The story has great power
Posted on: May 22, 2020 at 17:10:24 CT
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But IF your standing is that it is a straight read from HISTORY as many if not most faithful have, then details about what happened is important.
Tendency is to take four Gospels and mash them all together and THEN call them history.
In Mark, the identity of Jesus is in question. No one is quite sure who he is. On the way to his death he is silent, dazed at what is happening. Already been through this.
As for "scrutiny" you have no original. You have decades of copies. Now - funny thing is that in culture dependent on oral traditions, details are not important, just the kinda sorta general theme is relevant in a telling. Today we like the facts. Christianity doesn't have the facts, but kinda bases everything on the idea that these are events straight from history. It is the borrowing of loose oral traditions and planting it into the strict interpretation of history we know today.
Not sure where we started this/