"What did Moses command you?" he replied. (Mark 10:3)
Jesus replied to Pharisees who said something or other about divorce what was Moses’ teaching. This reply also has the same connection with Jesus’ saying of bringing a denarius Roman currency to Pharisees who questioned right or not to pay tax to Caesar. Here we have a diverging question from the main stream. Had such similar question and answer truly happened in Jesus’ public life?
Before giving reply we have to know the following fact. The gospels are not the book narrated Jesus’ public life according to the exact chronicle. The author of gospel accepted many traditions of Jesus editorially in the ‘situation of life’ of early Christian community where he belonged. The gospels are born with precise connection of two facts.
In Mark 10:1-12, writings about divorce Logion (One of the sayings of Jesus not recorded in the Gospels but supposed to have belonged to the source material from which they were compiled) and theological discussion of early Christian community are mixed. According to the study of the scholars of New Testament, verses 1-10 is related to the community’s life and verses 11,12 is related to Logion. I want to stop here for these matters require very precise historical criticism process.
Some of you may anxious about that is a historical criticism finally denying the work of the Holy Spirit? Such anxious is an excessive solicitude. I don’t say a historical criticism is everything. Though we catch hold of the realistic truth of the Bible text, the word of God doesn’t interpret of itself. It is similar case with the fact that grasping of materials in “The Last Supper”, used technique in it, the trend of times it, painter’s psychological status and etc doesn’t mean perfect interpretation of this painting. A historical criticism is the minimum foundation. Say to the medical, it is similar to take X-ray photographing. Though a doctor is so efficient he cannot deal with a cancer patient without such basic inspection. Likewise a historical criticism is an essential fact to interpret the word of God rightly.
Jesus replied to Pharisees who said something or other about divorce what was Moses’ teaching. This reply also has the same connection with Jesus’ saying of bringing a denarius Roman currency to Pharisees who questioned right or not to pay tax to Caesar. Here we have a diverging question from the main stream. Had such similar question and answer truly happened in Jesus’ public life?
Before giving reply we have to know the following fact. The gospels are not the book narrated Jesus’ public life according to the exact chronicle. The author of gospel accepted many traditions of Jesus editorially in the ‘situation of life’ of early Christian community where he belonged. The gospels are born with precise connection of two facts.
In Mark 10:1-12, writings about divorce Logion (One of the sayings of Jesus not recorded in the Gospels but supposed to have belonged to the source material from which they were compiled) and theological discussion of early Christian community are mixed. According to the study of the scholars of New Testament, verses 1-10 is related to the community’s life and verses 11,12 is related to Logion. I want to stop here for these matters require very precise historical criticism process.
Some of you may anxious about that is a historical criticism finally denying the work of the Holy Spirit? Such anxious is an excessive solicitude. I don’t say a historical criticism is everything. Though we catch hold of the realistic truth of the Bible text, the word of God doesn’t interpret of itself. It is similar case with the fact that grasping of materials in “The Last Supper”, used technique in it, the trend of times it, painter’s psychological status and etc doesn’t mean perfect interpretation of this painting. A historical criticism is the minimum foundation. Say to the medical, it is similar to take X-ray photographing. Though a doctor is so efficient he cannot deal with a cancer patient without such basic inspection. Likewise a historical criticism is an essential fact to interpret the word of God rightly.
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A preacher prepare his sermon without taking a steop of a historical criticism is 'an unqualified teacher'.
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