well come now, the Gospel of Thomas is a collection of sayings of Jesus rather than a narrative...does it not make sense that people wrote down Jesus sayings ,as I made notes on L Reid's lecture the other day and presented an approximation of what he said, and then formed them into collections which in turn were used as sources by the authors of the Gospels-- perhaps in some cases the same persons who had made the collections? and how does that reduce the authority of the thing? it does mean that we do not probably always have exact words, obvious anyway when we are given two versions with verbal difference by two evangelists... we have what we are inteded to have is the sufficient I should think answer, as St John says not everything but a verbal icon of the life of the Lord etc.
well people draw the lines in the sand at different places and it is not wrong...I recall a discussion with goldhands who sadly seems to be writing less where you expressed similar strong dissent from this criticism. But at least at this point does not the collection of sayings make sense to one?
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Date: 2007-02-26 05:20 pm (UTC)collection of sayings of Jesus rather than
a narrative...does it not make sense that people
wrote down Jesus sayings ,as I made notes on
L Reid's lecture the other day and presented
an approximation of what he said, and then
formed them into collections which in turn were
used as sources by the authors of the Gospels--
perhaps in some cases the same persons who had
made the collections?
and how does that reduce the authority of the thing?
it does mean that we do not probably always have
exact words, obvious anyway when we are given two
versions with verbal difference by two evangelists...
we have what we are inteded to have is the sufficient
I should think answer, as St John says not everything
but a verbal icon of the life of the Lord etc.
well people draw the lines in the sand at different
places and it is not wrong...I recall a discussion with
where you expressed similar strong dissent from this
criticism.
But at least at this point does not the collection of
sayings make sense to one?