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Quote by: Deut. 32.8[QUOTE=Ken Carman Add to this that Jesus told many stories to make his point. |
Not exactly. It would be more correct to say that early Christian sect leaders wrote of someone telling stories decades earlier. There is little reason to assume that anyone named Yeshua actually said any of the things later attributed to him.[/quote]
Wow. I found the info on Mark interesting. So much more expanded upon than my investigation many years ago.
I wasn't refering to any specific stories he may or may not have told. I was more commenting on the general assumption that he used fables and such to make his point... probably a common way for what we would refer to today as "street preachers" to preach back then. It's possible he didn't, if there even was a single "he," and the biblical Jesus wasn't actually the meshing of several historical characters during that time. I was speculating that his followers took that fable/storytelling tradition and injected in their rendering of what eventually was written down and became "the bible(s)." Essentially the life of "Jesus" became part of the storytelling/fable process rather than, as too many insist, being a perfect historical rendering.