Biblical/Jesus errors
Lee Markland markland@rockisland.com
Mon, 04 Jan 1999 00:48:00 -0800 (00915461280, 3.0.5.32.19990104004800.00ab2850@rockisland.com)
At 08:15 PM 1/2/99 +0000, you wrote:
>Hello, JILO!
>
>At 11:47 PM 1/1/99 -0800, owner-errancy@infidels.org forwarded the following
>post from JILO, who wrote:
>>
>>
>>JILO
>>Contradictions are bound to appear in an 'evesdropping' endeavor such as
>>reading the account of a conversation which does not include us.. ie.
>>Jesus/pharisees The evesdropper doesnt know the language, the culture, the
>>setting, the common usage of words or in general the mode of communication.
>>He is bound to misunderstand either or both speakers and if he so desires
>>decides 'ahhhah another contradiction'
>
>
>CREA
> This is fascinating! Then you are admitting that EVERY reading of the
>conversations in the NT are BOUND to include misinterpretations of the
>material, inasmuch as even the most skilled contemporary linguist or
>Biblical scholar, since they were NOT included in or present at the
>conversation? Then just how, pray tell, does one go about determining what
>the conversations MEAN beyond the obvious?
>
>Joseph Crea
><Joseph.Crea@worldnet.att.net>
Simple answer Joseph - Solipsism. People who interpret the Bible beyond the
obvious
are putting their own spin on it. They are putting their own meanings into the
mouth of the god whom they create in their own image. They play
ventriloquist as they seek to fulfill their needs and assuage their fears.
Just look at the sheer size and number
of denominations extant in the land. Don't like what you hear, shop around
until you
find a church that tells you what you want to hear, have trouble there,
then choose to obey or ignore injuntions and prescriptitions that are
inconvenient or reinforce your own
fears and needs.
"From each according to his ability to each according to his needs" Karl
Marx via Louis le Blanc.
"All whose faith had drawn them together held everything in common: they
would sell their property and possessions and make a general distribution
as the need of each required".
Acts 2 44:45.
A prescription for communism.
"For a Christian to say he or she is anti-Marxist is understandable. There
are numerous varieties of Marxism, and it is possible that our Christian is
referring to one of the many materialistic philosophies which style
themselves Marxist."
"But for a Christian to claim to be anticommunist is quite a different
matter, and without doubt constitutes the greatest scandal of our century."
"The notion of communism is in the New Testament, right down to the letter
- and so well put that in the twenty centuries since it was written no one
has come up with a better definition of communism than Acts 2 44:45 and
Acts 4 32:35."
Above quotes from Communism in the Bible, Jose Miranda, Orbis Books, 1982.
Lee Markland who is neither Xtian or Communist.