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losttranslator · 8 months ago

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throwback to my high school philosophy teacher trying to catch me with stuff like "actually Jesus never said he was God, did you know that" and smugly prove that I (kid who was read the bible from the age of 2 and got my own by like 7) didn’t know the gospels.

like my dude, what do you think "before Abraham was, I AM" was about? you don’t know and I’M clueless about the text?

#He only invoked the actual name of god and people tried to stone him for it but nbd I guess #Now the question of John vs the synoptic gospels is a different one. There’s plenty of passages that argue for Jesus’ divinity in them too #But my teacher’s argument wasn’t about the synoptic vs John or the historical Jesus vs what the gospel authors might have invented #His argument was that IN THE TEXT OF THE GOSPELS there was no point where Jesus claimed to be be God #Which is insane to me #How are you gonna be a philosophy teacher and not be more familiar with the utterly basic tenets of western culture’s core belief system #You can CLAIM that the ‘real’ Jesus never said it but you can’t possibly claim that he didn’t say it IN THE GOSPELS #French education is in shambles I swear #Also shoutout to my insane (affectionate) and brilliant very agnostic and very french American Literature and Civilisation college professo #Who spent three years straight ranting about the Logos and incarnation as intertext #I love you man you knew what was up #This is without even getting into the passages like ppl going “only God can forgive sins” and Jesus forgiving sins on the spot #Which btw happens in mark aka the earliest gospel and in Matthew aka the probably-written-in-Hebrew gospel #So it’s not something John made up as some culturally greek theological fan fiction

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