Mageth

Why, thanks.

Reviewing the sentence, however, I would change "and does it from..." to "and does so from...".

Magdlyn

Whew, Gregg, now we're getting somewhere. A point not yet made here is, Paul did write a gospel. He is the first writer we know of to write the gospel (euangellion) of the Christ. He uses this word over and over again.

M, M, L and J (whoever they were, as there were several teams of redactors as well, over decades) wrote gospel narratives, stories made up as if hisorical, to exhort and convert the masses to their faith, after the Jewish Temple was destroyed and the Jews scattered.

Jesus the Nazorean became Jesus of Nazareth, a man who came from a town which probably did not exist then (as there is no evidence for it), who preached at non-existant Galileean synogogues, who was or was not baptized, whose mission lasted for 1 or 3 years, whose geneology varies, whose disciples names are in question, who died at or before Pesach. Etc.

Gunbuster

http://www.bowness.demon.co.uk/gosp1.htm
Something interesting to read pertaining to the topic at hand

Zucco

I just finished the book and thought it was terrific. I'm trying to get my (Christian) wife to read it just to show her that rejecting a physical resurrection doesn't necessarily signal the death knell of her religion. I'm a strong agnostic myself, but I found Spong's conclusions exhilarating and even a little inspiring, especially his message that you can transcend the intellectual dead end of fundamentalism and still hold on to your beliefs.

Mageth

Absolutely. I'm an atheist, and that's the message I try to "preach" to my fundamentalist friends and family.

Fundamentalism in any belief system is the real danger to humanity, IMO.