Ali Ataie – Comparative Abrahamic Religion History & Theology of People of the Book
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And now his wisdom to take money from the prophets of the Lord. He
said he did not go into Medina haphazardly. He sent emissaries
before him was obligated or May. You know, he asked people what was
the first thing to say so didn't Mecca? People say he began a
masjid? That's not true. The first thing he did was take a census of
the people of Medina.
That's the first thing he did, because he wanted to know, who was
living there. Who are they? What kind of people are they? Are these
are the outs of the president is been irregular, this has been
interview, this is, these are their likes and dislikes. This is
the kind of people they are these are their temperaments. Why does
he want to know that information?
Because he wants to tailor the data in a certain way. And a lot
of use, and use actually speak to people in their own ledger and
their own dialect and of all the dials with the arrows, and to
speak in their diet, dollars wisdom.
So this is the
it's an introduction, is that our intention is to call people to do
the
right, the religion of truth. So you're not going to get any
perennialism philosophy out of me. And I'm not going to tell you that
all the religions are exactly the same. Doesn't matter. It's the
same summit and things like that. That's not the slump. That's
something that began making 20s. Right. It's parentless philosophy.
We call people to the religion of truth. And it doesn't make sense.
Anyway, it's what's known as a fallacy of non contradiction. So
let's say for example, that there's a premise and we'll call
it P, and P entails Q and not Q. Right? What does that mean? That
means that not P, for example, if our premises Christianity in a
slump, are both true,
this is what you hear a lot nowadays, people don't interfaith
dialogue. They're either talking about, you know, recipes for food,
and, you know, I enjoy the build efficient, hold on even. Or
there's movies and books, they've read through some stuff.
Right? Well, they say, We're all it's all the same religious,
Christianity and Islam. Obviously.
This is a logical fallacy. Why? Because Christianity says, You
sign
us God. That's very clear. That's the Orthodox position unless one
is a quote unquote, heterodox Christian. But that's the 99% of
Christians believe that he said, It is a loss of private data. So
how can you say this? If both religions are true, how can you be
God and not God at the same time?
Therefore not p? premise is untrue. Christianity and Islam are
both not true. They can't be true. Either the light is on or off and
be both right.
Now, that doesn't mean that we take this sort of supremacist
stance on things we're better than humans on so forth. But we believe
that Islam is religion that best serves humanity to be a concern
for humanity, the prophets of great concern for humanity.
The verse that says from compatable material equity, Jeff
Lynette's, you're the best month
that's ever been,
hopefully jet Lynette so there's a hot fudge job here there's a
preposition, the lamb for mankind. What does that mean? The last
panel of data didn't just say clinical, clinical, clinical,
Martin
got more of a bit of a bit Lin NAS. What does that mean? That
means according to the extra discipline posted here in the
Quran, you're the best people.
You're the best amount for the service of humanity.
If you serve humanity, then you're the best. We serve Allah subhanho
wa taala. A serving humanity is important to be said, you can sum
up Islam by saying serve a lot and serve humanity. And this is true.
Rabbi Akiva, Rabbi camellia these great rabbis of the rabbinical
period of Judaism which we'll learn about, they said the entire
code is Leviticus 1918. Love God and love your neighbor. Everything
else is commentary. That doesn't mean that you don't have to do
anything else. They're telling you what is the essence of the Torah.
What is the essence of Islam is serve God and serve humanity, of
course.
And Ysidro set up in the gospels, we'll learn about the Gospels in
sha Allah. He says, Love God and love your neighbor. This is the
Law and the Prophets getting the essence of the Torah and the
prophets who came after Musa the essence.
So this class, we're going to
learn about a myriad of topics. I've never taught this class
before
So we'll have to see how it goes quickly to go on and know your
background and and if you've taken Biblical studies or anything like
that, probably not Christian theology for what to learn about
Israelites sacred history, and sort of the lay the foundation,
names and dates, right? When was the first temple built? When was
it destroyed? Who destroyed it? Why did it destroy it? What are
the 10 tribes?
What is the Babylonian captivity? What is the Greek period? What is
the Roman period the Persian period of Israelite history? What
is rabbinical Judaism what is First and Second Temple Judaism?
What does it have to do with anything? What is the tunnel mode?
What is the tunnel
very important for us to know these types of things.
We're going to learn about Christian theology
and that's going to be very interesting for us. In other words
Christology, so Christology
This is a word
so you know, he said that ology comes from Lagace and Greek, which
means word,
and Kelly man, but also means study. So the study of who who
stars
three stars is the Greek for Christ. So the study of Christ the
Christology Orthodox Christian Christology, we're also going to
quote unquote, Orthodox Christian Christology,
but also
heterodox for are different Christology. Christianity was
very vast and the first four centuries of the Common Era. And
how did it end up to be after this now is that there was an evolution
of Christology.
So that's an important aspect. So we're gonna learn terms, like
Pinnacle races,
UCS, UCS, logged offs, things like that. These are Greek and Latin
terms,
that I'll try to find an equivalent Arabic. So definitely
will define
the vast, vast majority of Christian laity have never even
heard of.
I read a article in Christianity today. The article was called the
greatest book never read. It was about the Bible. And according to
this article, it said, that 50% of church going Christians,
parishioners in the church, they're already going to identify
themselves with Christians. 50% cannot name all four gospels in
the New Testament.
They don't know Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. You can't name
them. We've talked about Teddy Boyce's. And what we see is his
mother's woman. And it's, it's complete mystery, the most
important for us to know these things.
Most people continue to go to church, I think because of the
Christian ethic. The Christian ethic is very beautiful. It's very
closely related to our virtue theory or ethical theory. And St.
Thomas Aquinas on the verge of learn about whose philosophy and
theology is still standard. And the Roman Catholic Church was
highly influenced by even Siena in Abu Hamad Al Ghazali. So, and both
of these men keep on bizarrely and Thomas Aquinas, were heavily
influenced by Aristotle.
So the virtue of Krishna, the ethical aspect of Christianity is
very, very beautiful. Love your neighbor, right?
Pray for those who persecute you show mercy, the people in charity,
have hope and God fearing God.
So that's, that's why that's the reason I think that most people
continue to go to church. And that's kind of
it's still I think, being generous. Maybe people go because
it's
a social club or gathering or something. But the theological
aspect of Christianity is very troubling for people, and they
don't even want to deal with it. Nobody understands.
So we're going to attempt to try to understand what is the Trinity?
What does that mean, the Trinity? Where does it come from?
What are some of the ways of understanding it? Are there
analogies that we can draw that are adequate? There's nothing
adequate?
What are the early theologians have to say about the Trinity? Is
it biblical? Is it found in the Bible? That's a big question as
well.
We're also going to do some textual criticism, the New
Testament.
So Textual Criticism deals with looking at different versions of
the Bible, in its original language, which is a Greek coin, a
Greek. So the New Testament when I say, New Testament, I'm talking
about the Christian scriptures.
New Testament, right? The New Testament, the Christian
scriptures, which are a collection of 27 books, the New Testament and
agile Jedi the thought that whoever believes in Jesus, in some
way or another will have eternal life.
News
estimate 27 books.
And we'll talk about those books individually. The most important
of them are the first four books, which are called the Gospels. And
Arabic uses an energy out of the four Gospels.
So they're written in coin a Greek coin, a means common.
Greek.
So how do you say common in Arabic? You say I'm Mia. I love it
when Amelia colloquial Arabic.
So I was in a garden one time in Yemen. And I asked him and painted
a fibula. And he said ish. So on theme given that
it's all together. Amen. Pippa is classical. But faint hibler.
That's a media that's other people speak. Right? They don't say. I
mean, people obviously understand classical Arabic but that's not
how they speak. They'll think you're strange or something.
Interesting story to Congress. We're in Egypt in the back of a
taxi and they're speaking fluent Arabic. And of course, they're
speaking Messiah. Right? And then the cab drivers gonna listen in
and then when he drops them off, the cab driver says some of the
load on these
such classical Arabic, these guys must be a couple of mobiles or
something. But they weren't converts. Anyway, common. So the
New Testament Christians believe, at least
traditionally, and so literalist Christians, the fundamentalist
Christians, I guess you could say, evangelical Christians, and many
Catholics believe that the New Testament in the Greek is inspired
by God.
And that is inerrant.
It is perfect, inspired, with no contradiction.
Okay, not all Christians, believers. This is certainly not
what's taught in the academy to go to a Christian seminary. It's
faith shattering for many Christians that some seminaries
have mandatory excellent counseling.
Sit down with the brother of has refused to do an after seminar.
Many of them become agnostic atheist, Gerald Dirksen,
Thinkorswim, after going to Harvard seminary, learning the
Bible meaningless.
They're gonna comment Greek it's not an adequate Greek attic
is post hot, Greek, classical Greek. This is the language of
Aristotle, and platonic Socrates.
fourth century before the common era in Athens, that was the height
of their language. So the New Testament is an Amiga three, it's
not classical. So there was a atheist, very famous atheist
German philosopher named Frederick Nietzsche,
who used to quit used to joke he was an atheist. He didn't like
Christianity hated Christians.
used to say, it was so nice of God to reveal the Bible in such a
remedial form of Greek, whereas he's far outshine by the likes of
Homer and Plato.
In other words, this cannot be the word of God. Homer's Greek is much
more eloquent than your God, do we Homer is God.
So that's interesting because the Arabic and Quran and pass it by
admission of non Muslim scholars of Arabic, it's in the middle,
impossible to imitate. By far, even if you don't believe it's in
the middle, there's no jobs, they say it's still the greatest work
of Arabic prose ever written, even if they ascribe it to the Prophet,
some of it some.
So you'll find that you know, the Latin will talk about the Latin
Vulgate, Jerome's translation bogeying folder. Again common
language
so textual criticism, textual criticism.
Criticism, the purpose of textual criticism is to identify what the
actual author wrote.
So there's a assumption that's being being made here textual
criticism, what is the assumption that the scripture has changed?
changes have been made. This is the claim of the Quran is that the
Bible the Christian and Jewish Scriptures have gone through
something called to Hadith from how about that you have referred
to it as the master on the second form. toughies means corruption.
The scriptures have been adulterated, corrupted,
fabricated.
This is a claim of the Quran in Edina Hey, do you have a phone and
Kelly Malmo?
And some of the Jewish elements are those who corrupt words or
remove words from places switch things around.
Things like that.
Allah subhana wa Tada.
says in the Quran that?
Well, to those who write the Scripture, we add him with their
hands and say, has there been any luck? This is from God. Well,
Matt, who I mean ended, but it was not from God. It is not from God
we avoid when I'm lucky to be bad.
They utter a lie against God. And they know it. Right? So they're
allowed, they spill all the beans. Basically, if you take again, the
classes on higher criticism of the New Testament,
it's very revealing.
There's a story that's related but will be presumably this this was
the receipt.
So he says that there was an agnostic.
In probably an undue seer, Christianity, Judaism and Islam, a
flourishing
Muslim, Spain, was agnostic wanted to know what is the word of God.
So we somehow got a copy of the Torah, in Hebrew. And he wrote
some of it down, and he made a few intentional changes, here and
there switching words around and changing the meaning a little bit.
So then he gave it to a group of rabbis and said, What do you think
of this? And they residency? MashAllah beautiful, this is the
Torah. So he said, Okay, this is not a religion for me.
And then he
took one of the Gospels, I don't remember which gospel, and he
wrote down some of it, or had someone write it in Greek and made
some, a little, a few changes intentionally here and there. And
then he gave it to a Christian scholar and said, What do you
think about this in his own shop? Oh, this is the Gospel of John.
Beautiful.
It is not the religion for me. And then he took part of the most hop,
right? He copied it down in Arabic, made some intentional
changes, switch some words, so on and so forth, skipped a verse and
things like that. They give it to a shape in the masjid and said,
What do you think of this and the shape looked at and said, What did
you get this? And he said, I got it from one of my friends and I
found it did you have to burn this
burning?
Because this is totally inaccurate. Instead, okay, this
this is there's something more than this religion. So Christians,
especially new orientalist, they don't like the title view,
Orientalism, but that's basically what they are starting in 1996.
There, they start to really attack the Hadith, but also the Quran
sometimes, and they try to tell you there's textual variants, and
there's variant readings in the Quran, this is their claim. Now,
there's multiple ways of the Quran we admit that right Mediheal
Medina Matic, el Medina, both meanings are found in the Quran
anyway, in the basic skeletal structure of the Quran, without
the diacritical notations is basically the same. So that's not
a variant reading. That's a multiple reading. That's a
difference between multiple reading and a variant reading,
what is a variant reading?
That means that this entire curriculum or this story, this
parable is missing.
Or the word is completely different. Or it's or it's been
added or something added, or it's found in a different place and
another gospel
or another letter. Okay, that's a variant reading.
So, there's this man, Christopher Luxenberg. That's a pseudonym.
He's a German, Neil Orientalist. He wrote this book called The syro
Aramaic reading of the Quran.
And you know, he's you know, when the interview when he's behind the
curtain with the freezing get killed herself,
is a highly dramatic type of guys. So, he's, you know, he's got this
change voice
to translate from his German. And he says that the Quran is what he
said his claim is one quarter of the Quran is utterly
unintelligible without studying Syriac. without studying the
language of ESRD. You won't understand the full on one quarter
of the bar. Just to give us an example. It says what Shodo name
toto and aim at the Quran talks about which is translated as big
wide eyed maidens of paradise. Right? He says if you put the dots
in different places, and earshot Manji actually mentioned this in
an interview, right? And she said it's actually from a hadith but
it's actually in the Koran. And then she quoted the boat on and
said it's a hadith. So these are these are people that are speaking
for us. Anyway.
So this guy, Luxembourg is he put if you change the
the hackathon is happening
when the
offer some advice. And then he comes into when you can find the
provisions for the seekers that have already been. And it comes
into Medina, he says, I'd have to enter what you have who leaves and
what she can
are up to it uses Arafah again, that I know, I knew that his face
was not the face of a liar.
So what does that mean? Does that mean that the public for the lie
says I'm just having an honest face? Someone say yes. And an
honest looking face. Others say that he actually recognized the
province they sent them off to and whichever you'd recognize them
physical description, based on what was in his book, that's why
he became Muslim thereafter
who was a loving Salam. Salam was a Jewish rabbi. He was in Medina
he lived in yesterday. He was a rabbi.
Yeah, I believe he was from the many
Netview I'm not mistaken.
Does the seven time relationships to 620 because it also mentioned
that when they find written down with them and the thought energy
that's here yet
yeah, that's gonna be talking about the same idea. With this is
about your profit summarize, and most commentators say is, in other
words, the Kitab they know the profit very well. It's a way of
saying they know him very well. He's described very clearly they
know him like they know their own sons how well you know your son
very well. You can describe million things about your son or
your daughter.
That's how they know him.
And his reference also know me and
stuff.
Does it always is a future tense also, because we talked about them
today. Also. People do they still recognize the past summer was it
just that time of are still there, the Bible, the Bible we have now
is basically the same as it was at the time the process, most of the
time it happened in the first four centuries. So many says the know
them the presence
that the end is not known. So even now, it's versifying now, versus
in the present tense, the present tense is falling out here. When he
is at the high
end of it is not known. That's why it's called imperfect tense.
Imperfect Action is never completed. It's never perfect. So
they continue, you already want to who am I? Yeah, I do want to have
no
subtlety in the Arabic language that we talked about your system
of verb the Quran is the literal speech of God, God chose the words
himself. Because at a deeper level,
we would say that the Quran is actually Qlm love the the
articulated speech, whereas the personal,
pre eternal speech of God is no language whatsoever. Right? God
doesn't speak any language above languages, but he chose Arabic.
And he chose the wording of the Koran.
So the wording of the Quran then becomes what's known as
syntactical exegesis becomes significant when we do Tafseer
what tenses allow us you ever noticed like sometimes they you
know, will can Allah who, as he's unhappy in who cannot tell whether
a candidate is past tense.
So why is Allah saying cannot and Allah was the most forgiving? I
say, Kana, why not in the Lucha Yoku?
Something like that.
Criminal Law who is Elon before time pretty turnout. Yeah, because
Kana here the verb to be denotes, according to Bulava went through
advanced Arabic rhetoric
surpass present in the future.
Anything annex to Allah subhana wa Dimas can be described as Canada,
if it's universal, and its aspects like Canada can be referred to in
Canada is that the messenger of God was
a good example for you. That's the more literal, right? Canada Kena.
Meaning he was isn't always will be because he's been annexed to
God is the messenger of God.
That's one way of looking at it.
So
numerous Hadith. There's another Hadith of a rabbi, who was
from Yemen, who told who gave his son a Torah scroll and said, Go to
you have to rip. There's a prophet there. Then he opened the scroll
after he met the prophets. So he read a perfect description of the
prophecies and one of the things that mentioned in the scrollwork
he doesn't raise his voice in the marketplace. And that's Isaiah 42,
which we'll talk about. That's what he gives us with the rabbi
cases. Son and Isaiah 42 does indeed talk about a Gentile
prophet.
Who is glorified by the cataracts were the Arabs. And according to
the Hadith, the sound Hadith. And according to the Hadith,
the and Aisha describes the Prophet so much for the likes of
them. What has to happen in a swap? He doesn't raise his voice
in the marketplace. So the prophets I send them he heard, he
said, translated to me, and he translated Arabic to him. And he
said, and he called Sahaba. And he said, Tell them what you just told
me. Because it's something that increases their yucky and this is
part of the proof it's permissible, the Bible for Muslims
in order
does I think people convert to Islam. Muslims have this
rejuvenated sense of, of their faith, when you talk about these
types of things. So the Sahaba heard it as well and they were
amazed by it. That's the perfect description of them. In the book
of Isaiah, chapter 42, which we'll talk about Shall we have to talk
more about what the Torah actually is?
About Some take to the
ground
we'll talk about Revelation, Revelation or book of evidence, no
revelation according to no day ism. So now we're talking about
Judaism
in Jewish tradition,
which was Isaiah 42, Chapter 42, the whole chapter was a diet.
So what is revelation? According to Judaism? There's three types of
revelation in the Hebrew Bible. I mean, the Hebrew Bible is called
the Old Testament, right? Of course, Old Testament, again, is
Christian jargon. It's, you know, you say Old Testament rabbis won't
be offended by it. Because all that means is men Sue, and it is
meant to perform to our perspectives, but not totally in
all of its accounts, there are a few things that are still
wise.
I don't think that adultery matters, but the Noahide laws are
mentioned.
Anyway, Old Testament, the Hebrews called cannot
count on that being said, very good. The towel
dispenser for the sounds we're going to beam tapas
is being writing.
So
the first level of Revelation is the torah and by Torah we mean the
penta to
accept the truth of the first five books. Attitude is a Greek word
Penta means what?
pentagram, Pentagon five, write five books Genesis, Exodus,
Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. The first five books
of the Tanakh are called the penta to concrete, or just the total of
the Torah is ambiguous. We'll call the Pentateuch or two.
Yes.
So this is the highest according to and I'm giving you Orthodox
Judaism. I'm not talking about like, liberal progressive or
Reformed Judaism. Orthodox Judaism, traditional Judaism
believes that the Torah is the system of Verba of God.
The words of God, like we believe, like we believe about God.
So Musa days, he went to Mount Sinai, he was there for 40 days,
he did not eat nor drink according to Jewish tradition. He was out
there he was receiving spiritual messages from Allah subhanaw
taala. And by the way, many Jews when we talked about the,
the alarm hub off the world to come, many Jews believe that this
earth itself will be the hereafter in which people will not eat nor
drink
and we'll be spiritually spiritually oriented pneumatic
bodies and they use that to prove what happened to Mossad based on
Sinai so he received this total these first five books he either
wrote them down immediately or soon thereafter he wrote them down
memorize it wrote it down. Every single letter of these first five
books was chosen by God just like we believe about the Quran
is chosen in every single letter by God.
Okay, if that's what
they believe that the as far as it is, today is the word of God too,
because I've heard that even the Torah has like, sources like JpE
and question mark. Yeah, do they even think that even Torah today
is the same one? It depends.
It's like 800 a year.
Yeah, so yeah, this is uh, this is this. What I'm what I'm teaching
you here is kind of medieval Judaism, rabbinical Judaism
and ultra orthodox, contemporary Judaism. Now
He's talking about Julius Wellhausen documentary hypothesis,
which actually identified, the modern day Torah comes from four
different sources that were sort of conflated into one narrative.
And each source was written at a different time. That's basically
the accepted theory.
Very much like Q is the accepted theory in New Testament studies.
The documentary hypothesis is accepted. But leaving sort of the
academic like Western critical method aside, just from the faith
tradition, right, just based on a faith tradition.
This is what is traditional Jewish belief. In reality, it was right
because the tablets came down right from on high, I was able to
tell it's given to Musa and within a Hadith also like, like, how are
the new you know, how the how the ingenious, like
as the torah also the same way? Or would they tell the door, shut the
books and broke one of the books, right, the tablet, was that
something had written down, it was something that came down and like,
what 10 commandments were probably written on tablets, and Anwar
wrote it.
He probably etched them into stone books. Yeah, it wasn't like given
here it is there has taken Mussolini's there weren't written
by the finger of God the way the movie, not literally no, no, not
by the founder of which is not to say it was it just like, there it
is here taking musanze It was a separate laptop, looking down
there, you're taking, you know, just believe that maybe we maybe
that was, I don't know what we believe that the Quran does
mention Anwar, he had tablets. So Jewish belief says that he etched
the 10 commandments of the stone. But 613 commands were given to him
on the mountain, the entire torah was revealed them. But these tend
to have precedents
in the immediate context, because of what the people were doing the
first three deal with the negation of all others
to do with Turkey, they're worshipping the golden calf,
before they're doing adultery and things like that. So you're
stealing.
So in other words, the model of what is known for the intellects,
if that's what the heart was, means, has to be instituted
immediately. And then the rest of the commandment,
Jews have 613 commandments, all of them have to follow them. If
you're a non Jew, you only have to follow seven, we talked about
that.
So it's just a verb,
to tell it off the Word of God.
So for example, just like we do with the Quran, if you turn to
Genesis one, one, it says better, she's better she's been in a
beginning. There's no definite article isn't like in the
beginning. That's how most translations do it. But there's no
definite article in the Hebrew. So then this becomes an issue what
why did God not mentioned at the bar, but what does in a beginning?
Is it mean that there was something else there was matter
already on Earth, but it was not already in the universe? And and
God, sort of, and Neil Platanus liked that idea. Because a new
Platanus believe matters pre eternal
constraint that VVS students do. What what do you recommend as
read which book do you recommend for us so that we can defer to the
Old Testament or, which is the best book for us as students to
begin to begin studying? Like Jewish theology? Yes, I mean,
stories are something as close to the Old Testament Orthodox
Judaism. Yeah, that's the book.
Obviously, a Jewish theology
theory, but a Jewish theology, but Louis Jacobs, I'm going to be
teaching this text next semester in sha Allah University. So he,
it's an intermediate. You know, it's not, it's not easy reading.
It's not very difficult, but I think it'd be good fun for you
guys because you have some background.
But he deals with numerous subjects, different types of
Jewish theology,
rabbinical Judaism, medieval systematic, the emergence close a
lot of like, my mom oddities also performed conservatives, Hasidic
opinions as well. And he has really interesting chapters on the
love of God, the Messianic co creation, eternity, the negative
of unity of God, the Chosen People, Revelation, all of these
types of things. Very comprehensive. Do you think we
should be grounded in the Son of God first before we get into stuff
like that?
So you know, read it with caution. And it's not going to do anything
to your Eman, but just the shock of what takes priority of your
life
is finding a feeder. But an interesting side note isn't in the
King James Version is not a good decision. Not a good source for
Jewish
theology. The Christian translation. Yeah, the Christian
perspective. Yeah. So you know,
the Italian maximum maximum so the translator is this treacherous?
Christian is translating the old
customer is going to be jaded. That's what's going to happen just
like the orientalist translations of the Quran are so egregiously
incorrect, because they have a pre existing presuppositionalist
belief. If you're going to translate the Quran, then you
should presuppose that is the word of God. Therefore you have a
correct translation.
So I'm being objective. No one can ever be objective. That's a myth.
I don't deserve any one objective. I'm just an independent scholar. I
have no religious belief. No, you have a view of somebody. You're
doing something.
Even having no belief is some kind of standard. Yeah. Yeah, I don't
know. Okay, that's your, you're translating through an agnostic
stance. We're in a an atheist type of slant, right.
So here we have the words of God. So this is the highest type of
Revelation. The highest back revelation is what's done in the
first five books.
It's directly imparted unto Moses Mousavi Sana, the rabbi's asked
how they say de la que fear, it's a modal. You can't understand them
very much like we would say, part of the process I'm see almost
funnel data, be like a fee, you want to understand. So this is a
613.
The first five books which contain the 613 that's
the genesis for this is Genesis.
Leviticus,
Numbers,
Deuteronomy
these books Genesis obviously means beginning, the creation of
the universe creation of Adam. It goes through the patriarchs,
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, it ends with Joseph death in Egypt. So
this is the story of Musa Lisanna. Leviticus numbers, is the toad or
the the camera of the Torah. Deuteronomy is sort of a
second law. It's sort of a rehashing a retelling of the
previous books, and some other legal injunctions as well.
prophecies and things like that.
So, brother made a good point. This is traditional Judaism.
There's also a modern academic way of looking at the Torah, which is
vastly different than what we're saying here.
Then we have the Prophets
the Nadeem Now, here's the thing.
So if you look in the Old Testament, right, you'll find
books like The Book of Isaiah, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Amos, Hosea,
right looks like that. There are named after prophets. Okay.
So those constitute
a type of Revelation, but it's not as direct as the first five books.
So this was called in Hebrew called nebula.
What this means is that God
inspired a profit in he will sanctify the speech of a profit,
but the prophets will choose to articulate the inspiration.
Okay, so what does that sound like? This basically Hadith.
The difference between Quran and what is the difference?
Both are considered revelation, they're both lashes according to
orthodox position.
Well, my nCpo I knew how to profit does not speak from however,
that's not just talking about.
Anything he says is revelation.
The prophets, I send them in one of his vocations, according to the
Quran, by Yan of the Quran. That means whatever he says is
basically a Tafseer who will have the Quran, but it's not the Quran.
Because the Quran is what? God choosing the words, right exists
in the verb of God, God chose the Arabic of the Quran, the Hadith,
the Prophet sallallaahu Salam is articulating
the inspiration guided by God.
And some would say, well, that's just semantics, it's the same
thing. Maybe it is the same thing.
But nonetheless,
Allah subhanaw taala did choose himself
the actual syntax of the follow up so the policy said I'm is simply
competing with caring.
And there's two types of ways in which you would receive the Quran.
This is what Montgomery Watts says, and I agree with it.
Exterior location is one way exterior location, meaning that
Jabril ideas would come to him in the form of a mat and say, of
course, say this. And he just wanted to repeat, because no one
else can see different ideas.
it although some if he took on the form some form maybe we could be
seen
so he would repeat it. It's called exterior location. Loc UTI. Yes.
Like what happened late as we'll call them in the cave, exterior
location, sometimes interior interior Location
Location
interior location is like what he describes in the Hadith the
revelation comes to me like the reverb reverb or reverb,
reverberations of a bell, right? Or like he says, like,
like change being dragged that form sounds
you know, the
the what's it called the vocal cords are just vibrations.
So possibly this is one of the functions of the photo for
one of the co op disjointed letters at the beginning of some
of the photos like calm him and if la meme that initially it's you
know,
he's listening to it needs to get his attention before the actual
verses will come because you can imagine he's busy with his daily
life and then there needs to be something that get his attention.
So he means when he would you know, it's thought for a minute
that something would have to come to him and then the actual text of
the Quran
okay. So, so the difference here then is like this is you can think
of this as like Quran
so, the Muslim will not put Hadith in the Quran, though, is the very
strictly separates the two are very different, right? One can
have the legal ruling, or creedal standing of the other, if it's
multiple, lots of we talked about that. How do you promote a lawsuit
and has the legal end or creedal standing of a Quranic idea, but
the Hadith determines a lot or less than 1000. And they're never
going to be put into the most half. Regardless.
They're separate, always.
Okay, but here we have
the corpus
inspired Word of God.
So basically, when you read the Torah, it just sound like the same
speaker. That's basically what you're saying.
It should say, to sing style throughout, under closer scrutiny,
it's that's not true at all. There's actually four different
speakers.
It's called the documentary hypothesis that basically effect
and many Jews will accept that
traditionally wasn't accepted.
But here are the prophets then you'll find a different tone.
Isaiah has a certain tone, he has a certain vocabulary. If you
conduct my textual analysis, it's different than Jeremiah, that
doesn't mean that neither is the word of God. Right? They're both
the Word of God, but it's inspired through prophecy. Right, so the
prophet is picking the words himself. That's why it's going to
be subjective.
Here we have one voice, we have many voices. And then we have the
writings.
The writings are not as exalted as the prophets of a third level of
Revelation, the highest the most direct Torah, the next the
prophets. Nazeem. The next to to be in the writing
are given by mu AF.
In Hebrew,
which is roofing for those.
And this is a rule that God gives to certain individuals that are
nonprofits, like saints,
or poets,
sanctified human beings,
that heal inspire, means inspire souls through good news. This
means Holy Spirit.
Holy Spirit,
Holy Spirit. So for example, in the Quran, usually the who is
Gibreel it is but ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada also talks about a ruler at
the end of Surah Al Modjadji. Allah I believe, that those who
are beloved by Allah subhanaw taala are strengthened with a
ruler men who a Spirit from Allah,
meaning that Allah kind of without a sense of some sort of created
sanctifying spirits in which their actions become guided.
Can they attain something called Wilaya
sainthood not prophecy, same below prophecy, prophecy, the door of
Naboo is closed. Is that when the US will be
yes well the Allah is a singular I will realize, okay, and the Quran
has mentioned the idea many times
But what do you know Quran has different meanings
has many different meanings. Friend protector supporter,
beloved
but we believe in the LDS. So these are the writings of the
Olia, if you will, in Hebrew the called the festive theme are sick,
the theme in Hebrew and Arabic,
the writings of the saints
inspired by a Ruach, Kadosh and Holy Spirit. So Hassan even
Fabrice was a poet laureate of the province of a lifetime. One time
he, he got up inside the masjid, there was a minibar in the masjid
for the poet, the munchin. Which if you try that today, in many
sajit, you'll be declared a kappa
reciting poetry in the mosque.
So the prophets made him stand up and he recited a beautiful poem of
the Prophet they send them a litany describing the beauty of
the Prophet. The Prophet sallallaahu Salam said him Allah
are you at do Hassan Purusha produce?
That indeed, Hassan has been helped by the Holy Spirit.
So he's not talking about, you know, Gibreel Dinesen, I'm coming
to Hassan because you realize that I'm the angel, revelation comes
the prophets. So this is a, this is probably the type of thing that
he had in mind, a love item, a sanctifying spirit, that Allah
subhana, Allah will send to a believer to guide his actions or
speech.
But it's not prophesy. That we talked about the shots here last
time, to Catholic utterances of the saints, and then Huck Suhani,
out of the machete, they didn't understand. He said, glory be to
me, how great is my affair. So you can't say that, to my not God
spoke through me. God is saying that through me, so you're not a
Prophet. Prophet, God inspired me to say that God speaks through me
inspired. It's not revelation, but I'm not a prophet. If God can
speak to a bush, you can speak to a human being, but I'm not
claiming prophecy.
That's what the Jews believe. Here. The writing is also
Revelation. Revelation, they call it revelation. But it's not
prophesy. And it's not. It's the sum of about God, this is the
highest, the Torah.
Sometimes you'll see some of the Sufis go into a state, and they'll
start reciting poetry. And it's just off the cuff.
You know, it's not like, not like they memorize something or
repeating it. It's just told you that comes extemporaneously, if
that's the word.
What he was
tempering use was right in front of him. Yeah. Talk to impromptu
using, how's he getting this? And you can see that it goes into a
heart it goes into a state. This could be ill harm, right? So the
word in Arabic for this type of Revelation is in hub.
In hub,
in hub,
inspiration that comes to a nonprofit.
certainly possible.
Anyone can get this.
Even today, the Jews believe this is possible that the Canon has
been closed, books, the Bible anymore, it's closed. But this is
the book. It's still open. Even in our tradition,
solver, what period was this compiled?
Good question.
So basically, and then Canada is closed.
It was all of it was basically closed around the second century
of the Common Era.
Why so long?
A part of Moses time.
13 1700 years, it's about 1500 years, 17 or 1500 years. That's
when the because, you know, they didn't feel a need to close the
cannon until the temple was destroyed
and destroyed twice. Destroyed. Yeah, destroyed twice definitively
by the Romans. And then there was a diaspora.
So they held the Jews held councils, different types of
councils. Now before we get into that, there's one more thing we
have. So this is called the Written Torah all three of this
the Old Testament is called the Written
Torah.
So the word tourism ambiguous it could refer to just these five
books, or all of this.
The Written Torah
at home, any association with him
sounds like it.
There's an opinion that the word love comes from
thirst
I
don't know, maybe
what? You know, some sneaky man with NFM? Yeah.
Yeah. So
there's there's the question is does the word Allah have an
victimology?
Is there a ship Hawk stock is derived from something or his
agenda that has no commodities, the dominant theme is that it does
not have an etymology.
And that Allah is not an ally.
Because you can't say, Allah, he gets a yacht and then you don't
say yeah, I'm the one that is incorrect in Arabic. So yeah,
well, yeah. Raju Yama. You can say Yeah, well,
ya, ya Allah would be incorrect to Allah for them the definite
article.
That's one of the proofs that they give.
Because that's the orientalist to say that's all I did was as Isla
de God. And then the middle Hamza was was a pocket painted. So we
have a lot.
But looking at it a little closer.
Doesn't make sense.
Anyway, so we have this.
Now, here's something interesting. She was also believe that when
Lusardi Salam was on the mountain, he received another Torah.
There's two Toros this was the Oral Torah, not meant to be
written.
But to be transmitted orally. Whenever the Written Torah was
taught.
There's a wisdom behind oral transmission.
If you look at it, for example, the the guide of Imam even Atia,
it's 314 lines long, very comprehensive. And that work is
really a book The facade is a distillation. It's a shortened
version of a greater work, which was a, which was a shortened
version of a greater work, which was a shortened version of Imam
Malik's major text. So why is it easy to pare it down to 314 lines
is because the Sunnah, wrote their books, under the assumption that
you as a student are going to take it from a teacher, not read it
yourself.
So he's going to give commentary. So you don't have to write this
huge book all over again. You can just get the essence of the book,
knowing in your mind that when a student reads this book, he's
going to obviously studied with the shanks
right with the shot exactly. So the Oral Torah is the shot of the
Written Torah. You have they have to go hand in hand, or it's going
to make major mistakes. So Hebrew hottie was not written for a
while. There's some Muslims who believe just you know, forget
about, you know, Abu Hanifa these guys like this one.
Team said one time, he said, I don't need no shaking, no honey
dripping out his mouth. I got the mom to me right here on the show.
