"The people in these towns are sleeping. We'll wake them up."
Finished Carnival. A great series with plenty of bible and mythology related themes. Recommend it highly
In the gospel of Mark Jesus is going from town to town teaching whoever lends a ear. His apostles follow him, learning as well. When Jesus heals someone, he tells them not to tell another living soul about what just took place. Of course they disobey him and tell everyone. Jesus never self proclaims himself as the Son of Man, only his follower. This takes place all throughout the chapters of Mark till his crucification.
Now in the gospel of John, another one of Jesus apostles, he claims that Jesus proclaimed himself as the Son of Man and told ever person to spread the news.
Both of these apostles followed Jesus and witnesses the same events, yet their are two different potrails of Jesus himself.
The first new testimony was written very different from what we now read.
firstoffthewholethingwaswrittenlikethis
They did not know punctuation, spaces or capital letters. Theoretically some things could of gotten lost in translation from different languages. For example, stopahead could either be Stop Ahead. or Stop! A Head.
There are over 3,000 different New Testimony's that we have found, each of them different from the other. Most of it is small errors but others are missing different sections altogether
For example, the story of the wife caught in the act of adultery. The punishment was stoning and right before this took place Jesus said "Let he that is without sin throw the first stone." Everyone dropped their stones, knowing they had all sinned, and walked away. Pretty famous story of the bible.
This is not in any of the oldest New Testimony's that we have found. It wasn't until almost 1000 AD that this story started to appear in the new New Testimony's.
What am I getting at here?
That this book has been through all this, and yet, the message has not changed at all throughout the ages.
Sure the interpretation has changed, but the overall message has not. Had any other book gone through this there would be almost a completely different message.
It's so fascinating to me that this book, fictional or not, has survived though tout so many years in these conditions.
In the gospel of Mark Jesus is going from town to town teaching whoever lends a ear. His apostles follow him, learning as well. When Jesus heals someone, he tells them not to tell another living soul about what just took place. Of course they disobey him and tell everyone. Jesus never self proclaims himself as the Son of Man, only his follower. This takes place all throughout the chapters of Mark till his crucification.
Now in the gospel of John, another one of Jesus apostles, he claims that Jesus proclaimed himself as the Son of Man and told ever person to spread the news.
Both of these apostles followed Jesus and witnesses the same events, yet their are two different potrails of Jesus himself.
The first new testimony was written very different from what we now read.
firstoffthewholethingwaswrittenlikethis
They did not know punctuation, spaces or capital letters. Theoretically some things could of gotten lost in translation from different languages. For example, stopahead could either be Stop Ahead. or Stop! A Head.
There are over 3,000 different New Testimony's that we have found, each of them different from the other. Most of it is small errors but others are missing different sections altogether
For example, the story of the wife caught in the act of adultery. The punishment was stoning and right before this took place Jesus said "Let he that is without sin throw the first stone." Everyone dropped their stones, knowing they had all sinned, and walked away. Pretty famous story of the bible.
This is not in any of the oldest New Testimony's that we have found. It wasn't until almost 1000 AD that this story started to appear in the new New Testimony's.
What am I getting at here?
That this book has been through all this, and yet, the message has not changed at all throughout the ages.
Sure the interpretation has changed, but the overall message has not. Had any other book gone through this there would be almost a completely different message.
It's so fascinating to me that this book, fictional or not, has survived though tout so many years in these conditions.