No one is going to, with any certainty, dismiss the Hebrew Bible (or the Old Testament) altogether...
But I'm here to tell all of you not well into the message of The Word that I... as a United Methodist, believe something quite uncanny about the books of The Bible~
That is,
The Old Testament is like allegorical poetry more than fact; and the New testament is more like the transcriptions of the dialogues of Socrates by Plato than mere poetry.
That is to say,
That if you disbelieve the creation myth or the miracles of early theologians like Moses, there may well be good reason...
I see the Hebrew Bible as a kind of Passion Play about morality than an actual historical record of miracles and other events that have - ya know - ACTUALLY transpired...
But now we come to the New Testament.
It's much of kin to Plato's transcriptions of Socrates' life and death.
Plato incredibly transcribed the words of Socrates for all of humanity to learn from for the rest of the course of human history!
The same goes for the words, and deeds and yae~ miracles of what we're celebrating this Christmas...
That is, Christ.
Much like Socrates, Jesus Christ's words, moral codifications and yae! miracles are all of kind to any kind of historiography.
Jesus ACTUALLY proclaimed the moral codifications of the NT much as Socrates was ACTUALLY executed by the Athenian gov'ment by 'drinking the hemlock'.
These are all historical facts, and the facticity of the transcriptions of Christ's life in the NT are in fact even more factual than the liberties Plato took in some of his Dialogues. To be sure, there are several accounts of the many stories in the NT, and with several authors all documenting this in The Bible certainly shows that if you admit that Socrates was a real person with real moral codifications than surely you must admit the same about the Life of Jesus Christ...
I don't mean to demean the prophets of the Hebrew Bible, but I really believe that most of the supposed 'facts' of the old testament never really truly occurred.
It's more of kin to a kind of quasi-moral prose.
But the New Testament cannot be denied!
I for one bear witness now and forever of the Truth of Jesus Christ and his life and death and - yae~ this christmas season his dear birth through what was ACTUALLY immaculate conception.
Speculate all you want on the origin stories cultures come up with...
But the New Testament is factual as per Plato and has and CAN be verified all the way through,,,'
'
So if you are inclined to not believe but still celebrate Christmas along with everyone else (whether we want to or not), I would merely say this~
Simply suspend your disbelief long enough this Christmas Season to believe - IN YOUR HEART OF HEARTS - in Mary's immaculate conception.
Trust me, stranger things have happened...
Just believe in the Virginity of Mary, and you too can have an appropriately passionate Christmas Season!
RT STILLWELL DDU 2018
But I'm here to tell all of you not well into the message of The Word that I... as a United Methodist, believe something quite uncanny about the books of The Bible~
That is,
The Old Testament is like allegorical poetry more than fact; and the New testament is more like the transcriptions of the dialogues of Socrates by Plato than mere poetry.
That is to say,
That if you disbelieve the creation myth or the miracles of early theologians like Moses, there may well be good reason...
I see the Hebrew Bible as a kind of Passion Play about morality than an actual historical record of miracles and other events that have - ya know - ACTUALLY transpired...
But now we come to the New Testament.
It's much of kin to Plato's transcriptions of Socrates' life and death.
Plato incredibly transcribed the words of Socrates for all of humanity to learn from for the rest of the course of human history!
The same goes for the words, and deeds and yae~ miracles of what we're celebrating this Christmas...
That is, Christ.
Much like Socrates, Jesus Christ's words, moral codifications and yae! miracles are all of kind to any kind of historiography.
Jesus ACTUALLY proclaimed the moral codifications of the NT much as Socrates was ACTUALLY executed by the Athenian gov'ment by 'drinking the hemlock'.
These are all historical facts, and the facticity of the transcriptions of Christ's life in the NT are in fact even more factual than the liberties Plato took in some of his Dialogues. To be sure, there are several accounts of the many stories in the NT, and with several authors all documenting this in The Bible certainly shows that if you admit that Socrates was a real person with real moral codifications than surely you must admit the same about the Life of Jesus Christ...
I don't mean to demean the prophets of the Hebrew Bible, but I really believe that most of the supposed 'facts' of the old testament never really truly occurred.
It's more of kin to a kind of quasi-moral prose.
But the New Testament cannot be denied!
I for one bear witness now and forever of the Truth of Jesus Christ and his life and death and - yae~ this christmas season his dear birth through what was ACTUALLY immaculate conception.
Speculate all you want on the origin stories cultures come up with...
But the New Testament is factual as per Plato and has and CAN be verified all the way through,,,'
'
So if you are inclined to not believe but still celebrate Christmas along with everyone else (whether we want to or not), I would merely say this~
Simply suspend your disbelief long enough this Christmas Season to believe - IN YOUR HEART OF HEARTS - in Mary's immaculate conception.
Trust me, stranger things have happened...
Just believe in the Virginity of Mary, and you too can have an appropriately passionate Christmas Season!
RT STILLWELL DDU 2018
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