She's gonna pull up. So he Timothy, do I have to pray if I'm
gonna, you know, if I'm traveling and I have socks on and
you're gonna go directly to hadith is very dangerous. Because these
books were written by scholars, for scholars, not for a while,
under the assumption that this scholar is going to take this
book, and is going to teach people with a shot with with a
interpretation of the text.
There are Hadith books that are written for us. We also saw the
pain and the agony in literature, right? The Shemitah literature you
can take from that. Even those books
this
require some commentary
that was going on here, like what Misha comes up mentioned. If you
read in the text one time, there's a Prophet salallahu salam after he
would eat with like his fingers, his three fingers. Right. So
he said that he
like put his thumb into his mouth one time for him to have
a seizure. No, no, that's,
that's that's not how we did it. That's actually not. He said, he
said, the process on the wrist fingers across like this
with his tongue, so you can see his tongue sticking out. You're
not dipping, he's sucking his fingers.
So he did it with discretion and just very quickly, some of you
hide it.
Right? So if you read the left of the Hadith, suck your fingers.
Right, but that's actually considered to be an eighth,
according to the Arab culture of the day, even today to do that as
interfere with
what time these people are sitting behind us eating popcorn. We're
gonna movies and all we hear was
the liquid stuck in the fingers. So that sound that's an agent.
I like, like disgraceful disgrace short for like short.
Come in. Oh,
yeah, Chef Marlon did say
I was there because they like this. What do you did? He said
that I heard about your shade saying that he only used to do
easy no, no. He used to lick his fingers like this. Some of our or
Deobandi brothers will make a difference.
But anyway, that's an example
of how the oral transmission
is equally important to the text. Like, how did he use to do that?
How is this done? What is happiness? Oral as far as how many
verses 300? And no, so the Oral Torah was not written down until
the second century, the common hero
was called the Mishnah. Eventually.
missioner is the Oral Torah, why did the Jews write it down? Within
the temple is destroyed, the Jews are in diaspora. And you know, the
very identity of the Jewish nation was now being compromised.
Don't know?
Those three things are compiled Awesome. Yeah, the cannon was
close during this time. So the second was fourth century. This is
the beginning of what's known as rabbinical Judaism, where they
said, Okay, we need a canon, we need to write down the oral law.
Because, you know, the very ethos of Judaism was changing.
There's no more priesthood. There's no more. There's no more
Pharisees.
Now, this is after the Christian era.
This is after
submission. That is the Oral Law,
reduced to writing finally.
And then from the fourth to the seventh century, the rabbi's. They
wrote commentaries on the mission up
and these commentaries were compiled and COVID Gomorrah for
those consider writings.
Yeah.
The Mishnah and Gomorrah are also considered to be sacred writing
revelation.
So just just to clarify, it was written down after the destruction
of the temple for the second time.
No, the first destruction the first time. Oh, well, written
down. What do you mean second time, which we'll be referring to.
After this? After the second time the temple was destructed? Oh, the
temple? Yes. After the second disruption? Yeah. The second
disrupt, yeah, the second destruction was in 70. Okay. Yeah.
70 of the Common Era.
During that, during that time, there were certain rabbinical
academies. One in Babylon, one in Persia,
Palestine, like these, like the purpose of these academies, was to
kind of codify Judaism, to kind of save it from corruption. And
that's how the Madonna eventually, in our tradition, what's the point
of a meta?
Why can't you just follow up on and Hadith?
Well, the Sahaba, they had the prophets, I send them right,
they're easy to follow the tambourine, they follow the
sahaba. But what happens down the line
where you're going to follow becomes difficult. So becomes
necessary to articulate creed and sip and these types of things into
a school of thought. And so that's what's going on here. So it's like
preservation mode preservation. Right. Right, in order to
preserve the identity
of different the integrity of the Jewish tradition. So so there's
like five levels now. You have 123, the Mishnah. And the Gemara
is a lower level than the original writings.
Yeah, and what was the commentary on the missionaries? Right? It's
also part of the Torah. Yeah, so this is considered Torah. Yeah.
And these two here are called collectively toggenburg.
Okay, so Misha and Gomorrah are trying to get now the second
century Mishnah. And was to say that there was it's correct was to
say that you know, who's to say they all agree to buy this is like
their this is their consensus, and they're all Ammar that we all
agree that this is what it is. Right? So they have a straight
consensus. Well, I don't know if this strict consensus
there was some sort of content on the internet around today. But
yeah, as it is, as it was at that time, yeah, basically changed.
She different. There's two different tomorrow's there's a
Babylonian
Palestinian, and they were written at different times in different
locations. Put
are strikingly similar. They're very similar.
But all of this here is called the oral law with the Oral Torah
of Scripture.
Now these were written down by the Pharisees. By right the Pharisees
by rabbis
during the Christian era, the early part of the Christian era.
So,
in the demonic demonic admission where they talk about
that's in the Babylonian Gomorrah.
Yeah.
Yeah. So
if here's in this text,
Babylonian Gomorrah.
So the Gomorrah discusses, you know, wouldn't be messianic
claimants.
And he's mentioned there a few times.
So the Written Torah, the Oral Torah. So if you go to a Jewish
children that go to something called a yeshiva,
which is the equivalent of like a madrasa at the yeshiva, they would
learn that Torah, which is all of this.
So Torah could be just that for coming this or coming this or it
means all of this.
So what did they learn? Not all of it. They don't all of it. Yeah,
how many volumes?
It's several volumes. Wow. It's the face of that Quran? Buhari
Muslim at that.
Quran not too bad. Where does this come from? Issue issue. Shiva is a
school, a school?
What about the mothers and mothers? This is like a mother of
a school?
Why Why? Why do I particularly a lot of
just a general generic name for a Jewish school? Okay.
That's what do they do?
They do. Yeah, they do. And they'll rock back and forth.
The rocking, according to some of the theologians
is something that is done instinctively. Because when the
reciting
the soul is supposed to
lead a grasp of the fire. It's going back and forth with the
soldiers. Touring agitated touring. Yeah, by the Word of God.
So we want to come out of the body.
What is
the environment?
What is recited? They know they recite to our environments. What
part of the Torah is recited? And that's a good question. I have a
book on that I didn't bring it is a book on Jewish liturgy.
I can
usually it's one of the benedictions that are in the
Torah.
Something like what's it are you oh Lord, our God, King of the
universe? Who gave us the commandment? Probably one of
those, I think is an excellent
the fallacy the witness around the same time also, but just in
different places. Yeah. Okay.
So it's like, coming into this era, okay. Which is really
interesting, because
the Quran says that,
that
will be cool for him or him Allah, Mariana, Bhutan, and Alima.
So they said about Mary a terrible thing. Right? It's just really
unlikely that I mean, this was specialized knowledge. I mean, how
could you have How could you have known that that's, that's written
in that mentioned in the Babylonian Kamara about Maryam
that she slandered in the Babylonian Gomorrah which was
written right around the time that this verse was probably revealed
the policies that emerged shortly before that.
How did he know that was in the because many Jews at the time
didn't know that we're doing
it be new and it's revelation that they were fine
because they've just under the
arm couldn't have been condemned and returned to us at that time.
Possibly yeah
yeah
yeah, well hopefully
it's something they say that's another possibility.
Just because because the thought is supposed to be
so these are when he talks about he said I saw myself but you know,
contemporary issues at their time. Their inequality in this in the
backseat of
the tower which is supposed to be 1700 town now we have a diner
so
do not notice that was a justification for them to hear
talking about marmalade salon. Without I mean, cuz it's wasn't
making it up. So you have something Oh, that's something new
is gonna say.
give any of us? Yeah, so the Torah is Musa lessons revelation
Okay, now they make a tough sheet of it. They're trying to codify it
so it doesn't get lost for whatever reason. Yeah. So why are
they sitting there talking about about present issues? Why even
inculcating present issues unless they're making because they're
giving certain examples. For example, the Gomorrah is talking.
I don't know if it's context, probably, it's talking about false
messiahs or something or false idols. And then just like this one
who came,
for example, this person who came from Nazareth, who said he's
coming, and that's its commentary was considered to be sacred
writing
about at that time, dating back the rise of Christianity, because
they are, you know, yeah, Nicaea is happening and all that stuff
happening. Yes, the three religions are almost coming
together. So there's a very, very clear polemic against
Christianity, not Trinitarian. So much, but more to the creation
of Christ. So the rabbinical writings are considered to be
inspired by God as well, that are in the tomorrow.
An exciting time.
Before is
known as the borders after the border was given to, if it's the
songs of David, the songs of David has written about 100, before the
common 1000, before the Common Era. For 500 years after the
total.
Do we believe
the sounds
seems to be a popular opinion. I asked my chef isn't a lot. What do
you
probably measure? I'm not sure. You know, probably, there's some
things on the song a little strange, but it seems like the
whole Bible strange of
the Psalms, you know, many of the songs is sound, sound like Mecca
and sorrows?
Wisdom literature? Yes. Can you please repeat that again, but
Vatican writing is also considered to be inspired by law? Oh, my God.
Yeah. And that's what this is the tomorrow.
Tomorrow.
Clinical commentaries on the Mishnah are considered inspired
writings.
Not at the level anywhere close to what we have like here.
More like something here, even below that. There's a hierarchy of
revelation that still inspired by the Holy Spirit. This is still
inspired yet, because of the rabbi's.
All this has been in that book or in the book.
Its guide to Judaism or something. I don't know. Where would you find
this? information? So you can view the theater?
Yeah, this is this is a good start. That is sort of explained?
As mentioned there. Yeah. I'm pretty sure. Like, the color that
you have with is that also inclusive, that that I was able to
or No, no, no, that's how I would have thought not in the Bible.
No Bible. This right here is the Written Torah, Torah, and the beam
with this will be this only Christians call it the Old
Testament.
If you want to study this,
by yourself, a rabbi would say you can't do that. You have to study
this. With this. To understand it, you need oral tradition, that's
been reduced to writing. And you just go to a Shiva under a rabbi
who has a jossa. In order to understand this, to go into like a
King James, I want to learn about Judaism. Let's go to a Christian
translation of the King James Bible. Terrible methodology is
their mission on Komodo a chronological,
chronological
time.
Every generation like
Genesis comes in order.
I thought they were in different universities, right? Abandoned
threads in different universities. That's what was there what? They
were battling threads. Right. They were right, historically, like a
historical chain of narration. Yeah, that's something like you
get here. But the Mishnah was revealed the same time the Five
Books of Torah Yeah. So the origin of the top of the mount the origin
is, is this is 1500 years since then, I mean, the Gomorrah
eventually reduced by writing down, and even that.
So they have that
oral tradition that people memorized it and kept it alive for
1500 years. Yeah.
Right. And how long was it? The mission? The mission is in a few
volumes.
All of this as I had hoped for office was all true. Yeah, so they
had these things called targums.
cargoes. At the time of east, the jews will learn the Torah, the
Written Torah, and then cargo and targums were Aramaic translations
of the oral law that were just passed through orality,
called targums from Tata Juma
All sections of the oral wall that were translated to Aramaic that
were memorized. Eventually the target was written down became
permission
does this look more? Arabic? This looks much less confusing than for
the Bible as
it needed to be. To be simplistic is what I mean with the Bible in
the Bible. I mean, how the Bible anymore, right?
There's so many authors who are not named. And then people looked
at three different sources make it in one. Well, again, this is
Bonnin doctrine. This is a very confessional way of presenting the
Old Testament. This is what Jews believe, traditionally, modern day
scholars. They don't believe this. No, no,
or the Jewish. It's like saying, some of them are Jewish. It's like
saying, this is like saying, Matthew, Mark and Luke, were two
disciples of Jesus and two disciples of disciples who wrote
down, who wrote down what they heard from Christ. Some Christians
believe that.
But then, the academics will tell you Look,
there's something called Q. Martin habits. Matthew and Luke had it
Matthew and Luke, redact mark at some point, John comes he has his
own sources. We haven't done that too, this year. This is the
traditional devotional confessional evangelical. Yes.
Orthodox confessional approach right confessional.
confessional and academic is very different
Yes, you said in the beginning
so some of them comes from you know, I can meet
one of the
damnit is a little students.
Little, little student is called to me. So like the little students
have the Written Torah. Looking over time.
So
yeah, this is the most highly exalted revelation even some more
something here because here you still have translation you have
evolution.
Little students. Yeah.
So let's talk about endo Victor Rafi. Well, indeed, he is meant to
have us written in the Torah that is with them was probably a lot of
the promises that was mentioned somewhere in here. Somewhere here,
the Written Torah
not necessarily here.
What's interesting, will only him will be cool for him a pony him
Anna Maria. But they say this about Mary. That's in the Oral
Torah.
The Babylonian
school was written down.
More commonly in Africa, tell them mercy, how each subdomain Rasul
Allah and they say, We kill Christ, the Messenger of God, the
Son of Mary.
So the Quran seems to be familiar with what's considered written and
oral.
And that type of information back then is like insider information.
The vast majority of Jews, they don't know what's written in the
Talmud in the Mishnah, even in the Torah, because 99% of the way
illiterate, just kind of do what their fathers are doing it.
So let's get you one of the
prophecies here.
We can start with the
most exalted revelation, which is here.
18
which is claimed by many
Dr. Amato, Otto,
contemporary historian,
he says that this is the verse.
This is the verse that demonstrates the incumbency upon
active Kitab to believe in the Prophet sallallahu.
This is the verse it says, I will raise them up a Prophet or amongst
their brother and like you, I should put my words into his mouth
because speaking to them all that I shall command him. Deuteronomy
18 A thing I should raise them a prophet, a monster brother and
like you are like going to be like Moses, actually put my words into
his mouth, he shall speak unto them all that I shall command the
next verses, whomsoever, who and whom so ever shall not hearken
unto the words, that he shall speak in my name, I shall take
vengeance.
So you have to believe in this prophet
Okay.
I'm thinking 18 through 19 called the prophet
like
Moses,
prophet like Moses
but he was maybe a team lion, which is very interesting
construction. Remember, this is a system of verb, God chose the
construction here.
According to the, the traditional opinion, instead of saying
a theme Nabhi, the hem, which is more standard word order, fair
enough, and then go to majeure.
Hakim, if you'd have the objects brought forward.
And it's Nikita it's indefinite, which according to Frederick means
undefined, great profits, a great profit.
So wasn't Jewish people saying you're
zone opinion is that a prophet Samuel?
Prophet Samuel has mentioned he's a prophet contemporary with double
that is, according to the Old Testament, he may be mentioned in
the Quran. There may be a reference to him and sort of,
maybe you're bad to Musa, a prophet after Moses, which seems
to be according to some commentaries, Shama would or
Samuel.
So they believe
there was a rabbi Middle Ages and several men who
tell you the story about
Samuel McGreevy, he's a rabbi. He has the same name as the prophet
Samuel. He was in
Muslim, Spain, his father was remote.
So what happened was, he
was very conversant literate, literate, Muslim sources. He
studied the study of normativity. Many other texts, Muslim texts.
So what happened was, went to sleep one night and saw a man in
his dream, old man with a long white beard sitting under a tree.
And he identified the man and the prophet Samuel, Prophet, Samuel.
So he approached the prophet Samuel, and he said,
you know, he started putting his hand in the seeds, and we agreed
to speaking in Arabic, by the way, all the time. And then the prophet
Samuel, he says to him, just a rabbi Samuel, if you haven't you
read in the Torah. And if you accumulate in Nicaragua in Como
has a reasonable profit from the brother and like into the, in the
profit quoted 1818 Back to the rabbi, the Rabbi say, yes, that's
you. Right? And then he said, the prophet Samuel stood up and was
very angry.
And then he left.
And then said, he woke up.
The rabbi woke up. This isn't his autobiography. It's called the
pamilya. Who is Hamodia? The silence? Is Hamlet, the hat is how
many of you mentioned this autobiography, went back to sleep.
And it was just before like fudge of time, like, a lot of time, a
couple of us have had the truest of dreams are at Soho time. So
they woke up with trepidation,
like, you know, was a great dream, but he was angry with me what
happened? What did I do? What did I say? So eventually went back to
sleep. And then he had another dream. And this dream is a long
corridor. He's walking down the corridor, and he passes a man
who's a Dr. Seuss, Allah.
obey the messenger of God.
So he said, Okay, that's kind of strange. And he walks, he's
walking from central courtyard, and he sees the Prophet civilize
them. And the prophets I send them he's busy with a lot of things
because he's preparing for our husband. He's going on a military
expedition. So he's giving a lot of orders. He's very busy. And
then so, Samuel not gonna be he was with us a little, you know,
tentative about interrupting him, but he walks right up to him. And
he,
he says, he says, I show a lot of a lot were shut up and Netcat
Rasul Allah. And he made a point that he wanted to say a Netcat and
that Muhammad Rasul Allah because he wanted to address him to get
his attention.
Right?
Because if you look at you, right, because you're saying caught you.
So he said that when he said this, the positive some turned to him
and laughed, smiled at him, and he took his hand, and he became
Muslim in the dream.
And then he said that, after that, he invited him to come on the
bagua. And Rabbi Samuel said immediately I was afraid and then
I thought, What am I what am I talking about? I have to go.
So you got ready to go that he woke up.
So this type of this type of
mystical
Great Britain, there was some Rabbi letter that was.
Yeah, that was a contemporary that was in 2008. Rabbi
whereby
he accepted
that was about their Messiah.
us make this connection that 1818 and 19 are attributed to prophet
Samuel. And
that's usually how they stood this dream. No, no. That was the sort
of their standard, sort of their standard sort of interpretation
was a fiery law. No, it's right at the same time. It's different. All
different. Yeah, that's a good birth. Yeah.
So there's a few things. Now obviously, you know, if it's about
him or not, doesn't really matter. Right. None of our faith is based
on the Bible. But I think there's good evidence, it says, reasonable
profit from the brethren from the ICWA of money, which could refer
to other Israelites, or to refer to Arabs as well, because the
Arabs of the Torah are also called brethren. So the word is
ambiguous. Some translations in English say from amongst
themselves, their Christian translation, sort of limit
Israelites, but the Hebrew says hi him, and then it says como ha,
come off up looks like this. Hebrew which is literally come on.
Like you, this prophet is like you what, what was the great thing
about Musa this, what did he get that no other Hebrew Prophet got?
He got a shitty he got a system of laws and ethics and jurisprudence
revealed to him that complete law code
in the proper sense, and I'm also was given that no other prophet,
not easily said I'm not Shammi well, not who nobody was given
that except for the promises. And there's a correspondence in the
Quran between Musa and the prophesy salah. Read the Quran
closely, you'll notice in Surah Al resentment, indeed we said, we
indeed we said, Indeed, we sent a profit to you as a witness just as
we set a profit unto Pharaoh.
in Ligue one Rasul and Shahid at equal karma, right come up at a
sudden that you don't notice hula
they're similar, Musa Musa is another foreigner seven. There's a
correspondence in the Quran
and other verse Verily We gave the book to Musa fanatical familia,
familia coffee, don't be in doubt about it reaching you also.
The book Revelation shutting up, you're going to receive it to what
are the NOFA? What did he say to the process?
After the initial revelation, look at the giacca numbers we'll talk
about Kumar Jaya
Kumar Jha
there is coming to you the great law just as a kingdom Moses
melanin this next one is pseudo. I think it did cross off and have to
check the reference but there's many many correspondences in the
Quran. Because this is the one that I email
me dot
argues about uses this argument on empathy that I'm gonna Yeah, this
is the Deuteronomy like the mafia. And also the fact that both of
them went away. They had received revelation.
Yeah, in solitude, one on one with the Spirit. Yeah, I mean, I mean,
I'm back with a law the Christians say this is a sad day for them.
All right. But from a Christian perspective, besides Islam, it's
very different than blue Saudis decide it's not for Christians if
God is the Son of God, He died for your sins.
He was born from a virgin he ascended to heaven none of these
applied to Moses, right. How are they the same human deals
psionic claims that
this is not a messianic prophecy, interpreted by Jews. No Jewish
rabbis.
Yeah, the Christians will say that they look in John chapter one
average John
one 120 to 25
on an imaginary budget of solid thing in our in our system
are then really windy day yet we're hustling Philippine and
Masha Allah Almighty God in Africa in Moscow Medina, the pharmacy
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mean
so let's do it mom and dad that we decided before every class in
Charlotte that
I usually bring copies for everyone forgot. So any questions
regarding last week? I think we talked about
sort of the intro. This was the slide that we were on. So I think
the one we were, there was just
so here we talked about the books of the New Testaments. All right,
talk a little more in depth regarding these gospels here,
especially the gospel of Mark, you're going to talk about Mark
who, what, when, where how, general themes, then we're
actually going to go through the gospel, and look at sort of key
verses that we should know. So
it's really important for us to have a really good understanding,
not just surface level, really increase our literacy with these
types of things, really makes the data a lot more effective. So
these gospels are called synoptic, Matthew, Mark, and Luke, remember,
although Matthew comes first, the New Testament, it is not the first
to be written from the three, Marcus first from 67 or 70. Common
Europe, but more about what's going on at the time.
The Gnostic means sin like synonym, right? Being same word or
similar word synoptic Opto.
Referring to the eye synoptic in one eye, does anyone know why
they're called One Eyed gospels? Because they're $2.
an hour? What
are they one eye is because they follow the basic, basically the
same chronology of events. Okay, so you can obviously there's a lot
of these, you can make a synopsis of the three gospels synoptics.
Synopsis means that basically, you line up all three of these
gospels, in juxtaposition of one another. And you can sort of see
where they copied from each other and where they sort of diverge.
We'll talk more about that, as well.
But they follow basically the same chronology for the John is vastly
different
in its content, and its chronology, and its language.
So we're gonna begin by talking about Mark and Mark is called
Greek kata emoticon. Catan monochloramine. According to Mark,
remember, this book is anonymous, wasn't named until about 180 or
200. By Irenaeus. We talked about the bishop. The
the author's name is John Mark.
And some scholars believe that in Mark chapter 14, there's the we'll
talk about this during the garden scene. Jesus is on the Mount of
Olives in the garden called Get seminary, and this is where he's
going to be arrested. And Mark mentioned this, but none of the
other gospels mentioned this episode that there's a young man
there in a linen cloth. And the authorities, presumably, Jewish
temple authorities, they grabbed the disciples and they grabbed
this young man and he slips away and he runs away naked, and have a
weird type of
episode that happens. Of course, you'll never see this at the Jesus
movie or anything. Someone streaking across the screen but
looks somewhat strange and kind of puts a damper on the somber
scene. Yeah. But some scholars say that's mark, by the way, but he's
never identified.
John Mark is actually a student of Peter. Peter is a disciple of
Christ.
He's also
the companion of Paul, we'll talk about Paul.
John work.
First thing is John goes by Mark.
Students.
Peter,
the student,
Paul.
So Mark, never met the historical Jesus. He was about 10 years old.
At the time, he thought he was preaching the kanji. He was not in
the same country.
But he inherited his teaching from a companion of a Sybase about the
whole audience. His name was Peter if that's his real name, either
according to Christian sources.
Where was it written? As awful as my mark was probably written in
Rome
on 67
to 70, public common era
in Rome.
Historical, backward
out. It's a wartime gospel.
So at the time, like in the 60s, there were a lot of cataclysmic
types of events in Pompeii and Naples in the eastern
Mediterranean. And many people do and pagan believe that these were
portents, of the end of time.
The emperor, the Roman Emperor at this time was a man named Nero.
And Nero was someone who hated Christians,
and was always finding excuses to persecute them. So Nero did, and
this is really interesting. It's the first historical occurrence of
this type of operation is that he started a fire on purpose and then
blamed it on the Christians. It's called a false flag operation.
false flag operations because when the government will do something,
and then blame it on a despised minority, tends opening the door
for persecution. sounds very familiar. Gulf of Tonkin is
another example. And
don't get me started. Anyway.
So Josephus is really important.
Josephus is a first century Jewish historian, Flavius Josephus, he
writes about what happened during this time. He has two books, one's
called the book up and Nick antiquity, the book of
Antiquities, and also his book called The Jewish War,
the Jewish war.
And Josephus actually says that Nero when he would do is that you
captured Christian, and he would dip them into oil,
dip their entire bodies at the oil. And then he would put them on
these huge pole, kind of tie them up there, and then he would light
them on fire. And they would be the street lamps, and Rome.
So Nero did not like Christian at all. In fact, some of the early
theologians identified the Antichrist in the book of
Revelation, Revelation, he identified Nero as being the
Antichrist, having talked with the beast, which is 666 You see people
going like this, like Lady Gaga does it? fatahna does it. This is
the mark of the beast. 666
Yeah.
So they have some satanic thing going on. Nicki Minaj crazy, like
he does it all the time.
These are supposed to be these are, you know, a snap, either
idols of the children.
Anyway, so what happened now is that in 67, there was a Jewish
insurrection against Roman authorities inside Jerusalem. And
insurrection means was a group of freedom fighters, right? They
attack Roman authorities, because that's their country, the Romans
are occupying Palestine. Right? So the Romans will say these people
are terrorists. But Jewish authorities will say we're freedom
fighter jet Mujahideen. Right. So, and there's difference of opinion
as to what actually sparked this. Obviously, in Galilee, one of the
issues with Galilee, which is in northern Palestine, this is where
Eastside is born.
There was a very strong
feeling of Jewish zealotry
of freedom fighting, so he grew up in this kind of environment
instead, and fix a CTE six of the Common Era. There was a man named
Judas the Galilean was captured by Roman authorities and crucified
Republic. So besides that, I might have actually seen that happen.
But this has happened quite commonly in Galilee. So Robert
Eisenman, who is a scholar of New Testament, He postulates that this
war the impetus for this war might have been the murder of James who
is the brother of a side as well. We'll come back to James James is
very important figure in early Christianity and kind of the
missing link if you will, of what actually happened to the original
ng livery service.
But a lot more Anna what so what happens is a group of sick eyes is
what they call themselves.
A see Kai are the people of the Sikkim that people love the
dagger. This what they call themselves, these are Jewish
zealots. With Jack again, please visa vie the law without hitting
the finding the Romans that go into the temple on the Temple
Mount into the temple itself. So General Titus, and the Romans, he
tells them to come out or he's going to burn the temple.
And they refuse. So he burns the temple never to be rebuilt, except
one wall, which remains to this day. It's called the Wailing Wall
in the Western world.
kind of
general Titus
this father at this at this time is actually the Emperor Vespasian
and Titus after his father would be the Roman emperor.
So they burned down the temple. Obviously this is a major, major
event in the history of Judaism. This war continues into the 70s
there was a place called Masada
which was a stronghold at Heritage King Herod had built, there was
about 1000 or so Jews that were holed up in this fortress, the
Romans attacks, and they found 953 bodies of men, women and children
that had taken their own lives rather than by Roman authorities.
Only a few people didn't do it seven or eight of them. And most
of them were children, but everyone else they introduced
suicide pact.
So during this time, when you say Jews,
Jews,
Jews, yeah
this insurrection was from Christians, right? No the
insurrection from Jewish elements. This is during
No, this is after after 67. So he thought this is Ascension 33 CD.
So it's a little over 30 years after Now there were a lot of
Christians living in Palestine at the time, especially in Jerusalem.
They're very much minority. And they're not called Christians.
They were also Jews. So this point to say Jew, Christian and sort of
anachronistic it doesn't make sense. Because everyone's Jewish
still. Now have you met have the Christians is different? They're
not Pharisees are not sad UCs are not the scenes are called if your
name of unique is their methodology. Right means the poor
people the spiritual poppers. That was the cutting of the * out of
you.
So everyone's Jewish, no one's Christian at this point. So Nero
is neither Jewish.
No, Nero is a Roman Emperor. So he's a pagan, and he thinks he's
got so when he when he was prosecuting, when his killing
these Christians. When did he mean, Christian?
Yeah, this was in Rome. So Nurofen Rome. Oh, okay. He
says he's in Rome, there's a small group of Christians a Christian
contingency living in Rome. Because as legend says, Peter and
Paul are both buried in Rome. The Vatican is right above the grave
of Peter. That's the claim at least.
So there's a small group of Christians in Rome, Nero doesn't
like them at all. He considers them a threat to his power. So he
starts this fire, and blames the Christians. While this is
happening in Palestine, there's
this decline. Yeah, and then about this, as you know, 60s or so,
early 60s, and then this Jewish insurrection happens in Palestine,
and goes into the, into the 70s. During this time, the gospel of
Mark is written in Rome, as well, during Nero's persecution. This is
also the beginning of what's known as rabbinical Judaism. You know,
Temple Judaism, first Temple stuff that Second Temple Judaism. And
then when the temple was destroyed, I have rabbinical
Judaism. So they had to the temple was central to their belief. So in
rabbinical Judaism, they wrote down the Talmud. Right? That's
also a primary source. We'll talk more about that when we have to be
talking about the Hebrew Bible the challah.
Okay, so this, Mr. Mrs. Do cover why you guys call him as a son of
the gods? Yeah.
One I mean that they follow the basic same chronology of events.
They're very similar in the chronology.
So in their kuleana they're the same but they have just yet that
comes to their mind. Does Yeah, yeah, rugby, rugby, rugby with the
mind, Lord or my master.
So the gospel of Mark, I know, you guys have Bibles, and
you should want to get one and start reading it. Because this
will make a lot more sense.
Like I said, we have to really take up our, our literacy in these
things. Take it seriously. Are you going to kind of cover the gospel
of Monaco?
So
one, seven and eight, where he says, There commit one mightier
than I have to me, the logic of push shoots, I'm not worthy to
stop down and I'm loose. Yeah, we'll talk about that. That's
actually it.
Yeah, we'll talk about that. And
we'll just kind of go through the major themes of the gospel first,
and then we'll actually go through the text itself in the original
We can kind of look at translations and things like that.
I also have an Arabic version of the Bible, which is really
interesting. This is obviously done by missionaries in order to
convert Muslims it's done it was hot Arabic. And there's a few
things that there's this Italian maximum axiom that says that as we
report at the border, the translator is a trader.
All of translation is substitute.
Anytime you translate any of Quran is not in English, the Quran in
Arabic, we translate the Quran into any other any other language.
You're making tough SEO because you're choosing words that Allah
did not choose
one of the hairs on your own inner questions, but they have their own
revival they do have so I use translation when I mean you see
I'm saying you're saying was you said it was by by who wrote it
like Christian missionary missionary so when other
Christians that are from Arab land and for Arab land Yeah, that's
what that's what did this Christian Arabs did this Christian
era that a Christian obviously they translated the Bible into
Quranic style Arabic
for Muslims.
So we'll look at that and show off
that's yeah, of course they use it themselves.
But this is specifically intended this translation here specifically
intended for Muslim.
So with Mark is really two periods. We can basically divide
Mark into half the first period is a Galilean ministry.
So we're gonna break down the four books, we're gonna go to the New
Testament, that's what we're messing with right now for a
while, and then we're just going to break down mark and yeah, we're
going to break down what Matthew and Luke and John said, we'll go
to Paul. Okay. Okay, yeah, whatever it is Old Testament. We
haven't we haven't yet. We're going to do inshallah.
So the Galilean ministry is basically chapters one through
eight. So there's 16 chapters in Mark's gospel, one through eight.
What's interesting about
the Galilean ministry is that there's no nativity there's no
Molad of the salvation. There's no birth narrative. The Gospel
actually starts, Eastside a Saddam is 30 years old, and he's being
baptized in the Jordan River. That's the beginning of the gospel
of Mark. There's no episode of the virgin birth, muddy, I'm stable,
following the star, the Wiseman, none of that is found in Mark's
gospel, the gospel begins when he's on Islam is an adult.
Everything's in parables, from what I've got.
Yeah, we'll talk a little bit.
So in, in this section here, one through eight chapters one through
eight.
Jesus is the secret Messiah. There's something that William
Reed coined as a messianic secret.
We'll talk more about that when we come to it. The Messianic secret
is that he saw this, he doesn't want to tell anybody that he's the
actual Messiah, when he exercises demon. And they fall down to the
quote unquote, worship Him. And they say you are the Son of David,
the son of God. He says Be quiet and rebukes them. So that's a
that's a, that's an interesting
theme that scholars have wrestled with. Why does Jesus keeping this
a secret? We'll come back to that in a minute. The gallon Galilean
ministry is about one year long.
One year,
okay. And then you have the second part, which is the new day in
ministry,
which is about a week.
Galilean ministry, right. So you saw this, but I was raised in
Nazareth. That's in the province of Galilee. This is a northern
Palestine, Nazareth for the city. In Galilee. It's like if I say San
Ramon is in Contra Costa, right. The city of the province of
Galilee, Judea is in southern Palestine. That's the province the
city of Jerusalem, so recited.
According to the Gospel of Mark, he goes to Jerusalem and is dying
for his final week, now he comes into Jerusalem on what's known as
Palm Sunday,
palm funded.
funded
so there's a prophecy in the book of Zechariah and gold customers of
the Messiah will come into Theon SEO means lie on you know the word
like Zionism. Seon is a word for Jerusalem. It literally city.
Okay, honey, so
of Zion.
T on
Latin Hebrew
like that
that means Jerusalem. Yeah. So like,
you know Madina Munawwara its real name as yet, but it's called Allah
Medina, which just means that the city. If I tell you right now I'm
going to the city tonight where am I going?
Frisco, right. But his name is San Francisco. So Jerusalem is a name.
It's often referred to as the ocean.
So there's a prophecy in the book of Zechariah that says, Messiah
will come into Jerusalem sit seated on a donkey in humility. So
that's exactly what happened. On Sunday, the scientists around
he comes into the city, and people take palm leaves, and they put it
before his donkey as a show of respect. And they're saying things
like hosts are not, which is a praise of God or Hebrew lesson is
the one who came, who comes in the name of the Lord, things like
that. So the city is rejoice that is coming.
I don't know if you noticed yesterday was Ash Wednesday.
So it's mostly Catholic, but they'll take palm leaves and burn
them and make a cross on the orange.on the forehead.
And this is to commemorate the 40 day fast.
Which is mentioned in the Gospel of Mark faster for 40 days in the
wilderness.
So the ashes represents human frailty, and you're going to be
ashes one day, you're going to decompose it the ashes.
So he attracts tourists on Palm Sunday. So you know, he preaches
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday night, which is actually
Friday night, according to the lunar calendar. And we practiced
for four days. Then on Thursday night, he's arrested.
Then on Friday, the following day, according to the Gospel of Mark,
He's crucified because it felt good Friday,
on Sunday.
Good Friday, and then two days later, you have what Sunday
Easter Sunday. So this is the this is the week he spent in Jerusalem,
enters on Palm Sunday, seven days later, is resurrected on Easter
Sunday, according to the Gospel of Mark.
So you can see that the ministry is only about a year and Mark's
gospel. It's very short.
Now some of the
ministry, Jesus to these other sons preaching, it's really a one
year mark of taking the perspective of one year long. from
point A to point B is when we were all this, we would say that, for
example, the prophets, the WhatsApp for 23 years as a
ministry, the fox they said, Okay, although there's Hoss, right,
there's miracles that predate the benefit, okay. And the Saudis
don't have that at the virgin birth, okay, but his commissioning
or BSI is raising and the Prophet didn't happen to us 30 years old.
