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To: mdmathis6
Here's the thing: we don't know if Jesus said that. Legends always spring up after a dramatic event. You know, right now there's an off-Broadway play starring the guy who played John-Boy Walton about Jimmy Carter's assertive and masterful role in forcing Egypt to acknowledge Israel. Liberals are lapping it up like... well... like Gospel. Anyone can make up stuff after the fact.

At best we can say of Jesus: there are several records to suggest that he lived, he traveled about, he spoke to Jews, he was thought to be capable of ruling Israel, he was killed by political enemies, the end.

Most New Testament accounts are a garbled mish-mash that suggests a combination of attempts to make him the fulfillment of OT prophecy (probably included at the time) and later attempts to suggest his mission was something else entirely (probably concocted later.) That no one thought to expunge specific King of Israel referents at the time is explicable by remembering that those who compiled the Bible were not Jewish and probably didn't recognize the significance of certain elements (such as Joseph not being Jesus real father --see: Curse of Solomon.)

83 posted on 04/17/2014 1:43:05 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: A_perfect_lady

I know that is your opinion...it all becomes a matter of faith and where one anchors one’s soul...(though some modern thinkers might describe the process as the “kernel set of moral values around which one’s mental construct of reality and one’s own keen sense of one’s “I” centeredness become molded together into a personality matrix that acts and reacts towards other people and events in accordance to those inculcated values.

Nevertheless, what we know of Jesus’ words are written in the Bible we have. His words spoke of a mission to “seek and save that which is lost; even to the point, if only one of his sheep was missing, he would have given his life for that one sheep. He said in the words that are found in this Bible you doubt so much...”I am the Good shepherd...and I lay down my life for my sheep...”

So much for Pharisees and Earthly Kingdoms....


89 posted on 04/17/2014 2:15:44 PM PDT by mdmathis6
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