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Do you have a favorite gospel?

Altfish

Altfish

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Kenny

Kenny

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John...

I enjoy it for its simplicity yet far reaching concepts. It delineates God's purpose, nature, desires et al.

God is described as personal and so wanting to be involved in our lives.

It covers redemption, forgiveness, instructions, examples et al.

Quite a book
 
exchemist

exchemist

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dybmh said:
Do you have a favorite Gospel in the Christian Bible? If so, which is it and why?
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St John. It is thought-provoking in its theology. The prologue is spine-tinglingly mysterious and powerful. I am just old enough to remember when this was read at the end of every mass, as the "Last Gospel".

P.S. It also has my favourite story in the gospels: the woman taken in adultery.
 
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Unveiled Artist

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dybmh said:
Do you have a favorite Gospel in the Christian Bible? If so, which is it and why?
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Ecclesiastes (though not a gospel) It's kinda depressing but some verses are neutral so I say them to my grandmother since she was christian. Gal was the first verse I read before going into catholicism: gal 2:20. I saw it years ago downtown. A homeless man had it on his cardboard. Don't know why I remembered it.

Hebrews on faith is a nice read. Gospels themselves, I don't see much of a difference.
 
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LightofTruth

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exchemist said:
St John. It is thought-provoking in its theology. The prologue is spine-tinglingly mysterious and powerful. I am just old enough to remember when this was read at the end of every mass, as the "Last Gospel".

P.S. It also has my favourite story in the gospels: the woman taken in adultery.
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Concerning the women taken in adultery:

Here are thirteen points that summarize why we should not treat John 7:53–8:11 as original to the text.

  1. John 7:53–8:11 are missing from earliest manuscripts (P66 P75 Sinaiticus Vaticanus). Alexandrinus is defective at this point (pages are missing), but there doesn’t appear to be enough room for 7:53–8:11 to have been included.
  2. It’s missing from the oldest (syrc, s) and the best (syrp) Syriac manuscripts.
  3. It’s absent in some of the Old Latin, Old Georgian, and Armenian manuscripts.
  4. It’s not in the best manuscripts of the Pe****ta, the Syriac translation of the Bible made in the early third century.
  5. It’s not referenced in the Arabic version of Tatian’s Diatessaron, which combined the four Gospels but without our passage.
  6. No Church Father writes a commentary on the passage until the 12th century, and then Euthymius says it’s not authentic. The earlier Fathers comment up to John 7:52 and then move directly to comment on John 8:12ff., and several Fathers (Origen, Chrysostom) commented verse by verse on the biblical book.
  7. It’s not found in most lectionaries.
  8. The first manuscript to have it is D (fifth century), a Western text-type manuscript willing to repeat many altered readings.
  9. Many manuscripts mark it with scholia, indicating that it’s not authentic.
  10. Erasmus’ number 1 manuscript omits it. He writes, “The story of the adulterous woman is not contained in the majority of Greek copies.
  11. One of the signs that a passage may not be original is that it appears in different locations in the New Testament (after John 7:36, 7:44, John 21:25, or Luke 21:38; 24:53). If it were authentic, it is more likely to appear in only one location.
  12. The style and vocabulary are different from the rest of the gospel.
  13. It interrupts the flow of Jesus’ discourse from chapter 7 to chapter 8.
John 7:53–8:11 | Missing Bible Verses
 
Brickjectivity

Brickjectivity

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dybmh said:
Do you have a favorite Gospel in the Christian Bible? If so, which is it and why?
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Matthew. The reason is its oddities for some people act as a key to get out of the literalism which can be like a prison or like an eternal control by clerics and others. It can be a door for many to leave behind that brutal master 'Literalism' to graduate either to a more demonstrative and committed kind of faith or to leave altogether, which is preferable to enslavement. It has blatant objectionable things in it that can't be taken literally by anyone who has read the first books in the bible -- things like the tearing of the curtain in the temple "From top to bottom". It has the cursing of the fig tree. Rather than causing people to 'Stumble' this causes people think. This frees some people, so its very important gospel.

Matthew contains an the alternative death of Judas, contradicting one of the other four canonical gospels! Its got that strange 42 generations thing in it in which the list of Jesus generations is tweaked to be 42, not matching the other gospels that list his ancestry! This lets us know they are supposed to be different, that their value is other than historicity. All of the people who insist they are in literal harmony are shown to be either ignorant or lying, and for me that has mattered.

Matthew has that strange opposite meaning for 'Fulfillment', which I mention sometimes in posts.

In addition is has some very nice lessons such as the beatitudes and leaves all kinds of conundrums to follow up on.
 
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