Hiya..

Yes, I noticed that there was a certain recipe for the oil. I was just gonna take the olive oil I use to cook with LOL. I betcha that the ingredients in that recipe had meaning too eh? I noticed in the link provided by another here.. (I'm so sorry, I don't remember your name! please forgive me eh..) that the oil that was prepared for religious ceremonies is closer to the way that they would prepare it in the regular home.. and not commercially.

Anyway...Hope I don't sound mean, but I would never ever give money to someone capitalizing off of "oil." It seems the Christian book stores are just as apostate as any place.

I would very much like to hear what you have to say. As as this is a calvinist/reformed board, would like to know what is the position concerning the foolish vs the wise virgins. What I had always learned was that those foolish virgins had been saved, but were foolish in not keeping themselves "filled" with the Holy Spirit, and lost their salvation, and then when Jesus came for them, it was too late.

I wish I had more time.. maybe a bit later I will go and read the things around that particular passage and see which ohter parables are there.

It's so funny, because so much of my bible reading before consisted of "understanding' a certain passage, and then having to skip over the entire context, because it didn't make sense. So this is neat.

Anyway, thanks for all the info so far. I look forward to your next post!

Michele