RE: Why can't Christians Verify Exactly Where Jesus Was Buried?
October 1, 2016 at 10:09 pm
(This post was last modified: October 1, 2016 at 10:10 pm by Firefighter01.)
(October 1, 2016 at 8:07 pm)Firefighter01 Wrote: [quote pid='1406021' dateline='1475312860']
The Sermon on The Mount was way too complex and lengthy to be recited to a crowd of multitudes, let alone recorded by anyone, was composed originally in Greek and speaks of the death of the temple cult. So Jesus could not have given it and most NT scholars agree on this.
No they don't. And as to whether it was spoken in Greek or Aramaic, Hebrew, or some other ancient Canaanite language no one knows the answer to that.
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They agree because it had to be written in Greek. That's because it was dependent on the Septuagint for its development of it’s arguments and vocabulary. It assumes that temple cult doesn't exist. That was the whole reason for the deliverance of the sermon IMO. Jesus would be saying stuff like don’t go to the temple, the temple cult won’t save you, but he doesn’t.
He doesn’t even acknowledge the existence of the temple cult.
The whole structure of the Sermon is in 3 levels,
1. How to Obey the Torah
2. How to Pay cult to God
3. How to Deal With Society
Those were the 3 structures the rabbis developed after the destruction of the temple to help their religion survive. Why would Jesus be giving instructions on how to pay cult to God after the destruction of the temple if the temple was still in existence? Besides, the length and intricate structure indicates that it would have been put together in writing, probably by more than one person. Who could have recorded something like that if it were delivered orally in front of multitudes. It reminds me of this;
"What did he say?
I think it was “Blessed are the cheesemakers.”
Aha, what’s so special about the cheesemakers?
Well, obviously it’s not meant to be taken literally; it refers to any manufacturers of dairy products. "
