Kata Markon

[JFAlward AT aol.com]

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