A Virtual File Cabinet for Our Studies of Christian Origins & Hebraic Faith
John 18.4–6. This is, of course, impossible to imagine historically. Police do not acknowledge somebody to be divine and then arrest him or her anyway. Borg, Marcus J.. The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion To A More Authentic Contemporary Faith (p. 108). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition. NRSVUE: John 18:5-8 — Jesus replied, “I am he.” Judas, […]
Continue ReadingJesus was a teacher of unconventional wisdom—a culturally subversive wisdom that challenged conventional wisdom. As an enlightened teacher of an enlightenment wisdom, he sought to lead others to a new way of seeing. His aphorisms and parables functioned to invite a radical perceptual shift in how one sees life and God. Tradition-sanctioned statuses (of family, […]
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