RE: Did Jesus call the Old Testament God the Devil, a Murderer and the Father of Lies?
October 28, 2018 at 9:54 pm
(October 28, 2018 at 11:19 am)possibletarian Wrote:(October 28, 2018 at 12:06 am)Gwaithmir Wrote: I think it highly likely that Jesus was illiterate and never read any of the OT scriptures.
In Luke 4:21 Jesus reads from a scroll to the synagogue.
That's a STORY written decades after Jesus' death. The REAL Jesus, being the son of a mere carpenter, was most likely illiterate. I would expect that if Jesus was an actual, educated preacher, he would have left behind writings of his own. I have no doubt that the biblical Jesus is a fictional character.
"The world is my country; all of humanity are my brethren; and to do good deeds is my religion." (Thomas Paine)