And according to Mark, it was only a year long. It's very short.
Very, very short.
So the Judaic ministry also begins chapter eight and goes through 16.
So this is the division of the of the book of Mark.
If you have the Galilean ministry, and then the Judaic ministry,
and the today ministry culminates with
the final week, which is called the Passion Week, passion.
The major themes of Mark's gospel is eschatology. We talked about
this last time.
Eschatology means the study of last things, Mark's gospel is very
eschatological meaning that is
it's believed to be
in a setting where people believe it was the end of the world. Mark
is writing under the assumption that the events that are
happening, the persecution in Rome, the destruction of the
temple,
natural disasters, these are poor tends to the end of time. So Mark
is always using this word in Greek
and use those which means immediately this is an adverb.
Immediately this immediately that will talk about other opinions as
to why scholars believe he does that. But on the surface, it seems
like he's doing that because he's telling you that it's going to end
very, very similar. In fact, there's prophecies in Mark that
are put into the mouth of Jesus. That simply did not happen. He
says there are some standing here that will not taste death until
they see the Son of Man coming in great power. Referring to His
Second Coming apparently, which did not happen. He says
present generation will live to see all of it. That didn't happen.
So these are false prophecies that are put into the mouth of Jesus
because Mark the Evangelist, whoever wrote Mark members, we can
conveniently call him mark is taking cue from Paul, who believed
that the End of Time was during his lifetime.
Another interesting theme of the gospel of Mark is that it's not
CBT and Rafi at the same time.
So it hates on accurate vagaries and also hates on his Sahaba.
Naseby, so the Nasr amendment
in Islamic history and the Nazis were primarily the whole outage,
the holonic did not like to activate to the papacy.
And many of the many who may as well, what actually hunted down
activates, as you know, it's like a Nero complex, they thought that
power will be taken from them. So
the gospel of Mark it presents the disciples of Jesus as well as his
family as just completely oblivious to who he is just
completely inept.
Right, just totally out to lunch.
Fly, are you cowards? Well, you have little faith. Where is your
faith? Is his brothers, James, his mother, Mary, they're just
presented as not knowing who this man is. They don't have a clue.
It auntie, disciples and anti family.
Mark is writing for a Gentile audience in Rome. He's writing for
Christians living in the diaspora.
And Jews living in the diaspora and basically marks messages clear
that Judaism is completely done. It's over. It's over. superseded,
completely. So many would say that Mark is anti Jewish, is outlawed.
Jews just don't get it. They just don't get it. Not even his mother
gets it. Not even matter Yamato
not even James who's the first
successor ERISA he doesn't get. Nobody gets it, except a Roman
Centurion at the foot of the cross. And Mark 15, who says this
was the Son of God, a Roman pagan, he gets it. This is who he is
trying to go after
Romans that are pagans that he can convert to Christianity.
This is his intended audience.
Justin Martyr, origin of Alexandria, they say very clearly,
that the reason why the temple was destroyed is because of the Jews
rejection of
this is according to Christian the story,
divine wrath for for their
rejection of the Jewish Messiah, which
is
6771, it was destroyed. Many early Christian scholars, early church
fathers believed that in wrath from God, were rejecting these
studies, they said that the Jews
the Jews of the time, say that we were persecuted and the Romans
are, you know, they attacked us. And that's what happened.
They don't necessarily see this because
not necessarily It was divine wrath.
Certainly they don't believe in these families. So what are they
trying to dig up? I know,
where they can have something destroyed or something? No,
they're trying to have the
Aqsa Aqsa Mosque collapse, so they can raise up the Third Temple.
They're gonna raise it up. Yeah. But there's, it's already been
seen, after having, you know, through the events, you could see
them down the building. You mentioned this. So it's not it
isn't really known as that's ready to be dug up. It's just they're
reconstructing what was once a building that they can raise
something very quickly.
blueprints are done, and construction has begun.
So a lot of, you know, a lot of Muslims don't even know what must
have a lot. So it's not the most difficult to Sahara. It's not the
Dome of the Rock. It's not much to do
with the black dome. That's what the temple
although the whole couple of mountains, is sacred.
Another thing we mentioned, is that
Mark's gospel is secretive. Right, the Messianic secret.
So some scholars believe
that Jesus is doing that, or that Mark is doing that.
Because
or Jesus is rebuking people who are saying he's the Messiah,
because he wants to live long enough to get to Jerusalem, so
that you can be crucified in Jerusalem. That's one way of
looking at that. Because again, Galilee is a hotbed of Jewish
fundamentalism of zealotry. Right? And the Romans are very good at
stamping out these types of insurrection. So if keeping things
on the DL, right, because of the comes out and Galilee, you won't
make it down to Jerusalem, and then he didn't complete admission.
Other scholars believe the reason why Mark mentions that is because
Mark is trying to explain why his ministry was so short and why
aren't there many converts to Christianity?
Why is this just a handful of, of Christians in the world at the
time, you can imagine some Jewish elements in conversation with the
author of the gospel of Mark saying, Why do you believe Jesus
is the Messiah, there's only a few Christians. And then Mark will
say, well, it was a messianic secret.
He would review people who would claim that he was the son of God
or the Messiah, Antoine mark, that's in the first part of the
Gospel, the Galilean ministry, in Jerusalem, he goes public, okay,
and Christians will say because now he's in Jerusalem, and now he
needs to fulfill His mission and die for the sins of humanity. So
he goes public.
Another major theme is the cross.
Basically, Mark's gospel is an extended Passion narrative.
It's all about the crossroads, the crucifixion. That's where the
focus is.
So again,
the focus of all four of these gospels, is the cross and its
significance, Nepal is going to talk about its significance. But
the,
the teaching of a service and the Sunnah, if you will, of East LA
semantics totally dwarfed, in light of what happens on the
cross. That's the most important thing.
So even if you look at the gospel of Mark, the second half of the
gospel of Mark,
the vast majority of the second half of the gospel of Mark is in
that one week, the passionately.
That's, that's the whole point of the God is leading up to this
climax.
The cross is very central, and of course, what's known as the
heart,
which is the second coming.
Walk several
blocks.
Lay with his memory. Right? The Prophet cannot show this type of
weakness, even are you about as he had boils on his body, but there
were underneath his clothes, not on his face, not on his hand.
Because anything that we're repelling from a prophet is
against an Akula. A prophet cannot do that. It's impossible for a
prophet to have something that will that will compromise the
strength of the dollar.
So many, many alumni they say that story is not true of Levine
casting as
I think they started
doing some
what's interesting is a student of Justin Martyr mentation. You don't
have to write that down. But Taisha he, he actually tried to
harmonize all four gospels, because the pagans of the time
were saying, how do you believe this? There's so many
contradictions, because pagans and Christians used to have debates
in the second, third, fourth century, why do you believe these
books are all contradictory? Citation, you harmonize all of
them. So the DNA tests are run through for all four gospels into
a single narrative, and he was able to basically harmonize all
the contradictions except for the genealogy of Ace. Matthew and
Luke, you've two completely different genealogy. Yeah. And you
mentioned Semitic. And James, who's Jameson.
Oh, yeah, we're gonna we're gonna cover it with Jason. Yeah, so
James represents
submitted Christianity. James's Yaqoob had a deal from the brother
of Esau, they set up the leader of the Fukuhara union and Jerusalem
is the leader of the Christian Christians in quotes.
There's no such thing as Christian but this time everyone's Jewish
everyone's and, you know,
we all worship together, they pray together, they fast together.
Jesus,
yeah.
Did you ever meet Musa
Musa?
Well, the reason I've been at it because not during their
ministries, that's not possible, but during the Assad they did
meet.
And they prayed on the Temple Mount.
The Prophet says, so let me met all of the results. At least 313
Some say all of them have been were there as well. Hello, Anna.
So this is really interesting here. Around this time,
There was a document written
that we're going to call Q.
This predates mark is independent from Paul QC Okay? scholars call
it Q, which is German for CWLA
and in Greek is called the Nordea.
We can call it also the sayings gospel
the Q source document, the Q source document, the sayings
gospel,
okay is a document written contemporary with Paul's ministry
so has not been influenced by Paul. Okay? That mark summarily
ignores
either the know about it, or he doesn't like it.
Who knows?
Maybe Q represented submitted Christianity. And we actually know
what to contains, even though we don't have it. And I'll tell you
why. Is because Matthew and Luke they draw from it. They draw from
too.
So let me put this up in a way that's more intelligible.
Just erase this part here. I'm just gonna write mark up here.
And I'll show you how
Matthew and Luke what they do with Mark That's really interesting. If
mark here around 70,
and you have this document called Q, which is probably written
around 45 to 50,
maybe even earlier.
Then you have Matthew's Gospel
around 80, of the Common Era,
and Matthew will copy verbatim 80% of Mark.
Mark is his skeleton that he builds upon. Okay? Which of
course, it's troubling because Mark is definitely not a disciple.
But Christians believe Matthew is a disciple. Why would a disciple
copy from a 10 year old boy, he wasn't even there.
Right doesn't make any sense. If you're a companion to beside the
Sunnah, and you're an adult, and you were there the whole time, we
do depend on the work of a 10 year old boy,
person who wasn't even there. Nonetheless, 80% of Mark is copied
verbatim into Matthew, Matthew at times also makes some editing. He
Redax a few things. He doesn't like what Mark does, it doesn't
like his grammar, too much information. Sometimes he changed
things, because it mark in a certain curricula B, it says a
lie. A person who's asking Jesus for help, keeps begging him and
Jesus became angry. Matthew changed that too. He was filled
with compassion.
That's not a slip of the pen. That's a completely different
verb. Because an angry Jesus doesn't sound very good.
He also uses Q
that means to get access to this document.
He also has access to another document or oral tradition that
we're going to call m.
and M stands for special
Medicean material.
We'll come back and explain that.
A little bit of special weapons.
Special Mithy and to match in.
Yeah, so this is crypto materials, which means that it's only found
in Matthew.
It's only it's called as M. uppercase M only found in Matthew.
And there's no sonnet for it, or we don't know where where he got
it from. It's probably from oral tradition, or maybe he has some
sort of document. But nothing's been found. Special. So this is
only in Matthew, for example, in Matthew chapter seven, verse 21.
Matthew said that he thought he said that
many will come to me in the day of judgment and say, Do not
prophesizing Your name cast out demons, in your name, in your
name, perform miracles. Then Jesus says I will say to them depart
from me I never knew you your deeds are evil.
That's a stain on the Yamo tianma. Right, Esau is talking to other
Christians who do these things in his name. That's only found in
Matthew, no other gospel, which means that Matthew either simply
invented it, which possibility
or he had another source that he took it from
If it was an oral tradition that he knew, or he had an actual
document of some sort, but he made use of Q, we'll talk about a few
more in a minute. Now, Luke writes,
This is Luke,
and he's writing around 8590.
Okay, so let's, let's go back to Matthew for a minute. You can
imagine Matthew is sitting at his desk, Matthew, whoever this person
is sitting at his desk, what does he have in front of them? He has
Mark's gospel in front of them. Okay, he has queue in front of
them. And something else possibly called this, that he's drawing?
Two, maybe three documents, and he's making his gospel, they're
gonna understand.
Okay, that's the Matthew.
What does Mark have in front of them? Possibly nothing? Probably
just oral tradition that he's running down. Maybe there's a
document, maybe not.
So we don't know if it's coming from Q and
what is the Mark? Mark is definitely not using too. Okay.
And I'll tell you why in a minute.
Luke now also incorporates mark as a skeleton. That's why you have
the Synoptic Gospels. This is called a synoptic. Problem. The
Synoptic Problem is, why do they follow the same sequence of
events? Because they're interdependent on one another,
this is why.
So Luke actually takes 65% of Mark verbatim.
So Luke is now sitting on his desk 10 years after Matthew, and he has
mark in front of him. He also has Q in front of them.
And he also has something else that's called L.
special little kids material
that's only found in Luke.
And no other gospel like the Good Samaritan.
The prodigal son
seven little celebrated curriculum he's
a very funny is that Jesus Christ, Allahu Allah, are in special Luca
material.
Okay, so now the question is,
what is Q?
What are the contents of Q? Do you see how we can sort of reconstruct
you? How can we do it?
What do they have in common?
That is not in Mark. Right? That's cute.
Whatever they have in common,
that's missing from Mark. They took from cue. So scholars think
he was about 235 verses.
What does it contain? It contains nativity narrative.
The Molad of a se. Q is the best source of the New Testament is the
earliest and least corrupted. What does nativity mean? Molad. The
birth narrative of reciting native What quickfield Kitabi McGee.
Remember in the book, the story of Mary, when she was true to our
people, the narrative Molad.
What else doesn't have
the ministry
of John the Baptist in much more detail?
The Baptist is mentioned in Mark, right. But Matthew and Luke have
material that is missing from Mark, which means it originated
from que
nos he was going on here.
And it was difficult at the beginning. You have to sort of
hang with it.
Also, the celebrated Sermon on the Mount.
Of course, Luke calls it the Sermon on the plane, but it's the
same thing. It's taken from two. What does the Sermon on the Mount
contain? That contains the Lord's Prayer?
So called Lord's Prayer?
Who knows how to recite the Lord's Prayer?
That is the true Lord's Prayer.
No, that's a song.
So Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, right?
Sounds very beautiful. It's in.
It's in Rudy. It's in really yet. So yeah, before, you know the 40
Niners in the locker room before they actually recite the Lord's
Prayer in English. But here's the thing about Translation
Translation. Just doesn't do justice.
This Lord's Prayer, actually rhymes in Syriac
language, the original language of the Sunday sermon series Syriac.
So, the oldest manuscripts obviously of Matthew and Luke are
in Greek, however, they translate the Greek back into Syriac.
Sometimes I'm in church. And I said do you want to hear what the
original in God silence on sounded like is it Sure? Is it too hot
when they either suggest or what the I caught up with Cormark Allah
What do you mean that's that's what they can do. So then I
recited this. One device may have a small retirement Kudo.
That's the word for Syria.
It sounds like Quran. That's because it's from Q.
It's the leaf contaminated.
And it's the earliest However, it's still in Greek.
So that was Syriac translated from Greek. Imagine the original now.
It's like having the last source of the cloth
and then losing the Arabic. It's like having to have this loss,
translating it into Chinese, losing the original Arabic, and
then tried to translate the Chinese back into the original
Arabic.
You're not gonna get it. Not even close.
There's such subtleties in language. People have to learn
Arabic because it's too hard. It's too hard.
Well, we'll look at the Assad and Al Quran the big process that is
easy
to get into our heads Arabic of so far.
Like monks who hit one time he said his brother came up to him
and the two of them have dropped the Arabic class to Why is too
hard. What do you go to school at Stanford?
You heard if I can do it, you can do it.
It's not too hard to try to learn it you lose so much.
Of the meaning of the Lord's press.
It's similar Yeah. So it's your fault. Yeah, or Lord who are gonna
help you they name it. There's some certain parallels there
certain parallels but there's a Hadith of the Prophet SAW Selim
says the tribulation and descended upon it. There's two things given
to you the like of which is given to know what the prophet
Bacara in the Bazzara and 30 and 30 hat is revealed twice this is a
dominant opinion is revealed twice at the proxy server, once in
Mecca. And once in Medina. What is the wisdom behind it? Is because
Allah says, You cannot go to work here, what you're going to study,
which is a very interesting construction, that I can't you
just have to learn Arabic and
a lot of the same that would occur when studying Luca,
we worship you. We have seafarerhelp Cast now what you're
going to stay in
Ottoman Qatar, which did not exclusivity. If I say no Boudicca
to Allah, that means I worship you, but I might worship other
things.
But the cat nap will do only you.
We worship.
So, a badass is the Ayana in Mecca. Right? Which is basically
what are the
there is no fasting is on prayer. So Hutch is belief in Allah and
have good character. Now in Medina, there's an account. Right?
So it was revealed again, you cannot do what you can.
Meaning that there's no conflict between the exoteric and esoteric
between the volcano and the Boston that both are equally important.
So the dominant thing is that it's revealed twice
so this idea
oh, so I want to say something.
Yeah, the Bible in Greek
Syriac, then it was translated as Yeah, the fourth century
and that's the equivalent of having the Arabic Quran
translating into Chinese losing the original and trying to
reconstruct the Arabic
And you wouldn't make mistakes like you would say, okay, the
Chinese says You we worship You we ask for help Novotel West.
But that's not what it says.
major difference? There's many examples. Anyway.
So, on the Sermon on the Mount, there's things called the
Beatitudes, a series of blessings that Jesus makes. You've probably
heard the Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be
called the children of God. Blessing or the poor, they shall
see God bless him. Bless him bless it, right? This eight or nine or
10 of them or something.
These are beatitudes that's in the queue. Yeah, this is from cute.
There's also the antitheses right this
is
of Jesus which are also during the sermon on the mount. This is when
he says something like you have heard it say from the
Torah, that if you commit adultery, you have sin. But I say
unto you, if you look at a woman with lust, you have already
committed adultery in your heart. You have heard it say this, but I
say this. You've heard us say that, but I say this, right? This
type of
antipathy, this juxtaposition of two different opinions.
It's also very reminiscent of Semitic revelation. It's called
Tea, bark, and Arabic, with shawnzy, will do heartless comedy,
right? This opposite
idea that's been presented. So the full off man dualism, for example,
it sounds like Semitic revelation is whether it is or not alone, is
very similar to more the proto peace and mark, or would that be
two different things but antithesis and cubes?
Don't think you understand the question? Well, like the parables
in Mark, what would that be?
Yeah, that's a good. No, the parables and Mark
are from oral tradition. So
there is a little bit of that as well. There's a little bit of pee
Bock and mark as well.
We'll get to more of our along with the Sermon on the Mount. Is
everyone
in history, or is it a series of things that are all cobbled
together as a sermon?
The sermon on the mount was, was one day
and Galilee, or he found a mountain and gave the sermon. So
it includes the Beatitudes, the Lord's Prayer. And these
antitheses three, three, also the day of the Brandon's story was
around, right there's I think there's some yeah, there's a
miracle at the end there to a food Nofal.
So this is what Q contains.
Okay?
You said the least corrupted, or contaminated.
So it's the least contaminated because it doesn't have poor line
influence.
It was written contemporary with Paul, so Paul's out doing his
missionary journeys, saying God knows what,
basically corrupting the gospel from our perspective.
But to originates from that period, like Mark is heavily
influenced by calling thinking and ideology. And so are the rest of
the Gospels.
Basically, the entire New Testament, except for this
to here and Matthew and Q here and Luke.
know, we talked about key source documents and all this breakdown
and everything, and the * do Christian scholars or priests or
who knows this? Or is it just from our perspective, or this is their
perspective, this is this
is the standard. You learn this in seminary, if your graduate
students in a Christian seminary, seminary, this is what they teach
you. This, this, this is a theory. But it's the most widely held
theory in that of Q. This is called the two source theory, to
source theory.
To source meaning, what?
Yes.
That's the two sorts theory meaning that Matthew and Luke had
Mark and Q.
That's called the to source theory. There's another theory
called the to gospel theory, which is not popular at all anymore.
It's also known as a farmer Griesbach theory, which means that
Matthew was written first.
Okay, that Luke that Marx would have drew from them, but nobody
really believes that. Because why would mark leave out so much
beautiful information about the teaching of Esau? Hmm.
Unless Matthew believe that too, was not authentic, because
possibly Q represents that Semitic strain of Christianity that Mark
didn't
like, necessarily.
The dominant opinion, is the two source theory, the existence of Q,
what I'm trying to say is, this is probably very close to the NG
lovies.
That's the whole point of Q. That's why Muslims talk about it.
If we can find this is probably a written document. How do we know
it's written not just oral? Because there's so much
correspondence between Luke and Matthew when it comes to cue that
unless they just had phenomenal memories, which is a possibility,
I must say phenomenal memories. They actually have a physical
Codex or something in front of them. That is cue that they're
taking from their writing. Yes, is is Mark and Luke heavily
influenced the Hellenistic tradition? Oh, can you see also
that it's the synoptic or them or especially John?
All of them. Now Matthew is writing for Jewish audiences still
There's a lot of
question
what is the source to source theory?
To source theory assumes market and priority assumes?
Marking
priority. What does that mean? That means Mark wrote first,
that Matthew and Luke and Matthew and Luke each had two sources,
Mark and Q.
That's the theory. That's the most widely held theory in New
Testament studies.
Just to clarify, to doesn't exist as Mark exists, we have the mark.
Well, yeah, it's a theory. It's a hypothetical document. Okay. But
we don't have an actual Texas is cute. But most scholars believe it
did exist. Because Matthew and Luke are quoting from it almost
exactly. Verbatim. There's so much literal correspondence between the
two, right, that they concluded must have been a book, because how
can you remember so much information for Batum so
perfectly?
Now, when when you say that Christian scholars, they redid the
scenario, or anything that the question is called, so who exactly
are the scholars of Christian Catholic churches? And who exactly
are we talking about? We say, Krishna, Krishna, Krishna,
academics and Catholics. They're Catholics or Protestants. And they
all agree.
They're scholars of the New Testament. Okay? Yes, you go to
GCU. This is what they teach you. You go to Harvard seminary, you go
to Yale, some of that's what they teach you. And the Vatican also
the stuff that you do you have this is a standard standard all
around the world. Okay. All around the world. This is this standard
theory.
Okay.
The dates between Mark and Matthew, and look, it's almost
like injunction with one another. I mean, so do you think that there
was a heavy influence? As a collaboration with Matthew and
Luke, most scholars don't believe that. Most scholars don't believe
that, Matthew, Luke, that would certainly explain why they have
certain material in common, the vast majority has always believed
that they are writing independent of one another. But they're both
dependent on this to sort of document.
Because they're just a different locale.
To writing for different audiences.
So that's the thing if we can find you hasn't been discovered. You
said that we have the original manuscripts?
No, we don't. We don't have anything. We don't have what's
known as the autographed copy. Like imagine, again, Matthew is
sitting down with his Papyrus. That was 10. Here's mark. Here's
Q. And here's,
here's Mark, here's Q, and here's a
few of them may not exist in book form, by the way. So he's writing
he's writing he's writing. What he wrote is called the autograph
gospel. Yeah. So we have that. We don't have that. Oh, you know, we
don't have a copy of a copy of a copy of a
book of a New Testament, the earliest Complete Book of any book
is, is dated to 200 of the Common Era.
200, the earliest complete New Testament codex of all 27 books is
dated to the fourth century,
called the Codex Sinaiticus.
We'll talk more about that.
What gives
the books, I guess, so much credibility that they are the
original. They're like a replica of the autograph, called, that's
the whole study of textual criticism. The purpose of this
book, is to actually reconstruct the autograph of Matthew, Mark,
and Luke. So I mean, is it kind of like a fate? Like, they'd have to
do it by faith? Yeah. Great. And also last. So this is an eclectic
tech, which means you have hundreds 1000s of manuscripts, you
do certain tests on them to see which one is the best. And then
you include them into your gospel.
That's the Greek name or the Gospels currently being modifying
scholars. Yeah. So they can have the freedom to add and deduct
things.
Yeah, we'll get into some of that. That's textual criticism. The
point of textual criticism is to establish the autograph text of
the Gospel, which we don't have as a pre established it was original
language for not to look, everything's in Greek
Everything's in.
That's by consensus.
So I want to just take you a few minutes here,
through some of Mark's gospel,
again, I highly encourage you to buy a Bible get a Bible, because
this is gonna go in one ear and out the other. But they vary
though. Like, I might buy a Bible, though very from your Bible,
right? Get any English translation.
Any English because I have the Greek here. So we'll compare the
Greek with the
Western English translation. And so one of the things the Greek
Bible that you have is like,
the like you're giving the example of its last it was an Arabic
translated to Chinese last year. But can
we translate it into Arabic? Is that the same idea with the Greek
Bible? No, this is this is Greek. This is the language that the the
gospel of Mark was originally written. We just don't have the
original autograph with a copy of the autograph, or the copy of the
copy of the autograph the copy the copy of that? And it's because the
scribes at the time were literate,
literate people were writing, it was a lingua franca. Yeah, Paul
wrote his letters in Greek not
because everyone understood Greek at least the people living around
the Mediterranean pagans in a century
it was a week from this let's go to mark one one very beginning the
Golf I just want to show you one thing here
people always tell me Is this too hard?
I got to do this.
Work. What if you go to a class?
You know, if you go to if you take
economics or something at Stanford, would you ever go to the
business to make an adjustment? You rise to the occasion? Why
can't we be like that with religious study?
Why was it dumb everything down?
Every single one of us a lot smarter than me as he puts average
in high school.
I'm not very smart trust me.
I can do this you can do this very easily. We have to rise to the
hate me to buy textbooks or to do extra research on this. Right look
up look up some look up Beatitudes. Let's
go and Google things Wikipedia thing, although Be careful. But do
some more research.
So there's several books that
I recommend. Even l Harris. This is written for undergrad, the New
Testament even how Harris This is written for graduate students, but
it's still an introduction. It's called the introduction to the New
Testaments by Raymond brown. This is like this is gold
Raymond Brown
would
like to see us on the the
books
introduction
and introduction to the New Testament by Raymond brown
and the New Testament
What's up the title here? Alright.
Even out Harris
will help you and
you have to be serious when we want to study these things.
You can get the King James version you gotta get a New King James
Version or NIV New International Version, or the New Jerusalem
version, Revised Standard Version Vivian's translations don't get a
New World Translation. Don't get a Jehovah's Witness, Catholics.
Definitely gonna get a Book of Mormon, why not?
The hope has been and still believe in the deity of Christ. So
their translation is very unique. And it's not like it really helps
you understand Orthodox Christianity.
I mean, it's good for entertainment, but I actually
agree with a lot of your translations. There's not a look
at this first verse of Mark, Mark one, one, the beginning of the
gospel. In Greek it says okay to feeling guilty, you need to
Crystal
What is your cancellation
and the beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God,
number one, number
two translation. I got something here. This is dictionary, Holy
Bible.
edition King James on their kingdom this interview
I wouldn't say read the international read one one word
one says the beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of
God, it is when
you notice, well, you can't hear us angry.
I read the beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ,
about Jesus.
God heals that phrase is disputed. In mine, Greek edition done by
scholars, the phrase where you say you son of God is in brackets.
Brackets means that it's disputed.
Now, George Bruce Metzger,
who is foremost, in textual criticism in the New Testament, He
says the Son of God here is a scribal expansion.
That's obviously, what does that mean? That is a forgery.
completely fabricated. It's quite a scribal. Extension.
Versus It was
intended, it wasn't president.
So I want you to write this down. Expansion. This is in Hebrew.
Oh, 101. So New Testament manuscripts all have numbers
assigned to them? Okay. LFO. One is the Codex
cyanide ticket.
This is the oldest complete New Testament Codex ever discovered,
is dated 375.
This is the In other words, this is the oldest New Testament on
the oldest, most ancient complete New Testament.
Because it's fragments that day before this fragments. There's a
fragment of John from the year 125, which is a type of credit
card.
That's very small. The oldest complete New Testament is called
the Codex Sinaiticus, also known as as a one that says catalog
number. One is a codec getting a book most hot codecs mean most
hot, not a scroll. It's written on animal skin on vellum.
If you read the Codex Sinaiticus, what Mark one one, it says, okay
to Iran, good use case of crystal period,
beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, no son of God.
And usually, New Testament textual critics go by the rule, the
earlier the better. That's a good standard rule. That's not
necessarily always true. But generally, the earlier the better.
Why was son of God added them? Well?
Because the beginning is because the gospel of Mark is, is crystal
logically anemic? What is anemic, mean? blurry? Yeah, it's weak.
It's crisp, theologically weak. If you read John, very high
Christology, Jesus is the Word of God, the Word made flesh. The
father and I are one. And John, very high Christology. And Mark.
The only person who calls Jesus the Son of God that believes in
Him is a Roman pagan.
He's in Mark chapter 15. So scribes, the new Touch scribes of
Mark were copying mark. They said to themselves, this gospel is so
weak in its theology, we need to
buff it up a little bit.
We did put some theology on it. Like he put ornaments on a tree
with to make it was nicer.
So they said, Let's put something at the beginning of the gospel
that lets people know this is a gospel that has a high
Christology. So right after the beginning of the gospel, Jesus
Christ, they put some
crystals and he leaves it here. The UBS United Bible Society,
they've even here, but they put it in brackets, which tells you
they're disputed. But most ancient authorities, all ancient
authorities, you're not contained, diverse, but this is what people
are saying.
So we're going to include it. This is what they're saying. Right?
We'll call it in Surah Al mercy her even Allah, Daddy get federal
level. Be FYE
that's a Christian say, Isa is even Allah.
This is what they're saying.
That's a different answer.
But that's not the reality. Now let's look at the Arabic.
Mark one one
says woohoo. Do you have a mani Dan?
So the whole is like the manifestation of John the Baptist.
That's how the title is. But it says, had to eat the diet to NGV a
sewer and messier, eating the law.
This is the beginning of the gospel of Jesus the Christ, the
Son of God
is not not in brackets.
So this is my jazzy
Ibn Hola.
So Modjadji means it's figurative.
Right? You can say it been
for something
out of endearment. I'm teaching a class of little children. And I
say yep, who know yet. You have to try harder means Yeah. And
somebody might overhear me and say, he's white, or brown with
your little bite, ya know, you know, for the exam, what do
they have when they I mean, you know, my, it's a term of
endearment. Right? That's the Quran says hypnosis abuse. Illness
have been son of the road. What is ethnicity?
It's a seed goodness of the one mass action.
Again, the guy on the street, the son of the road, on the street,
right, the homeless guy. Right. So it's figured modality. So this is
how it's used in the Old Testament. It's used like this.
It's used figuratively.
The Christians take it literally.
Jesus is the Son of God literally, which means he shares the essence
with God.
So
one other like I can call it my uncle.
Abby,
Abby, he's not my he's not the father would be gotten me. But you
know, it's he has a status of a father. It's respectful title. But
I can't say why lady that comes from weather that I will either
usually do.
That's only for my product will be got me. Okay. So both of these
ideas are condemned in the product that he says given a lot, even
though it was a figurative expression of the Old Testament,
the Christians corrupted us. And this idea that Allah has won that
a literal son is also condemned in the Quran.
They're an opinion that says, Boy, according to the equation, say
that Jesus wasn't actually the son of God, because
I went to the seminar.
And there was a reverend that came there. And he said, he kind of
like what you said that it was more figuratively and
so are there a group of Christians that believe this?
That's not Orthodox Christianity. I mean, it seems like every
Christian you talk to these days, has their own opinion. I mean,
I've come across Methodist pastors that don't believe in the divinity
of Christ. But that's not Orthodox Christianity. And I applaud them
for having that position.
Because to say, you say it's the literal Son of God, and he shares
an essence is pure ship.
So they say it's figurative, and that's fine. But since the concept
was so corrupted by the time to put on put on does not say that
the Quran says, to have
a rough man well other than the valuable Cremona. They say Allah
has most Gracious has taken a stand by a bad democra moon, no,
they're their servants raised in honor their honorable servants.
Meaning it's their calling them you know, it's a title that means
it's an honorific title, that they're taking the material.
So that's an example.
So I think we'll stop there and shoulder.
A couple questions.
Of the genealogy of Jesus.
That's Matthew,
Mark,
as Matthew one, one.
So Matthew begins with the genealogy and then it goes through
the Nativity.
Mark does not give a genealogy, doesn't feel the need, is not
different nativity narrative, the person they're into.
When you look at the different versions of Bibles,
are there any, like for example, like orthodox greens, or
any of their Bibles that can consider more authentic than
others? Are they all because they've been translated?
More, they're all the same.
They all basically use the same canon of Scripture. There are
subtle differences in translation.
But the Greek is the Greek and the best. If you want to stay on the
cutting edge of what is considered New Testament, you really have to
go with like a eclectic Critical Edition.
Fourth Edition for the Nestle Allen 27th edition.
But basically, every New Testament under it that is used by Christian
congregation is basically the same as any translation, except for
like, Jehovah's Witness.
But the Greek is really interesting, because there's
nuances there. And sometimes there is there are some differences
between their major between Catholics.
The scientists along with the gene was meant for only
the time of its people not support, the message wasn't
supposed to go beyond or outside of its borders region. Well,
that's the way we understand that
electronics, that he was the messenger sent to the children of
Israel. So his message was to prepare them for the coming of the
prophets I send them and to reinvigorate
which reestablish the spiritual aspects of the total
that had been lost over time.
So when we'll talk about this later, but when Constantine
becomes the Emperor, and he endorses the other side,
Hellenistic Christianity, then retaining your Semitic
Christianity is very dangerous.
And because of your life, so slowly, but surely, the name
Jewish Christianity, Hellenistic, Semitic Christianity, was
marginalized into oblivion
did not survive the church, they're not in councils. So so
this perspective with respect to mark,
see, Mark 1310, before the end of the Gospel must be proclaimed to
all nation that could be like,
what's what's with respect to that? That can be an example of
Mansukh in the New Testament. So
yeah, there's something similar to end of Matthew called the Great
Commission. The Gospel itself makes abrogates other parts of the
gospel, just like the Quran, abrogates other verses of the
Quran in the account. Initially, the Gospels, the disciples were
told to go only to Venice. But at the end of the gospel, when their
teaching is complete, they can go and evangelize other Jews in the
Mediterranean. And that's exactly what they did. But when they did
that, they came into conflict with Pauline elements that had a
different understanding of the gospel, because Paul had gotten
there first.
And we'll talk more about that Paul actually talks about these
things in Galatians and Philippians, that there's
different Christians saying different things, don't believe
them. They're their dogs. They're their enemies of the cross and
things like that.
I think, I think Bart Ehrman was
embracing the gospel writers and
the doctors knowing
the language they
really cost the write up. They can also write a
separate
document.
And then one of the one of the goals whenever it's like, oh, it's
probably
most likely because
there's a truth to that, or you probably do some Greek,
definitely, you probably knew some Latin, very, very eclectic.
environment. You probably obviously knew Hebrew and Syriac.
But the general populace, they spoke Syriac.
So ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada says, In the Quran, we don't send a
messenger except in the language of his column. Right? Most likely,
the the Injeel is revealed in the Syriac language. I mean, that's
the dominant opinion that Jesus spoke Syria. Another thing that's
interesting is if Matthew is a disciple, which is, you know,
church tradition, and he's writing an ad for the Common Era, how old
does that make him?
This is why nobody believes Matthew, the disciple actually
wrote Matthew, because he'd be around 80 years old. That's a he's
the same age as a Sunday. And he was born in the year zero.
So and he saw the Psalms 33, he's also 33 and then he waits till 82.
Right. John wait waits until
John waits until the year 100. That means is 100 years old.
And the book of Acts says that John was illiterate in the year
35 He was illiterate, because man is illiterate at 35 He suddenly
When he's 100, he writes this gospel talking about the logos
in Greek is like, amazing. And it just, it just doesn't. It doesn't
make any sense. Why would he wait too long to write something?
