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**iroxmxinau** · 07-03-2010, 02:24 PM

A couple of things I found a bit ironic in this article:

For starters, "if my observations are correct, every book on the history of Jesus will need to be rewritten," as will the standard dictionaries of Biblical Greek, he says. More profoundly, his research "ought to make Christians a bit more humble," he says. I guess I found the juxtaposition of 'my observations if correct will mean every book ever written about Christ will need to be rewritten' with him saying that his research ought to make Christians a bit more humble' seemed a bit ironic.

Secondaly:
"We fight against each other," he reflects, but "the theological stances that keep churches apart are founded on things that we find between the lines. We have put a lot of things in the Bible that weren't there in the beginning that keep us apart. We need to get down on our knees as Christians together and read the Bible." So, by him asserting that the Bible does not state Christ was crucified which would only create uncertainty and doubt to something every Christian believes to be true, the churches would somehow grow closer?

07-03-2010, 02:24 PM	#9
iroxmxinau Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 404 Senior Member	A couple of things I found a bit ironic in this article: For starters, "if my observations are correct, every book on the history of Jesus will need to be rewritten," as will the standard dictionaries of Biblical Greek, he says. More profoundly, his research "ought to make Christians a bit more humble," he says. I guess I found the juxtaposition of 'my observations if correct will mean every book ever written about Christ will need to be rewritten' with him saying that his research ought to make Christians a bit more humble' seemed a bit ironic. Secondaly: "We fight against each other," he reflects, but "the theological stances that keep churches apart are founded on things that we find between the lines. We have put a lot of things in the Bible that weren't there in the beginning that keep us apart. We need to get down on our knees as Christians together and read the Bible." So, by him asserting that the Bible does not state Christ was crucified which would only create uncertainty and doubt to something every Christian believes to be true, the churches would somehow grow closer?
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