung cung dot ah an kan chiah. Si an ka ronh, an ka zoh, an ka hramh.
Zarhpi ni chunnitlak ka paw a fah chel, a dam chel in ka um. Rawlei ti hlah an
ka ti caah ti lawng ka ding i zanlei nazi 6 a hung tlin tucun fah thlorh in a
fak cang. Ka nu nih phone chung in bia a ka cah mi ka lungchung ah a chuak. “ Kafa
na ngan a fak tik ah Bawipa nih kan caah thihnak fak bik a tuar nak kong tu kha
rak ruat. Na nganfah nak na ruah ah cun a fak chin lai i na celh lai lo. Jesuh
Khrih nih na caah a tuarmi le an dawtning kong na ruah lai i na nganfaknak zong a mah sinah na chiah
lai, cun nu a si mi paoh nih an tuar cio mi a sin ko caah na ha cang naa rial
lai,” tiah ka nu bia cah ka lungchung ah a hung chuak. A fah tuk ve hrat caah a
cancan ah cun ka hram ruangmang ve tawn. Zan nazi 9 tuah cun Pathian thawngin
damten nau mui kan hmuh. Ka tangah Siang Tha Par an vun chiah i ka nganfah nak
zong a lo dih. Kaa pom i Pathian sinah lomhnak ka chim. “San a tlai lomi na
fanu pum in nunnak thar na chuah ter caah Bawipa kaa lawm tuk,” tiah Bawipa
sinah thla ka cam. Thi le hlam a chuak mi cu baltin in an donh. Hmuning law cu
thi a tih tuk mi ka si caah mah hngallo in ka um men hnga. Thlahnih chung
zeihmanh tuan lo in inn ah kaa cong. Nunnak thar caah a chuakmi thisen cu a va
sunglawi hringhren dah.
Thisen le Nu Bible nih a chimning
Kan
Bible ca chungah nunnak thisen, nu chungin a chuak tawn mi (nature) ruangah nu
hna cu nauta deuh in ruah an rak si. Judah mi hna nih nuphung a thei lio mi nu
cu a thainglo ah an ruah hna i an nuphung theih a dihin thiannak caah thawinak
an rak tuah tawn. Leviticus 15:19-30 chungah cun;
Nu nih a nuphung tawn
a hngalh tikah, ni sarih chung thianglo in a um lai i ahohmanh a
mah a tawngtu cu zanlei tiang thainglo a
si lai. A thianlo chung i a ihnak paoh cu thianglo a si lai; a thutnak paoh
zong thianglo a si lai. Ahohmanh a ihnak a tawng paoh cu a hnipuan kha a suk lai i ti in aa kholh lai i zanlei tiang
a thianlo awk a si lai. Cun a thuthnawhmi thil zeihmanh a tawngtu cu a hnipuan
kha a suk lai i ti in aa kholh lai i zanlei tiang a thianlo awk a si lai;
ihkhun siseh, a thuthnawhmi thial zeipaoh siseh, a tawngh tikah zanlei tiang
thianglo a si lai. Cun pa ahohmanh nih a mah he a ih i a thian lonak cu a
cungah a um ahcun cu pa cu ni sarih chung thianglo a si lai i a ihnak ihkhun
paoh cu thianglo a si lai. . . . Sihmanhsehlaw a thichuahnak kha a thian ahcun ni
sarih a rel lai i cu hnuah cun a thiang lai. Cun niriat ni ah cun thuro pahnih
maw laileng no pahnih dik a lak lai i tlangbawi sinah, tonnak thlam innka ah
cun, a rak put hna lai. Tlangbawi nih pakhat cu sual thawinak caah, a dang
pakhat cu khangh thawinak caah a thawi hna lai i amah cu Bawipa hmaiah thichuah
i a thian lonak caah cun tlangbawi nih remnak a serpiak lai, tiah a um.
