Tag: Gospels
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Jesus! What the Bible sounds like in the first person
The Bible is not Jesus’ autobiography. The Gospels are narratives about Jesus, written largely in the third person, while also containing speeches attributed to him. That distinction usually goes unnoticed because readers are accustomed to the biblical style. But imagine something different. Suppose Jesus himself were narrating the Gospel story. Take passages about him, mechanically…
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How rival Christian groups corrupted the Bible
Most Christians imagine the Bible as a stable and unified book. They assume the same message passed unchanged from the time of Jesus to the present. According to this view, the text simply traveled through history while scribes faithfully copied every word. However, the historical reality looks very different. The Bible did not emerge as…