RE: Serious question about thoughts on theists
May 18, 2023 at 1:07 pm
(This post was last modified: May 18, 2023 at 1:09 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
There's a really interesting relationship to explore there, if you have that apprehension. If it does seem like jesus as written expected his audience to understand what hell was. This supported his apocalyptic ministry. The prophetic interpretation is that all of the references to gehenna were in kind to their ot antecedents and thus, jesus predicted the roman pits 40 years later after the destruction of the temple. The historic interpretation, is that whoever wrote this was familiar with the events of the 70's as history.
In neither case would the alleged audience of these tirades have understood them. In the prophetic interpretation..they didn't, and kept fucking up, and sure as shit the temple was destroyed and their broken bodies and living children were thrown in pits as rebels by a pagan army occupying their land. In the historical interpretation, nobody then got it because it wasn't a thing then. It was a later revision of the story to incorporate such facts as arose after 70ce.
In neither case would the alleged audience of these tirades have understood them. In the prophetic interpretation..they didn't, and kept fucking up, and sure as shit the temple was destroyed and their broken bodies and living children were thrown in pits as rebels by a pagan army occupying their land. In the historical interpretation, nobody then got it because it wasn't a thing then. It was a later revision of the story to incorporate such facts as arose after 70ce.
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