Judah
miphun hna nih nu chungin a chuakmi thisen cu thianglo ah an rak ruah caah
nuphung an theih dih tik hmanhah raithawinak tuah hnu lawnglawng ah nu cu a
thaing mi ah an rak cohlan hna. Cu lawng siloin nu nih fa an ngei tik hmanhah
nu a si ahcun ni 14, zarhhnih chung thianglo ah an ruah hna cu hnu ni sawm ruk
le ni ruk an rel rih i cu hnu lawngah raithawi nak an tuah i an thiang tiah an
zumh. Asinain fapa a ngeih a si ahcun ni 7 (zarhkhat) chung thiang lo in a um
lai, cu hnu ah ni sawmthum le nithum chung a thianlo nak aa peh lai. Cun raithawinak a tuah lai i a thiang lai tiah (Levi 12:2-7) chungah hmuh khawh a si.
Bible ah nu hna an thichuah ruangah
thianlonak siseh, takvun damlonak ruangah thianlonak le a dangdang thianlonak
kongah an thian lo chung, an thianhlim nak dingah tuah ding pawl cu aa tial ko
hna nain zei ruangah dah mahbantuk thil hna hi thianglo ah an rak ruah hna timi
kongah zei hmanh chimmi a um lo.
Chimduhmi cu a thainglo mi kong cu chim a si lengmang nain an thianlonak
a ruang fianternak kong Bible ah a um lo. Cu kong he pehtlai in a hmasabik
dothlat tu a si rua tiah ruahmi Luzato (1871 kum) nih Interpretation of Torah (Nawlbia
cauk hrihfiahnak) timi a rak tial an ti i mah ahcun thichuah, takvun damlo
nak le zei dangdang thianlonak zawtnak tiah Leviticus cauk chungah aa tial mi
pawl hi thihnak he aa pehtlaimi (aa naih tukmi) an si hna caah a thianglo mi
zawt, damlonak ah ruahmi an sinak a ruang a si tiah a rak ti. A sinain Klee
timi nu nih cun thihnak he aa pehtlaih caah nu chungin a chuakmi thi kha a
thianglo tiah Israel minih an rak zumhnak a si lai tiah Luzato nih a chuah pimi
zumhnak cu a hmanlai lo tiah a rak el ve. A nih a chim ve ning ahcun nunnak
thar semnak le thi hi aa pehtlai tiah Israel mi nih an rak ruah ca tuah nauinn
chungin a chuakmi thi hi a thianglo tiah an rak zumhnak a hrampi a si theu lai
tiah a ti.[1]
A cunglei pahnih he kalh
ngaiin Kauffmann nih cun Israel miphun hna nih nu chungin a chuakmi thi a
thianglo tiah an ruahnak hrampi hi Ancient Near East zumhnak in a rak chuak mi a si lai tiah a ti. Asinain a chimmi
ah a derthawm deuh nak cu Israel miphun hna nih nu chungin a chuakmi thi a
thiang lo an tinak hi Ancient Near East pawl an rak zumhnak in aa thok tiah a
chim ko nain zeiruang ah dah Ancient Near East pawl nih a thiang lo tiah nauinn
chungin a chuakmi thi cu an ruah timi cu a phi a chuah kho ve hlei lo. Ancient
Near East pawl nih an pathian le minung kar pehtlaihnak ah harnak pe tu deuh tiah
an ruahmi paoh kha thianglo tiah an rak ruah hna. Cucaah nu chungin a chuakmi
thi cu pathian he pehtlaih nak ah thianter lonak a chuahpi tu a si timi an
zumhnak ruangah a thainglo tiah an rak zumhnak a ruang si dawh a si a ti. Asianin
Ancient Near East pawl ruah ning bantuk si loin Israel minih a thianglo tiah an
ruah nak tu cu pumsa thianhhlimh nak kong lei hoih deuh in an i chimh cawnpiak mi
a si lai tiah a ti.[2] Cu
a chimmi zong cu tlamtlin nak a ngei hlei lo zei catiah cun Israel miphun pawl
tuanbia kan zoh tik ah an thianlo chung kha Pathian he pehtlaih khawh a si lo.
