Okay students. What do you think this passage means?
Well let’s take a look at the history. Did you know the Bible has been translated multiple times from its unknown original text. With a king of England being one of the more recent people who decided what the text said.
Do you think he may have been wrong about some of the text?
Do you think other people may have lied about what it said for their own benefits. ?
Let’s take a look at some of the scripts about rules like eating pigs meat, and wearing fabric from multiple types of fiber.
Maybe the people who re-wrote/interpreted the text were trying to get people to stop buying things from their competitors ?
What do you think ?
There sure is a lot of rules in the old testament that directly contradict what Jesus says.
who should Christians follow? Jesus or a random guy who wrote things in the old testament. ?
Also, it should be common knowledge that what we call the Bible is a collection of texts that were selected by committee.
A committee that had their own political agenda, their own biases and hidden reasons for selecting the specific works.
So even before translating the texts into modern languages you have the issue of selection bias, or just plain laziness.
It is actually quite funny to think about it in the context on a modern office meeting, think about it, how many meetings have you sat through where you don’t care about the topic?
You sit there, just daydreaming and is suddenly asked about your opinion on the matter at hand, you get embarrassed and blurt something out just to pretend to have been paying attention…
Apparently a lot of the translations for women “washing feet” was actually originally “washing genitals” - probably the equivalent of a “massage” in the modern day.
How I would teach it :
Okay students. What do you think this passage means?
Well let’s take a look at the history. Did you know the Bible has been translated multiple times from its unknown original text. With a king of England being one of the more recent people who decided what the text said.
Do you think he may have been wrong about some of the text?
Do you think other people may have lied about what it said for their own benefits. ?
Let’s take a look at some of the scripts about rules like eating pigs meat, and wearing fabric from multiple types of fiber.
Maybe the people who re-wrote/interpreted the text were trying to get people to stop buying things from their competitors ?
What do you think ?
There sure is a lot of rules in the old testament that directly contradict what Jesus says.
who should Christians follow? Jesus or a random guy who wrote things in the old testament. ?
-id be fired of course.
I would get them to write essays on how “the not one jot or tittle” thing fits in with claims of having a “new covenant”.
Also, it should be common knowledge that what we call the Bible is a collection of texts that were selected by committee.
A committee that had their own political agenda, their own biases and hidden reasons for selecting the specific works.
So even before translating the texts into modern languages you have the issue of selection bias, or just plain laziness.
It is actually quite funny to think about it in the context on a modern office meeting, think about it, how many meetings have you sat through where you don’t care about the topic?
You sit there, just daydreaming and is suddenly asked about your opinion on the matter at hand, you get embarrassed and blurt something out just to pretend to have been paying attention…
I’m sure it absolutely went down like that. With a few people always arguing with any idea that came from someone they didn’t like.
I wonder how often it turned into a brawl as H.R wasn’t invented yet.
Apparently a lot of the translations for women “washing feet” was actually originally “washing genitals” - probably the equivalent of a “massage” in the modern day.
Also, Jesus washed a lot of people’s feet.
I think that’s a humble sign of respect
Yeah, I remember that during my short lived religious phase around confirmation.
The Bible kinda portrays Jesus as having a foot fetish…