You probably didn't write it
like he was willing to start thinking and stuff and thinking
like, whoa, whoa, this isn't the time
to be like a rabbi
I mean, kind of like, because I think they have like, traditionary
rules and laws like, like we do.
Like,
yeah. Yeah. That's primarily why he was rejected according to Mark
by the people of Galilee.
You know, like we said, his own family members thought he was
insane.
Which is a slight, obviously gets muddy, I'm adding a salon. But
that's what the gospel actually said. Of course, Luke says
something very different. Because Luke really raises the status of
marry but
and also the fact that he's single, which is, you know, a
Christian belief. And some Muslims believe that as well. Nothing
wrong with believing that, but a 30 year old man in that
environment, the single is very, very highly, highly unorthodox.
Very unusual. Life expectancy back then is about 40 years old. By the
time you're 38, or 49, your grandfather,
usually, boys will get married at 16 and grow the 12 to 30 year old
man who's a rabbi and not married? Well, that's just
it doesn't sound Semitic at all.
Okay, it's something different.
What is Hosana?
Hebrew
which is like it's going to be a type of thing.
It's a praise of God.
Mark,
and Matthew?
Closer to marketing, losing rules.
With respect to Q, yeah. With respect to Q, there's nothing in Q
from from my opinion, there's nothing in Q that contradicts the
bar owners are happy. There's nothing in there no passion
predictions in the queue. There's no passion material. There's no
passion. This is really big.
You know, some would say, Well, how do you know that and,
you know, it's an argument from absence, and so on and so forth.
But the fact that, you know, Matthew and Luke, their passion
narratives either come from their own special material or from Mark
not from Q, which means probably the queue does not contain a
passionate narrative, which may indicate that he wasn't crucified
at all.
And to disclose identifies what part of
or net you can be.
Yes, they can identify what they have in common that is missing
from Mark, we can reconstruct you. You can buy books right now, the
same gospel Q Source, and it's right there, because they're just
taking from Matthew and Luke what they have in common, there's
probably a lot more to it.
Maybe there's less, maybe they embellished a few things, but you
can pretty much reconstruct it.
So next time, we shall go through a little bit more of Mark, if some
verses highlights, some to summarize quickly. The main thing
about Paul as important as knowing his theology, and kind of his
background.
Most of what he writes in his letters are is utterly
intelligible. Anyway, there's only makes sense to anybody. Nobody
knows what he's talking about.
But sometimes there is some clarity we can derive some some
Christology from that.
And then book of Revelation of course is also very convoluted but
we can get a general sense of these books are really important
understand.
What's John 316 That's the one I see everywhere. That's a forgot so
love the world. If you hear it only begotten Son,
Whosoever shall believe in Him shall not die but live
everlasting.
That's their basic core of their
Christianity in a nutshell, John three, six, I always say 21 107 of
Quran as our John 316 2021 1107.
We have to notice, I was still fishing with that in Dallas
because it really puts in perspective. This is our 316
To jump.
Well, it's your homework.
What do you want? 107?
Or 107?
John,
John,
as you see that, you know, holding up the football games. Yeah, if
people even painted on their stickers on their eye or
wrestling.
Yeah, there's
a funny story about that. But I have to supplement.
So last time, any questions regarding the gospel of Mark? Oh,
my son.
Well, my son,
well, my son in law
started John 316.
Of course, it's more exalted than John 316. And obviously a lot more
true.
Yes. Yes. Is the artist the same in all the New Testaments or the?
Yeah, so it'll be in this order. That's not the chronological
order, though. But this was the order of New Testament. Again, the
wisdom behind putting Matthew first, even though Mark is written
first, is because it provides a smooth transition from Judaism
from the Old Testament, because Mark is a very Jewish gospel, in
the sense that it's targeting Jews. But at the same time, it's
vehemently anti Jewish. And the Mark's gospel has been the
emphasis. That's why it was so popular in Christendom, which was
Christian Europe, really, the emphasis for a lot of the pilgrims
and book burnings, and killing mass genocide of Jews all
throughout Europe, during that time is because of the Gospel of
Matthew, going to particular one verse. It's in Matthew, the
Passion narrative, that is in the movie, The Passion of the Christ,
but was not translated, for good reason. But you can hear if it's
in the back thing, it's an Aramaic, but they didn't translate
it for you. But it's
the one which becomes more targeted for the Jewish audience.
It's targeted for Jews in the diaspora.
So the purpose of that we will talk about it, it's targeting Jews
to make them Christian, but it's also increasing the Yaqeen of the
Christian. Just like when we talk about the promises in the Bible,
Muslims attend that they don't say oh, that's the Bible. They attend
because it increases their yaki. Right, there's certitude of their
own deeds, but also because our to the the Christian
diaspora is that central Rome, so not a diaspora is Jews living
outside of Palestine.
Thank you for pointing that out. Terms of diaspora is from the
Greek meaning to be out Palestine away from their holy land. So when
I say the after, in this context, I'm talking about Jews living in
the Mediterranean, in the Greco Roman world, in the pagan world,
the Greek speaking Hellenized world these are Jews in the
diaspora in New Testament time.
Any other questions about Mark source or major themes of Mark and
Christology?
Remember, Mark's gospel is it's very dark.
The Passion narrative is
extremely gut wrenching for Jesus, peace be upon him doesn't defend
himself. Well, you know, believe that.
This so called Jesus, the mark in Jesus, we should say, didn't
defend himself. He's mocked by everyone. He doesn't speak to
anyone while he's being led
is cross made to both mock him.
He doesn't say anything on the cross, except this cry of
dereliction is a cry of
dereliction. We're gonna actually go through the Gospels now a
little bit. Because it's not enough just to be familiar with
major themes and divisions and pathology, things like that. But
actually, what is the concept of the gospel actually say, what is
the cry of dereliction? Does anyone know?
Yeah, la, la la masa backstabbing in that in Aramaic. So he's
actually quoting a psalm here. Yes. It's like, My Lord, why have
you? Why have you? Why hast thou forsaken? Oh, my God, my God, why
have stopped?
No, that's what it is. It's in three gospels. It's called the cry
of dereliction, which of course is very common.
It's puzzling from a from a physiological standpoint, a
Trinitarian standpoint, because of Jesus said, for example, about
nimasa Botany. My father, my father, said the Trinity would
still be intact, but for him to say my god, oh my god. What does
that imply that Jesus has a job that Jesus has a God is He also
got are their true God.
I'm so this is very troubling for Christian because remember the
Trinity will talk about Christian theology. It's you have to sort
of, it's difficult to understand.
But
basically the Christians believe in three persons Father, Son, Holy
Ghost, but one God, there's one God manifests and three person,
separate and distinct person, not the same person that simply
putting on three different masks. That's actually a Christian heresy
called Patrick PASI anism, or civilian ism, right that there's
one person and that he's just putting on these three different
masks. Three distinct person but one God so for Jesus to say, I
haven't God, and He cries out for this God, then either there's two
gods or there's something that's very wrong irreconcilable in the
Christology.
Interestingly enough,
John does not, quote Jesus make describe their religion because
it's so troubling, that he doesn't John's John's Passion narrative is
very, very different than Mark. Very, very different. It's like a
loose fashion narrative is very different in three different
people. Do they share the same essence? Is that they share the
same essence. Yeah, considered? Well, yeah, three p three. Yeah.
So the term that's used here is
Greek which was like, you can spell it like this
was the is nature or essence,
nature, essence. In Arabic, we say that,
that that of Allah is a mystery.
I just don't
want that to be that he could throw on one issue.
Your inability to comprehend God is your comprehension of God. And
entering into the debate about his that his essence is hopeful and
what they should offer is infidelity is belief. And in
partnering with the loss of habitat, don't touch the vacuum of
loss of finding without Allah subhanaw taala does not share his
essence with anyone. He has washed it and I have. And usually when
they say I had, it means that he's unique in its essence, in walk, it
means that his unique attributes will level out of
the Christian in Greek, they call this Husi up and they believe that
three persons which are called hypotheses,
hypotheses, person
three person share this one.
So there's a doctrine of Christianity both very courageous.
very progressive, which literally means to turn around like in a
circular fashion.
What does that mean? That means that the three persons of the
Trinity
are inseparable in their action,
and in their essence,
action in essence, inseparable.
And in their attributes, so that
C fat and after
that essence C fat attributes of action, or theology says that
Allah subhana, WA, tada does not share these things with anybody
whatsoever.
And this is totally the Christians believe all three of these things,
nature,
and
action.
Attributes
are all shared. This is kind of Trinitarian theology. In a
nutshell, we're gonna actually quote from the creed of Nicaea,
the Nicene Creed, the Nicene Constantinopolitan creed, which is
the most Orthodox Christian creed, we'll look at it in Greek. It'll,
it's very short. But of course, that requires a lot of
explanation. And what does the garden that made me?
So pyrokinesis
means that they, you know, one of the early Christian fathers, he
actually diagrammed it like this. If you have these three circles,
of course, these are all inadequate. They tried
three circles that don't quite overlap, but there is some overlap
and diagram. Yeah.
And some of the theologians said, Well, it's like an egg, because
there's a yolk, white and a shell. However, that's also inadequate
because the yolk by itself is not fully God, whereas Jesus in and of
itself, is God fully. Jesus by himself as a person is 100%. God.
So is the Holy Spirit. So the father, not parts of God, that's
not Trinitarian doctrine.
Ultimately, it's industry. So parents are racist means that
whatever the son is doing, it necessitates the participation of
the Father and Holy Spirit. This is a petty craziness. This was a
term that was coined in the fourth century by the Kapha dosha. And
church fathers. We'll talk about that.
Gregory Bassel of scenario.
So whatever the son is engaged in, it necessitates. So you see how
this is problematic? Whatever the son is engaged with, if the son is
dying, and necessitate yes,
if the sun is dead, and a tomb for three days that necessitates that
the Father and Holy Spirit are engaged as well in that action.
So this is extremely problematic.
So Nietzsche said God is dead.
God is dead.
Okay, very cool aces.
So, one, one nature, three persons,
inseparable in nature, actions and attributes.
Of course, the question, Is this even biblical? That's a big
question.
Where did this come from? So let's go back to
Mark's gospel inshallah.
Last time, we talked about mark one, one,
right.
This is that there's like eight or nine passages I actually want to
look at, in comments on show you it's kind of like how Mark,
manipulate scripture to get this theological agenda across the
Gospels are basically combat writing to polemical tract, things
that are intended to convert people to a certain belief in the
face of other types of facts and gospels. So this is okay to anyone
giving you a crystal, the beginning of the gospel of Jesus
Christ, and then in brackets, when you will say you are the Son of
God, which are disputed verses. Now, last time we talked about,
this is a really important manuscript that we all should know
about.
Oh, one, what's the other name for
Codex
Sinaiticus. Why is this important? It is the oldest complete New
Testament on Earth.
The oldest complete New Testament is overly complete. What does that
mean? There's actually extra books. There's a book called The
Shepherd of Hermas, which is an apocalypse, eventually removed,
extremely anti Jewish. And there's the Epistle of Barnabas, which is
also extremely anti Jewish, that was removed because it's not the
Gospel of Barnabas. I've seen Muslims make this mistake in
public in Christian settings. And see the Gospel of Barnabas isn't
the oldest Greek version of the New Testament, and then the most
and then the Christian guy gets up there and just completely
embarrassing
them with something else. You don't even know what you're
talking about. The Epistle of Barnabas and the Gospels are
completely different, separated by centuries.
Okay.
So the thought of Sinaiticus is interesting, because the man who
discovered this will, you know, discovered by Columbus discovered
America, right? The man who was discovered this is was the
inspiration for Indiana Jones, Indiana Jones, an American
professor, who's kind of, you know, the, what you call them? The
mighty YT. Right, you know, like a white guy who infiltrates and then
actually can do things better than the people that actually, you
know, like Kevin Costner and down to the wolves, or what's Tom
Cruise? In The Last Samurai, the mighty Whitey, right? Anyway, he's
a German professor at Leipzig University. So he goes to St.
Catherine's Monastery, which is at the base of Mount Sinai in 1844,
on an expedition.
So he goes there, and it's interesting St. Catherine's
Monastery, which was built in the sixth century.
It actually houses some of the oldest iconography of early
Christian piety.
There's a fourth century portrait of Jesus called the pantokrator
that in remarkable condition because of the arid, dry air there
that everything's preserved. They also have something called Okta,
nominee.
Anyone heard of the autonomic?
It's also called the sacral.
test in a moment, not the holy customer.
So they actually, I mean, I've seen pictures of this. This is a
document written Arabic, with a handprint like a hand that's
traded
on it.
And the monks there to this day maintain that when the church was
being built.
In the sixth century, the prophets I seldom visited the church.
There's no There's no evidence of the Prophet going to Egypt, right.
But this is there.
claim it might have been, it's probably forged. It's probably
something they produced, because they were afraid of, you know,
Islamic invasion and so on and so forth in the seventh and eighth
century, Islam came to Egypt. Nonetheless, they claim that it's,
I mean, today, they have no reason to be afraid of anything. No, not
really. But still, they maintain that as authentic
document, where it actually says that this Christian Church itself
shall forever stand and not be harassed by any Muslim army. So
they actually review this document. And you'll see them
like, just like it was a picture of Christ, you know, having in
this
cell and guarded, protected, called autonomic. Anyway, so this
man, his name was Tischendorf.
And I'm probably not going his name, right.
Tischendorf Constantine.
Interesting, first name, Constantine von Tischendorf,
professor at Leipzig University in Germany, he goes to the monastery.
And the only way to get into St. Catharines, is for them to lower a
basket down to you, like three or four storeys, and you get into the
basket, and you hope and pray that the monks can pull you up. So it
gets up there. And his claim is that he went to a garbage can. And
he found these
these manuscripts, this was this part of this manuscript that's
written on animal skin,
on vellum, and he thought to himself before he was on writing,
they're going to throw it away anyway. So I made off with them.
And then he came back to other times
4041 53 at 59. And he kept he kept taking from this manuscript, of
course, the most of this day thing that he's sold them. Nonetheless,
his hatred was Tsar Alexander the second from Russia, when Stalin
took over Stalin now have control of this Codex Sinaiticus. And then
he sold them because it was in debt to England, and England was
seen as a great shining star of the world because they saved the
oldest New Testament. So most of the manuscript is in a museum in
London, the British Museum, most like 347, out of 400, something
pages of the Codex Sinaiticus.
There is a few that pages that are still in Germany, there's some in
Russia, and think Catherine's also has a few pages that they managed
to secure from the thief, Constantine's on Tischendorf,
and he will see this Codex Sinaiticus is.
That's interesting. So when this was discovered,
this Codex really
shook the New Testament world.
Because in this Codex,
there is no son of God and mark one, one, amongst many other
things that we'll talk about. So the old is complete, and also
Codex B, which is called Vaticana.
Into the Vatican,
which which is similar in days to the Sinaiticus data to the fourth
century. In fact, there's actually a story that they were actually
produced by the same project by Eusebius, was a historian work of
constantly.
In 331, Constantine told Eusebius, I need you to produce 50 copies of
the scriptures. And many scholars believe these are two copies of
what was produced. So the oldest complete and testament codici do
not say Son of God. And mark one one.
Question.
Amongst other things, we'll talk about a couple questions. What was
the year
1844 was discovered? Yeah. When we was able to infiltrate the church,
is this complicated, the copies are available and mentioned that
you need to get to know this.
This entire codec is online. By the way, this is really fantastic.
It's if you go to Codex sinaiticus.com. It's called the
Codex Sinaiticus project, you can actually look at the actual Codex
itself, and two different types of lights. And the translation is
there as well.
No, it's in Greek. It's in Greek and translated.
The original is in Greek
or Latin
one, but then there's random, different countries. So
yeah, if you put I think most of the pages that are in different
countries are Old Testament. But if you put them together, it would
be complete. But this one is totally,
totally complete New Testament.
All 27 books and the order is slightly different. But the four
Gospels are in the same order. As the Barnabas and it does Yeah.
We don't know
Even for your version so far, a doctor,
right? This is the strongest opinion. So we'll talk more about,
you know, biblical translations over time. But in 1881, to
Cambridge scholars in Westcott and Hort, they use these two
courtesies primarily for a fresh new Greek translation, or Greek
version, and they did not include some of God at the end of the
verse. And also at the end of Mark, there's something really
interesting, missing from these two manuscripts, and what's going
on here.
So Mark was corrupted from the beginning, and somebody corrupted
the corrupted version of Mark.
Mark is, let me preface
I mean, he took it from John right.
But he was influenced by Peter, Peter.
And remember, it's a marked source is Hellenistic oral tradition,
Hellenistic oral tradition,
you know, probably some truth, probably not. And then over time,
it was corrupted when it was written down. And again, why would
they do that to Mark's gospel? What is it about Mark's gospel
that is so
kind of weak?
Remember, we said it's anemic in its Christology? It's very weak in
its theological position about Christ.
So they need to sort of put it on steroids.
Like the Gospel of John is Christology on steroids. Luke is
very Vonda 9090 is involved in like 2002.
And this is my 17 year old, high school student. That's very, very
weak,
sort of order to bolster,
its Christology certain fabrications were made
to the gospel.
If we don't have to Mark 111,
as well.
Is there any interesting here? So this is a baptism? Remember,
there's no there's no nativity of Jesus and Mark, there's no mention
of Mary, a virgin birth, nothing like that. Joseph, the carpenter
is not mentioned at all.
And Mark 111, you can read that verse. And they all came in voice
from heaven saying, Thou art my beloved, beloved Son, in whom I
don't believe.
So this is an interesting thing here.
You can sort of see how Mark pieces together scripture, you
are.
Well, pleased.
So here's the scene, Jesus has been baptized in the Jordan River,
by Fei de Sena. And then the heavens open.
And there's a voice that says this statement.
Now, this
is a combination of three verses from the Old Testament is Mark
111. Mark 111. Yeah. It's a combination of three verses real
testament, whoever you are my son. This is from Psalm two, seven.
It says what God says to David, and this is not obviously meant,
in the literal sense. This is called my jazz. This is
metaphorical. Right? The Hebrew says bunny at top, and knee high
yield
your Leap year this is the Hebrew it says, You are my son, today I
have begotten you. Today have given I have given birth to you.
That's from the songs that's figurative completely the Jews do
not believe that God has physical relations or God has children in
the literal sense. This is figurative language. Okay.
So, equals is fine at the beginning you are my son, but then
this day I have forgotten Mark does not use Why do you think that
is?
This day, how young
young Hebrew Hi Yo, I have begotten you.
The reason is because there's a there was a Christian heresy
called adoption ism.
At the time,
adoption ism, Christian adoption is movement.
These are Christians who denied that Jesus is the pre eternal son
the Orthodox
Christians today believe that a scientist is the pre eternal Son
of God he was begotten outside of time
right therefore this is kind of a contradiction to get the sort of
go with me a little bit although Jesus was caused by God
he is not inferior to God
because there's no time that separates the two there was no
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So, Mark leaves off this day I have begotten you, because the
adoption is Christians believe that on the day that Eastside
Saddam was baptized by John the Baptist, that was similar to like
Elijah giving his mantle to Elisha, and sort of passing the
mantle that now you're the Prophet. This is the birth of this
was a that's how the adoption is would look at the baptism, the
raising of Esau as a prophet know that the prophets I send them was
made a Messenger when he was 40 years old. Right? This is how they
look at the events of the baptism. This is the birth of the Sunday
setup. So this language of this day I have begotten you is purely
allegorical. It's not literal. The adoption is or epi nights we
talked about that is for Jewish Christians. Right. Then you have a
group
called Aryans
who spoke Greek. They were adopted.
If this was the group that was opposed at the Council of Nicaea
or come back to the council, then you have a group that speak Latin
in Rome called the field notions
all three of these groups are adoption is in the Christology the
abbey Knights have a slogan
read it here
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you should memorize this
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Okay, good.
So there was once when he was
not
talking about Jesus's grace I set up. So this was their, one of
their slogans or faith professions, they would write on
their churches, they would write it on their tag their church in
pocket hunting game. This is actually quoted in the nicey nice
your constant Tito politan Cree creed is whoever says this is an
infidel. Right? Because what does this mean? This means a Sybase did
not exist at some point. He might have done the initial creation,
but he's still creation. The Orthodox do not believe that
Esalen is created is caused by God
is caused by God outside of time. Where are they getting these ideas
from? This is Neil Platonism. Yes, heard of Plato. There was a man in
the third century, named Platonists,
who kind of revamped Plato's hierarchy of existence. So they
believe in a hierarchy. So
the Neil Platanus will go, we'll go over this later. But he
believed in God, He called them good tag up on, and then the good
causes, someone called the noose, the middle Platanus called him the
logos, which is what John calls Jesus. And then below that, the
logos produces something called suitcase, or the spirit Father,
Son, Holy Spirit.
But the Neo Platanus always says that there's a hierarchy.
At the top is God who is
necessary, necessarily
better than the other two.
Whereas Christianity, they say, No, they're all the same,
essentially, because it was on outside of time. So the epi
knights would say that the causal priority of the Father
demonstrates essential superiority over the son. Let's say it again,
the causal priority of the Father, even though was outside of time,
the causal priority the father
is, is God essential for the fathers essential superiority over
the son.
They don't believe that this was outside of
Debian I don't believe all three of these groups believe that Jesus
is creation. They call them just metallic, the best of creation.
But nonetheless, creation.
This money could just matter later on.
If you want to memorize this
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So next time you're engaged in Dawa
as your Christian friend you know, in part, the heartbeat
of your the areas, the areas, you know,
for the Unites know, the Theodosian 99.9% of Christian
laity have never heard of these things in their lives. They have
no idea what to do with them.
It's an
appeal to what's
interesting in Isaiah 63, as they have prayed, a donate a vino, You
are God our Father. Right. So again, this is my jazz this is not
literal. The Jews, the first the goddess father, not in the literal
sense, is very common in Judaism.
So instead, what Mark does here instead of saying this day I have
gotten you because that reeks of adaption ism. He goes to the Song
of Songs
and says, Jesus is my beloved. The Song of Songs describes someone
called God, my beloved. If you look actually look at the
description of the Song of Songs, actually fits the description of
the prophets I send them Song of Songs, chapter five, the beloved
of God.
And then who might well please is from
Isaiah 4242, which again, I believe is a reference to the
Prophet.
So these are old testament song songs. And yeah, this verse is
Mark, 111.
And Mark, he sort of sews together stitches together three verses
from the Old Testament.
This is how he manipulates the scripture to make his points to
the audience. Because one halfway, it goes to another verse, and of
course the other halfway
because it's here.
It's in the Greek. And we said that he did this. That's what the
Green says. This is what he's quoting from.
I guess
we'll get to that inshallah. We'll get to that.
We'll get to that. And Matthew, because Matthew actually makes
that claim explicit.
What else can you say here?
I just wanted to show you that. Let's go to the
other one here. Let's go to Mark 227 and 28.
gonna want to read
my
book, chapter books. Yeah. So Book of Isaiah chapter two.
Chapter 42, verse 142. One
says
Hanabi SMS bull, behold my avatar,
in whom I am well pleased,
and whom I'm well pleased with Isaiah chapter 42, verse one, that
Mark sort of uses the
quoting Psalm two, seven, you can't say this day I have begotten
you? Because he knows that other theologians might construe his
writing as being adaption.
Is that the Sabbath?
Sabbath? Yeah.
Romans and Magnificat it. Yeah, keep going. one more verse. So
then Southern,
the sun effect is more.
So it's very interesting. So what happens is,
is that Eastside Islam and the disciples are plucking grain on
the Sabbath, you almost stopped. Right? So Jewish authorities,
legal authorities,
they say this is haram. You can't do this. You're not allowed to
work on the Sabbath. So remember, that he cited as one of the jobs
of the scientists is to, to make easy the law ameliorate the law,
right. And in some cases, because these are assumed he can make
aspects of the law know, which is called Nasser. Right. So for
example, in the Quran, he's quoted as saying, when we suddenly Fatima
benei a day I mean, a toad Rafi What do you Hillel a combat and
for remind Aiko? I confirm the Torah that came before me. But I
also make lawful for you part of what was haram for you. I make
Hello What was haram? Because the context has changed. So obviously,
these Jewish legal authorities,
they don't believe that this is a messenger. So a rabbi fucking
grain on the Sabbath has no authority to do that, that
Christians will take the story as a proof that he's God, because
only God can break his own law. But that's not true. He's not
breaking the law. Right? He's ameliorating the law is making it
easier. And this is what a messenger can do. This is the
affair of the
dodo Sue can cancel the law aspects of the app count. There's
no problem. Aspects of RP that are created cannot be cancelled
because those things are transcendent. You can't say oh,
we're gonna cancel believe in angels.
Because now we've our brains have progressed. No, we live in a
different context. No, angels are something that is metaphysical.
They don't change Creed's don't change it's not supposed to write
in in the major
in the major aspects of it. There are mobile you're often you can
take difference of opinion on certain creedal issues. But the
the Assassin's Creed severed the foundations of creed never
changed. So Eastside a salon here
He is
explaining what you're allowed to do on the Sabbath. So he tells
them that if one of your goats or chickens falls into a hole once
you pull it out on the Sabbath, because he was healing on the
Sabbath as well, healing people, Mark does that. And they say, Yes.
He says, Well, that's what I'm doing. You're allowed to do good
on this habit. Right? So he thought he was making a Tafseer of
something that's revealed in the total. This is a tafsir. That yes,
there's a Sabbath, but you're allowed to do good.
Okay. So he says here, the Sabbath is made for man. This is kind of
a,
an idiom that's used nowadays as a figure of speech. The Sabbath was
made for Matt literally the Greek it says, The Sabbath because of
the man or the insaan. Was, and not the human being because of the
Sabbath. In other words, you worship Allah subhana wa Tada.
That's the most important thing you don't worship the Shetty off
the shitty off is literally his path to cold water. And if you're
in the desert, and you
what does that mean? You found salvation because you're going to
die of thirst. So Shediac is a path to salvation. Right? It's
just a patch methodology. We don't worship the law among Ghazali. He
talks about this Medina, where he says so many Muslims today are
formalist that everything superficial on the outside. He's
not saying forget about the outside. No, no one is saying
that. Right. But he's saying you have to taste your faith. You have
to experience the, the, the intrinsic
aspect of the faith.
So Imams is Allah, he actually he said something. He says if Jesus
is on the side, and Moses is on this side, and this is an
inadequate diagram, but it's just to sort of get the point across,
because then the proposition is in the middle. If this is Shetty up,
and this is happy about. And of course, that's inadequate, because
Luzon is telling him Allah. Right. So he's obviously extremely
spiritual person. But this is he's just filling a diagram. Then the
province, Hassan Shetty is in the middle, and that's how it should
be.
So what he's doing here is he's straddling the inward dimension of
the law, the true teaching of the law, that don't be so rigid,
right, that if you see an old woman fall on the ground, and she
needs help, it's the Sabbath. So I can't tell you how to
literally break your hip. Right? Even in Islamic city, because life
takes precedence in this in this issue. That's what he's teaching
them here. He's not completely abrogating the law. And you can
change the law or ameliorate the law, because he's a messenger of
God, messengers of God can do that, isn't it?
Okay.
There's a,
for example, the prophets I send them you know,
he was constantly trying to find ways out for people when they were
to this sin. It's not because he doesn't care about the, the WHO
dude or you know, the outward aspect.
Like the man who was in the masjid, he came in and was like,
totally brokenhearted.
And the problem says, What's wrong with you, which I did this and
this is I don't want to hear it just here. Just come here.
So we came to the office, so nice to put your hands up. And he said,
repeat after me. Allahumma Matsuda took out in gurobi. Allah, your
forgiveness is much more expensive than myself.
And he said, Warren Buffett, Allah would stand up your sins forgiven.
A sigh, they sit down and they Synoptic Gospels, he tells people
your sin is forgiven. Right. And Christians say that's because
you've got only God forgive sins. That's true. Only God can forgive
sins, but the messenger speak with the authority of God. And whoever
obeys the messenger obeys God. Right? There's a verse in the
Quran, as we sort of look over these things as we didn't know
Arabic, but Allah says, What love would Asuna who this happens a few
times in the book will love what a sort of who, who and your two who?
Allah and His Messenger it is more fitting that you please Him.
Allah and His messenger are two entities are there it is more
fitting that you please Who? him instead of why it's a grammatical
error. No, because it's demonstrating this intimate
relationship between Allah Subhan Allah to Allah and the Prophet.
Somebody said, I need Allah.
That there's no difference. If you obey the messenger you Oh, you are
obeying Allah. You cannot obey Allah and disobey the messenger,
nor vice versa. It's impossible. Like the people who are clinging
to the Kiswa of the Kaaba. When the Prophet came into Mecca. They
said we're gonna go directly to Allah. The Prophet said, If you
don't obey me you're not obeying Allah. How can you obey Allah and
not me, when I'm sent by God?
So this intimate relationship Allah uses a singular pronoun,
this is from you is singular,
singular third person.
This happens a few times in the Quran is not a grammatical error.
He could have said Who man, but he says who? Meaning that follow the
messenger, maybe whichever suit
whoever obeys, this is in the Quran. So whoever obeys Rasul
Allah, Allah
revelation, land to find out how to integrate it and how. So
whatever the Prophet says, Adam says, is Revelation either in the
form of 10, Zeeland, washing
everything he said,
you know, which was which one, the one
Yeah, it's an Cova
and Toba.
Verse number
versus 62, Toba love water sort of a hackle. And you'll do
this happens again in sort of in a few other time. Very interesting.
So you sign up for example, get Gospel of John.
He says, A go chi Patek haste, Essman, the father and I are one
in the Christian car, hallelujah, claiming to be God. Is he claiming
to be God? One in what they don't even read the context.
Read the context and it actually revealed what is the nature of
this Tawheed. Right, this oneness, this annihilation and God's love
and character. That's the so he's talking about not oneness in the
sense of food, or, you know,
divine incarnation
in the sense of oneness, in the sense that your events are guided
by God. There's Hadith about this
will come from as Junaid was Hadith What's the sound Hadith my
beloved draws close to me with this thing continues to draw close
with his no up until I become the I mean which
God becomes your eye, the hand by which he strikes the foot by what
you want. What does that mean God itself and a lot becomes your
body's knowing you missed the point this is subjective to heat
is stepping up. This is immersion in God's guidance that God guides
your limb so that you're not even disobeying God anymore.
highly spiritual teaching, that unfortunately, people who did not
have to shut it off. Greco Roman Gentiles who don't have the tone
off, are making grave mistakes.
When he suddenly Islam says something is are we claiming to be
God? Because that's part of their culture. We have man gods, we
worship dynasties. We worship Zeus, we worship Poseidon. We
worship Aphrodite, we worship Jesus is another god.
Yeah, there's other Hadith as well, my uncle Marcin on a wider
angle. As long as you didn't leave. Muslim. Whoever defers the
death of a poor person or remits it Allah will shade him with his
shade.
So don't be so rigid.
This is this point here. You know, there's a law called Lex. Lex.
Cali honest, have you heard of it?
Latin does anyone know Latin?
Lex Pollyannas things a lot of retaliation.
Like Allah says in the Quran. We'll catch up there I didn't see
her in Indonesia sorry. And then NASA did not see when a nebula AMI
was inferred the entity will not be proved to me with sin that the
Sydney What did you do have the sauce? We that's lex talionis that
we prescribed for bunnies, right you I live for a life and I for an
eye and nose for a nose and ear for ear a tooth for a tooth and
wounds equivalent to one another for men to suffer for who are
compatible. But whoever forgives. It's an act of atonement for them.
Yes. Right. So this is the there's a spirit of the law. There's the
letter of the law then there's the spirit of the law. You sign a
tsunami does not abrogate the letter of the law is a Christian
claim. Paul actually does that. He saw based on the hope uphold the
law.
But it gives them the true interpretation.
The the letter the spirit of the law.
It was interesting here the next verse
You know, what is the English translation say? Verse 28.
So then the son of a man is Lord.
Yeah. So you hear the word, Lord. Oh, Lord, how do we deal with this
issue?
So
is interesting the Arabic, it says, in fact, who are up was sept
Amon,
the Son of Man literally is the Lord of the Sabbath. And up here
is definitely my position, because it's moved off. It's a construct,
now, definite by its position, and Lord in your translation is a
capitalized, yes, it's capitalized, which which means
what? That definite, there must be a definite article. The Greek does
not have a definite article.
The Greek says, so that the Son of Man, even of the Sabbath is
Master,
master, or is Lord with a lowercase L. What is the
difference between the two.
This is Rookwood, baits
are up to date, you know, the master of the house. This is what
I put on me. You see the difference? Big difference? When
definite article makes a big difference. The Greek does not
have a definite article. But every translation has ever seen in
English, with a capital L or sometimes with the Lord. Even in
the Arabic or up was sub definite bites position, the Lord of the
Sabbath. Jesus is the Lord, as a Greek doesn't say that, decoding
us.
In Greek, the Greek word is curiosity, which applies to both
God and man, according to context, just like the word.
So in your conversations with Christians that the Christian
says, Look, it says, Lord, say, Look, when this King James was
written,
well, maybe not back then. But today, England, there's a House of
Lords, in the House of Commons, therefore, they're all God.
So what is the context of that? The context is very Semitic. You
think other Jews would call another Jew God, and consider
himself to be a Torah abiding Jew? Of course not. When Jesus says
this, they don't take action against his usage of the word,
quote, EOS is action of plucking grain that they're concerned
about.
That's it. How dare you claim to be Lord God? Don't say that.
Taking a grain on the Saturday
morning, since there's no definitely there is, there is a
definite article, but it's missing in this verse. Like where it says
Son of men pop we are taught, it looks like this in Greek. The
rough breathing, the guttural ha, that's a definite article. But
here for cootie offs, it's not there
that makes a difference
there do doing the provenance
not meant the Sabbath. Right, you see the context in which you would
use it as being too rigid, too formal. But relax, take it easy to
forgive is better.
You know, it's, it's really something that we can take a
lesson from ourselves as Muslims, especially in light of
all of the diversity in the city.
Sometimes we make judgments about other Muslims about things where
there's permissibility, there's leeway.
Okay.
So the next one I want to go to here is
Mark 334.
I asked the question
you're mentioning I'm looking at the Codex.
With Codex Sinaiticus, yeah. Well, these verses are the same. Yeah.
These verses I'm quoting are for different reason.
Codex Sinaiticus was when we looked at mark one one, and when
we get to the end of Mark, the ending of Mark is very different
than the Codex.
But these verses are sort of trying to give you
a general familiarity with what Mark is actually saying, what is
the content of the document. So this is an interesting one here is
that Jesus says here
he looked around
And he said, Behold, so people are coming to him and say, Your mother
and your brothers are waiting outside. Just who were my mother's
brothers, whoever does the will of God. This is my brother and my
sister and my mother. Right? Remember I said that in Mark,
there's a tinge of Nazi be sort of anti,
at least.
That's sort of one way of looking at this verse is that there's
probably a conflict at the time between the Judah Pfizer's or
Semitic Christian, and the Hellenistic Christians. Because
remember, the authority of the Semitic strand of Christianity was
firmly vested with James was in Jerusalem, the brother of Jesus.
