Re: Hell (was The Wall)

Mark T wrote:
 
> "lynx" <none@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
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>>> The gospels are a form of propaganda and NOT a modern biography.
>>> For example ...
>>> Adapted from Robert W. Funk "Honest To Jesus" (Hodder & Stoughton:
1996)
>>> Appendix: Catalogue of Authentic Words and Deeds p. 326 - 335.
>>> If you had a tape recorder and video camera, what would you have >>
heard 
>>> and  seen the historic Jesus of Nazareth say and do as compared to
what 
>>> is written in the bible? (Assuming his Aramaic is >> translated into 
>>> English.)
>>>       
> .....
>   
>> Are you saying that's all there is about Jesus in John's gospel?
>>     
>
> All that Jesus really said ... yep!
>   
 
How can you know?
 
>   
>> So what  if so.
>>     
>
> Bye-bye "John 3:16" which Jesus never stated 
 
ditto previous
 
> and is the rock upon which fundamentalism exists.
>
>   
>> There's plenty in the others.
>>     
>
> They've got similar problems.
>
> "The things that you're libel to read in the bible ain't necessarily so"
- 
> ****gy and Bess
>
>   
>> But firstly you start out by saying that the gospels are propaganda
>>     
>
> Yep!  They're written to make more converts not to inform people about 
> Jesus' life.  Didn't you notice that there is very little written about 
> Jesus' life prior to John the Baptist's ministry ... and the childhood 
> stories are mostly make-believe?
>   
 
My knowledge of the bible is very incomplete and random
 
>
>   
>> and then you quote one to sup****t your view! (??)
>>     
>
> Where?  I quote the few verses that Jesus said in his lifetime that are 
> recorded in John's gospel.  Everything that the real Jesus said was 
> remembered in short sayings that were easily recalled decaxdes later for
the 
> gospels.
>
>   
>> According to the gospel record Jesus took a whip and threw the money 
>> changers out of the temple. Hardly PC behaviour.
>>     
>
> Jesus probably did that.  He definitely upset the Romans enough for them
to 
> crucify him.
>
>   


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rgds,

Pete
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