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To: Marie2

I believe Jesus used lots of tools in his teachings. If he were dealing with Jewish people who believed in the Old Testament, he would use these as homilies.

but the stuff that was written down, even about Jesus, was written down decades, even centuries after His death. So your assumption of his exact quoting of Scriptures is suspect.


32 posted on 01/27/2009 11:10:20 AM PST by Vaquero ( "an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Vaquero
but the stuff that was written down, even about Jesus, was written down decades, even centuries after His death. So your assumption of his exact quoting of Scriptures is suspect.

So, you know better? Should we just make assumptions based on our feelings, rather than writing that have stood the test for centuries?

37 posted on 01/27/2009 11:17:57 AM PST by P8riot (I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
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To: Vaquero

“I believe Jesus used lots of tools in his teachings.”

Well, He quoted Scripture as authoritative (nothing else). He reasoned. He argued. He demonstrated. He raised people from the dead, healed lepers, made the blind see and the deaf hear. He drove moneychangers out of the temple with a whip. He spoke in parables. He confronted. I guess those are all tools in a manner of speaking.

The first books of the Bible, Genesis through Deuteronomy, were written down during Moses’ time, by Moses. The Psalms were written by King David. Proverbs’ author was King Solomon. Every book of the Bible has a fairly easily discernible author, and historians, even non-Christian ones, generally accept the authorship and the approximate dates of writing.

Nothing was written hundreds of years after Christ. The first four gospels are eyewitness accounts by four of his disciples (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) and were all written before they died (obviously).


45 posted on 01/27/2009 11:31:34 AM PST by Marie2 (Ora et labora)
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