stories, beliefs, and decisions.
-Richard Carrier (Wikipedia.org) suggests that Jesus may be the result of a Jewish mystery cult; that Jesus is a mythological character. Marc wonders why people seem to tend to be skeptical that people of history existed -easy to discount miraculous occurrences -If you do not allow the possibility of belief, then you cannot move into the realization of what it is to believe. Belief it is like going through a gate in a wall -Canaanite woman begging for the healing of her daughter Matthew 15:21-28 (BibleGateway.com). Jesus does not try to convert her -Marc: following the way of Jesus through method or practice. Look at Jesus holistically -Jake: Jesus does not always follow "the rules"; was not always kind or patient; got angry; broke two of the ten commandments. Embrace where we are, who we are, live the most loving life we can -what is our existence? It is all stories -Theodore Roosevelt -hypocrisy is a problem -possible the wolf taught humans how to hunt -I wrongly said it was "the rich young ruler" but it was in fact the centurion who, depending if you read the story in Matthew 8:5–13 or Luke 7:1–10 (links BibleGateway.com), asks Jesus directly or through others for the healing of his servant. Jesus says in both versions that he has not seen such faith in Israel; and Jesus does nothing to try to convert or change the centurion to a Jewish or Jesus way of understanding life -more than 200,000 people (census.gov) listened to Martin Luther King's 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech 1 hour 03-29-22 debug comment |