I appreciate your methodology.
alt.messianic.narkive.com
Jesus is asked 183 questions directly or indirectly in
the four Gospels. He only answered 3 of them directly!
The others he either ignored, kept silent about, asked them
a question in return, changed the subject, told a story or
gave an audio visual aid to make his point, told them it was
the wrong question, revealed their insincerity or hypocrisy,
made the exactly opposite point, or redirected the question
elsewhere!
He himself asks 307 questions, which would seem to set
a pattern for imitation. Considering this, it is really
rather amazing that the church became an official answering
machine and a very self assured program for
sin management.
Many, if not most, of Jesus teaching would never pass
contemporary orthodoxy tests in either the Roman Office
or the Southern Baptist Convention. Most of his statements
are so open to misinterpretation in almost all areas
except one: his insistence upon the goodness and reliability
of God.
That was his only consistent absolute.
These are the three questions that he answered directly:
1) So you are a king, then? said Pilate.
Yes, I am a king. I was born for this (John 18:37).
2) Lord, teach us how to pray, just as John taught
his disciples. He said to them, This is how you pray,
and he taught them the Our Father (Luke 11:1).
3) To disconcert him, one of the Pharisees put to him a
question, Master, which is the greatest commandment of the
Law? Jesus said, You must love the Lord your God with
all your heart,with all your mind, and with all your soul
And the second is like it (Matthew 22:36-37).
Keep up the good work
@synergy
J.