Tlangbawi nih raithawinak a tuah hnu hna na thiang tiah ti hnu lawnglawng ah
Pathian biak khawh le Pathian he i pehtlaih khawh a si. Cucaah a fiangngai mi cu pumsa
thainhhlimh nak he aa pehtlai mi lawng a rak si lo ti hi a si ko. A tawinak cun
Bible ah nu nauinn chungin a chuakmi thi cu a thianglo tiah aa tial ko nain a
thianlo nak a ruang cu tial a si lo zei ruang set ah ti zong fainter nak a um
hlei lo. A tanglei ah Israel miphun nih nauinn chungin a chuakmi thi a thianglo
tiah an rak ruahnak aa thoknak hrampi phunhnih in langh ter khawh ka vun zuam
lai.
1 Nu Chungin a chuakmi thisen a
thianglo timi zumhnak cu Isareal miphun nih an pawngkam zumhnak an i lakmi a si
timi ruahnak
Biakam
hlun cauk dothlattu tamdeuh nihcun Israel miphun hna nih nuchungin a chuakmi
thi a thianglo tiah an ruahnak cu an pawngkam miphun hna nih an rak zumh caah
cu an pawngkam minung pawl zumhnak cun a si ti hi an cohlan mi a si. Scholar
cheukhat nih cun Israel mi nih a zeiset hi dah an pawngkam zumhnak sinin an i
lak i zei tiang hi dah an mibu hrangah an hman ti mi kha an zoh tii i an
hmanning cio kha epchunh nak an tuah. Cutik ah Israel miphun hna le an pawngkam
miphun hna sining ah an i dan cemnak a si ko tiah an rak ruah mi cu Israel miphun
cu Pathian pakhat lawng a bia mi an si i an pawngkam mi phun hna cu pathian
tampi a biami an si nak ah hin an i dan bik nak a si an ti. Scholar cheukhat ve
nih an Pathian biakmi ah i dang ko hmanh hna sehlaw an zumhning le an nunning
ah tampi khahnak an ngei ve ti cu el awk tha lo in a um ko caah nuchung
in a chuakmi thi kong ah Israel minih a thianglo ah an hmuhnak a
ruangbik cu an pawngkam ummi miphun hna zumhnak in aa thok mi a si ko lai tiah
an ti. Asinain Israel miphun hna le an pawngkam ummi mibu hna an nunphung an
zoh ti tikah an catial ah siseh an zuksuai mi ah siseh i khahlo nak tampi a um
thotho ve caah cu zong cu cohlan har ngai ah ruah a si than hoi. Cohlan thlu
awk a tlakmi zumhnak cu a si fawn lo.[3]
Azei si pohah nihin tiangah mi tam deuh nih an zumh mi cu cu tik caan bak in nauinn
chungthi a thianglo timi zumhnak hi aa thok ko ti le khoi ka set in aa thok ti
cu theih khawh a har tuk hringhren mi a si. Asinain theih khawh nak tiang an
dot hlat tik ah nu chungin a chuakmi thi a thainglo timi hi hlanlio Israel
miphun hna an pawngkam a rak ummi miphun hna nih chimchin mi tuanbia le
phungthluk ah a rak um diam cang mi a si ti caah cucun i thok dawh a si ti
tiang hi an chim khawh mi cu a si.
A
tawinak bik le a fawinak bik in chim ahcun Israel miphun nih nu chungin a
chuakmi thi a thaing lo an rak ti hlan piin an pawngkam ah a rak ummi miphun
hna nunphung, zumhnak le sining ah hram thuk piin a rak thla cangmi zumhnak a
si tihi a si. Cu nunphung cu i lak in Israel mi zong nih thianglo ah vun pom
dawh an si.
