RE: Christians - even the Bible says that Jesus was not God so why do you say he was ?
October 20, 2015 at 12:17 pm
(October 20, 2015 at 12:08 pm)houseofcantor Wrote:There's Paul's Jesus; there's the Jesus of the Synoptics; and there's John's Jesus. (This is just the NT, leaving out of account the other Gospels that didn't make the cut.)(October 20, 2015 at 11:45 am)Crossless1 Wrote: Is it your contention that Jesus' self-characterizations and references to his relationship with Yahweh found in the Synoptic Gospels are essentially the same as what is found in John?
I never got that far - well, I've read the gospel of Judas, but...![]()
I take it as further conformation that Jesus was Paul's construct to ideally embody Holy Spirit.
Christians conflate these different sources to arrive at their Jesus, favoring now one and now another of the sources as it suits their purposes. They feel justified in doing so because the sources they reference all have the stamp of orthodox approval and are thought to be God's word. Of course, to someone who doesn't buy into that tradition, they are indulging in bad and dishonest reading habits.