--- In [email protected], "feste37" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As you well know, all these documents were written many years after the life > of Jesus, in some cases up to two centuries later (if I remember rightly). They > express different ideological agendas. Whatever "lost" book you are referring > to is no more of a guide to the historical Jesus than the canonical gospels. It > just shows that there were people then, as there are now, who wished to > claim Jesus as one of their own.
Which I guess puts to doubt the entire gospels. > > --- In [email protected], Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote: > > > > > > On Feb 25, 2006, at 12:21 PM, feste37 wrote: > > > > > --- In [email protected], Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote: > > >> > > >> It would make some gays more accepted and less marginalized. That's a > > >> good thing, no? > > > > > > Not if you're just making it up, no. People who say Jesus may have > > > been a > > > homosexual are simply trying to spin non-existent historical facts > > > to make > > > them fit what they think is desirable. Doesn't sound very scholarly > > > to me. I > > > thought you were supposed to be a scholar, in which case I would have > > > thought you would value truth, where it can be known, over pointless > > > speculation. > > > > Is it "pointless speculation" to ask: > > > > Can an open heart *exclude*? > > > > Did Jesus have an open heart? > > > > ---- > > > > Well, no, I'm not "making it up". The "gospels" have been edited, and > > the potentially homosexual parts were removed from Mark. We know > > because we found an old copy before the church got it's hands on it. > > > > Maybe Jesus was an androgyne, I don't know. It's the open hearted > > revolutionary that I liked. I have little interest in bending knee to > > a guy on a torture device. > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