2. Minung kong le nunphung kong a
cawngmi hna nih an hmuhning
Pahnihnak
ah tawi tein langhter ka duh mi cu minungkong a cawngmi hna (Anthropologists)
pawl le (traditionists) pawl nih an rauhning kong hi a si. Hlanlio minung hna
an nunphung kong hlathlai nak an tuah tik ah le minung hna an sining zoh tikah thianlonak phung timi hi minung tuanbia
hramthok in mibu kip nih rak i ngeih mi phungah a rak um diam cang mi, a um lio
cuahmah mi le a um lai dingmi phung a si an ti.[4]
Robertson Smith nih a thianglo mi tiah
ulh mi caah taboo timi biafang cu a rak hman. Taboo timi cu mibu bukhat nih silole miphun pakhat nih tonghtham lo
dingin, hrial dingin ruahmi thil pakhatkhat siloah hmunhma pakhatkhat siloah minung pakhatkhat
kha a sawh mi a si. Cu taboo timi a
thainglo tiah ruahmi, hrialphung a si, ulh phung a si tiah ruahmi ahcun nu hna
an nau inn chungin a chuakmi thi hi hlanlio minung tuanbia zoh tikah a thianglo
mi a si tiah ruahnak a rak um diam cang mi a si caah cu ka cun hram a rak thla
i Israel miphun hna nih a thianglo tiah an cathiang chungah an rak langhter nak
hi a si lai tiah zumh a si. Cu a thianglo tiah ruahnak a rak ummi nih cun mibu
nunnak ah hram thuk ngaiin a rak bunh tikah nifatin mibu nunnak lawnghmanh ah
si ti loin kan zumhnak tiangah a lanh pi theu tawn.[5]
A tawinak cun biaknak chungah a thianglo tiah nauinn chungin a chuakmi thi ruah
a hung si hi biaknak chung ah an rak ruah hlan piin mibu nih a thianglo tiah
rak chimmi le rak ruah ciami, an nunphung chungah hram a rak sih diam cangmi a
si ti khi a si ko.
Mauss
nih cun kan pum cu kan zaatlang nunnak nih fiangngai in a suai mi thlalang a si
tiah a rak ti. Cu a rak chimmi bia cu i lak in Mary Douglas nih a thainglo timi
ruahnak phung nih aa tinh bik mi cu mibu pi damnak caah le pawngkam thatnak,
zohkhenh felnak caah a si i mibu chungah nautat mi, santlai lomi tiah thleidan
nak caah a si lo tiah a rak ti. Phundang in chim ahcun Mary Douglas nih cun a
thianglomi cu thil hnawmtam mi le a umnak dingah a um lo mi paoh kha a si ko
tiah a ti. Cu zumhning le ruahning cu miphun kip sinah a rak ummi a si a ti.
Asinain phunkhat le phunkhat kan i dannak tucu mibu cheukhat nih cun cucu an
hrial hna i mibu cheukhat nih cun thil biapi pa ah an ruat lo i biapi pa zongah
an chia fawn lo a ti.[6]
Pipa tukin aa chiahmi mibu nih an i buaipi i minung pakhat le pakhat karlak ah
theidannak tiang a chuah ter nain a ruat duh lemlo mi mibu tu nih cu zei zongah
an chia lo i buainak zong a chuah pi ve lo a ti. A hmanngai mi a si ram
thangcho le mi thangcho cang mi hna nih cun hi kong hi ceih ding hmanh ah ruah
ti lo mi a si.
