Jesus; the Torah, Nevi'im, and Psalms (Part 2)

fortune cookie?

heh. funny. my mom said that last night. when i was telling her what is bouncing around in my head and asking her for advice.just get the love from everyone don't we?amd what the hell is asia minor. no one but christians use that term...This message has been edited by brennakimi, 12-28-2005 11:12 AM

i think it's interesting when they choose to translate names and when they don't.

the same reason i can trust my abnoxious anthro student friend to tell me about human bones but not about anything else. because she's hauty and self-righteous and thinks she knows everything... and she's usually wrong unless she's taken a class on it. anything about languages? wrong. anything about science (not including jared diamond quotes)? wrong. anything about health? wrong. anything about diets? wrong.we can trust jesus' contemporaries to tell us what he said, but not who his grandparents were or great grandparents or what role he fills in history. they're too short-sighted like everyone. no one who knew eugene atget could tell us he was going to become an amazing addition to the world of photography and practically invent and dominate his own field. but they could prolly tell us what he ate for breakfast and what he told that guy who called him names for carrying that hugeass camera around. and i'm sure none of the people he had coffee with every day knew who begat his great great great great granddad... especially in an unsavory area of paris.

maybe you can't.and there's plenty of extrabiblical accounts of christ. just. your church doesn't like them.

there are other books. other gospels and such. they are not canon, so i consider them extra-biblical. and i'm sure there's tons of local mythology. and there's some stuff (but not much) from that jewish guy whatsisname.but mostly i was speaking of apocryphal type stuffs.but then what proof precisely have we of the life of the buddha? and yet aren't his words and guidance enough to show us how we ought to live even if he never did? why should it matter if we ascribe to a false authority when that authority calls us to love and forgive and bring forth peace into the world?

you mean like the rest of the bible?

i meant that part.