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  • From: JFAlward AT aol.com
  • To: gmark AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: Gospel Creation
  • Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 14:10:40 EST


In a message dated 3/18/01 8:26:00 AM Pacific Standard Time,
gwyoung AT morgan.ucs.mun.ca writes:

<< Hudson Burton wrote;

> ...Luke and John go to great pains to establish their gospels as factual
> (Luke i.1) and as being "real" (Jn xix.35). They are clearly
> concerned that the gospel(s) might be read as nothing more than myth.

This presumes that a first century audience might 'naturally' have read the
gospel narratives as 'myth.' Do Luke and John betray a covert anxiety to
ward off what the reading conventions of their gospels might naturally
invoke?

G. Young
>>
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That's an excellent point, George. Peter, too, worried that people naturally
supposed that what he wrote was fiction:

"For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto
you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitness of his
majesty." (2 Peter 1:16)

In other words, Peter swears that it's not true what people have been saying
about the gospels--that they're fables.


Regards,

Joe Alward




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