Douglas
zumhning zong cu a tling thlu lo tiah Meigs nih a el ve. Thil pakhatkhat a
umnak dingah a um lo mipaoh le a thurhnawm mipoh a thianglo tiah a tlangpi in
kan ti kho lo. Thil zei maw cu an umnak ding lo ah kan chiah bu ko zong ah zoh
a co mi le a thurhnawm lomi an um thotho ko tiah a el. Nauinn chungin a
chuakmi thi cu a thianglo kan ti ko lio
ah cu nauin chungin a chuakmi thi a um lo ah cun Pathian thluachuah nau pawi le
nau neih khawh a si ve thotho lo a ti.[7]
A chimmi hi a hman ngai ka ti. Nunnak aa thoknak cu thisen a si i cu thisen lo
cun nunnak aa thok kho lo. Cucaah nunnak le thihnak kong he aa pehtlai mi a si
caah nu nauin chungin a chuakmi thi cu a thianglo tiah kan ti kho hnga maw? Hi
kongah hin mipi hi kan biapi ngaingai. Zeicatiah cun mipi cu hi kong ah biathlek tu
kan si.
Hi
kong he pehtlai in Buckley le Gottlied nih cun taboo timi biafang
ruangah thianlonak a rat a si ahcun taboo biafang cu ta
timi “min va bunh” le pu timi “sining hoihin” ti sullam a
ngeimi biafang pahnih komh in a ra mi a si caah sining hoih in min bunh timi sullam a ngei mi a si. Cu nihcun a
thianglo rumro mi lawng a sawh lo. Taboo timi a mah biafang bak nih hin
palhnak, thianlonak a ngei lo i thiannak, palhlonak zong a ngei hlei fawn lo.
Thil pakhatkhat kha mibu nunning hoih in a sullam chimtik ah a nak kho mi a si
bantuk in a rang kho mi zong a si fawn ti khi a si ko.[8]
Cucaah cun thianlonak kong ah hmanmi biafang hi kan nunphung chungah kan hman
tikah kan sining hoih in a sullam kan fainter ruangah thiltha zong ah kan chiah
khawh i kan nunphung le sining ruangah thil thalo zongah kan chiah khawh mi a
si ti hi minung kong le nunphung kong a cawngmi hna nih an ti ning cu a si.
Phundang in chim ahcun nauinn chung thi cu a mah kokek sinak ah a thiangin a
thur lo. A hrilhfiah tu minung le mibu nih a thiangah kan chiah ahcun a thiang
ko i thianglo ah kan chiah ahcun a thiang lo mi a si ko ti khi a sawh mi cu a
si. Amah thi kokek nih thiannak le thianlo nak a ngei lo a hrilhfiah tu
hrihfiah ning hoih in sullam a ngei mi a si ti hi a si.
Lainu le Thisen
Laimi
zong kan nunphung ah nu nauinn in a chuakmi thi cu a thianglo mi ah ruah a rak
si. A tu zongah a si peng rih ko. Cucu kan zumhning le kan tuahphung tete ah
hin tampi a lang. Tahchunhnak ah thingthei a tlai a thaw ngaimi zong lawh a cut
tikah nu thi a ngei lio mi a kai ah cun a pang a chia tiah kan zumh i a hmaikum
ahcun a tlai a tha ti lo tiah kan ruah. Cintlak nak lei kongah theihmi le
cawnmi ka ngeih ve lo caah tampi ruah nak ka chuah pi kho lo nain si dawh a si
ngaimi cu mah thingthei nih a duhmi dat hna kan pek khawh lo ahcun theitlai tha
tlai ding cu a si kho ve lo mi a si. Cun thingthei kung pakhat cu a tlai kho lo.
