>> As I understood it, they credited Luke with that one. I've never
 >> bothered to hunt it down. It adds nothing to the important matter
 >> of Jesus's alleged divinity.

Some of his words that are not in the other gospels do give another slant
on things (and him).
Just a bit more grist for the mill.

 >  NP> Is the subject of his divinity of particular
 >  NP> importance to you ?

 >   No... but logically, it is the only important thing in the New
 > Testament. If Jesus was not god, then he was just another charismatic
 > wanker like Mohammed, John Smith, Hitler and Billy Graham.

Now I see where you are coming from
And he wasn't here as long as any of the above :

Pity we won't get an answer to that on until his second coming.
Or never.

 >  NP> the current political ideals of today. By the time you changed
 >  NP> things to reflect political correct and non racist language,
 >  NP> you wouldn't have a lot of the reality left.

 >   Exactly. You end up writing for your own time, even if you do not
 > agree with it.

When your life depends on it, even more so.


 > To make sense of the Bible, you have to try and place
 > yourself in the timeframe, bearing in mind that the people writing it
 > were ignorant fanatics. It's no surprise that it contradicts, but to
 > me, the most significant thing is the claim of divinity, and how
 > little of the account is devoted to this crucial (pardon the pun)
 > claim.

And yet the whole of "christianity" hangs on that one thing.


 >   The crap about virgin birth, the star and the angels was abviously
 > added later (and is silly),

Sunday School stuff.
But the catholics have taken the virgin birth bit to the extreme.


 > and by the time Jesus is fleshed out as a
 > real person, you can see how he was pushed into the claim aainst his
 > better judgment. The resurrection is passed off in a few sentences...
 > the *one* sinificant thing that would have proved divinity is brushed
              ^^^^^^^^^
 > over almost casually.

And there was one woman who wrote a whole book about how it was all a put
up job  and reckoned he was only drugged etc.

I just noticed your sinificant :-)
Another attempt at a pun , or a freudian slip ?

Kind regards
Niels Petersen

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