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2024-12-24 13:44 I think the Gospels are best understood as a kind of Christian form of a biography of Jesus. The thing that gets confusing is that we’re used to a certain kind of thing when we read a biography.
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2024-12-24 17:08 Because there’s a prophecy in the book of Jeremiah that Rachel will weep for her children because they were no more.
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2024-12-24 16:58 But there was a birth in Bethlehem to somebody named Mary who was a virgin. You know, their basic thing. But the stories themselves are completely different, and they have different points and they’re different things.
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2024-12-24 13:46 And so we have birth narratives of Alexander the Great, for example, or Plato, or, you know, pick your famous person. And these are often, often portrayed.