Tlaiding a si cang ko nain thei a tlai lo ahcun nu thi an neihnak hni kha suk lo in an fenh hna i
fungin an tuk hna tikah thingthei tha a hmaikum ah a tlai tite hna hi laimi nih
kan rak i nun pi i cu ti zong cu kan rak tuah tawnmi a si. Phundang in chim
ahcun mah thingthei cu tlai na cucang ko nain ziah na tlai lo tiah ningzak
mualpho in kan tuah tinak khi a si. Keimah pumpak hrimhrim nih hi thil an tuah
tawn mi hi ka hmuhton mi an si. Cun ramvai mi pa zong an nu thi a ngeih lio ah
ram a vaih ah cun sa a kap kho lo ti te hna in rak ruah a si. Cun a cheu hna
nih cun nupi le thi ngeih lio i ramveih cu i khawhden nak a si ti hna in an
zumh.[9]
Cu vialte kan rak i nunpi diam cang mi kan
nunphung nih a kan nenh tik ah Khrihfa kan hung si hnu zong ah nu pastor cu pa
pastor tluk in kan hmu hna lo. Ordination te hna zong hlanlio deuh ah cun va a
ngei ti lo i a thi a dih cangmi, phundang cun a thi deng cang mi nu lawng
Khrihfabu nih rak pek a si. Rian an tuan kho set ti fawn lo ordination an pek
hnu hna ah a ruangcu an der thawm tuk hnu a si cang i cutik ah nu Rev. pawl cu
san an tlai lo tiah kan ti than hoi hna. Voidang zongah ka tial lengmang tawn
bantuk in ordination cu riantuan khawhnak ding caah pek ding a si deuhmi khi a
si. U pat tuk hnu riantuan khawh ti lo hnu thazang um ti lo hnu hna ah cun
zeihmanh pek thahnem lo a si. Fianghlang ngaiin thleidan nak a um ti cu chim
awk a tha lo nain nauinn chungin a chuakmi thisen ruangah nu cu niam deuh ah
chiah kan si zungzal. Khrihfa lawng si loin kan pawngkam zumhnak Buddhist pawl
zong nih an pura a san deuh nak pawl le hmun cheukhat ahcun nu cu kai khawh a
si lo tiah ca hna an tar tawn. Cun nuhni cu cungsang ah thlai phung a si hoi
lo. Vawlei hri te lawngah zaar phung a si tiah ruah asi fawn. Culawng si lo in
nu cu hmailei ah pathian a va si te khawh nak ding caah cun pa in a chuah hmasa
a herh ti hna ah an ruah caah Buddhist nu tampi nih thla an cam tawn mi cu ka
hmailei ah cun pa in hrin mi ka si khawh nak hnga tiah thla hna an cam tawn.
A ngaingai ti ahcun nauinn chungin a
chuakmi thi cu nu hna kan dam hmechunh nak a si. Thichia chuak lo in a um ah
cun nu caah cun nau inn zawtnak ngeih a fawi ngaingai. Cun fa nu fa pa Pathian
thluachuah an si kan ti lio ah nu hi nauinn chungin a chuak mi an thi um hlah
seh law fa zong ngeih khawh a si fawn hnga lo. Kan ruahnak le kan zumhnak laimi
nih kan thlen a hau cang. Nu chugnin a chuakmi thi cu a thianghlim mi le nunnak
thisen a si tiah kan cohlan ahcun Pathian nih a mah mui keng in a ser ve mi hna
nu hna hi u pat hmaizah nak le dawtnak kan pek hna awk a si. Kan nautat hna
ding an si lo. Kan dawt hna i an zawn kan ruah hna dingtu a si deuh. Zeicatiah
Pathian nih a hleiin nunnak thar chuahnak ding caah rian pek mi kan si.
Biatlang Kawmnak
De
Beauvior nih a rak chimmi cu nuin hrin kan si lo, nu ah ser kan si deuh a ti.
Thil pahnih in a then. Cucu sex (sining kokek) le gender (nunphung, pawngkam
nih si termi) tiah a then. Nu kan sinak kan kokek ah hin zeihmanh a thianglomi,
sualnak a um cia mi a si lo i kan nunphung le pawngkam tu nih nu cu cutin a um
awk a si tiah sermi phungphai an ngeih mi tunih a kan nenh i a niam mi ah chiah
kan sinak a si a ti.[10]
A hmanngai nu cungah kan ruahnak kan thlen caan a cu cang.
