RE: Adulterous woman
June 24, 2021 at 6:52 pm
(This post was last modified: June 24, 2021 at 6:54 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Seems that we might sometimes tie ourselves into knots trying to come up with a historic explanation for a legendary narrative. It's fairly clear that the authors of the story no longer believed that the jewish authorities were following the law..it's strange to imagine that a person creating a new god wouldn't think that. They still needed to borrow the ladder, as a practical matter, and so we get the tortured narrative which, when stripped of it's explicitly theological content establishing the authority of godman, has no detail whatsoever.
It never happened, there is no explanation for why a meeting between people who didn't exist, a meeting which never happened, would go any one way or another. The story, however, went the way it went because that's the message the author intended to convey, full stop. That jesus..the jesus in this story, isn't part of "the historical jesus".
It never happened, there is no explanation for why a meeting between people who didn't exist, a meeting which never happened, would go any one way or another. The story, however, went the way it went because that's the message the author intended to convey, full stop. That jesus..the jesus in this story, isn't part of "the historical jesus".
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
