(January 11, 2015 at 11:14 am)fr0d0 Wrote: Do you think their job is to present the accepted understanding of text or present something else? Do you think . . . they bastardised the text or do you think it's in their cherry picking and pulling out of context to make false conclusions . . . ?
Perhaps off-topic, but this perfectly captures what the early Christians did when they offered their interpretations of OT messianic 'prophecies' concerning Jesus. They certainly weren't concerned with accepted understanding of the texts, nor were they above bastardizing, cherry picking, and pulling out of context these scriptures to reach their own preferred (i.e., 'false' as the orthodox Jews would have it) conclusions. But that doesn't trouble you in the least, does it Frodo?
