james allison has said of the gospels that they are not primitive histories, or biographies of Jesus. they are witnesses. they are the apostolic response to the ressurection, the way they saw the last few years of their lives in light of what happened on Easter.
i think that's kind of smart.
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For God so loved creation, that God sent God's only Son that whosoever believed should not perish, but have everlasting life.
-John 3:16
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