Comments on: Reserve Reading – The Gospels

By: anna t

anna t — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:43:07 +0000

page 144 talks about narratives, miracle stories, etc within the gospels. does that mean that there are sections of the gospels that are strictly narrative? or more like all of it is narrative, but some parts have more a miracle or narraitve theme…?

By: BJehl

BJehl — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:35:37 +0000

On page 127, it says there are several ” hard sayings” in the Bible. What does that mean and what are some examples of these in the Gosples?

By: Taylor

Taylor — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:33:48 +0000

on page 135 in the think horizontally section he talks about studying a pericope in any one gospel. What does that mean?

By: Kacie

Kacie — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:32:12 +0000

we talked about how the bible doesnt explain much of jesus’s teen life but i was wondering if he knew during those years, even in earlier years than that if he was jesus and if he knew of everything he would do in the future?

By: ya boi - neumei

ya boi - neumei — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:29:57 +0000

i dont get how the writers of the gospels could arrange all the stuff around their purposes…how do we know that it was just their purposes and not God’s…if they were given so much freedom, how do we know for sure they didnt abuse it?

By: You Know Who. (luke)

You Know Who. (luke) — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:21:23 +0000

Hello. How about that ride in? Guess thats why they call it sin city huh.
So on page 128 it says “1. The fact that the four gospels do not come from Jesus himself is a very important consideration.” i was just wondering…why didnt he write anything down?

By: amy

amy — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:45:03 +0000

on page 136, where it implies that Matthew, Mark, and Luke were not written independently of each other… what exactly does that mean? that the authors sat down together to write or that one author used the other authors work as an outline… ?

By: Liv

Liv — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:03:41 +0000

On page 148 it says we pray first with, “Your kingdom come”.. and on pages prior to that the chapter talks about hope for the future and things to come. But honestly, my heart’s desire each day isn’t always for Jesus to comeback. Maybe it’s fear in the uncertainty or lack of hope for the future, but is it wrong to not keep your eyes toward heaven?

By: JD

JD — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:51:14 +0000

on pg. 128 it says that the gospels are not written BY Jeus, but rather ABOUT Jeus. They go on to say that if the gospels had been written by Jesus, it would look very different (probably much more like O.T. prophetic books like Amos.)

Since God wrote the Gospels through the disciples, and the entire Bible (including the Gospels) is His Word, and Jesus IS God, then why do they say it would be different. I mean, since Jesus is already the real author behind the Gospels, then why would it be look different if he did the actual writing.

You have said in class that the Bible has exactly what God wants us to know in it. That’s why we don’t have an account of Jesus’ teen life, because we wouldnt benefit any more from it. God used the writers of the Bible to tell us exactly what he wants us to know. Because the Bible is already His words spoken through the disciples, I don’t see why they would be different if Jesus wrote His words down.

By: Posey

Posey — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:28:50 +0000

pg 129 “In certain sense, therefore, the four gospes are already functioning as hermeneutical models for us, insisting by their very nautre that we, too, retell the same story in our own twenty – first – century contexts.”

The last part of this quote troubles me, I thought proper hermeneutics insisted on drawing meaning from a passage by understanding the story in the 1st century context. Would you explain what Fee and Stuart mean by retelling the story in the twenty – first – century context?