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Originally Posted by Mutt
it sounds like you have studied religion seriously. From a secular academic perspective OR like Sperbonzo are you now or were you a practicing Jew or Christian?
You are describing an event in the life of Jesus that you believe is an actual historical real event OR a story written by the committee of writers who wrote the Bible long after his death?
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The oldest physical fragments of the Book of John that have been uncovered are dated by the experts between 90 a.d. and 110 a.d. at the outside, and what's on those fragments tracks identically with the content of the current Koine Greek editions. It's pretty ancient and that same text has existed and endured since approximately the lifetime of some who actually had heard Christ preach. By contrast, no physical copy of any Hebrew Torah exists older than about 1100 a.d. (the Masoretic Text, the most respected, though some fragments from the Song of Solomon exist from the 800's.) What's curious about the passage I mentioned is that it's all John has to say about the Eucharist; unlike the other three gospels, the "synoptic" Matthew, Mark, and Luke, there is no account of the Last Supper or the institution of the Eucharist in John. Some speculate this is so to avoid laying out the ritual of the Eucharist in a writing that could be found by antagonists to Christianity, but still teaching the same message in veiled words, and from that, that it was written in a time of persecution.
As for me, my personal background away from law, government, and politics has nothing to do with anything, and, as a lawyer, laying such personal matters out in a place like this can only serve to alienate some people and encourage the kind of stupidity and crudity that has unfortunately become the lifeblood of GFY.