And even if it were true, I don't think it makes what he wrote any less real or divinely inspired. Hey, if I'm going to believe Jesus came back from the dead and walked on water, it's not a stretch for me to believe that John received a revelation from God. And... er, yeah, not that I'm a crazy fanatic or anything :)
Course not! ^_^ I don't mean to insult it, because I figure, to anyone else, what I believe in looks like I'm on crack too. Der. I don't think that quite came out the way it was meant to. I was raised Christian, but kind of fell out of it (though both my sister and my mother still are).
I think my class is using the Harper Collins Study Bible (New Revised Standard Version), although I do think most people I know use the NIV.
I was doing an exegesis on Mark 1:9-11 (with the Matthew, Luke and John parallels) on the baptism on Jesus.. it's for my class on the New Testament and Christian origins. I think it's absolutely fascinating, correlating what I personally know of Christianity with the early days of the religion and just how much is there. It's also almost like reading Shakespeare for the first time in discovering all the phrases that come from it. I had no idea Jesus was the one who said "pearls before swine."
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Fri, Apr. 11th, 2003 12:34 pm (UTC)Course not! ^_^ I don't mean to insult it, because I figure, to anyone else, what I believe in looks like I'm on crack too. Der. I don't think that quite came out the way it was meant to. I was raised Christian, but kind of fell out of it (though both my sister and my mother still are).
I think my class is using the Harper Collins Study Bible (New Revised Standard Version), although I do think most people I know use the NIV.
I was doing an exegesis on Mark 1:9-11 (with the Matthew, Luke and John parallels) on the baptism on Jesus.. it's for my class on the New Testament and Christian origins. I think it's absolutely fascinating, correlating what I personally know of Christianity with the early days of the religion and just how much is there. It's also almost like reading Shakespeare for the first time in discovering all the phrases that come from it. I had no idea Jesus was the one who said "pearls before swine."