Right? So it almost seems like this verse is a polemic against
the family of Isa, like who was my mother and my like mother's
mother. Yeah.
She has high status. James is his brother, who's the first hadith of
a son a son. I think the purpose here for Mark, who's representing
the Semitic strain of Christianity, is to sort of
downplay the importance of the Semitic line or the the family of
east sides who are invested. We sort of see some of this with
Islamic history, and the Benny omega and their struggles against
activate their clashes and things like that. It's very interesting.
What's interesting, also Arabic, he says, the Greek word here for
Willis Zulema, to fail, fail a much
bigger sort of
movement.
Ever heard of them?
So this is a very
popular movement amongst people in the West. Basically, it's
Satanism.
And it comes from this Greek word, based on this verse,
right called Femina. So there was an Englishman named Aleister
Crowley
who started the church of Satan.
And he had a couple of books that he wrote one is called Magic in
theory and practice.
In this book very clearly, he says that one of the ways in which to
get demonic power is to kill children.
Very interesting. He had another book which is more popular called
V their leg and again, his name is Crowley, we can look this up. This
is not conspiracy theory stuff. This is real stuff.
liberon Vegas, he doesn't
know Latin speakers. Book of the Law, Lexus, the genitive book of
the law, Lex.
Like Lex Luthor.
You know, that means Lex Luthor.
The law of Martin Luther, but it's really Thor's sort of hide the
anti Christian undertone. The founders of the the inventors of
what he says
of Superman, or what Schuster in
the creators, there were two Jewish men.
So the arch nemesis is Lex Luthor. Right?
Of course, Martin Luther was Atomik. It was vehemently anti
Jewish, he hated the Jews, and used to actually call for the
violence against you.
Then you have
his father, his name is Jerrel, which is a Hebrew name. And then
kolel Superman's name, which is a Hebrew name, and God sending His
Son which again, is Messianism. It's not it's not it's Kristin
also, but it also has roots in Judea. Anyway.
That was just something interesting. Only I think about
these things, because I think there's anyone else thinking about
this. Anyway. So in this book here, libre legis by Aleister
Crowley, who started the church of Satan, and this miracle selama,
because Elamites
his
golden law, I guess you could say is do what thou wilt. This is the
whole of the law.
Do what thou wilt. So this is the
article of faith that these people live by when he was in the early
20th century. So musician called JC who has a sweater.
Quite often he wears it, do what thou wilt is what Aleister
Crowley, a man who advocates the killing of children.
So these people are in, there's something wrong with these people.
So do what thou wilt. Right? What does that mean? So it's not like
Marilyn Manson was an open Satanist.
He said, they asked him how do you worship Satan? He says, you know,
we don't have an effigy. We don't like to walk up, put our hands up.
Although some people actually do that. He says we just do what we
want. That's how we worship Satan.
How well we
We live a life of what? disobedience to God. Right? When
that comes you fill up the Matterhorn is the verse in the
Quran, matter, which means exactly that, to walk the earth without
accountability, to do whatever you want to do.
Do what will. Why would someone do that? Because they want to do
rebelling against God. They say some of them say, you know, like,
follow your heart that's with all your heart.
hurt anybody but the hikma of ALLAH SubhanA wa God is such that,
if you don't follow His commandments, you are hurting
people. If you say, I'm just going to get high, or get drunk, I'm not
going to hurt anyone, then you get your car to kill somebody, well,
then you're hurting people, aren't you? And there's many examples of
that. So the only one that can truly say I do what I will, is who
will know Yes, I do. My God allows the only one that does what He
wills. So when they say we do what we want, they're imitating Satan
in the fact that he's an MF fatale. I am better than him. I
putting myself next first Nestle. Nestle
is very big movement.
There very active, very popular, especially once like, it's, you
know, it looks like Hollywood elites and things like that. So
there's a lot of, I mean, there's people talking about the
Illuminati and things like that. I don't really get into that stuff.
But, you know, it's thought provoking. You know, there's a lot
of hand gestures that people make celebrities naked wear these
things on their shirt for people to know what they mean. A lot of
it is to Satanism
and has symbolic it has roots and Crowley.
If you read his book, he doesn't it even got these types of things
to get power from demons and things like that. He's interested
in his book.
Yes, it's better to have male children.
Where somebody will say, for example, at the halftime show,
you know, Beyonce making the Masonic triangle,
then you have a 33 minute power outage.
33 for Freemason Lodge, and as people get into this stuff, like
really on a deep level, but you know, if we concentrate on these
things, too much become cynical, and it's just a waste of time.
These things are out there. It's not fake.
magic is real. Satan is real. So it comes from this Greek word for
Neymar, which means we'll put the will of God.
There's a book I'm reading right now called the pedagogy of the
oppressed, very famous book by a Brazilian theologian, or Brazilian
activist and scholar estamos Frary. Who says that one of the
things we oppressors does to keep people at bay and to keep them in
a state of non thinking is to give them bread and circus, like the
Romans used to give people bread and circuses food and
entertainment, which is the Super Bowl.
Here's a bunch of food, get drunk, watch the big game and entertain
yourself or you know, fast, fast food and *, bread and
circus. These things keep people busy. They stop thinking, and all
of these things are happening. They don't even notice
this word, Malema does it. Does it have any relation to Solomonic?
No, doesn't have any magic? Something? No, no, no, no, that's
actually good word. For them. I mean, like, erotica, that's what
that's how you would translate that in Arabic, you'd either
either either to love to name or to feel the will of God.
So they take this word, which has a good connotation in the New
Testament. And Crowley's the defense of do what you want.
Right? So when God says, the open rebellion against God, on the
shirts, Jay Z was,
of course, he's married to the girl that doesn't have tension
the sort of library. It's not leave a legacy, the book of the
law, the Book of the Law, which is, which probably
do some research on it's really interesting.
Very interesting. It's really big. In America, by the way, very, very
big. Elamites
Yeah. breaking any law.
Growing costs, as long as the institute human sacrifice
and Jonnie Allah will animate they do on Halloween kids go missing
and things like that. Yeah, this stuff really happened
just the other day, the 10 month old baby right, was kidnapped and
killed, thrown in the field and for what, what was happening? And
you'd notice these things happen around October, November,
December. You have a lot of child abductions,
and murder of children. People do these things.
If
we go next
this is a good one here. So this is Mark 1017 to 22.
Still there
Yeah, so this is about the rich man.
So
this is interesting story.
The rich man comes at you sideways.
And he says, I'm good master, how do I go to heaven? says Why do you
call Me good? No one is good, except one that is God. Very clear
denial of deity, but he saw the incident.
And again, if you look at the construction in the Greek, there's
a method for stress. Why me? Are you calling good? No one good,
except one that is God.
Within interesting here, is that
the part where it says, no one is what says, No one except the one.
That is God is not in Matthew.
So Matthew says, Why are you calling me good? No one is good.
He doesn't say except one that has got mathy didn't include that
part.
Isn't this a very strong foundation for
the geology perspective? From what
it is? Yeah, this is usually what
opponents of Trinitarian theology will quote, Mark 1018 and Mark
1018.
And then he says to him, which is really interesting, if you ask any
Christian today, basically, on a Christian at random and say, asked
the same question, this man asked Jesus, what was his question?
He says T point a saw Hina zo aim, EO Nyan. What do I do to go to
heaven?
This is what he said. What do you think of Christian today when
Jesus died on the cross the assembly to that person, and he
doesn't recommend dead and sitting at the right hand of the Father.
This is what you have to believe in what to happen. Is this what
Jesus says?
Listen to what he says.
And call us oil does. You know the Sharia is never the commandments.
don't kill, don't commit adultery, don't steal, don't bear false
witness.
Honor your mother and your father, so on and so forth.
And he says I've done all of these. And Jesus looked at him,
and it says he loved him. This is also missing in Matthew. Never
what Matthew does with Mark. Matthew will redact mark. And I
have more examples of this. We'll talk about next time we actually
focus on Matthew, what does Matthew Matthew edits to Mark's
gospel are very interesting. Matthew did not like that Jesus
loved a Jew before believing in him. Right? It says I've kept all
of the commandments. It says Jesus loved him. For that your that made
him love him. Matthew said, No, that's too early. Let's see what
he does first. Is he going to follow him or not?
So then he says,
he says, Go sell Oh, that you own and follow me. The man said, I
can't. I'm rich. And then he went away with a heavy heart.
So he couldn't be a disciple. That doesn't mean he's a disbeliever.
I mean, he just can't be my disciple. He probably believes in
a study.
So you know, it's a spiritual path.
Yeah, so this is probably a allegory he's using, because the
Jews at the tower have been crucified by Roman authorities
left and right. So take up the cross the enemy of the struggle,
under threat of death.
That could be it could mean obviously, I mean, the gospel of
Mark
endorses the crucifixion, there's no doubt about that.
Maybe it is probably because remember, the the heart of the
gospel is a crucifixion. That's why the gospel is in the New
Testament. We can extend His Passion narrative.
But we have to look at the differences in the Passion
narrative, which was a really interesting
speech actually, because
no one's reading work on
these things in the New Testament itself.
To the Christians read the Bible as much as we do
So
it's just that,
you know, Christians they love
the Christian say, Christian scholars who believe in the
Trinity. They say Jesus here is asking a rhetorical question.
So he's basically saying something like, do you? Why are you calling
me God? You take on God, like, do you know? Like, like that? That's
an estimate. But
they take the verse.
So answers for everything. But interest. What's the construction
is? Why me? Are you calling? I was offended by that.
But Greek is very powerful that you don't get in the translation.
I was struggling to a Christian guy at my work. And I he was
telling that they believed in all these things, but he said after
crucification all these things, we're not in waiting. He doesn't
have to do anything else. Yeah, so that's, that's so they know, they
read, but they think that it's an old version before. Yeah. So Paul,
we get the Paul's letters. Paul's Christology is basically exactly
that is what does the crucifixion mean? Because it's very foreign
for the Jew. The Jew is like, he's not the Messiah, he was killed.
He's obviously not the Messiah. Right? And then Paul says, No, he
was talking about where you see, he had to die for your sin.
And they're like, but that's completely against what the Old
Testaments in which the God changed his mind.
So God doesn't change. No, this, this, this is God's new plan, His
new covenant. So it just gonna do it was a stumbling block, as Paul
says,
this idea that God can come down in human form by itself is total
sacrilege.
To Jewish theology, very clear, God is not a man. It says very
clearly in two places in the Hebrew Bible, God is not a man.
So our belief is that,
you know, other things that can be reformed the
hill, actually, Mohammed says.
But the you know, the true believers at that time were the
followers of Jesus.
So who are they? I mean, if it wasn't Paul, and these people
who are the true Christian,
they were Unitarian Christians.
But they were so marginalized because of
the power dynamics of their era.
But they were around but they were a minority that was being
marginalized by Trinitarian authorities.
There is obviously a lot of truth, submitted krysya In Hellenistic
Christianity,
many of our orlimar they quote, the New Testament, Imam Ghazali
called New Testament,
modern day scholars quote from the New Testament.
So whatever doesn't contradict our Aveda, we can say a low item, it
might be a valid part of
you can use it for Nessie high, like if we had the
basically the entire New Testament is all of it as wheat.
But so they'll use it in that way. But who are the actual Christians?
You know, we've been marginalized
by this, by this but even by the fourth century.
The authorities in Rome are Trinitarian Christians. So even
amongst the Trinitarian Christians, there's a massive
difference within that forget about the epi light outside the
door. He's not going to get past the hallway.
Even in the ballroom where people are arguing those are all people
who believe that Jesus is in some way divine that they even within
that theology, they have massive difference of opinion.
Like to have big enough
lumberjack winners that in a couple of inactive each everyone
wishes the kingdom or 14 Has that test even more.
Who is Albanian at the exit to play the prophets I said the
athlete the top and wish the game are not going to break away from
their crypto interest as they get older Soo Min Allah the indefinite
article that Rasul Allah, ye through superfamilies Sahara Rosu
loan in Allah meaning unrestricted is Nikita getting a great
messenger and exalted messenger from God.
Well ma microphone with each other.
And then the rest of us
would make dinner again as they you know, who is a beginner now
that we should you know, not mentioned? This is an east side
So, according to the oxygen that east side as he called because
these the athletic keytab to have a lot of difference of opinion,
because it couldn't agree about who they were about who he was.
because it didn't stick to his teaching and follow the shitty,
and some of his so called disciples went into places they
shouldn't have gone.
But this time, we don't know much about
what the true Christian. Yeah, some of the scholars surmise that
many of the epi knights fleeing from Roman persecution came down
into the hijas. And that's how they explained the Christology of
the Quran. This is why the Quran, for example, denies sonship of
Christ and His divinity because the Prophet says to them was
influenced by me and I elements, there really is no evidence for
it. There are no Christian tribes living in Mecca at the time of the
papacy. There's a Christian here and there, a lot of have been no
fun as a Christian was the FEMA.
We don't know his Christology is probably not. But certainly, there
were no Christian tribes. There were no Jewish tribes living in
Mecca, either in Europe, but yeah, there's Jewish tribes in North and
disabled. To go out a little bit more with my Christian tribe,
Manny Hanifa, was a Christian tribe, but not in Mecca. Right.
And it's interesting, the dominant opinion is that the United did not
believe in the virgin birth with the Quran confirms it in two
places.
Anyway, any more questions?
I just want to show you one more verse.
This is a 1112 Chapter 11 verses 12.
To 14
Very interesting.
very troubling for Trinitarian Christians, the cursing of the fig
tree.
The next day,
he went up from Bethany, and He was hungry.
And he saw a su cane, which is a fig tree
from a distance.
There's a lot of figs and olives, in Palestine. So even ambassadors
Latina was a tune. Teen fig is a reference to Jehovah God with the
Ark of Noah dopt. They tune fit is a reference to Jerusalem.
All right, the Mount of Olives is right next to the temple. Rahim
live 20 See mean, was it a better dinner main backup. So a lot of
taking an oath accustomed by all four of these things, did not pass
by the Shetty out of all four of these things in a particular kind
of insanity accelerated way that the insan Some say this is the
prophets, I said, is the best mode.
In other words, these four scriptures bear witness the
greatness of
somebody. Anyway. So Jesus comes to this fig tree, and he sees that
he sees it from afar. So he goes to it to find fruit, he doesn't
find anything. So then he curses it for the time of fruit was not
yet. So you see the problem here from a theological standpoint is
that the scientists that I was supposed to be God. And of course,
we have qualitative attributes of God the Christians have the
effects of mining, one of the qualitative attributes is other
seven of them in as long as m and n this is n looks a lot like
omniscience
that means all knowing
omnipotent,
all powerful, either the Divine Will busser and Santa Kalam and
higher.
So God has a hearing and seeing not like you we hear and see.
speaking abilities, not like we speak and life cannot die. So the
fact that a sighted does not know something, seeing a fig tree from
afar, thinking there's fruit, and then seeing that it's out of
season. It's not the right season demonstrates that he doesn't know
something. There's enough there's a deficiency in intellect, or an
optimum or a knowledge. So he's disqualified as being gone.
The moment
I guess the hemorrhaging problems?
Yeah.
Oh, my God, like you're both elaborated. I mean, it seemed
pretty obvious that you had no idea what was floating around.
That seemed like it ultimately.
Yeah, that's a good one. Yeah. That's that's also troubling. So
he's talking about a parable or curricula v where a a woman who
has been hemorrhaging for years and years she has stuff is the
harbor.
She touches the phobe of Asa Lisa, and she immediately becomes healed
and then he turns around says Who was that?
And he says, I felt some power leaving.
Again, very troubling. He doesn't know who did it and then he
apparently has a power supply
It's
very troubling the silence. The Christian will say about this this
year and say, Look, he's still a man. Right? But the problem here
is because according to counsel, Kelsey Dawn, he's 100%, God and
100%. Man the same time. Yes, he's a man in the sense that he has to
eat and drink and do these types of things. But when it comes to
qualitative attributes, like knowledge, is knowledge has to be
perfect. The Christian sort of speaks out of the other side of
his mouth. Because in other times, they'll say Jesus knew what people
were thinking, because He's God. Right? Yeah. But then here, he
says, Oh, he's just a man. And there's verses, but he doesn't
know something. Right? So that's what qualitative attribute means,
means this is the quality of God. God has this quality of all
knowledge. If a person claiming to be God does not have this quality
is disqualified. He cannot be God. That's what that means.
Right? The fact, let's just say for instance, we entertain the
Christian. Okay, well humor you for now.
So he created this victory. Certainly, he knows everything
about the fig tree. The fact that first of all, he sees the fig tree
from a distance and make judgments.
And then he approaches a fig tree that he created, and he knows
everything about it, he discovers, oh, it's the wrong season. And
then he becomes angry and curses the fig tree for doing something
that he commanded us to do
in a certain season.
So it's just very, very problematic for Christian, but
isn't it comforting that, you know, a prophet or listen to the
philosopher would actually curse or more painful?
It's yeah, and I don't think it's problematic. It does show
impetuousness. But that's would be considered in inpatients
and out by Sharia simonside. It's a short temper.
So that doesn't, it's us it's, it's conceivable for a profit.
issue. Yeah. Although, you know, it's kind of it would be
considered like a sin in the rank and the MACOM of a profit. I sin
in the MACOM of a profit is a good act, according to us or a mundane
act, but to a profit is a sin.
And some of the Christians say this is a parable, it didn't
actually happen. The cursing of the fig tree is a parable for
Israel, and Jesus is cursing Israel. And that opens up another
bag of goodies.
So some Christians if they had sufficiency is both. So there's a
there's a thought here. And there's a often meaning, there's
an apparent and a non apparent or exoteric, and esoteric meaning in
exoteric meaning is yes, this, in fact, did happen. Jesus approached
a fig tree, he falls out of season and cursed it. But what that means
is, he's cursing Israel, because they're just believing in Him.
And so the tree is done.
So we went over a definition, definition of who Allah is. Yeah,
that
was that had
come along
with that,
types of what is their definition of who God is. So we can, you can
have some, you can have six, if we save for one second, he's all
knowing and knowing these humans are understanding, so let their
definition so we can know what their definitions are going to
define it like this. And we'll get the word that's in their creed,
we'll get to it. Because every person that Trinity has a
different definition.
Every person
but the thing is, it still doesn't make sense because they say, Oh,
the father is omnipotent, and all knowing,
right? And easily. Here, they say he doesn't know because he's still
a man. But he shares an essence with the Father, which
necessitates him to know as well. So ultimately, industry. So they
don't have a, it's a big, it's just too big.
No one can explain it.
When you can't explain God's nature anyway, but at least it
should make some sort of rational sense, consistency. Consistency
Exactly.
There's actually we'll finish with this. There's a verse in Matthew,
we'll look at as well. Matthew 2436. Jesus says, of that day,
nobody knows. Meaning the Day of Judgment of that day, nobody
knows.
Not the angels, nor the Son, and only the Father. Right? There's
some manuscripts of Matthew where that verse nor the sun has been
removed from the gospel, because Christian scribes copying it down
to Oh my God. Jesus doesn't know the day of judgment. He's not got
Let's move this out of the gospel. So we're gonna be here in a
capital S That's That's referring to Jesus. Yeah.
Again, this is, this is important that we understand the context. So
the Son of God right?
In a Hellenistic world, right Greco Roman world, this is a
divine person. This is the Roman emperor, like I said, case of
Augustus.
videos do we, on an ancient Roman coin that was minted at the time
of Caesar Augustus, Caesar, the Son of God.
sitios do eat in front of God. And then it says, at Temple try,
father of the country, he son and father at the same time.
So, the expression lord and savior is taking the train out of the
empirical lord and savior kuti us. Chi Soto. That's exactly what they
call the Roman emperor.
But this phrase in a Semitic Jewish context, means a highest
Jew.
Okay, if you read the Old Testament,
Israel is my son, even my firstborn
to David, you are my son this day has he gotten you? Right to
to Moses, he says, You will be as God unto Pharaoh, and Aaron as
your prophet, your God, because of your Elohim your God.
Not literally.
In the psalms at Psalm 86.
It says, You are God's all sons of the Most High.
mean you are not gods, as in a big G, but divine. Not deity, your
divine. Your god like your holy people, your your sacrosanct
people, that's what it means. So when you say that son of God, so
there's SONS OF GOD mentioned in the Old Testament, but the Son of
God, in a Jewish context means the Messiah, that's a messianic title.
Okay? Just like when we say
it's a there's a group of prophets hear from different people. And
then we say, where is the Prophet? Who are you talking about?
We talked about the Prophet salallahu Salam, but even though
their prophets, right, there are other prophets, but you know,
everyone knows that you say, whereas the Prophet you're talking
about the Prophet says, so you have sons of God. You have oh,
yeah, the Jews have a concept of Olia righteous people, the concept
of being, you know, righteous people. And then you have the Son
of God, who is the Messiah
is a definite article. That's what it means. It's a messianic title.
But this Jewish concept was Hellenized.
By Christians, that were evangelized, by Paul, into
paganism.
When that's next time we were over in Christianity, we didn't really
go over Semitic missionaries.
We're gonna get to that book.
And another one, what from Mark? Should we like, really memorize or
are dalawa? The verses we go? Yeah. And anything else that you
read? Anything else that you really have a question about? In
class?
Is your book cover this?
Sometimes, like some of these marks? Not a disorder, of course,
because yes, a little bit. I don't think it goes specifically in the
gospels but of course reputation.
And the garden accordingly, X codecs that we just learned. In
the last class, you mentioned the molecule documents. Do they have
any relationship with each other question?
Well, the Codex Sinaiticus is a fourth century document.
That's the workflow Luke and John are included in the Codex
Sinaiticus. Their source was Q, Luke and Matthew sources to the
queue was written very early around 40 or 50.
That's, that's what's so great about Q source document is that
it's not tainted by Paul's Christology. It's written
concurrently with Paul, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are influenced
by Paul. That's why the passage of the cross is so central.
Whereas Q, there's no trace of any question there.
We'll get some more to Q when we look at the question over here on
the right.
It seems like it's the same
My wife and then like
daughter
O'Hara
pretty much
what versus
March 7? I forgot. But it says like, this is how it is. Because
when they talk about when talking about this, yeah. And it says the
wife Lisa would want to marry her.
Another Hadith that says what's the set of some Allah who I sent
through what I was doing a study on Abu Allahu
Allah Alayhi Salatu was the seven heavens and the seven earths are
built upon where you can say are suspended by vocal Allahu Ahad.
What does it mean?
They are and I must say this means that as long as people believe
that God has had that they haven't done the earth stay intact.
As long as people believe and follow Allah who I had, they
haven't been interested in fact that Allah says in the photos that
ammonium, my father to have a rock man what are the look at the
machine? And did they say a lot of Begotten Son the Most Gracious has
he gotten a son because the terrible things are saying concat
do some lft was audible, you have to determine what kind of shut
people out to do what the federal zhiban who had that. And now we
have our money whatever it is as if the skies are going to burst.
And the earth is going to split and the mountains are going to be
leveled because the sky the sun at it to cat who means almost almost
like to happen because people are saying this about a loss of data.
But there are still people who believe that Allah is
what is the difference? We can walk it and I had wonderful though
a lot of walking.
Anyone know the difference?
So if I say for example,
I say
it No, right? You don't wash it?
It is one man.
What does that mean? It could be two men. There could be Yeah, it
could be anyone right? There could be more, but I'm just saying I'm
one of them. I'm one man, that doesn't negate the existence of
other regulatory jobs. But if I say I really wanted
to learn, I had one. Now I'm saying that there isn't in the
rest of creation. It does not exist in the rest of creation. Any
other human being any other person who has the qualities of Rajul
except for me. I'm the only logical so that means Okay, so
let's say Lochhead. That's not good enough things one Christians,
they got his walking, but they also say what that he manifested
in three persons. Right? That's not absolute uniqueness. I had
like when the law was about the the ankle was being tortured, and
they're putting goop on the statue in the states and saying cool
brothers. God isn't me. And he's not saying Allah, Allah because
they believe in Allah. Allah God, that's great. He's one guy, but
this is another guy. And he's running walking, walking, walking.
Right God great, a lot of luck. But that doesn't mean that there's
another job. And he's one of many gods. I had one I had, like, this
is this isn't a front of them. Is the only gospel No, no, I had
named he's one of a kind. Why this one? Well, I had one other time.
Okay.
So he started, he says,
Shema Yisrael Adonai Eloheinu. Adonai is calling the Torah Musa,
the Kadima bein in a surah. He confirms the theology of the todo,
he's not bringing new theology
that's the last thing. And one more thing for Mark I'm sorry, the
end of Mark.
The end of mark there for ending to Mark's gospel for different
endings. This is really interesting. When you say
within the same gospel, when the same or different Greek
manuscripts. There are four different attested endings in
different Greek math. Remember, there's 5500 or so Greek
manuscripts of the New Testament.
None of them are identical, no two are identical.
And if you look at the 5500 different manuscripts, there are
four endings of Mark's gospel. There's kind of the traditional
ending which what we have in like the authorized King James Version
of the Bible is called the Authorized Version AB, or King
James Version. This is the most popular translation in English,
first time 1611 under the auspices of His Majesty, King James of
England,
but this is called the New King James Version. Basically, they
made a little bit easier to
Understand, but if you read the end the mark,
the longer ending is there was not as the longer ending of Mark. So,
in this version, Mark ends at 1620. There's 20 verses in Marvel.
Okay?
Now, in the Greek edition that was done by the United Bible Society,
this one here, with gospel actually ends at verse eight. And
then they put nine to 20 in double brackets.
Which means that it's a later addition to the text. What they're
telling you is the scholar of the United States Civil Society,
they're saying that these verses nine through 20 are additions or
fabrications to mark soft, the later editions Mark didn't
actually write them.
So the question is, why add these verses?
Remember, at the very beginning of Mark's gospel, is an addition.
Why?
Because you will
know
that Jesus is the son of that. Why? Why did you want to do that?
Unless Christology? It lacks Christology. Good. Remember,
Mark's gospel is very thin on Christology.
He wants to pat it up a little bit, to write it mark one one.
Right. He says, this is the gospel. This is the gospel to
beginning our K. He won't give you he preschool. And then how you
feel in practice, the Son of God, God does not appear and Alec Owen
and accoding sciatic is, nor in the clinic, that is
the most ancient Greek witnesses not include Son of God, the most
ancient Greek witnesses do not include nine to 20 of chapter 16,
either. The Codex Sinaiticus does not include that of chapter 16 of
Mark, very interestingly, how does the gospel end then?
It's very interesting.
So this is what happened.
So besides it seemingly crucified,
then women,
they go to
the separator,
Mary Magdalene, and married of Jacob
unsettlement. These three women, they go to the separator
and they go there. And the stone has been rolled away. There's no
one inside. And then it ends kaiku Danny, who then a pawn a bunch,
oh, God, that's the that's what they said nothing to no one
because they were afraid period.
Why is that problematic?
Why do you think a scribe have read that they will? Oh?
Yeah, it's kind of a cliffhanger. No one sees a resurrected Christ.
This is the greatest miracle, right? No one sees the resurrected
Jesus. In other words, there's a feeling that we don't really know
what happened. They go into what they think is a sucker is open,
they run away afraid.
Right? So it's a clip, they don't like it. They don't like this
ending. It's too ambiguous. You can draw too many conclusions from
it, that are outside of quote unquote, Christian orthodoxy. So
what happens is,
later scribes, they add these verses towards the end 12 verses?
And what happens in the full verses?
Okay, what happens is, Mary goes and tells two disciples, what's
significant about what's significant about two men
to
two witnesses, equal one woman, and Jewish.
So even if there's three women, their their testimony is thrown
out of court. According to Jewish any author needs to be at least
one or two men. Right? So they tell two disciples, they go into
the tomb, they see what's happening, then Jesus permission
to disciple, and then he says to them, you can handle poisonous
snakes, and you can drink poison, and nothing will ever happen to
you. This is what he says, and these verses, these fabricated
verses, I debated a Christian one time, and he was saying the Bible
is the Word of God. And I said, okay, the Bible says, Jesus says
at the end of Mark, you can drink poison for giving him a bottle of
White House, which may or may not kill him probably not making me
sick, though. That's all I had at the time.
He looked at it and he said, Well, you know, scholars believe that
those verses are fabricated anyway. And there was a gasp from
the audience.
Are you just says a word of a nice thing at the fabrication. So I
said, if the fabrication I want you to rip it out of your Bible.
You have a fabrication in your Bible. Right? Rip it out of your
Bible.
Why not? So there's there was a man recently named named Mark
Wolford. If you're interested in Appalachian State Campbell is a
pastor in and out. I think he was in Alabama or Arkansas, sir. All
right. And during the church services, they actually bring in
places to handle them.
And he was bitten, he died.
And what's really interesting is his father died the same way. His
father also died during church.
And I feel like going on and saying that versus a fabrication
to the text. Please don't do that.
So after they run away,
Jesus comes back and tell in public to these men are the
witnesses, he speaks to His disciples went to a longer than
the house, like physically or that's another. That's another
good question is how does Jesus appeared to them? Does he appear
as a ghost as a human being? Or is it is like spiritualizing, the
glowing and walk through walls? That's another issue. We'll talk
and pretty soon it's all so when you say disciples, do you mean,
like believers in Christianity and core disciples that are mentioned
in the gospel? So the snake handlers, they believe their
disciples?
I already think the general public are just particularly insightful.
He's talking to the cycles, but by extension to that we push him to
believe. Yeah, why not? Why not?
He's saying that you're in doubt with, with, with power,
that are from heaven, that you have these.
These gifts, these charismatic gifts are
now these deities right? Come back. And so he's
giving some proofs out to people so they can.
Yeah, so he's telling the disciples since you've witnessed
my resurrection, your faith is complete, basically. And now
you're you've been endowed with charismatic gifts to cut them up.
And we're kind of carried by the Arabic word.
Which means some sort of power that's given that you can do
something like cut them out, the Saints can do miracles, even what
even drink poison to die.
rather dramatically raise them after the death? Do you think it's
possible, conceivable for things to do? So early Christians were
saying they could do these things. The thing is, nowadays, people
believe they're saying to me, get this my snake and they die.
They die.
Just what is the fabrication? Because that's the whole point.
That's besides the point. The point is, that's not part of what
Mark actually wrote. This is the 1952, Revised Standard Version.
If I was in America,
and 1955, and I took this out to church, and I pointed it out like
this, I probably get beaten,
at best.
So this Bible was done by 32 scholars of the highest eminence,
backed by 50, cooperating denominations of Christianity. And
I think,
and why is the Bible so controversial, is because they
went back to ancient Greek manuscripts. And they took out the
longer ending of Mark, they took out the phrase front of God, or
they put a footnote next to it. So this is spurious. They took out
first John five, seven, the only verse in the Bible that explicitly
mentioned the Trinity.
They took out the woman caught in the act of adultery, the beginning
of John chapter eight, which was a beloved story. The Christians were
literally rioting in the streets in America, and
they were buying these books in bookstores, and they were burning
them in effigy in the streets. One of the revisers of this Bible,
Bruce Metzger, he kept getting these packets of other packages
through his office, and he opened his ashes. And he took that as a
threat on his life as he kept all these
jars of ashes in his office. And I asked him, What do you think about
this? And he said, at least the burning translations. Now we're
not translators used to burn translators, analysis
translations. So it's a step up. They also said a congressman named
things struck in the system, Congress, United States
Congressman, he stood up and he held up the 1963, revised version,
and said, you know why this is red?
Because it's a communist conspiracy.
Interesting.
Give me all about this 1952 Revised Standard Version. So Brett
commie Bible has been
stripped of our essential theology, and this is not enough.
And then poor Harry Orlinski, there was a Jewish man, the only
Jew on the board, because he brought in an expert on the Old
Testament, and eventually the scapegoat ism, and said, Oh, it's
the Jew. It's you.
Anyway, so that's all I want to say about Mark we're gonna move on
to Matthew now spends a lot of time on mark. The Gospel of
Matthew is called cuts on my say, according to Matthew,
who wrote it, Matthew, according to tradition, the solid will tell
you that it's pseudo anonymous. In fact, anonymous, no one identifies
itself. The author
or does not identify himself. Matthew is called the Beibei,
Hebrew
disciple of Jesus. Where was it written probably in Antioch in
Syria and Syria, large Jewish population. What's the genesis of
the translation of the this is called the Shema is coalition or
is it appointed? As part of it? Yeah. So the first word here is
shamanic. shamanic?
No, it's not.
Which means listen, should I listen, O Israel, the LORD our
God, the Lord is one. Listen, O Israel, the LORD our God, the Lord
is wanting. So when Jews feel depth approaching, they want their
final words to be shamanic.
Just like into the Shabbat
is that
so there's one name I want you to be familiar with, before we move
on, actually is William Tyndale, who was killed in 1525. The reason
I bring him up, as mentioned in the preface of the
Revised Standard Version, he was the first man to actually
translate
the Bible from original languages into a different language. And he
did it in English, it was from England. So he translated the Old
Testament for Hebrew, New Testament from Greek into English.
What happened to him he mentioned he mentioned here in the preface,
he was betrayed into the hands of his enemies and October 15 36,
publicly executed and burned at the stake. And that's an
understatement.
He was killed in a very, very horrific way. It was another man
before him whitelist 13 A for who died.
He didn't actually translate from original languages into different
Latin.
But then 30 or so years after his death, he was declared a heretic
at a church council. So his body was exhumed. bones were crushed,
and thrown into the Rhine River.
Translation and serious business for the church. They don't want
people the laity to know what the Bible has to say. They want to
censor the Bible
for Greek because it will be translated from Hebrew and Greek
original languages. He was the first but whitelisted and from
Latin that's not an original language. That's a translation of
a translation. Interestingly, here, this is what he says this is
what they say 10 nails work became the foundation of subsequent
English translations. So this man who was burned at the stake as a
heretic, his translation into English is almost 80% reproduced
in the authorized version of the New Testament. What happened was,
there was a Protestant Reformation. Now you can actually
translate the Bible when he was born a few years too early. If he
was about 50 years later, he would have been a hero, but he's a
heretic and he was burned. He's actually tied to a state that was
strangled and still alive that failed them. Then they burned
them. Then they
influencers declares YOU HERETIC others have been along the lines
of either them watering. McCollum
was a transition is a transition was in the church history and
someone has Yeah, I mean, the church will change his view on
certain people. Joan of Arc is a perfect example. Joan of Arc was
killed by the Catholic Church as a heritage of crossdresser. So she
wasn't an apostate just Tyndale was not you know, he didn't leave
Christianity. It is apostate because the the translation, Jonah
Marquis, just dressed me dressed like a man. And they said this is
a violation of Deuteronomy four it says that a person is the man who
dresses like a woman and vice versa, right? Which is kind of
strange, because Christians believe the Old Testament that
abrogated or come up but you know, whatever suits suffering purpose,
I guess. That's the Catholic Church, I guess, I don't know. But
they said you're a heretic and founder of the state a few years
later at the same institution that killed her canonized as a saint.
