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Originally Posted by apotropoxy";p="
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"I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep" - Jesus
"Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you" - Jesus
"Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? But he spake of the temple of his body. When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said." - Jesus
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You have offered us modernized NT quotes by people who were alive a generation(s) after their hero's death. They never met the man and only had the traditions of their community to pass on. Many "quotes" of Jesus were understood by those ancient contemporaries to be the sorts of things he would have said had he thought to say them. They were never meant to be understood as literal quotes. |
Actually they were written by his apostles and friends (John, Matthew, Mark) who walked, talked and lived with him. These are examples of what he actually said.
There are some today who don't like what he had to say and thus try to claim he must have had a different message than what his apostles wrote down. I trust his apostles over the modern-day revisionists. They were there.