Kan
Bible chung zongah Levi 17:14 ah cun, “Zeitintiah titsa vialte nunnak cu thi cu
a si,” a ti. Cun Deuteronomi 12:23 zongah “A thi bel kha ei hrimhrim hlah u;
Zeicatiah thi cu nunnak a si i nunnak cu sa he nan ei lai lo,” a ti. Cun
Genesis 9:4 ah “Asinain sa kha a chung i thi a um lioah cun nan ei lai lo,
zeicatiah nunnak cu thi cu asi,” tiah a ti ve. Cucaah Pathian nih Israel mi cu
saram thi ei zong a rak thloh hna. Zeicatiah thisen cu nunnak hram a si caah a
si. Saram thi hmanh kan sunhsak ah cun nunnak aa thoknak nauinn chung thisen cu
upat tihzah chinchin ding khi kan si.
Bawi
Jesuh Khrih hrimhrim zong nih Matt 26:28 ah “Hihi ka thi a si, biakam fehternak
thisen, sual ngaihthiamnak ca i mi tampi ca i thletmi cu a si,” a ti. Cun
Hebrew 13:12 ah cun “ hi ruangah hin Jesuh zong kha, hau lengah a thih kha si i cucu a thi in mi kha kan sualnak
thianhpiak a kan duh caah a si,” a ti. IJohn
1:7 zongah “ sihmanhsehlaw ceunak chung i a um bantukin kannih zong ceunak
chung i kan um ahcun pakhat le pakhat hawikomhnak kan ngei i a fapa Jesuh thi
nih khan kan sualnak vialte in a kan thianh,” a ti. A mah Bawi Jesuh Khrih
hrimhrim zong a nu Mary chungin Mary thisen hmangin misual nang le kei tlanh
awk ah hi vawlei ah a rak chuak ve mi a si (Mat 1:18-23; Lk 2:1-7). Cucaah nu
nauinn chung in a chuakmi thisen cu thisen thiang, dawtnak thisen, remnak
thisen, nunnak aa bunhnak thisen le luatnak thisen a si. Thisen cu mivial te
kan nunak a si.
Theihternak: Chin International Women Magazine ah ka tialmi a si. Ca kan post khawh lonak kumkhat deng a si. Kumkhat chung taktak cawlcangh nak um lo cu tiah magazine a rel rih lo mi caah a huammi relding in ka rak post.
[1]
Van der Toorn, From Her Cradle to Her
Grave: The Role of Religion in the Life of the Israelite and Babylonian Women
(Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1994), 49-65.
[2]
Kauffman cauk chungta lak in C.P Wright nih a tialmi, The Disposal of Impurity: Elimination Rites in the Bible and In Hittite
and Mesopotamian Literature (Atlanta, Georgia: Scholars Press, 1987),
275-277.
[3]
Janet Lee and Jennifer Sasser-Coen, Blood
Stories: Menarche and the Politics of the Female Body in Cotemporary U.S
Society (London and New York: Routledge, 1996), 22.
[4]
Ibid., 23-25.
[5]
W. Robertson Smith, Lectures on the
Religion of the Semites (London: A and C Black, 1914). Mah kong hi Tarja S.
Philip, In the Bible; Fertility and
Impurity timi cauk (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2006),9 ah a tialmi
lak chinmi a si.
[6]Mary
Douglas, Purity and Danger: An Analysis
of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo (London: Routledge & K Paul, 1966), 41-57.
[7]
Philip, 12.
[8]
Buckley and Gottlieb, Blood Magic: the anthropology of Menstruation (Los
Angelis, California: University of
California Press, 1988), 1-50.
[9]
Biak Tha Hnem, Towards a Chin Woman’s Body Theology with Special Reference to
Menstruation and Childbirth (Hong Kong; Chinese University of Chung Chi
College, Unpublished Master of Theology Thesis, 2009), 43-45.
[10]
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (New
York: Bantam Books, 1964), 5-6, 60.
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