So this tends to happen as well. But the thing about Tyndale was he
was declared a heretic by the Catholic Church of England. Then
after the Reformation, the Protestant they really love this
translation. Wasn't she not not processing the way we refer to it,
but she was inspired to lead an army so she dressed as a man
right. To, to lead for the environment.
Yeah, right. So she had a,
they had she had a vision and awakened state of, of Jesus or
married, I told him to leave the army. But I just wanted to bring
that name up. And he says here, the King James version has raised
defects.
The most popular English translation, according to the
scholars of the 1952, Revised Standard Version, this has grave
defects. And these defects are so serious as to call for revision.
Now it's interesting here, look how the committee actually did
this. The committee
requires that all change is the agreed upon by a two thirds vote
of total membership of the committee. So they have different
versions of the Bible. They have to choose one they have and they
vote on it. Two thirds will mean they both make something, the word
of God very much like an Ico, they voted to make Jesus equal with the
father of Constantinople, they voted to make the Holy Spirit, God
as well. And then he says you're
wearing more probable or convincing readings to be obtained
by assuming different vowels. This has been done. So they give
himself a lot of license to move Bibles around it all.
Right, interested in
the King James version, the New Testament, based on a Greek text
was marred by mistakes. I'll let you if you want to get one of the
places to teach you.
Can you find that you can probably find them on probably on Amazon, I
think they still have some laying around
was a little hard for me to find. Anyway.
Back to Matthew, so any often Syria with us living in the
diaspora outside of the Holy Land.
It was written around 80 to 95 of the Common Era around there,
8085 90 magnifier, something like that. Remember, at this time is
major turmoil happening in the world of the Jews, and 70 of the
Common Era, the temple was burned down by General Titus, the Jews.
They many of them fled from Palestine. In 121 32, of the
Common Era, there was another insurrection in Palestine, the
final Jewish try to free their homelands of these pagan Romans.
Right? In 132 of the Common Era. This is called the car, Park
Kokhba rebellion, bar Coco.
Bar, Coco was a match Simon Bar Kokhba.
With a bar mean they're made in
China, right?
So that's like Ibnu, right.
And then Coca
Cola Company is a star, the son of the star. So this was not his
actual name. There's a person in numbers 2417, that most Jews
believed to be a messianic prophecy that says a star shall
rise out of Jacob, a star shall arrive a star, a cold cup.
So he made the claim of Messiah. He was endorsed by big rabbis at
the time in the early second century. So they gave him the name
bar cocobod. The son of the star, this is a comment this is called a
patronymic.
Article in reference that you give some
numbers. This is a in The Telegraph.
fourth book, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy.
Okay, so what happened here is the emperor, the Roman emperor, at the
time of the men in Hadrian, who hated Jews, the political and
Hadrian
really hated the Jews. So he sent an army into Palestine, and they
completely crushed the Jewish rebellion. Over 50,000 Jews were
killed. Simon Bar Kokhba, his head was removed from his body put on a
stake on the Temple Mount, and either was put on the Temple
Mount, which is the greatest insult to leave the abomination of
desolation, something that entire kids did to the Jews in the second
century before the Common Era. Anyway, he was renamed by Jewish
rabbis, assignment bar cozy, but
what is cozy kept about?
The son of the liar. So Bar Kokhba
might be offensive for us to hear is called Simon developers.
Many of them are cooking them as far as cozy Bob,
the son of the liar.
So Hadrian, he renames, Jerusalem, from Euro shanann, to Aliah
capital, Lina has a new name, alias Capitolina. And we expelled
every Jew from Jerusalem. He said, You come back, we kill you on the
spot. The Jews really have a true diaspora.
In the middle of these two insurrection, you got the Gospel
of Matthew,
between 70 and 132, all four gospels actually are the Mark was
concurrent with the first rebellion. And Mark, remember
believe that that first rebellion meant it was the end of the world?
So who is this gospel for? It's for Jews in the diaspora? It's
that word to them, calling them towards the truth of Christ. It's
also for Christians living in that area in the diaspora, to increase
their certitude and to use as a polemical tracking against them.
Jewish opponents. Right? There's Matthew, obviously very familiar
with the Old Testament. This is one of his major themes. We'll get
into that, that he quotes from the Old Testament alludes to it over
100 times. Right? So the average Christian living in Antioch is
illiterate and doesn't really know how to, you know, he gets into a
debate with a Jew. Why do you think Jesus is God? Because he was
a miracle worker. Well, so where's your delight is now Matthew,
Matthew with all of these scriptural evidences. So that's
how it was used.
The structure of the gospel
the structure of the gospel is, the first part is the genealogy,
which is missing from Mark right Mark does not give the genealogy
and infancy narrative, also missing from Mark.
So, Matthew, He begins by giving a genealogy going back to Abraham,
Abraham, when we got Isaac, Isaac, we got Jacob, Jacob, we got
Judah and his brother and Judah who we got Zehra and thought is
through, come on, who's come up?
Come on. It's very interesting story. We'll talk about it later.
But
some of the names of the ancestry of the Saudis that are very
strange people, if you read about what they actually did in the Old
Testament, anyway, there's a genealogy. Well, what's the point
of the genealogy?
Search? Yeah, so this is considered a W. Right? Because
what would you saying?
Jesus? Where does it come from? Is it just a carpenter from a
backwater town? What are you talking about losing the Messiah
is from David. Right. That's what they believe the Messiah descend
from David, the house of David. So Matthew, we actually produces a
genealogy of Jesus that goes back to Abraham, and actually goes
through David.
Okay. That's the point of the genealogy is to convince people
that Jesus is a descendant of David. However, what's really
interesting is, there's no way Jesus can be a descendant of
David.
Why?
He was no, and because there's a virgin birth. Right? And Mary is
not from David. Mary's, the Levites. Luke tells us that Mary
is a cousin of Elizabeth, one of the daughters of parents.
Aaron and the Levite did not do that. Different tribes.
So Matthew, how does Matthew deal with this issue? He introduces to
us a character named Joseph the carpenter.
Joseph the carpenter says this is a new character. Not in Mark.
Joseph the carpenter uses a nutjob.
Joseph, the carpenter is a descendant of David.
Okay. So he's betrothed to Mary.
But how does this solve the issue? Still? How does this make Jesus
that isn't enough?
of David?
That doesn't work like that. It doesn't work like this doesn't
solve anything. Unless he has the actual biological father of Jesus,
that He sent. He's the son of David. But
Matthew certainly believes in the virgin birth. He writes about it.
Right. So how does Matthew sort of
reconcile the virgin birth with the Messiah, the Son of David is a
mystery.
It's a mystery.
That he's still not a descendant of David. What was the
relationship between Joseph and Mary, they're engaged to be
married.
They're engaged, married the Levites. She cannot she is not
allowed to marry outside of her tribe to leave it was theirs.
There's a special speciality about the
Healthy tribe of Levi's.
They don't participate in military, they're exempt from
military expedition. Right?
They're not allowed to marry more than one wife.
They are not allowed to drink alcohol. And they're not allowed
to marry outside the tribe, which is a priestly tribe. The
priesthood has to remain intact. It has to be pure. These are sons
of Aaron, the first high priest, so Mary is a Levite. She is the
daughter of Aaron, one of the descendants of Aaron. Right? Yeah.
What was the hot on private differences? Oh, oh, sister,
Aaron, meaning descended on Aaron. The brother elucidates
to Joseph the carpenter is invented to sort of connect Jesus
somehow metaphysically to the line of David because the Jews believe
this was their strongest evidence against Jesus before Matthew, why
do you believe he's the Messiah? He comes from nowhere. Where's his
lineage? His mother is a Levite and his father is God knows who
didn't believe in the virgin birth. It was Latin or exotic.
And to this day, he was in the Babylonians.
When Jesus is referred to ascend Panthera, and pan there is a Roman
centurion who apparently raised money, it is not for a loss. So
that's what they refer to him in the Jewish Catholic
Babylonians.
We'll get more into that later until,
to genealogy, then you have an interesting narrative, which is
the Molad are the foundation, you have an infancy, virgin birth and
so forth.
Then you have what's known as the five major discourses.
Then,
you have the five major discourses
the five major discourses, number one sermon on the mount,
number two instruction to his disciples.
Number three parables of the kingdom of God.
Number four instructions to the church, which is called KCRW,
which are present at church but really seems, a gathering of
believers, and then instructions to the church. So Sermon on the
Mount instructions to the disciples, parable of the kingdom,
number four instructions to the church. Number five warnings of
the final judgment.
Why is this important for Matthew, why five major discourses? You
don't have any idea? Why is this number significant?
Matthew, think in terms of Old Testament, every trying to prove
that Jesus was very good. There's five books in the tota in Greek,
the Torah called Pentateuch, pentateuch and the five scrolls.
Okay, so Matthew is constructing his gospel to sort of mimic that
tilde.
Okay.
So here are the tenets of excellence, Leviticus, Numbers,
Deuteronomy, as the Bible says, in the five scrolls, and either
a Greek name, but then you have the Hebrew name.
But Matthew, Then, because he's trying to prove that Jesus is the
true Messiah, he mimics that aspect of it. So Matthew says,
Jesus as an infant went to Egypt.
No other Gospel of Luke who has a birth narrative, what's
significant about Egypt?
What is significant about Egypt?
That's where Moses came out of, right? So Musa, he came out of
Egypt, therefore Jesus is also coming out of Egypt, because Jesus
is like Moses, according to Matthew, Jesus, fulfilled the
prophecy in 1880. In Deuteronomy,
so this is a prophecy
of a prophet that come was similar to Moses.
Deuteronomy acjc.
Yeah, it's just a case of Latin
America, the prophet from Webster, brethren, liked them to you,
and he shall I shall put My words into his mouth, and he shall speak
unto them all that I shall command him. Okay, so although Matthew
would never close at ATMs that are automated, which is very strange,
because he quotes over 80 or 100 verses of the of the Old
Testament, his entire structure is built upon this verse 1818, that
Jesus is the prophet like Moses, Jesus did the fulfillment of this
long awaited prophecy.
This is why you have Jesus going to Egypt, because Moses went to
Egypt. This is why another character introduced in Matthew,
which is not in Mark is Herod, King Herod
inherited the puppet ruler of Judea at the time of the birth of
the Saudis. That is succeeded by Herod Esopus. The man who
interrogated Jesus as an adult, but King Herod
do he learns from the Magi. This is also in Matthew, the Magi. Who
are the Magi.
Promises good. There are Persian astrologers or so Astrium, mad
Jews, the Quran talks about non Jews and so the hajus
or after an astrologer from Persia, they are able to follow a
star right, the star of the Messiah. And some Christian
commentators say it's not literally a star. It's an angel
that was guiding them, but they perceived it to be a star. So they
follow the star all the way into Bethlehem, and then keep hovering
over a manger.
So parent learns of the Magi and interrogate them. And what brings
you here is as well as the kingdom
Judah is about to be born, the king of Israel is going to be
born.
So Harrington says, I'm going to institute a slaughter of the
innocents, just like food.
Just like that out. Again, there's a similarity between Jesus and
Moses. When Moses was born Pharaoh, he carried out the
slaughter of the firstborn sons of Israel. They were thrown mostly
thrown into the river Nile, and Musa they set up. He was saved
because his mother received one from Allah Subhana Allah. And he
was put into the Nephilim knees and then she was he was picked up
by Austria. I think so. So when Herod is going to slaughter, all
the kids of Bethlehem, the newborn son, Joseph has a dream department
very much like, like, the mother of Moses had a dream. Joseph has a
dream that says, go to Egypt immediately. So he thinks his
wife, Mary was very pregnant at the time. And they go into Egypt
for some time. And then they come back, actually, to Nazareth, they
avoid Judah, they go into Galilee, northern Palestine, because
parents have little control over what's going on there. He was a
king of Judea, Southern Palestine.
So
Matthew,
he mentioned, Jesus been going to Egypt
after he was born.
But then also, I think, I think that she was pregnant as much as
he was already born.
And seeing her so you also, you also introduced inherited as a way
to, to relate her to get her out? Yeah, so he's an archetype. You'd
have these archetypes and New Testament, repeating themes to
arrive. He's been what he's doing. He crafted very well. He's trying
to prove the Jews in the diaspora. Jesus is the Messiah and the
prophet like in devotion to all of these reoccurring archetypes.
And then due to Matthew's Gospel, the sermon on the mount is like
what Moses on the mountain. Luke doesn't call it the Sermon on the
Mount because the Sermon on the flame, amount of the plan are very
different. But he's just again, Matthew Again, wants to show you
that this is the Messiah, the prophet like Moses, what's the
hundreds the Jews view astrology or when they were introduced?
To do accessory departments? You know, the astrologer is, the Torah
says that is trolled. You must be put to death. But heron, he's not
a very good Jew.
He's like, the George Bush of Christian.
Oh, this analogy I can make? Yeah.
But, uh,
so yeah, he's a puppet ruler, he was placed by the Romans, because
he can just sort of do whatever the Romans want. And here's some
money and wealth and you can be the king and you know, do whatever
you want for your people as long as you do whatever we tell you to
do. Right? So he takes these things a little seriously, I
guess, probably the story's invented anyway, probably didn't
happen. There's no historical evidence of this ever happening.
The slaughter of children of Bethlehem is zero historical
evidence. And we have a lot of evidence historically, from that
period, you'd be surprised. Roman sources, Jewish sources, Christmas
orders, nothing, only this source before. Matthew mentioned, the
slaughter of the innocents. So
when Jesus was
put to the cross, was advised the Romans that the use of Jews were
wrong? Well, that's a very good question. And we're gonna get to
that Matthew, definitely quite the Matthew, it was all the Jews.
Pilate brings out some basin of water, and he washes his hands
with one of the crowd.
Pilots, the Roman governor is canonized as a saint by the
Ethiopian church. He's a saint in that in that in that church, why
because he has Phoenix put upon him good blame. He, he was
instrumental in the crucifixion. But then he washed his hands at
the end of it.
But still, he has blamed but it's good. Using the same kind of logic
than Judas Iscariot to portray Jesus and made it possible for
Jesus to die You should only be a thing.
We learned that thing and a couple of questions ago that at that
time, there was no Christian Jews or anything. Everyone was Jewish.
Yeah.
Right. At this point, there are no Christians. There's just Jews with
a different photo they have different kinds of methodologies.
Yeah, man that is total things like that.
The word Christian is not around at this time at all.
Catholics are introduced the term Christians. Now the book of Acts
as it was used as a derogatory term by by Jews, when they were
expelling Christians from the temple, then you're not real Jews
worship Christ out here.
In Christian,
the term Christian is very interesting too, because Christ is
from the Hebrew word mushiya. But it's a Greek translation to
something Latin.
My people Israel. So very clearly then, according to a Jewish
interpretation of the text, is that the Messiah will come from
Bethlehem, Bethlehem
Bethlehem is based they to love the house of leaves the house of
thread. So this is a city that's just a few miles away from
Jerusalem, where he signings that I was born, according to our
sources were born there on the ninth night of leaders of Israel
and Mirage, the Prophet salallahu Salam, He dismounted from the boat
off in the back, I came in different places. One of the
places we dismounted and pray and the SG read it so that where are
we? He said, this is basically the handset that I have more besides
about Jesus Christ was born. So Micah five two says clearly the
Messiah the king of Israel, is going to come from Bethlehem it
does not say that
the king of Israel will be a descendant of David. Okay, small
as you are from the towns of Judah from you, though shall arise the
Kings which will shepherd my people, Israel, David was born in
Bethlehem, also.
Okay, so that's where I think the error happened. How is the Messiah
connected to David is that they're born in the same city. They're not
necessarily from the same tribe. Okay.
This is Jesus of Nazareth,
Nazareth in Galilee. So what happened here, since you take your
article chronology
is born in Bethlehem, which is in southern Palestine to provinces
called Judea, just a few miles away from Jerusalem. And then
according to Matthew, by the Magi come into town Herod sort of
interrogate them. To tell him there's going to be a cane is
going to throw him so on so forth. So he said, Okay, slaughter all of
the newborn children in Bethlehem that's mimicking the pharaoh of
Egypt. So Joseph has a dream. And the dream says, go to Egypt, flee
to Egypt. So he takes Maryam and the baby sideways for them. And
they live in Egypt for some time. And they sort of were able to
escape the just like Moses being in the Nile.
And then eventually, the Holy Family, they relocate into
northern Palestine, in the province of Galilee, northern
Palestine, the province of Galilee, the city is called
Nazareth.
Jesus was raised in Nazareth, born in Bethlehem, raised in Nazareth,
and Jesus of Nazareth.
Now
also
shaken.
A new character Satan has mentioned and mark, but now he has
a speaking role.
The devil Yeah. So in Mark, he's, you know, he's in the Charlie
Chaplin movie. There's no, he doesn't have a speaking role. So
now it's
breathing out. So what happens if Jesus is tempted in the wilderness
is mentioned in Mark that very briefly, now he's tempted in the
wilderness and he has this conversation with Satan,
scripture, Satan patients when exceedingly high mountain and
shows him all the kingdoms of the earth, which implies that the
earth is flat. The higher you go, the more kingdoms you can
apparently see. Anyway, let's talk about that for right now. So that
he says, fall down and worship me, I'll give you all of these
kingdoms.
You shall worship the Lord your God alone, he quotes from the
Torah over and over again, he's not he said, I'm during the
temptation is quoting from the TelaDoc. Right. And this is this
is very troubling. If we were to concede that Jesus is a divine
incarnation, or that he's God, because the book of James says
very clearly, that God cannot be tempted. God cannot be tested the
book of James Epistle of James James into the brother of Jesus is
letter James. He's called Jaco that Hebrew is almost like you're
reading a tough serum online.
It's very, very Islamic, the book of James
and if you compare it to, for example, the book of Corinthians
or Roman compare, compare Romans with James it's like it's
literally two different religions.
But it's
because again, the
conflict between James Sony and somatic Christianity Hall line
telling us to
remember one time I was in a debate and efficient guy said how
come your profit libido was able to put a spell on him? Remember
libido, a sorcerer in Medina. So first of all, we talked to
Almost has or
is it a stock? No, it's something serious on the stock heavy.
Remember, talk about jump, right until the G. This is what the
earlier modules, scholars of Islam, they look at two stories
that are conflicting, and they try to harmonize. And oftentimes they
can't harmonize. But if they can't harmonize it, they have to pick
one that's stronger. For many on the Monday reject the story of
Levine casting a spell on the puppet. Executive memory. Right.
So the Christian will say, how can you believe the prophet of God,
when somebody successfully cast a spell on him and play with his
memory? Well, you believe that he Sybase that God, and he was
successfully lured to the top of a high amount of the puppet is still
a human being? He's not God. Right? So that's that's a
that's a false malicious fallacious argument. Right.
So
on to the familiar discussions
that are taking place.
Now these are the these are the three themes, genealogy, and
infancy how major discourse who has generic things with? No, he's
just one of the new characters. So when we have new characters,
Joseph the carpenter, Herod the Great, the Magi, and Satan, is our
new characters, more of what we look for major new players.
Now major themes
of the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus is the true Messiah, the supreme
teacher, the open teacher, right? It's no longer a secret number,
the Messianic secret of Mark, what's the purpose of the
Messianic secret again? Why is it when Mark when Jesus is in
Galilee, and He extracts a demon, the demon falls down, it says,
You're the son of David this show?
Why is it a secret?
So some scholars believe that Mark employed the Messianic secret in
order to explain why Jesus had such a small following.
Why is it just a few Christians, if he's the Messiah, because he
was telling people to be quiet? Another explanation is that Jesus,
he wanted to survive long enough to get to Jerusalem, because if
he's an open messiah of Galilee, the Romans would have killed them
on the spot. Because the singer the Messiah, has a political
implementation to it is not just not a spiritual feature. I can
walk on water, Messiah, and I'm the king of this land, and your
king is not the game.
So that's an affront to Roman authorities, puts quiet modality.
But in Matthew, it's not quiet. The open Messiah is the open
Messiah, the supreme teacher, the true interpreter, the reflective
of the TelaDoc. Speaking with authority, that's one theme.
Another theme, very prevalent in Matthew are Christological
typologies.
And seven are heard this word typology.
typology.
typology is a foreshadowing
of
a future person
solving attacks.
So, in other words, Matthew will call from the Old Testament,
very much like we did during the
birth narrative. And he'll say, that Heron is a typology that
Pharaoh is a typology of Herod. Okay.
That Moses is Exodus is a typology of Jesus leaving Egypt,
that the slaughter of the innocents in Bethlehem
reflects the typology of a pharaoh. These are called
typology.
Right, foreshadowing the future. So he'll quote, Matthew will
quote, or allude to the Old Testament over 100 times greater
than 100 times. But remember, he's quoting from the Septuagint. The L
x x, is called the Septuagint. This is the Greek translation of
the Hebrew Bible is unfolding directly from
translating into the Greek coin, a Greek era, and translating from a
translation. For quoting from a translation. We're not quoting
from the original Hebrew, and all four Evangelists, Matthew, Mark,
Luke, and John. That's what they'll do and we'll talk more
about this.
Matthew also performs what's known as Midrashim.
Who's ever heard of Rush?
Rush is interpretation of the TODO this comes from
data data. This is data in Arabic
meant that US interpretation,
transportation,
commentary on the Old Testament, this is quite often
there's two types of commentary that he makes, and try to stay
with the vocab here is very important.
There's Holocaust.
And then there's how Gods
that's been the
Tabatha is tough see if we can translate this
to see you.
And I'm using tofu here in the sense of commentary on verses that
deal with
commentary that deal with verses that deal with physical laws,
ritual laws. For example, Cookie the iBeacon was shut down. The
Quran says it is prescribed upon you to fast now, somebody will
read that and say, Well, how do I fast now you have to read a tough
see you
have to see it as based on the Sunnah of the Prophet salallahu
Salam, you cannot understand the Quran without sunnah to new trends
these days.
That separate a lot from His messenger. This is what they used
to do in Medina at his time. At the time, the public says, why do
people want to do that? Because if you remove the Prophet, you can
interpret the Quran however you want.
Right?
We moved the conversation, then you can interpret the Quran. Yeah,
even though the nominal lateral move, then they will get the
invaluable. They are getting a puja. Oh, you who believe don't
put yourself in the middle of a lot of messenger. Don't divorce a
lot from his message. Don't separate a lot with His messenger.
Right? Well, yes. Runa Muhammad, Allah who I saw that, he says in
Bukhara, they separate what Allah has, has ordered to be joined.
Right? So that's called the Tuff shed. I'm using Tafseer. Here not
not in the broad sense of exegesis or interpretation in general. I'm
using it in the sense of interpreting verses of the Quran
that deal with
legal rulings.
Okay, so kooky, but I think I'll see, the text here says, Well, you
wake up, you know, you, you do your soul, then you play spider.
And then when the sun looks like the sky looks like this, you get
into fat, and so on and so forth. These are things that revoke your
fat
was to have that and McGrew happen, all those things about the
fast.
That's
Holika.
Okay, so exceedences of legal rulings, Matthew does that, like
on the Sermon on the Mount,
and he'll have Jesus give these interpretations of physical assets
of the tota.
Also Haggadah, we would call this an Arabic weave.
We've
the root here is a way to find the origin of something.
This is spiritual exegesis. This is esoteric interpretation, a, a
spiritual interpretation. So I'll see you or halacha deals with
exoteric aspects of the law. How are we deals with esoteric,
internal non apparent aspects of the law
and this word get into typology.
Esoteric interpretation of the law I'll give you an example.
This really deals with Aki though you have a lot of younger long
folk add him younger life hope at the end of a lot of them have
their hands yet in hand, but I can't wait yet.
So what do you do with this verse? What does that mean? The hand of
God. So these are verses
these are we'll is an interpretation of verses that seem
to indicate some sort of anthropomorphism in the moronic
texts.
Right. So while the tafsir deals with work come at we'll deals with
with the shabby hat
Okay, so the Quran says in the beginning of the Quran surah Ali
Imran whether the whether the under the advocate Kitab me who I
have to come back when the multitap what Oh, hello, Mr.
Shabbiha. He revealed the book to you, in it are verses
fundamentally established in meaning one dimensional and other
verses that are ambiguous, obscure, right, and these require
either tough weed but which means you leave the verse. You don't
interpret it
Organic,
which means that you've given a spiritual interpretation. So, the
other life of Abraham, many of the setup will say, This simply means
when Allah wills this to me, and don't worry about it, they stick
it into the shape. A lot doesn't have a hand like you have a hand.
There's nothing like a lot, don't worry about it. This is what the
southern used to do.
They used to make waves. And say this just means the power of God.
The power of God is with the meaning and the other law he
manager matters with the majority for example, according to a higher
power that would give up the protection of Allah, but then
Allah Who are the
God knows.
So, we have this type typology is very rare, from Sunday exigence.
Sometimes the father says certain extent we
refer to any basic mathematics.
This was
the typology.
The similitude of my family
is like the similitude of the Ark of Noah.
Right? So he's taking something he's taking a story in the Quran,
the apparent meaning is the story of Noah hiding Noah, the Ark of
Noah, he saved the animals in his family. And
he's saying that is comparable to my family at the end of time. My
family I think they just like the ark with Noah.
Rocky behalf up at the Naja woman to help I'm happy that whoever
embarks is safe, whoever does not is down. Some sunny exigence also
will take the shutter, Elisa and sort of people I mean, there's a
shutdown I'm thinking about a good tree and a bad tree cubbies a foul
tree. Don't say shut it up.
Thinking about is at the base of the profit the segments of the
profit and shut it up. kabisa is bending omega. This is also a
suddenly extreme. Almost all she'll say this. But some of the
some of you say that well. She actually just says typologies is
really interesting. There's a Tafseer called an exam by Tabata
very, very famous. She actually just give you an example is really
interesting, just FYI.
He says, You know the story is and sort of set up for a loss of kind
of what data describes the sacrifice that he's making it for
them. That wouldn't be sacrificed
a lot as an episode, but they not who was a day novel be Vixen, I'll
be okay, that we ran some. We ran some Ismail with a great
sacrifice.
We rent we saved him with a great sacrifice. So immensely ot says
that our beam here is sick with one MOBA. And he's something
really great. But what is the bit of goats? Why isn't goat so great?
Right? Imams, God says that because Jabril Ali Salam brought
the goat from heaven. This is why it's brave. And Tabitha there he
agrees with this, he exited. Because I agree with that. That's
on the apparent, but the esoteric is a typology of Imam for saying,
this is the panopticon.
And it's interestingly, if you go to the previous verse, before this
verse,
a last title a dataset in that has and that what that would be in
this episode was a clear test.
If you take that verse and label it number one, and then count 10
more verses, like ordinal number, first, second, third, get the 10
it says about Musa and huddle one at Jamia Houma. We'll call him a
home that means I'll cut a video of him again, I'll be in the same
column separated from 10 verses from Bala.
Caught by that
Karbala on the 10th of Muharram
is really interesting.
Because very interesting. So usually it's the she commentators
that deal a lot with typology.
But that's just something I thought was really interesting.
So this is what Matthew does to give you an example and Matthew
chapter one.
This is an example of Haagen Dazs 123 Matthew 123.
This was during the Nativity of a silence
is that when Jesus was born, it fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah.
Isaiah
714
which says,
revival here
Just he made the
heart up, that a young girl will conceive
that you're the death, pain, and she will give birth to a son
Nakara Shimo Emmanuel Al.
And he will name him a man who A's which means God with us. Emmanuel,
remarked, literally, Allah Who mana Emmanuel al Allahu mana, but
exactly the opposite. In many ways, God is love alone, man, a
lot of
so Matthew says,
this is the fulfillment, Jesus fulfilled. Isaiah 714.
Right, you see how I did that? So somebody will say, Well, what are
you? What are you talking about? If you keep reading Isaiah in
chapter eight, and says that Emmanuel is born to King Ahaz. So
you're just ignoring the context. Matthew will say, Yes, that's the
apparent context. That's the exoteric aspect of the scripture.
But the esoteric aspect is a typology of Christ.
Okay, so Justin Martyr, a church Father, in the second century,
Father bloodless theology, he wrote a book called dialogue with
crypto the Jew. And triple was an interlocutor that he invented,
having this debate between himself and a Jew, and he knows Judaism
very well. So this is one of their points of their debate. Jesus is
Emmanuel, what are you talking about? You're taken out of
context. Yes, it's good to have multiple levels of meaning. This
is how it adds up. And that's how he wins the argument.
Of course, Jesus's name is not Emmanuel.
Islam is Jesus. But they say well, because he's a divine incarnation.
Therefore his his reality is given his name.
That's an example of Matthew doing how does that any questions about
them?
Yeah, that's, that's the downside of that's why Sony actually just
sort of, they're a little tentative or doing things like
that. Because you can sort of make the scripture say whatever you
want.
But there is definitely
an annual
Emmanuel, God with us. God was literally Arabic in a loving
manner.
Literal.
Translation in and Hebrew is math, but it's reversed. Isn't this
really interesting? So my main aim, but in Hebrew with reverse a
meme.
And then new is not in the middle. And an ale is Allah. But then the
whole statement is flipped. Emmanuelle Allah hermana
very interesting. I don't know. I don't think
something
different
Yeah. And he said, he said, not not long. So as long as nobody
else
yeah, that's true. Give emphasis was like, like is beloved, like,
Musa
edge of the Red Sea in the Quran? And they say, Oh, we're gonna be
killed. He says, can that with things like, no way? In the
Mariana WBCSD?
No way with me is my Lord. He mentioned Maya, first with me and
my Lord. But when the Prophet says that I was in the cave, and I will
look at the demon, that
he didn't say, let's ask the man at a loss of verse he says, Allah
is with us. This shows
us
that's one of the proofs of the demand is that the
the way the path is being chosen
over the rest of the profits
anyway,
almost.
In other words, can you
know, this is probably more prevalent, because he is
constantly connecting events in the life of Jesus to events that
happened in the life of Hebrew prophets. So unless you're really
familiar with the last of the Hebrew prophets, it's going to be
difficult sometimes to miss quotes things we'll get to that because
you can use astrology.
No, he doesn't.
That was the logistics.
Another thing anti Jewish, extremely anti Jewish. The Gospel
of Matthew.
The Christian community is seen as the mute
Israel. Matthew chapter 23 is known as the seventh woe.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees. Woe unto you, scribes
and Pharisees, hypocrites. He says the seventh time chastising the
Pharisees, the religious establishment. Woe unto you,
scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites. How can you escape the damnation
of health? You strain at the neck and you swallow the camel.
The strain of the mat, but you swallow the camel, you're
emphasizing the one famous law that he says he got your
traditions over the law of God, and another verse and missing the
big picture. Very good. You're missing the big picture.
Are you saying that Matthew was
pleased because he had made a good transition from like the Old
Testament?
I mean, you said, I do.
Well exactly do it. But because it uses this idea of Hagia Don
halacha it's still providing a smooth transition. Even though the
implants are Jewish. Please call me. He's probably.
Right. You were okay. But now you gotta follow this right way.
Right, exactly. So then he also says, You are white, except
flickers. On the outside, you're clean, but on the inside week of
death? Would you look good on the outside, but the internal is that
this is what he says in Matthew 23. The seven Whoa. And this all
comes to a head in Matthew 2725.
This is when Jesus is
being tried by pilot, conscious pilot.
The Roman governor of Libya.
And pilot was notorious for crucified Jews.
So Pilate, interrogates Jesus, at least one, and John is a few
times, but they're not being interrogation. And he says,
There's nothing I don't find anything wrong with this guy. You
know, it's okay. Let them go. And then the crowd is they know,
Crucify Him, Crucify Him. And then they say, This man, Jesus is
telling us not to pay taxes to Caesar. Now they're bringing in
politics. The first they tried to charge him with Cooper with a
blasphemy.
Right. So they judged him in the Sanhedrin, the religious High
Court, but they can't get two witnesses to agree. Right? So this
is not working. We have to think of something else. They just want
him they want him dead. That's what they want. So then they take
the pilot and say, he's corrupting the nation. He's causing sedition.
Right? He's an insurrection. He says, don't pay taxes to Caesar,
which is a lie. Ever. He said, Whose picture is this? Caesar gets
this render out the Caesar what is Caesar's render unto God would
have gotten right. So he didn't see that they don't think they
have the decision. But so this is a lie. So Then Pilate has no
choice. So he says, you know, the crowd is, is in a frenzy,
apparently. And he's afraid of his own? Because you know, he has
authority over itself, and what are you doing and duly elected to
control these people, and he would be executed very easily, by Roman
authority to sell lots of files. So he takes he said, bring up a
basin of water, he washes his hand. And he says, May His blood
be and he said, I have free of the blood of this innocent man. And
then you hear Caiaphas in the background, according to the
movie, The Passion of the Christ, which of course is not translated,
but you can hear him say this, made his blood be upon us and our
descendants after
this is what kya Caiaphas the high priests of the Jews said, man, his
blood be upon us, Romans are innocent, completely exonerated.
This is all about the Jews. So actually 1974
the Roman Catholic Church
the Roman Catholic Church
exonerated officially the Jews from deicide
killing God, thank you. So again, for the few days I want to I want
you to memorize Valentine's Day 1349 The Valentine's Day Massacre.
So what was happening in Europe during this time?
All around Europe. Terrible, like the plague, right? Because
obviously black black death
a third of a third of Europe, was killed by the play. And the
Christians. They needed to eventually scapegoat someone like
they did the poor carry overseas and then I can excuse me by Senate
version committee. So what they noticed was these Jews aren't
dying like we are.
Yeah, and the reason is because they had Tahara. They have they
have purification laws, and they weren't dying as rapidly as the
Christians.
So they scapegoated the, the Jews to instruct for German
A straw is from Germany. On Valentine's Day 1349, a group of
about 1000 Jews were taken from their homes.
And men, women and children and they were told to convert or die.
They refused and they were all burned alive
1000
Strausberg, Germany,
German, German, the Germans and Christian, the Christians in
German, Germany, were very zealous during this time, they actually
had this thing where they would go around,
whipping themselves,
they show a filament for what was happening.
Another date is September 1215 53. This is where the Pope Julius the
third ordered all Talmudic literature
in Christendom to be burned to be destroyed
all of the Talmudic literature.
So during this time, you can imagine many rabbis refused they
were killed. During this time, many rabbis actually will go into
the Talmud and censor things.
Even so, what survives today from the tug of war about Jesus is is
very, very negative. It's in a very, this is a reason why this
order was issued by the Pope is because Jews would convert to
Christianity. And they would go to churches and say, You know what
they used to teach me.
You know, it says in our books, you guys have no idea. And the
Babylonian Talmud, it says Jesus was blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
blah, blah, blah, Mary's, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
So then the people get fired up what Jesus wants. So that just
reached the Pope. And the Pope said, burn all of the Talmudic
literature
with Julius the third.
On September 12, the official date of September 1253.
The Jews were
living in Julius Yeah.
They were oftentimes expelled from Christian majority countries. And
1290 They were completely expelled from England, completely expelled
from the entire country.
90
Completely exiled
from France 1315, and then a 1394. Right, reference data. So England
1290, France, 1315 1394. From Austria and 1421.
Yeah, England, 1290 brands 1315.
