RE: Luke 4:5
August 21, 2023 at 10:25 pm
(This post was last modified: August 21, 2023 at 10:26 pm by Bucky Ball.)
There were 3 "temptations" and they were archetypal and allegorical. They were not meant to be literal.
Together the three served as "mythology" (see Bultmann) to say that their hero/Jesus was triumphant over whatever the temptations were, and Satan and evil.
The three also served to demonstrate the hero's status as a Jew, as Moses and Elijah had also had similar temptations.
Been years since I read about those ... and I came from very liberal tradition. Read a really good book about these once, but can't recall who wrote it.
I asked Kung once about these, at Tubingen when I was there for a semester, and couldn't understand his response.
Together the three served as "mythology" (see Bultmann) to say that their hero/Jesus was triumphant over whatever the temptations were, and Satan and evil.
The three also served to demonstrate the hero's status as a Jew, as Moses and Elijah had also had similar temptations.
Been years since I read about those ... and I came from very liberal tradition. Read a really good book about these once, but can't recall who wrote it.
I asked Kung once about these, at Tubingen when I was there for a semester, and couldn't understand his response.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell 
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