JESUS VERSUS MOMMY PROFESSOR | 2007-07-18
What I consider THE Testament describes the life of Jesus from his birth. But the last we hear of him until his ministry is when he was a twelve-year-old talking with the Priests of the Temple. There is almost twenty years of dead silence about his life.
This is critical. Jesus already knew all of the theology and Old Testament and the Law and all the rest that "Christians" keep quoting and reading and demanding that people read. He knew more abut that stuff than the scholars on the spot did, both in Greek and in Hebrew.
That was where Jesus STARTED. Twenty years later he came out making bald, simplistic-sounding statements. All of them were in Aramaic, the language of the people. If Jesus had not made them, most of those statements would be disowned by every theologian from Calvin to the Roman Curia.
"Christians" are sliding back into the Old Testament. The only differenceis that they call their High Priests theologians and ministers and bishops.
As Prometheus said, making things simple is HARD. If it took JESUS twenty years, we have a very large job to do.