And 1394. Interesting. There's a lot of brands today, that if you
if you get a academic lecture on the Holocaust, that is against the
political official version of the story, we'll put you in jail
for doing that, sexual crime, talk about the Holocaust in a way that
doesn't reflect what
is
whatever traditional history was in
Austria 1421.
Of course, we would never say anything negative of oligopolies.
It's interesting that laws in France right now compared to what
they used to do.
So once the one final one
would be one 513 15 and 113 94, Austria, 1421 St. 1492 1492.
Columbus sailed the ocean and killed all the Muslims and the
Jews.
So this was during the Inquisition, you are forced to be
forced to be right. You know, fortunately, he was born in
Andalus. But he's very aware.
Iskandariyah is buried in Egypt.
Interestingly enough, hopefully, he writes. I actually have this in
his books. He said that during he actually had to leave. And that
was because the Christians were coming in. And they were
causing a lot of problems. He said, The Christians kept calling
me Dr. Pickles.
And he said, I don't know what this means. But they named me the
opposite.
Everywhere I go, they point and laugh at me says Diablo immortal.
So he had to leave. And he actually came down to Egypt and
Alexandria.
You mentioned two days.
It happened but
yeah, so that was one general and then there was a more
rigorous.
So the Christological and we're finishing up in the crystal.
Matthew, is to prove that Jesus is the Messiah. This is his whole
intention, which was to prove Jesus is the Messiah. He fulfilled
all
The Old Testament prophets,
all of them, and sometimes when you've overzealousness to prove a
prophecy, he will misquote something he'll miss cite
something, or he'll simply make something up out of whole cloth.
To give you an example, and not be 27 Nine.
We're told that Judas Iscariot, he betrays Jesus for 30 pieces of
silver. Matthew says, This is a prophecy of Jeremiah. Okay, so
this is about
something happened, Jeremiah,
Passover, and the typology of that is
Judas Iscariot. However, the story is not found in Jeremiah
Zechariah, chapter 11.
So Matthew is misquoting something. And interestingly, over
1900 years, 1800 years, whatever, the scribes haven't caught this
and corrected it. Everything says Jeremiah.
Why do you think that is?
Why we're going to correct it.
Right, Zacharias going into the point of blindness thing that
was the point I mean.
It was kind of it kind of discredit because
something Jeremiah, that also
there's something similar mentioned in Jeremiah, about a
field and but this 30 pieces of silver are not mentioned. The
reason why surprising changes, because they found it
embarrassing.
And changing, it would admit that there's a very clear error in
Matthew's gospel. So they said, No, he's referring to something
else in Jeremiah, but we don't really see it yet. But there's
something there.
But looks like he made an error. Also, he quotes from Isaiah
chapter 42.
To start reading,
Matthew chapter 42, he says, The Chosen One of God is Jesus. I
mean, this quotes the section and doesn't give any evidence as to
why this is.
The probably the most interesting one is in Matthew 223.
Matthew 223,
where Jesus settled in Nazareth,
he says, he lived in Nazareth,
so that it might be fulfilled, what was said by the prophets?
What are the thoughts on prophets, talking about these guys? He's no,
I mean, this is about the prophets. Anything With An end
next to it is a prophet
might be fulfilled what was written by the prophet,
he shall be called a Nazarene.
So he's quoting something from the prophets, that says the Messiah,
shall be called a Nazarene. And
there's nowhere in all of these not just to end anywhere in the
whole of the Old Testament, and forget about the Old Testament,
even books outside the Old Testament. But some of the pseudo
pig refer, or the Apocrypha, there's nothing the whole of
Jewish literature that mentions the Messiah shall be called the
Nazarene. Where's he getting this stuff? This is a big question.
What one
person from NASA, NASA, the person from Nazareth, there's actually a
scholarly debate going on that Nazareth didn't even exist at the
time of people that it was actually the later development
not really interested that debate
that is going on in academia
we're gonna go to the gospel.
So you're we're gonna have now so the assignment for next time is to
read Matthew's Gospel.
And
if there's any questions that you have,
go over them again like we did with Mark will give you some
highlights.
key verses I think are important.
The five major discusses wanting
Messiah in the Gospel of Matthew there's something good here what
is the difference between Holika
Holika
comes from
a lack
is from noggin. So this needs to walk
what is the difference? What is Holika Holika
is also what Jews call their sacred law. So the equivalent of
Shinyanga with the Hanukkah, but with respect to the text,
what is public with respect to mitzvah?
Good exegesis
commentary upon the text, what type of commentaries of exoteric
or esoteric
exoteric.
deals with your
interpretation of atcom what is legal rulings legal injunction in
the TODO and in the profit mostly in Matoba?
I got that is something that Matthew does quite often esoteric
interpretation of sacred law
foreshadowings a price these are called Christological typology. We
talked about some of this last week. For example,
the Pharaoh is a typology of inherit, Moses leaving Egypt
during the Exodus forecast and foreshadows Jesus, Mary and Joseph
leaving Egypt as well, settling back into Nazareth.
So Matthew's Gospel, and I don't have any erasers.
Sources of Matthew,
remember we said there's three sources.
One of those sources and use you
like Pauline?
M.
Especially V and material.
What does that mean, special materials? You came up with?
Yeah.
So it's either stuff that you came up with already has another source
that no one else has access to. And we talked about no one else
was talking about, Luke, John and Mark don't have access to. So this
is material only found that his gospel. Then we said also,
there's Q, what is Q? It's common between that.
Common between Matthew, Mark, and Luke and Matthew and Luke,
Matthew. So Q is sound and Luke,
and Matthew but not in Mark.
Okay. So Matthew was like sitting at his desk, she has
to source document in front of him. Mark did not have access to
this. He also has what special lithium material, whether oral
tradition in his head, we have some sort of document we don't
know. What's this third source.
80% 80%, Mark Mark
was
80 or 90%.
Verbatim agreements, of course, Matthew does redact mark in some
places.
Revise,
for his theology to work better. So these are the three sources.
Mark's gospel or Matthew's Gospel, have a look at the actual texts
from the Peric apiece.
Matthew's Gospel, I don't know how many people bought their Bibles.
But everyone should have a Bible by now I think it's the fourth or
fifth.
So that's the chapter one begins the book of the genealogy of Jesus
Christ, the Son of David, the son of Abraham.
So this is a genealogy. So what's the importance of the genealogy?
Where Matthew? Why doesn't mark epidemiology? Why did let me
rephrase the question? Why did Mark believe? Why didn't Matthew
believe that it's important to have a genealogy? Because he was
appealing to the Jews? And he wanted to say he's Abraham is
related to Abraham. And Isaac can only do so remember, it's really
important to talk with Matthew, to link them to Jesus to David.
Because there's apparently Old Testament prophecy of the Messiah
coming from the line of David.
So that's what he begins with. He actually goes from Abraham, he
begins at Abraham, and he ends a Joseph
and he says Abraham begat Isaac, Isaac because Jacob, Jacob, the
gods, Judah, and his brothers, and Judah, be God's fathers and Zara
through fun
Wow.
This is an interesting story in Genesis,
chapter 38, the story of Judah.
Judah is the namesake of the Jews.
The Judah has three sons.
You can read about this in Genesis,
air or non.
Remember Matthew will make very frequent reference to the Old
Testament.
Genesis, which is the first book of
one of the books of the Torah.
Deuteronomy, numbers
what's the first book called? Genesis, Genesis, Exodus, Exodus,
Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy.
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy.
Basically Genesis begins in the beginning God created the heavens
in the earth creation story, right. And then you have the
creation of Adam and the ancient patriarchs. It ends with the death
of Joseph in Egypt. So Judah falls before that.
Judah is one of the sons of who
yes, he's one of the sons of Jacob or
Matthew is including Judah in his genealogy because David is a
descendant of Judah.
But he mentioned these names
he says the characters
Zara
and Tamar.
Here's what happened. Judah has three sons in Genesis chapter 38.
He has three sons, okay. The first heir along
look at some of the content here. And unless they're really like
babies, okay, I can understand.
Maybe he's a
funny
look at Old Testament things sounds a little racy.
Wanting to be 20.
So
So Matthew here is giving the genealogy because he wants to
resemble the old testament Genesis. There's a lot of
genealogy.
Actually, you can calculate if you want to do this. You can calculate
the age of the Earth by counting up the years of the ages of the
patriarchs that I mentioned in the tilde. So, some people take this
like literally, Orthodox Jews, for example, they say the age of the
earth of about 6000 years old.
And some Christians believe that as well. The dinosaur fossils were
discovered some time ago.
It actually caused a lot of faith issues for a lot of Christians.
Many Christians today actually believe that dinosaurs a man wants
to live in peace of harmony together. There's actually a
what's it called? A dinosaur museum. What is the evolution
museum or something known as the Creation Museum, the Creation
Museum in Ohio, where you can go in this animatronic children's
playing on velociraptors
to nonprofit sources.
Initially, the church said that this is a plot of Satan. Because,
you know, scientists, they dated the bones with radio carbon 14
dating, the city's gone to like 100 million years old. So that's,
it's a trick of Satan. Which is really interesting because some of
the early church fathers like Justin Martyr when they were
confronted by pagans about the similarities between Christianity
and paganism.
Justin martyrs initial response was, that's how Satan engineered
it to fool people.
That's why they're similar to Why do you celebrate certain
holidays on the same day as pagan holidays?
Why do you have beliefs that kind of mirror ancient pagan beliefs
like this idea of
A
dying and rising saviors, son, God,
holy Soto. This is something that was very prevalent amongst pagan
communities living around the Mediterranean.
Anyway, so in Matthew's genealogy, it makes reference to the story of
Judah again, the namesake of the Jews, the Jews gave
specific names
like 5700, something
designated using this, it is yeah, by adding up to get the ages of
the patriarchs are given in the Old Testament.
And then the genealogy of Matthew actually takes from that as well
goes back to that goes all the way to Joseph the carpenter, which is
about 2000 years ago, so they can add up the dates.
Now, what happened here is to remember now,
in
721, before the Common Era,
the Assyrians attacked the northern kingdom of Israel,
Canada, 12 tribes were living there. These tribes were either
killed off or taken into captivity.
Some of them might have gone to different countries. There's a lot
of theories about Atlantis on and things like that a lot of it was
trying to convince me that the protons are funny. It's funny. But
anyway, so 10 of the 12 tribes are taken out.
The only tribes that were left
I mean, there are remnants of the 10 tribes as well, all of them are
taken out completely those remnants, but the truth, the two
major tribes that were left were in the south of Judah, and they
were Judah and Benjamin,
Judah and Benjamin. And Judah is the older brother. And they were
more numerous. So the Jews began calling themselves Jews. Before
that time, we don't know what they refer to themselves as
such Jew is an inventive term
with respect to a spiritual distinction. I'll give you an
example that I use all the time. If I could ask Musa either yes or
no. Are you a Jew? He would say, No, I'm a Levite.
What would he think I was asking?
Yeah, you would think I'm asking him about his tribe? Is Camila?
Right. Because his tribe was back to Levi
and said, No, no, are you a practitioner of Judaism?
So what is that? You don't know what I'm talking about. We're
Judaism as a as a spiritual religious distinction was not
coined until after this period. And this is more than 700 years
after the death of Mussolini. So
what did the Jews actually refer to themselves with respect to a
spiritual distinction? We don't know. Probably something like
a Long Island.
Okay, so Judah, Ben is the namesake of the Jews. Genesis 38
says he has three sons air oh nine and Shama. It says that there's a
girl Tamar, and Judah promises to give to his son air.
So she marries air
initially, and then
Genesis simply says that air was evil in the sight of the Lord so
the Lord killed him.
Exactly what he did, but error errored.
Apparently. Okay, so this actually Jewish Shetty off how that cop
that is.
If you're married to a man, if you're a woman, you're married to
a man and your husband dies, you have to marry his brother. You
have to marry his brother. So eras gone now she marries on on. Right
according to Jewish law. And
on on, he co happens with come up. But he practices coitus
interruptus
impregnate her.
This angered the Lord, or killed him.
So he's dead.
So now Shala is his only son left. Shala is the only son of Judah.
Now Judah has a lot of misgivings about the girl Kumar,
killing my son's right. She might be a witch or something.
So he tells Tamar, that Shala is too young now. Just wait. You'll
get married later. The years go by and tomorrow, discovers that
Shabbat married somebody else.
So she gets really mad at Judah, this asana Genesis
story in the Torah.
So what does she do?
She wants revenge.
So she dresses up like a harlots
that
covers her face as well. Down from the roadside, sees her father in
law walking down
and solicits herself.
And Judah says, Great.
But then Tamar says, What are you going to give me? And he says,
I'll give you a goat, a kid, not a human.
Small goat is called the kid. And then she says, what guarantee? Can
you give me that you'll give me that kid picks up his brain is
bracelet and his staff to take the
security deposit. And then they co-habit by the roadside. She's
impregnated with twins. These twins are called Perez, Zara.
And then what happens is Judah finds out about nine months later,
that tomato has committed adultery with somebody she's holding a
baby. So he says, Let her be burned. That's a quote. Let her
fever
and then she produces love the ring and the brace
of Judah. So he says, as part of her
comes to the women burn them.
Okay, relax.
So then, these two twins
are the product of * and adultery are included in the
genealogy of a Sybase according to Matthew.
Very interesting,
dominant opinion about the Prophet sallallahu Sallam is there's
there's no idolatry in his ancestry. This is dominant
opinion.
So Allah subhanho wa taala. It says in the Quran, levy your aka
heinous
tragedies, it to see who sees you when you stand forth, and you're
in to call and you're turning about and those who make such
stuff. Even though our bass was more fussy to the Koran, one of
the greatest founder of Quranic exegesis, and you have to be
careful sometimes when we quote him enough fat because a lot of
what's attributed to them is not actually strong. There's a strong
quarterback amount of fat dad, that what this verse means the
suit actually got off, is that the Prophet salallahu Salam ancestry
does not have any idolatry in it. And there's no Zina in the
ancestry,
as an a hadith, I was trans mitted, from pure Moines Arabian
wounds, all the way back to Adam, pure loins to radiant womb, the
light of the prophets of the news of the prophets of Allah.
No. Sheikh is no idolatry. There is no sin in His ancestry all the
way back to the dominant opinion. Somebody might say, Well, what
about in the Quran, when the father of Hebrew humanity set up
very clearly as an idolatry and the prophesy centum is a
descendant of people like him? I think everybody knows that. And
it's one of many I'm at least three or four that Yeah, but he
Yeah, but he, but he.
Remember, one time I mentioned this in the Holika. I said,
there's no idolatry in the village of the prophets have a lot of
center in his ancestry. And somebody stood up and said, Are
you calling Allah a liar?
A liar. How come the Quran Ibrahim?
Just in his father apathy? Why do you worship Satan and so on and so
forth?
Father aza. Does anyone know what the answer is?
I think there's two things. One is that his father would be called
Uncle.
And then
as far as
the idolatry aspect is
the aspect of nobody in his lineage who has committed Zina,
these are all normal people, but not necessarily not committed
ship. So they may have violated the laws of Allah. But there was
still the movement. The center was
there in Minneapolis.
There were people in the office who like they would never commit
fornication, even though they were motion.
Yeah, so yeah, there's a difference between
the prophets I send them during this time, Allah describes them as
gone and we're gonna go through all of them. So some of the
exigence the Quran say what does this mean?
He doesn't mean that he's, you know,
laundering or misguided. Some statements he was enamored, that's
what it means was he was so in love with a loss of time with
another opinion is that he just didn't have the Shetty off. Right?
It doesn't have shut you up. But it was given to that she was given
that later. But the other thing about your rights about the uncle
of someone can also be called, you can call your uncle epi.
And this is a proof in the Quran that when the upper body Saddam
was on his deathbed, he says to his sons, my time we're doing an
embody that with Isla, Hakka Isla Iike. We worship. If we're going
to worship after me, we're going to worship your God and the God of
your fathers. That Iike Ibrahim place niveles.
Him Ismail is not their father, that's an uncle. But they mean
your forefathers. So it's permissible to call your uncle's
your father. A lot of it is a biological father. That's a lot.
It is a biological, usually the distinction that that's made but
interesting that Matthew has no issues over this, including these
children of idolatry. And the genealogy of a man who really
doesn't have a genealogy to begin with. He saw his father, we
acknowledge that Christians acknowledge that as well. But
again, there has to be some sort of connection with David.
Make You Look at Verse five. So David begat Solomon.
David, we got Solomon from the from the wife of pariah, very
interesting, David to get the sun from the wife of another person.
So what is what's going on here with David? Of course, we don't
confirm
this story
is not a prophet as far as we know.
But the wood is the amount of the profit. Right.
So what happened here? If you look at the book of Second Samuel
chapter 11. David is on his roof. He looks over to his neighbor's
roof. He sees a woman taking a bath. He falls in love with her.
He hasn't guards go and bring her to listen to this is what it says
about.
Matthew says, Matthew, this is a second Samuel chapter 11.
Within the genealogy of Matthew, Matthew says David begat Solomon
from the white of Araya, the Hittite. This was the story this
where Matthews talking about David EBk. He falls in love with his
neighbor's wife, kidnaps her basically
impregnates or has his her husband killed.
The first child dies, they co-habit Again, and she's
impregnated with Solomon, so they might not hear
the story in the book that second Samuel.
And then at the end of the genealogy, verse 16, says Jacob
begat Joseph,
the husband of Mary, from whom Jesus was begotten, who is called
Christ. So this is not even the genealogy of a Sunday for them.
This is the genealogy of Joseph who's not even the Father.
pyside is Matthew chapter. Matthew one through 16. That's the entire
genealogy
the one one steps
chapter one, one through 16.
We look on
now we have a nativity narrative the birth of Eastside it's not
starting on first aid.
This
is genealogies
of Joseph the carpenter. So what was he medicine it
was sort of the end of the genealogy for 16 says, Jacob begat
Joseph, Joseph, the carpenter, just contacted Maria which means
the husband of Mary, before.
Before.
And then from Joseph, from her. Jesus was born who is called
Christ, when they were engaged and they were married. He did not
contemplate the marriage because he was too young.
You're told that he's impregnated here. It says here in verse 18,
that before they came together, so in other thing, which is a sexual
reference, she was found it was found in her womb,
from the Holy Spirit.
Languages explicitly sexual.
Although Christians will all deny this today, there's nothing sexual
going on here. My question is, what does the virgin birth have to
do with the Sonship of Christ then why can't we be the Son of God and
should not be a virgin? Why are these two things inseparable? What
are you really trying to tell us? He read the
A
creative the most authentic creative a Christian is called the
Knights you know Constantinopolitan creed.
Nice
long word
so this was ratified 381 Common Era. It's a revision of the Nicene
Creed,
the vision
of 325
Nicene Creed
and it says in this creed I have a copy of it here in Greek and Latin
was written originally in Latin, I mean sorry, Greek. It says about
Jesus.
Chi southco center, he was made flesh Enuma Tuskegee, from the
Holy Spirit Tyla the US take on
a Mary the Virgin, these are his parents. Apparently. That's what
it sounds like. It's saying he was made flesh by the Holy Spirit by
Mary the Virgin.
This isn't a treat. The very short creed system the Nicene
Constantinopolitan creed we're actually going to study this creed
and in depth it's only a few lines along actually
creed cravings off data
or beliefs that are binding upon every Muslim or Christian wherever
you are. The word happy that comes from
activism and actors. Often that can be listening.
Not that
we moved the NOC from my tongue.
Something that binds is Tom
Peters, probably from the Hebrew arcade,
which is what Genesis chapter 22 is called in the Torah. That
chapter is called update the binding. Does anyone know why? Why
is it called the binding?
This is a chapter in which Abraham takes Isaac according to the Torah
to sacrificing and he has to find him in order to cut his throat.
That chapter is called
Ada, the binding. So upgraded means creed or beliefs.
This may feel Constantinopolitan creed is the most Orthodox
Christian creed
basically, is
something that you can study to understand Orthodox Christianity.
very concise.
And interesting if you keep reading here
verse 20.
An angel comes to Joseph and says, Son of David, don't be afraid.
take Mary as your wife, for
the thing which she has given birth to or has conceived was from
the Holy Spirit. Again, the message the languages, in my view,
explicitly sexual. What does it mean?
Because it's saying that they came before they came together.
To marry came together to do what?
What does it mean come together? Before they had *, she was found
impregnated by the Holy Ghost. Either the Holy Ghost beat him to
the punch, so to speak, I thought he was married and then he didn't
touch it. They're married and they have to be married to live
together, but she's not of age. Yes.
Which verses
18 through 20.
Luke says
that the angel says to marry the power of the Holy Ghost shall come
upon you, in the spirit of the Most High will overshadow you. And
for this reason the child born shall be called the Son of God.
This is the reason why not because he shares a pre eternal essence of
God, which is a precious thing today. That's not Luke says what
reason there was a Holy Ghost will come upon and overshadow you. So
if I said that Jack and Jill went up the hill, and Jack came upon it
overshadow Jill, and for this reason, Jill is pregnant with the
son of Jack, what am I saying?
They went up there and did what if they got see,
the language is explicitly sexual. It's very obvious.
But this didn't really fit well with the massive need to come up
with something else. What should we come up with? What does it mean
begotten, not made? It means Jesus has a pre eternal nature of God.
And that that was actually voted on 325 Calm
An era
is that
the Nicene Creed Yeah, there was a Nicene Creed, which is a lot
shorter than the
Nicene Constantinopolitan creed.
But the thing about the Nicene Creed is it didn't really deal
with the Holy Spirit at all.
And there was some
language issues with it, they needed to fix as well.
So it seems like the English version is
the translation is not sexualized? Original. Yeah, that's the thing
is, I ask Christians all the time. Jesus is the Son of God to say
yes, you gotta have God to say, so why does Mary have to be a virgin?
What does that have to do with anything? I can't just be the Son
of God. And she's not a virgin? Well, they have to go together
fly.
Answer.
Why do you have to link those two things together?
What does it mean Son of God?
What are you trying to say?
So, are they implying that the purity is what makes
sense with God? Or what is what is the point? I mean, from their
point of view?
They want to the point of what's the point of her linking the fact
that the Immaculate Conception is from a virgin? What is the point
of the linking of the two together? Isn't that she's pure?
And that increases the validity of the essence sharing with God and
being the Son of God, or?
I don't know, I haven't I haven't gotten a clear answer on this. But
I don't know.
I mean, she was accused of this type of behavior.
The Mormons believe that God actually did have relations with
the Catholics and the Orthodox. The Catholics and the Protestants
and the Orthodox don't like that opinion. But
my question is, again, what does the virgin birth have to do with
Jesus being the Son of God? Why does he have to be divergent? Why
did before they came together? Why? Because nothing physical
what? Why does all of that matter?
So, you know,
I mean, the Greek is a lot more explicit than, for us, as long as
it's a period. For us, I'm talking about a slump and right
Christianity
and comedy.
We know a little bit in the Quran and mentioned these. So how the
scholars explain the virgin birth.
Yeah, so the reason why, right,
was given I was given a sign. So that was a simple miracle from
Allah subhanaw taala. That's it, it was just a marquee that was a
sign that a sign is sometimes a true prophet of God. Undeniable
sign has nothing to do with him being begotten Son of God, you
don't even believe that.
You can call on the Son of God in the sense that it's metaphorical.
You know, if you read the Old Testament, again, God has a lot of
sun.
It's simply a term of
a term that entails Techiman tissues, like honor.
And someone who's pious is called the Son of God. So in that sense,
it's fine. I mean, Adam, in the Gospel of Luke is called the Son
of God in that sense. But when Krishna say Jesus, is begotten,
not made, that's different than Adam, Adams, the Son of God. Luke
says, Adams the Son of God, to say, yes, but Jesus is also the
son of God to say, yes, but Adam is made Jesus has begotten.
There's a difference. So you press further, what does that mean? What
do you mean is the god
it means that the Holy Spirit impregnated Mary, that's what it
says in Matthew, what does that mean?
That
Jesus is the Son of God? No, what do you think you're trying to say?
What are you really trying to say? No one's what no one wants to say
it. That's what it means. So it means you're the free throw acid
that was developed later, that comes out of the fourth century.
But what the scripture is saying is something different.
I heard that the word that's I guess there's a line in the Bible
that says that the New Testament that says that Jesus is like the
only begotten Son of God, and that's the same word. That's the
same Greek word that's used in their use, I guess,
to the stop isolate, which would mean that if that was the case,
then that means it doesn't own the gun because I think was never the
only gun. Is that true? Or? Yeah, the word motto Guinness, which is
translated as begotten in English translations.
Also
mean the translation there is unique, mono Guinness is unique.
But if you read like, Romans, what Paul writes, he says, Anyone who
has a spirit of God is called
The Son of God, right? And John actually says that
anyone who loves Jesus is begotten of God, he actually uses that word
begotten as well. But then again, the Chris will always say, Well,
Jesus is special,
especially begotten Son of God. How, what type of speciality.
Today they'll say, because he shares an essence that the father
that that was ratified around the fourth century. But did Matthew
actually believe that when he wrote his gospel, what ensued from
the first few centuries of Christians
believe that I'm trying to say is this belief that God is half
mortal, half man, it's very prevalent in the Greco Roman
world, like one example diagnoses. As Father as Zeus as mothers, some
of the he's half god has happened and it comes down to earth.
He invents wine. You know, Jesus in the gospels and sanctifies
wine, makes it part of the Eucharist. dynasty says 12
disciples,
he's rejected by the legal authorities of his day, there's a
couple of traditions. So what actually happened to him once say
that he was killed by the Titan, and then Zeus as a part of his son
was impregnated Zeus, a male deity that impregnated and gave birth to
the diocese or twice or more and again, another tradition says that
he was killed by his enemies, as an act of suicide for the sins of
humanity.
With the Hades, the three days, resurrected in glory, and is
sitting at the right hand of Zeus.
This is the Passion narrative that was eventually taken by the
Christian. There's a book by
Kirsty graves,
which is called the world 16 crucified saviors. And when she
proves that this whole Passion narrative in the New Testament was
borrowed from pre existing pagan myths, about dying and rising
savior, man dog, and he names 15 of them, hordes of Cyrus, Orpheus,
an atlas dynasty and a few more
Kersey graves
really what you're saying? I mean, underlying theme, is that the
Greek, Roman Greek
kind of corrupted?
Yeah.
Ya know, what would have been this Semitic?
That Christian story? Yeah. So yeah, there was definitely two
interpretations of the gospel pollen bits and Galatians, that
there's another gospel,
that people are preaching for these other people, according to
FC Bauer, who is the foremost authority on Galatians. This other
gospel if you submitted gospel to Jerusalem,
being advocated by the likes of James and Peter, who are disciples
of Jesus, fundamental differences between Paul and James,
the theology of the New Testament,
the theology of Christianity, I should say, does not fly with the
theology of the Old Testament very clearly, at least three times. God
is not a man. You have numbers 2319
You have Hosea
11, nine.
And First Samuel 1529.
All of them say very clearly, I'll give you one example, this one
says.
Hello, each air,
law is a man is not God, drawing a very clear distinction thing that
needs to mutually exclusive
cannot be man.
So each day, this one says, I know he his own ish. And his emphasis.
Key P in Hebrew is equivalent to in house Tolkien deed I am God and
not man.
This one here it says that Adam, man generically can never be him.
Any God. look these up.
Theology is very clear.
God is not a man. So So if God's not a man, then he couldn't have a
relationship with a woman to create a child.
Right.
God cannot be a man. So sometimes when we get into discussions with
Christians, I can I get the issue or the question for those who
believe that God is omnipotent. So he has got an advocate for that
How can how can you say that you cannot become a man? You're
putting a limitation on God. Right? Sometimes we get this issue
by really putting a limitation on God, though. That's the question,
or is he putting a limitation on?
So, God is omnipotent, because for good luck is an ideal.
But his omnipotence only relates to things that are more akin
or conceivable to do not. Give me an example. I think they might
have used this example because,
you know, Stephen Hawking came into this classroom, probably the
smartest man in the world.
And I said to him, I mean, booksmart, I said to him.
I said, Do you think you're the smartest man? He says, Yes. And I
said, Can you draw a four sided triangle for me?
And he looked at me and say, no, no, you're not the smartest man in
the world.
Why? Because he would say it's impossible. It's impossible to
make a four sided triangle. So God forgot to become a man would mean
that he's dependent on things. And that's impossible for God. Because
we're all dependent on something right now. We're dependent on
gravity or some you don't know gravity, we're debt, or
dependence, even though you might think I'm not dependent on
anything, and make my own rules and so on and so forth. Do what
you will, right. Aleister Crowley do it fellows.
Will.
We need oxygen, we need water we need food. We need the sun and the
moon and all of these types of things. When the temperature
stabilization,
dead, therefore making God man puts a limitation on God, not the
other way around.
And then it's really interesting here. He says
she'll give birth to a Son and you will call His name Jesus liaison,
for he will save his people from their sins.
Matthew here is
puzzling for me
know what he's doing here?
This name
this is not the name of Jesus looks like in the New Testament.
It's pronounced
a.
So what's the first one again?
The first one that you know the word
in Greek, this is Greek.
Spanish people they still think
J
looks like Jesus faces.
So the Catholics don't have issues naming their children Jesus for
the promises, they find problematic.
Now
the actual Arabic name of Jesus looks like this.
And this is pronounced gay.
To
the scene show that an alien. The root letters are your shop, which
means to save.
Every Semitic word has basically a tribe literal roots. Right? It's
what they see a pop. Etymology. There's some words that don't have
any root meaning at the start with Jeremy, including the name of LA,
the dominant opinion, but most of them do, you're shocked to save.
So Matthew says his name is Jesus where he will save his people from
the sin. But Matthew is implying that the name of Jesus is an
active participle meaning savior, but it's not active. Passive.
This becomes a problem
with Matthew, just ignorant of the name Jesus name, or is he trying
to pull a fast one on you?
The ACE is very clearly gay shoe. This blue in the middle means
isn't isn't love.
You understand past participle.
So for example, the name of the prophets I send them is Mohamed,
what are the root letters?
hamadeh right Hamidah right.
What is the active participle
have the first form of the habit. So the habit but the address after
the half is the one who is praising the one who is actively
doing the action.
But the passive Mahmoud, you see that when there that's the same
error man. Yay, shoo, whoo, things as passive, the machmood is being
praised.
Hamid is Praiser Mahmoud is being praised.
But the name of the Prophet says send them as a second form,
intensive form. The active participle with the Mohammed, the
Khasra will have middle is the one praising intensively. And then
we'll have Matt is the one receiving the phrase.
The active participle of this looks like this.
Yo che on
this you can translate as say,
you can say this is kind of like yo che
but da Shu
it's not Savior, the one who is saved.
What does that mean? Why is that significant for Muslims? Because
we will be down across? Yes. Listen, we'll categorically reject
the crucifixion of a scientist
so what is mercy?
No, let's see if
it's different.
So
a fear comes from
Messiah ha.
It's nice to anoint.
Rob
to oil down.
meanings. So some mushy ah,
it's also a passive participle sustained was massage. Yeah. Yeah.
So when we can make we make must have. This is related. we anoint
our head
with a rub over something. So Muskaan Arabic.
Let's see if is related to that. So
the word Christoph
in Greek, or Christ
is a
exact cognate of mushiya. But here's the thing. In the Greco
Roman world, the word Kristoff sounds really ridiculous. It's
like saying the oily one,
the greasy one.
But this is sort of strange title. Because unless you live in a
Jewish worldview, you don't understand what that means.
But that's,
that's the title. So it's really a Seuss Hawk stuff.
Sometimes the definite article was dropped, and you just say Jesus
Christ as a Christ as his last name. That's really Jesus the
Christ. The Christ added a mercy, grace and mercy without Christ,
Jesus.
Christ isn't the anointed.
That's what it means the anointed one, the Anointed One, you can
send the Anointed One, the oil, the one the greasy one, of course,
because those aren't good translations
anointed in the same in the sense that he's chosen.
So in the Old Testament,
priests would anoint prophets by pouring water over their head, or
oil over their head. Look at the Hadith of the Prophet some of
the descriptions of esign is that there is one constant and all of
the hadith is that the prophet the Prophet, he says, hair is always
wet or damp, it's probably because it's oil is a sign an outward sign
that science and profits are the outward sign, the right hand of
Musa to hop in between the
shoulder blade or the public system, hair of a sign of a
center. You have the outward sign
is say a Aramaic word. We're
also Aramaic
origin from Aramaic or probably it's Semitic definitely.
Now Psalm 20 is interesting.
Six, what's the verse six
Hebrew Bible
this idea that time it was in crucified,
used to be believed
that
kind of Islam invented this idea. Is it
Quran says it.
And the Christian used to think, well, that's the only religion
that's really making that claim.
But based on recent discoveries, we know that there were many
Christian denominations in the first three centuries that
actually denied the crucifixion of a scientist.
And Matthew actually does something in his Gospel, which is
extremely revealing. It's one slight omission,
for one of these reasons, but Psalm 26
actually gives us some sort of scriptural precedent, or belief
about the Messiah, that He was not to be killed. Crucified.
Deuteronomy chapter 21, first of all, says anyone who's hanging on
a tree is meant only as a person by God.
So Paul says, Yes, Jesus became a curse.
Because very clearly repulsive, became a curse for us.
Christology because the Quran says the exact opposite, but you either
need Mubarak and am
I and bless it, were so ever I am my own and Mobarak are exact
opposites.
Quran says exactly the opposite of what Paul was saying.
Anyway, Psalm 20, verse six, if you want to look it up, does
anyone want to read it? So for now know that I the LORD, all caps,
status is anointed. You will hear him from his poll he hasn't with
the saving strength of his right hand. Good. That's a good
translation is this not capitalized, but
that's good. So this is
anointed here is mushiya in Hebrew. This is a prophecy of the
Messiah.
Think about the garden scene. Matthew, Luke, Matthew, Mark,
Luke, and John, all of them. All of the four books in the New
Testament tell us a Saudi tsunami goes to the Mount of Olives. And
he basically asks for his life.
Right, the father removed this cup away from me, yet not as I will,
but as thou will. And Luke says that he's in so much stress that
he started sweating blood. It's probably a later addition to the
text. I wrote a whole paper on this.
Most scholars believe it's an efficient, but anyway, it's
dramatic enough. It's a very dramatic scene, and he asks to be
saved by God. Right?
Psalm 20, verse six says, David says, I know that God saves his
Messiah.
We'll hear him from his holy heaven, the seeming power of his
right hand.
pushy, pushy, pushy, ah, this is
a participle. It's, it's cognitive. God is causing Messiah
to be saved.
That's one proof text apostles will go to
prove that the Quran actually says about the
suppose that crucifixion can they also say that this applies to like
him being from the dead, He saved him from death.
Christian, they will say that, but your shop and every single place
this verb
to save, and every single place in the Old Testament refers to
a saving of the body, a physical rescue
nots sort of
saving from
killing someone, flogging them, torturing them and sending them to
* and I saved you finally.
So
I'm looking for the Christians don't have the same definition.
No very different definition. The Christian definition of Messiah is
God in the flesh. Messiah God is a divine incarnation.
