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To: Carry_Okie
It is because you are too lazy to do your homework, relying instead upon the priestly class of "scholars" to do it for you.

I have never seen a reason to reinvent the wheel, particularly when current wheels work just fine.

Furthermore, I hardly think the endorsement of a fringe Jewish sect, whose most notable contribution to modern theology is the promotion of a false messiah, to be too compelling.

You let them study Torah and tell you what it means rather than learning from it yourself and engaging others in discussion.

You presume much. But then, it is with good reason Jesus warned about the way of "rich" men.

Our Savior didn't associate with the pharisees.

Sure he did. He associated with them all the time. What he didn't do was agree with them.

Nevertheless, he did seem to reserve his strongest disapproval for those who manipulated the Scripture to achieve a divine imprimatur for their own preferences and accusations.

So why should I bother with more than a succinct reply when you won't read what I've provided you?

Because your "succinct reply" is so succinct, it provides neither the problem, nor the solution; only a strained reinterpretation, having neither a thorough peer review, nor a stated motivation, though a quasi-gnostic impetus seems strongly implied.

Are you really so myopic as to believe "the people of the land" are "too lazy" to make textual criticism their avocation?

104 posted on 01/04/2014 3:45:07 PM PST by papertyger ("refusing to draw an inescapable conclusion does not qualify as a 'difference of opinion.'")
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To: papertyger
To "lazy" I'll add bored.

Stew.

105 posted on 01/04/2014 4:07:44 PM PST by Carry_Okie (0-Care IS Medicaid; they'll pull a sheet over your head and take everything you own to pay for it.)
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