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[Orangetj]

Misquoting Jesus is a book.

[folsom500]

Misquoting Jesus is a book.

I did not know that- it sounds interesting :
Video
http://www.youtube.c...o...ve.org/1gm/

The book
http://www.mememachi...ting_jesus.html


Misquoting Jesus

The Book of Bart:

Thought to be the last written of the four Gospels that form the narrative of Christ’s life, death and resurrection, [the Gospel of John] forms a cornerstone of the Christian faith. The problem is that it is distinctly different from the other three Gospels.[…]

Ehrman ruthlessly pounces on the anomalies — in this Gospel, Jesus isn’t born in Bethlehem, he doesn’t tell any parables, he never casts out a demon, there’s no last supper. “None of that is found in John!” The crucifixion stories are different — in Mark, Jesus is terrified on the cross; in John, he’s perfectly composed. Key dates are different. The resurrection stories are different. Ehrman reels them off, rapid-fire, shell bursts against the bulwark of tradition.

“In Matthew, Mark and Luke, you find no trace of Jesus being divine,” he says, his voice urgent. “In John, you do.” He points out that in the other three books, it takes the disciples nearly half of Christ’s ministry to learn who he is. John says no, no, everyone knew it from the beginning. […]

The Bible simply wasn’t error-free. The mistakes grew exponentially as he traced translations through the centuries. There are some 5,700 ancient Greek manuscripts that are the basis of the modern versions of the New Testament, and scholars have uncovered more than 200,000 differences in those texts.