Recent content by Ima Knerd

:wave: I'm interested in what Jesus actually said. And I need your help. :help:

Dear Osel... It is interesting that you should compare Farrakhan to Sharpton and see Farrakhan as being less than a demagogue as Sharpton. I may be totally off base, but a statement like that sounds woefully ill-informed! At least Sharpton's mythology is grounded in Judeo-Christian tradtion...

Okay what do you say is there? That was what I wanted. This does not tell me much.

Blackhawk--I do not want to attack your faith or personal relationship with Jesus. I just wanted to point out that faith and history are two different spheres of reality. Faith makes a meaning out of the historical reality. Faith is personal, and has to do with belief, opinion and theology...

"When did Jesus deny that he was the Messiah? But the real question is how many times did he claim that he was the Messiah? Too many times to count. At least by me." Few believers read Scriptrue carefully. They are technically literate, but they read with inattention and to confirm their...

--How could they "agree" if they were written at different time periods by different people? The Bible is full of textual contradictions which certainly do not detract from belief (yours, for instance), but in matters of fact and history we must conclude that the Bible presents people's...

The Bible is often erroneously thought of as "a book"--and taken that way literally. Actually, it is a collection of many books, written by many authors, over much time. Because these books are now gathered under one cover (or canon), they become "a book" in the popular imagination of the...

Many believers get their "theology" not from the Bible, but from what others say about the Bible. Bible Study is actually "studying the Bible." If nothing else, this synopsis forces one to actually pay attention to what is there in the text! ------------------------------------------ Here...

Amen. Keep your heart on Jesus and watch how he practices what he preaches. In all ways, he is definiitely NOT like most of humanity....

That's certainly part of it, Mix. The hazards of oral tradition, I guess. Most mainstream biblical scholars guesstimate the best likely dates of the New Testament books and go from there. The Bible is seen as a complex blend of remembered history and created theology. Reading the gospels...

If the Bible is seen as inerrant, does that then mean that your understanding of it is also innerant? Jesus is a man.  That is a statement of knowledge.  Jesus is the Son of God.  That is a statement of faith.  Christianity is seeing the man, Jesus, as an embodiment...

Mark's Jesus cries out in agony because Mark's community was undergoing terrible persecution during the Jewish-Roman War around 70 AD. One can easily contrast Mark with John, written about 20 years later.  Jesus dies not in suffering but in total control.  There is no asking God to...

The controversy may be attributed to the fact that John has Jesus dying on Passover Eve, while the synoptics have him crucified on Passover?

Even Protor needs to get with the Jesus of the gospels.  Separating out this Jesus from the theological overlay in the texts will be some of hardest work us Christians will ever have to do. (It's a bit like doing open-hearted surgery on the faith.  Or rather open-heart surgery...

Although taking the Bible literally (the first principle) would make the rest of the prinicples listed unnecessary, it does have its limitations. Atheists and some unbelievers are often fond of saying "If Jesus was the Lamb of God, does that mean Mary had a little lamb?" Sarcastic, yes, but it...