Nowhere in any gospel does Jesus say I am God or worship me. You
should write that down. Because people try to convince you that
Jesus is clearly people are taught from a very early age, Jesus is
God. You just don't question it. They actually asked the Christian
does he say I'm God? Of course you must. What do you mean? Show me
where you'll see the things of the Bible.
That's in your sample somewhere. I think it's in John someone. Check
it out later. There's not a single verse. Any gospel New Testament,
Jesus says clearly, unambiguously, without any doubt, I am God and
worship me. Sometimes they'll say something like a father and I are
one and John 1030. What does he mean by that? What is the nature
of this oneness, of oneness of essence, that would make him a
cathode. I still put a lot
A prophet can never claim to be God. That's not his context. He's
in a very Semitic Jewish context. What does he mean by the nature of
this unity?
What does it mean? I mean, it's found in the Quran also Ryoji of
Rasulullah Sakata last, whoever obeys the messenger is obeying
God. Why? Because the messenger is essentially the same as God's
Association in that
very good.
Association ambassadorship. Obedience to the messenger is the
same as obedience to God, that united in in their obedience. You
cannot obey Allah and disobey the prophets. I said, it's impossible.
Whatever the Prophet says is guided by God Ramana Mehta isn't a
mesa. What can Allah Rama, Allah says in the Quran, when you threw
those stones, you didn't throw a law through? So does that mean?
Allah team got to know what he was a nice, I mean all the prophets
actions or guidance. This is the meaning of the Hadith Lipsius
according to imamo Junaid, my servant does not draw closer to me
with anything more beloved than his foot out. And he continues to
draw close with his Nulato until I love him. And I become the eye by
which you see the hand by which he strikes and the foot by which he
walks. If he were to ask anything from me, I will give it to him.
The sound Hadith, what does that mean? God becomes your eyes. Are
we talking about incarnation, Kowloon, right to just say
that we're talking about? No.
Because we know because we have a very clear teaching, we have
Shetty off, we know how to discern. The thing is,
when the divine light of Allah subhana wa taala, would shine off
the purified heart of esigning setup, and would reflect from his
heart. This is what the amount of as it says. It's called Mirror
Christology. Mirror Christology, when it would shine from his
heart, those who did not have a foundational system of law by
which to understand the spiritual thing. By God is not a man, they
would call the reflection by the source as the Jesus is God.
It's like a man going to a lake, and the water is still and he sees
the moon in the lake. So he jumps to grab it, and then he's
drowning.
There's certainly the difference between the reflection of the moon
and the lake and the moon itself to big difference. even wider is
the gap of a lot and man, that the divine light will shine off the
flesh from a purified heart
of the human being.
Those people who have a system of shutting off will know how to
discern what is happening here.
So another example is in the Quran, I think we put it this one
time 962.
Right, so we put that Allah and His Messenger have more rights,
that you should please him.
A lot of messenger or to entities have more rights than you should
please Him not. Not them too.
There's only a singular pronoun use. In describing a lot of
messenger. This assumes that Allah is the messenger.
No, we wouldn't make that mistake, because we have a very clear sense
of our Optiva and our Shediac. But the pagans who inherited Paul's
version of the gospel, they didn't have that. They don't have the
tota they don't have traditions of the Hebrew prophets. They have
traditions of mythos and diagnoses, and the empirical. So
it's very easy to say, Oh, God and His messenger are the same entity.
Because there's a singular pronoun the Father and I are one yes, one
essentially great. There's a Trinity
but those people have to remember that Jesus
is speaking to a Jewish audience in a very Jewish or segmented
context. We cannot remove the content
there's also a commentary about
the fact that
birthday and Easter as of right now, and also the movement of the
star aligned to pagan astrological tradition.
December flight there happens to be a
there's a maximum where the shadow goes and then that Equinox turned
around
and started the three kings followed.
astrological event at the time?
Yeah, I entered this pagan gods tied it all together. Yeah,
December 21. Winter Solstice was called you it was a big pagan
holiday. People get drunk at parties that signifies the death
of the sun god and the three days
Later, the 24th or 25th, he resurrected. Also, springtime
Addis on the day of blood March 22 will be killed off the 25th would
be rest. But there's a lot of traditions about these two times
that's related to paganism
that made those points made in that book. Probably yeah, I would
imagine. So, there's another book that is probably easier to read
that kind of summarizes all of the things that we've been talking
about as far as pagan influence on Christianity. Pagan Christ
is a really good book actually.
Come on Harper, former Anglican priest.
Today's
biological
masculine. When he's talking about
Matthew 517, Jesus does.
Not a jot or tittle shall pass by the law, so call us fulfilled as
long as heaven and earth endure.
So that's the thing. Matthew Jesus in a law abiding Messiah, who says
that the law is good, as long as heaven and earth endure in for all
time.
So many scholars will conclude that certainly Matthew, Matthew,
Jesus and Paul a conflict.
It was America at one time, Michael Dona.
The historicity of the crucifixion.
He actually wrote a book called versus the hammer.
This book was basically a fictional debate that Paul has
with the prophets, I said, on the day of judgment, and the debate
was Jesus, crucified another record? So I asked him in the
course of the day, I said, Why didn't you call it Jesus versus
what call?
And he didn't really give an answer. So I'll give you the
address is Jesus and Mohammed, our purpose agreement? Paul was this
problem. I really call it the problem.
And we'll get to Paul's letters.
But Paul's an interesting person.
It seems like he doesn't like women very much. It isn't like the
law of God. At times, he sort of
says something that goes something else.
But I wanted to share with you also some of the documents
that were found in 1945.
Hammadi library
1945 discovery by Muslim Bedouin
corpus of literature.
The Gospel
Gospel of Thomas was found
according to the Jesus Seminar,
seminars a group of
New Testament scholar at least once a year and they discuss the
New Testament issues and things like that they concluded from
their scholarship that about 18% that was recorded in the New
Testament is historically accurate.
That's their opinion. I don't know how they arrived at it. For the
Jesus Seminar many of the scholars believe
the Gospel of Thomas,
the gospel of Thomas then
it doesn't have a Passion narrative.
And many scholars believe this is the reason why wasn't included
into the canon. He also found something called
the Second
Treatise.
Of course,
thanks for the question, where's the first treatise?
This was a document that was found, which actually endorses
this idea that
another man was crucified instead of price
assignment of citing
into the Synoptic Gospels
so
what is wouldn't mess up with the crucifixion because it
was like it should be a level
which translated is near it was made to appear so I think
crucified.
Some will say, some will say that that means that someone was
transfigured to look like
some will say that's not necessarily the case that we made.
So what happened here is five minutes Irene
I mentioned Matthew, Mark and Luke
as somebody who was standing around watching what's happening
in
the novels across the room and pulled him out of the audience so
the crowd will compel him to bear the cross.
So somehow he's escaped crucified. That's what this book endorses the
Second Treatise of the great So apparently this was a widespread
belief facility is believed that
this isn't the gospel of
now no this is not the Gospel of Thomas this isn't a Second
Treatise of the great stuff found at non commodity
How old is this
is probably the second century when this
century
know this is different
this time
pulled out randomly he doesn't appear any other time before after
John does not mention assignments at all.
For good reason. God written around 101 10 is the least that
Simon was crucified was so prevalent
emphasises tours Oh across no one.
So, the facility is your teacher was the some of these
some of these was a teacher in Egypt in the first half of the
second century. It does not believe that Jesus was crucified.
The church father
says the facilities
Flowkey as teacher is Peter himself. So you have sent out here
facilities
like Lufia
what does that mean is very significant. That means that this
belief that Christ was crucified actually has sent that back to an
apostle of Christ.
Honor the Christians will tell you all these these groups are
Gnostics. They were crazy.
They were always in the minority.
twirlers
Clemens
Orthodox Church
very clearly states facilities inherited. Yes, Yannick secrets of
global studies under Peter.
There's actually a Gospel of Peter as well.
Because often the theater
This is not not the money. This was this was a
this was actually discovered in an 18th century. The status the
second century. This was a summit in a tomb of St.
Peter, if people go to their grave that their Scripture doesn't burn
that is not meant to eat. I
already
mentioned that
first phone
Yeah, that's the same
kind of funnel.
Exactly.
Yeah, that's very interesting.
Interesting
thing in 1887. So the Gospel of Peter says, The Gospel can't have
you read it. You think what's wrong with this is a passion
marathon and everything seems to be okay. There's one problem. It
says that when they were crucifying Christ, He was silent,
as if he felt no pain.
And that was enough for the proto Orthodox Church Fathers and
theologians who say, this is heresy. Why would I do anything?
Yeah. Like Jesus is suffering. It doesn't seem like Jesus was there
was another group of Christians over dosing.
The dosa take
said that Jesus, this is from the Greek bloqueo sustain, look, look
here. They said that Jesus only appeared to be a human being. He
was really a phantasm.
And people saw Jesus
according to their own spiritual station, they looked at him either
He was very handsome and young or old, ugly, whatever that person
they were still acuity was that's how you perceive Jesus. So
There's no way you can crucify a phantasm.
They only seem to to survive. There's another book called the
acts of John,
which is actually dated to the second century very old. And just
want to quote one passage from John active John.
Jesus is quoted as saying, you heard that I suffered, that I
suffered not
that it was pierced and hanged, but I was not hanging, that blood
flow from me does not flow. Therefore I have suffered none of
the things that will say, This is my second century Gospels of the
acts of John, John, the son of Zebedee, a disciple of Jesus, who,
apparently who wrote the Gospel of John,
the Gospel of John the acts of Johnson two completely different.
What does this all true this proves that the claim that Christ
was crucified is a no means a Islamic event invention. At
Masonic convention, many many Christians
many patristic Church Fathers Irenaeus Justin petroleum Ignatius
Polycarp, they all attacks Christians, that rejected the
crucifixion.
Follow them.
Number also, the key source document does not have a Passion
narrative.
document is the oldest and best source of the Synoptic Gospels and
predates Paul's letters. It's free from falling dogmatism, no
passion, no emphasis on the cross force call, everything is the
cross. There's no biographical information about Jesus in any of
Paul's letters. He never quotes Jesus is my mother virgin birth of
Jesus. It's all about the significance of a dead Jewish
Messiah. And how about the stumbling block to the Jews and
other foolishness to the Greeks.
There's other discoveries too. There was something discovered
called Papyrus, your tin number two, that was catalog called the
unknown gospel, that sounds awful. Nobody knows what it is. So it's
called the pirates eager to number two. And there's no passion
there's enough gospel.
The gospel is a
document that describes Jesus in some way. The license in any kind
of
some sort of attempt at a biography of Jesus
is considered to be adopted.
Another thing that Tom would mentioned is Jesus. But it says
that he was stoned to death
to Jewish Congress.
The Babylonian Talmud
explanation of
the Talmud is commentary on the Torah, but also some Jewish
history. The rabbi wrote about Jesus and Nazarene as they call
them. And they said that he was actually stoned, wasn't crucified
but even just accepting you know, the specific things outside of his
mom, between Jews and Christians as to what actually happened to
the stone to death on the Eve of Passover for witchcraft and
idolatry
also mentioning the Jerusalem topic as well and being stoned to
death this is Tom was was attacked by the Catholic Church where we
talk about
frequent exiled Jews
after
these you
will convert to Christianity and then going to the church
there was no
talent
at that time
and that's fine. We'll go it's more of
a new hope this one was 76 years old with
a younger guy will last longer
than this one bomb, but he's a Jesuit, which is interesting,
because
people respond
to Catholic order, because there's never been a judge with both
and apparently he has, when he's one of them.
The thought about geology philosophy,
Masters
well rounded and Renaissance
After the dialogue and the last is
fully crapping.
Children in practice
extraordinary.
Today we're going to actually talk about Gospel of Luke.
Is there Yeah, we have to get moving here because we're really
behind. But if there's, I'll leave a good chunk at the end for
questions. If you still have things about Matthew, that, or
Mark,
are the sources, things that are unclear, we can tackle those
questions a
little bit later. But I want to start
from God
who God is according to Luke, and this is a really
fantastic gospel. It's
really well crafted.
You know, Mark is sort of, you know, whatever, Matthews a little
bit better. But this gospel was really beautifully done. And Luke
is actually the first part of the two volume.
So this is called Luke acts.
book in the New Testament, is called the Book of Acts, Acts of
the apostle acts, meaning
that another rustle. So that's the history of the early Christian
church.
That's the book of Acts. So we study Luke, we're going to have to
also study acts, but we're going to probably do John first don't
want to deal with all four gospels. And then if we do all
four gospels and acts, and that's the majority of the New Testament,
we just have some epistles of Paul and the apostle in the book of
Revelation.
Okay?
If you can't count, and look up, this is Greek and operate this.
And this was this would be English to look like this.
According to Luke, so the book of Acts, we have to study that
basically what happens in Acts, we have the history of the early
church from Jerusalem, until it reaches Rome, which is considered
the grand stage of the world.
And they would call in prison. We'll talk about that when we get
to it in sha Allah. So the Gospel of Luke, written by Luke
was a traveling companion, and student of Paul.
Okay. Now scholars believe that whoever wrote Luke didn't actually
meet Paul.
Because he never mentions any of Paul's letters. He doesn't seem to
be familiar with them.
And sometimes his accounts of Paul's biographical material is
different than what Paul says itself. So this is someone who
probably never met Paul. But again, it was suit anonymously
ascribed to this man named Luke, who's actually identified,
mentioned in the book of Acts, but scholars by and large will say
that this book is anonymous. Nobody knows who wrote it. It was
later ascribed to a pupil and traveling companion of Paul.
Where was it written is unknown, possibly in Antioch.
Some say emphasis, but Antioch is probably the stronger opinion
which is in Syria,
was written around 85 to 90
of the Common Era.
So this is after the Second Temple was destroyed by the Roman General
Titus,
a time of great turmoil, contemporary of Matthew, maybe a
little bit after Matthew,
who was written for Gentile Christians dispersed throughout
the Roman Empire,
written for Gentile Christians dispersed throughout the Roman
Empire.
He's the author of this character, whoever was Luke. Yeah. So we also
wrote the x
which is apostolic history,
the early history of the early Christian church from Jerusalem
into Rome. The book of Acts ends with Paul in prison in Rome.
Now, tell us about Gentile, Gentile non Jew, non Jew, Gentile.
to
So, in Greek, and if not, we get the word estimate from let's say,
say Gentile in Hebrew.
Looks like this boy.
Girl boy, Gentiles.
Yeah.
So that would be then pagans.
In the Roman Empire, yeah, they were not used. Yeah, so the word
the word boy can be used pejoratively, but also positively.
So when you're talking about the going in, and he kind of made that
face, I mean, you're talking about the idolatrous, but if you're
saying is this take the message to the go here. Why not? Because
there's actually prophecies of the going in becoming devout in the
future of the Old Testament, especially Book of Isaiah, the
light to the Gentiles, things like that.
So I think it depends on intonation of your voice. And
people have translated Gentile in a myriad of different ways. As a
helenus, a creek, non Jew
polytheist is different translations according to your who
you want to go with. A non non Semitic Christians, right? non
Jews, Jews, non Jews, but in some might not like whatever who game
you have to be Jewish. Those are the boys.
Greek had the most Lucas, the most polished Greek he has the largest
vocabulary is a Greek is the best of all four gospels, even better
than John.
There are passages in Luke, that I personally believe
that I personally
some of my favorite passages of the New Testament, although John
is my favorite gospel
is radically different.
That difference to me is really interesting. But really
interestingly, also is that Greek actually, Luke actually gives sort
of a preamble to his gospel intro to his gospel that the other
evangelists don't give.
Actually says here is info much as many have taken in hand to set in
order a narrative of those things which have been filled fulfilled
amongst us. He's actually given his attention. This is his
preface. Why is he writing this gospel? Right, the other
evangelist, they don't give this reason. They don't give anything
comparable.
He said, many have undertaken the Greek here at Malloy, Malloy,
which is where you get your colleague polytheism. So listen to
this meeting here in Luke chapter one verse one, that many people
have written biographies of Jesus. So we have to ask ourselves, what
does he mean by many? How many do we know? For certain? Well, he had
access to what Mark? Right? You didn't really know Matthew, that's
a dominant opinion. He had Q. That's only two, who is this many?
This goes to show that indeed, at the time of Luke, there were many,
many gospels that were written about Jesus, we only know a few of
them. So that's very revealing. And then he says, just as those
who from the beginning were eyewitnesses of the word delivered
unto them, it seemed good to me also, is a dark sec, my Catholic
sighs So it got upset. It seems like a good idea to me.
Right, so what is he saying? He's admitting he's not an eyewitness.
That's what he's admitting. He's not an eyewitness. And his reason
for writing the gospel is not because what not because the Holy
Spirit has come upon him, and is inspiring the right he's saying
seems like a good idea to write an orderly account. And scholars
believe when Luke says orderly here, he's not talking about an
accurate system sequential or chronological,
sort of way of doing it. But he's talking about a more accurate way
period. theologically, dogmatically, Crystal, logically,
is Christology is really interesting. And I think that the
character of Christ, in the Gospel of Luke is probably the most
accurate, at least from a Muslim standpoint, His teaching and His
actual character, the Luke and Jesus is probably the most
accurate even more so than Matthew is very Jewish Jesus.
And we'll see. We'll see that in a minute, Mashallah. And then he
says to you, so it seems good to me also, having had perfect
understanding of all things, from the first to write to you in
orderly account. Oh, most excellent. Theopolis. So he's
writing this as a letter to a man named Theopolis. Luke's Gospel is
a letter just like Paul's letters. This is a letter to a man. And
Christian scholars believe that the awfulest is probably a Greek
or Roman official of some sort, who's probably his patron. Right?
So there's some rich Roman Guy official, maybe a governor or
something. And Luke is a physician by trade according to tradition.
You can do things very systematically. He's very
brilliant, his Greek is beautiful. And the way he arranged his gospel
is just really ingenious. So he probably paid Luke and said,
Brian, a gospel of Jesus for me. You're the best one to do this
because Mark
And Matthew, they weren't whatever fishermen are illiterate, right,
whatever. Even though Mark and Matthew didn't make the right Mark
and Matthew and these other gospels, who knows who wrote them,
these polloi is many, many gospels written by eyewitnesses, according
to Luke, but I want you to write me one as well. So Luke, what he
does is he dedicates the gospel to his patron Theopolis. That's one
opinion of who Theopolis is a Roman official, and is paying Luke
to write a biography of Jesus. Okay, that's one opinion. Another
opinion,
is that the awfulness?
Because the awfulness comes from the Greek stay off and fill us
when they asked me, God's loving God and philosophy, his friend or
loved one who knows. So he's just addressing this to lovers of God.
I'm writing this this account to the lovers of God. Right? I mean,
the reader. Right. And that's kind of a nice, I like that
interpretation. But probably the first one is more accurate, to be
honest with you. And that's the dominant opinion amongst New
Testament scholarship. But he's actually writing this as a letter,
because Paul's writings are all letters to different Christian
congregations.
So God knows.
Any questions about that? It's very unique, right? John doesn't
do that. Mark doesn't do that. Matthew doesn't do that.
New characters in the Gospel of Luke,
Elizabeth and Zechariah, the parents of John the Baptist, they
do not appear and Mark nor Matthew, Elizabeth, and Zechariah,
the priest.
They are the parents of the Baptist. Zechariah is a Kohane.
He's a priest from the temple, which means to the Levites. His
wife has to leave I think about Mary, outside of their tribe.
I, I noticed that known speak about other
stories that we hear a lot about. Sometimes. It's Matthew, Matthew
quotes, a lot of Old Testament.
It's secondary, it's not important. Jesus is the focus.
Jesus is the pivot by which history will turn is a plateau.
So everyone else has got an ancillary or peripheral suddenly
important. Everything sort of foreshadows Christ, Christ is the
most important thing. So Matthew, Mark, and sometimes Luke will
quote the Old Testament if it fulfills their purpose of showing
how Jesus fulfills things in the Old Testament.
Stories were there in the Old Testament. And of course, Matthew,
Mark and Luke already
assume that the reader knows something about the Hebrew
prophets. Maybe that's not a good assumption, but there is an
assumption there.
So Elizabeth and Zechariah are aged they're childless. Right. So
this again, is harkening back to something in the Old Testament to
Isaac, right, Abraham and Sarah, they're aged. They're childless,
even though he has this smile. He's not the covenant covenant
covenant child, according to the todo. So then Isaac is born. And
he is Israel's link between his past and future blessings, and
Jacob.
So Isaac is the pivot by which history will change for Benny is
slightly. Likewise, John is the pivot as well here. John is born
to Elizabeth and Zechariah is the link between Israel's past and
future blessings in Christ.
Okay, so just as Jacob had 12 sons, Jesus will have 12 disciples
representing the new tribes of Israel.
So there's an Arab supersessionism supersessionism.
Doesn't mean that one religion completely supersedes the other.
Judaism is done. Now you have to be Christian.
We have that as well in Islam. Obviously, the opposite of
supersessionism would be something like perennialism.
Also, in Matthew's Gospel, Joseph is the one who has a dream of an
angel speaking to him and saying, that matter don't be afraid Mary
was impregnated by the Holy Ghost. Go to Egypt.
The Annunciation and Luke is really interesting, because it's
not a dream and Angel actually comes to Mary and tells her of the
Annunciation.
Okay, and this angel is identified as a top and give us Gabrielle,
the angel Gabriel comes to marry in the Gospel of Luke.
Not a dream is married and awakened state, visited by the
angel and tells her you're going to give birth to a son.
Gabriel is a new character.
Also this man Simeon Simeon, who's called a just
Man, he's a he's a devout Jew who's worshipping in the temple,
and he meets a 12 year old Jesus in the temple. Luke is the only
gospel writer to mention anything about Jesus. From ages zero to 30.
The other gospel writers, they start at 30. The first 30 years of
God incarnate, as it were for them, is completely unimportant.
Apparently. Luke recognizing this difficulty, right? He says, No,
there was a there's an incident when Jesus was 12 years old. He
snuck away from his parents. And he was teaching Pharisees in the
temple, 12 years old, and he meets this man Simeon
and Simeon actually recognizes him as the Messiah and foretell the
Messiah,
mission to the Gentiles.
So there's a prophecy here,
we'll come back to this idea of Gentiles and the universality,
major theme of Luke's Gospel, universality of the gospel, not
just for Jews beyond Israel, all the world.
As you recognize,
he recognizes Jesus based on his teaching, they sound teaching.
Yeah. And he seems to have some sort of some sort of inspiration
from God, because her sights this,
this pray that the eulogy of Christ records as well as very
beautiful. So
Luke is really doing a good job at this gospel.
Also sisters named Mary and Martha are, are introduced by Luke. This
is a different Mary. It's not Mary the mother of Jesus as Mary
Magdalene,
Mary Magdalene, and her sister Martha, Mary and Martha are also
the Sisters of a man named Lazarus.
This is his first appearance. Lazarus is important because in
John when we get to John chapter 11, this is the man that Jesus
rises from the dead.
Lazarus, Lazarus and sisters are Mary Magdalene, Magdalene, and
Martha. The Mormons believe Mary and Martha are Jesus's wives.
Jews, the Mormons, the Mormons believes that Mary and Martha are
Jesus's wife members that Lazarus is his brother in law. And
explaining that the past was in John chapter 11, that Jesus loved
Lazarus. And when he had known he had died, he started the week. The
smallest the shortest sentence in the entire Bible is two words
Jesus wept. That's in John chapter 11, because he heard the news of
Lazarus die.
I don't know if the Mormons still believe that but that was
something that they certainly did believe.
Also, Herod Antipas is mentioned a new character and Luke, Herod
Antipas.
is the son of Herod the Great, right So Herod the Great was the
the puppet leader of Judea when Jesus was born, this is his son
along
week
I
was champion about the putting up position.
So we can just recite outside to cello gonna kind of like give them
the highest level of genuine
ISAPI like shoulder pads
so
this is the third time.
So the reason why Luke mentioned him is because one of the central
themes of Luke's Gospel we'll talk more about this is a total
exoneration of the Gentiles has nothing to do with Jesus's death.
Okay, but hair Atticus is a Jew himself. And in the Passion
narrative, he interviews Jesus, Jesus doesn't actually say
anything to him. But he says, I find no fault in him. Right. So
what's the point of that? The point of that is inherent, Atticus
is a Roman puppet.
So he's connected with Rome, he finds no fault in Christ. Pontius
Pilate actually sent him to Herod because he wants nothing to do
with Jesus. The whole message here is the Gentiles are innocent of
the blood of Christ. Okay, and Jews that are in cohesion with
Roman authorities. They're also innocent of the blood of Christ.
But who was guilty? The Jewish but the scribes and the Pharisees, the
Scholastic community of the Jews that are condemning the Roman
occupation, and the and the Oculus, the crowd. This is a very
common word used in
philosophy as crowd. alkaloid is the plural. There's crowds
everywhere. It's very different than mark where everything's a
secret. No one knows who Jesus is. And it's going to in Galilee, in
the backwater town, what's going on? No one really knows. And
Luther crowds everywhere. Why do you think crowds are important for
Luke?
Because it's a mob mob mentality? Well, Luke is trying to
universalize the gospel. He's trying to say this is a big deal.
This is where it's all happening in the world. This is the events
of the history of the world. So everywhere Jesus goes, or crowds,
everyone knows what's going on. Everyone knows Jesus is a big, big
deal. Right? He's aggrandizing. He's putting him on the world
stage.
The question is, ever said that I was sent for all the humanity or
for just for the people of Israel.
He says I wasn't only the lost sheep in the house of Israel. This
is Matthew 1524. So Matthew's Christology.
But at the end of Matthew, He does send the disciples on what's known
as a great mission unto all nations. We could talk about that
as well. But these are disciples, these are 11 men because Judas had
killed himself by the 11 men that had trained with him for three
years. And were given permission to go into Gentile lands. Because
now they have the, the toad and they have the NGO together. And
Paul was not amongst them. I call this such a problem
for the Judah cisors, or the Jewish Christians.
But we'll talk more about that we get the John's gospel. That's
interesting. So major concepts of the Lucan gospel, we talked about
this extension of Israel's blessing to the world, an
extension of Israel's blessing. The net loss kind of with 100
Different bunnies, so it is extended to all of the world by
the island.
Okay.
John successor in Jesus, Jesus is the pivot on which history turns.
To extension of Israel's blessings to all the world Luke and major
Luke and theme is the universality of the gospel message.
A second theme, Jerusalem as a sacred stage, Jerusalem is a major
character in the Gospel of Luke,
Jerusalem, this is seen as where everything's happening.
Okay?
And the reason again, is that Luke wants a grand design, aggrandized
Jesus universalized Jesus, so he fixed the holiest city for the
bananas, volume,
Jerusalem.
In fact, 10 of the chapters of the Gospel of Luke from chapters nine
to 19,
just called the travel narrative, this is when Jesus was with his
disciples literally walking from Galilee, into Judea, where
Jerusalem is. And as they're walking, Jesus teaches them
numerous parables that are very beautiful. Some of my favorite in
the entire New Testament Luke Book One
night, they're not chapter 19 through 19. In Book One, are there
multiple books? No chapter there's only 101 chapters nine through 19.
So what 10 chapters
it's called the travel narrative.
Okay, on the way to Jerusalem.
It is also in Jerusalem, where all of the post resurrection
appearances happen and his ascension into heaven.
Okay, whereas Matthew says, Where does Jesus appeared to His
disciples of Matthew, does anyone remember?
Matthew?
Nazareth, yeah, and Galileo?
Galileo, okay, so in Matthew, he goes, appears North and Galilee
once again. But in Luke, he appears only in Jerusalem and
actually a sense. He stays for 40 days, makes numerous appearances
to His disciples
in or around Jerusalem. And then he ascends from Jerusalem, the
clear contradiction here between Matthew and Luke.
Luke doesn't care much about Galilee. Galilee rejected Jesus.
Good Britain is the Galilee it's all about Jerusalem.
The next major concept is a modified marking. Eschatology.
Remember marks eschatology, what is eschatology?
And of the world? Yeah.
And of time beliefs, right. What was marks eschatology?
Right now? Yeah, that it's imminent, it's going to happen at
any time during the lifetime that night Bible. Right? So Luke
modified the market expectation of an immediate end, to show that
Jesus's work is continued by the believing community.
Okay, well will give examples of that. So he delays the part of
Lucia, Lucia.
But it was the second coming with German.
So, the expectation of an immediate end of times, yeah, Mark
marks expectation of an immediate end to show that Jesus's work is
to be continued by the believing community. So with Mark, it's the
destruction of the temple. And then any day now, there's going to
be the eschaton, the end of time, and the second coming of Christ.
Whereas Luke, he actually gives a parable in Luke chapter 19, that
the master must go away for a long journey, and then we'll come back,
meaning he's delaying it, because obviously, it didn't happen. By
the time Luke is riding around 90 would have seen a little strange
to say that the present generation will live to see it even in marks
day, it's kind of strange. 6770 of the common hero disciples are up
70 years old, but they're still alive.
So he doesn't like this idea of an immediate second coming. He wants
to delay it a little bit in Mark, Matthew delays it a little bit as
well.
Okay, what's the fourth major concept? We talked about this, the
exoneration of the Gentiles? The Gentiles are completely innocent.
For the death of Jesus.
So remember in Matthew and Mark when they crucified Jesus,
according to the text, of course, we don't believe that. But
according to Matthew, Mark, when he's on the cross, a Roman
Cinterion says, This was what he'll stick to you. This is the
Son of God. Right? That's mentioned in Mark. And in Matthew.
However, the Roman centurion, and the Luke, the same scene, chapter
23, verse 47,
he does on toast, heart and throat, those who task the chaos
aim, this man was innocent. That's what he says he doesn't identify
Jesus as the Son of God. He simply says, This man was totally
innocent. Right? What's the point here? The point here is that
Christianity is not a threat to the Empire.
At this point in history,
Roman authorities are a little bit
on edge, there's some xenophobia going around Christiana phobia
going around, just like Islamophobia going around? Who are
these Christians? What do they want to do? They don't want to
they want to take over the government. Is that what they
want? Or they think Christ is like the Emperor they want to take over
our so this is the whole point is that the Roman Centurion says this
man innocent in nothing wrong, there's no threat here. Right?
They're perfectly peaceful and lawful.
Right
2347
Interesting. Interestingly, also,
in the mid second century, there was a Christian named Marcia that
we talked about
second century
Marcia
preaching in Rome
he was extremely influential in his teaching
and he was see him in the anti Jewish
anti Jewish
there was a bias
to God a God of good amount of evil was also a Docetism
which means that you believe you can actually have a physical body
as a Phantasm
we had a major following in Rome. Okay, Marcia Marcion ism. You can
do check on chef wiki.
Don't depend too much on
Marcin ism or Marcia, why is it important for Luke?
Because Luke many times
Luke's gospel I should say
undergoes interpolation
additions based on what Marcion is Movement is doing.
I give you an example.
We're told in the Gospel of Luke
Again, during the passionate narrative, that when Jesus
is on the cross,
He says Patera assets, our toys, Father, forgive them. Right? And
all of the activities exigency, he's talking about the Jews. Jesus
forgave them to Marcion says,
This is what Luke, Luke says, isn't a passion. Eric has a lot of
questions.
So don't get
ahead of me right now. We will not
tell you that Marcin had an ideology that was spread at that
time. And that was his look. There's there's similarities here
going on.
What happens is in the Gospel of Luke, Jesus is on the cross in the
Gospel of Luke. And he says, Father, forgive them. This isn't
the Gospel of Luke. Okay, forget about Marcin for now. Alright,
you'll find this in the Gospel of Luke. Okay.
Yeah. Where they know not what they're doing. So Christian
exigent say that Jesus is talking about the Jews here. It's
forgiving the Jews. Okay. Now, there are very early manuscripts
of Luke's Gospel that did not contain that verse.
They don't have that verse. Okay. The majority of New Testament
scholars believe that is not authentically Luke, if it was put
in later.
Okay.
If you want the exact reference to it
is a Luke.
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Luke 2334. Now the reason is why wasn't added. This is a whole
reasons. It's called textual criticism. Textual Criticism is a
science also an art because scholars of textual criticism,
textual critics of the New Testament, they have to make a
decision whether the way to include a verse in a certain
manuscript or not, so they have to look at certain evidences,
external evidence and internal evidence. So they've determined
that the reason why
that verse was
fabric fabricated, fabricated into Luke's gospel or interpolated into
Luke's Gospel is because Marcion ism had grown so rapidly in the
empire, that was vehemently anti Jewish.
Right? And some of the proto Orthodox Christian scribes. They
didn't like this idea that there's two gods, there's a God of the Old
Testament, who's full of wrath and anger and likes to kill children.
And then you have the God of the New Testament, Jesus, who was
saying, turn the other cheek and resist not evil Marcion could not
reconcile the two theology. Okay, so he said, there's two gods,
right? So in order to sort of debunk Marcion, ism, proto
Orthodox Christian scribes went back into the Gospel of Luke and
Lee. See, look, Luke was not so anti Jewish. He actually Jesus
actually forgave
the Jews from the cross, you know, some of the reason for the
interpolation.
So, in other words, that verse is a,
a polemical response to a Christmas to enrich the logical
heresy
is a proto orthodox fabrication to the scripture for polemical
reason.
Political meaning, polemical meaning for reasons of one up one
upping and other Christology to show a proof text.
Book, you, Marcy, and you're wrong. Right? Jesus, forgive us
for the cross.
He's not anti Jewish, the new, the gospel of Luke is not anti Jewish.
So this means the Gospel of Luke also has grown to continue to
repeat.
We don't know what are the origins? Of course, the whole New
Testament is changing, is changing right now
is constantly changing new discoveries.
And that's the Allen 20. Critical Greek Greek Critical Edition is in
its 28th edition right now. 28 editions of Greek. What if you
pick up a New Testament, King James, is the same as your father,
because the English isn't necessarily changing. But the
critical Greek editions are always changing. And that's the actual
New Testament. It's an eclectic text is taking the best from every
manuscript and putting it into one. It means it's getting better.
It's getting sharper, yes.
The more discoveries that like when Codex dynamic is was found,
it was major revision. From a crystal logical step, what you
might say was only a few verses, but those were major First John
five, seven, the longer ending of Mark the first 12 verses of John
chapter eight, Son of God and mark one, one, this isn't These are
major concepts, even though all together it's whatever 100 200
verses right, but the only verse that explicitly mentions a Trinity
take it out of the text.
caused what book burnings in the streets of America, for
evangelical Christians?
And is that the same reason why New King James Version 2334. This
particular verse is in a different form, like invite color. No, the
red color means that Jesus is speaking. So all of the speech of
Christ, apparent speech are recorded future practice and read.
The King James Version is not a critical edition.
It's kind of a traditional translation based on terrible
Byzantine manuscripts. But if you get a Revised Standard Version, or
the New Revised Standard Version, which is based on the most up to
date, Greek manuscripts, you will find that person there, the
critical edition here, it's in double brackets,
which means that this is not part of the New Testament. But
Christians love the message of it, so we're going to include it.
So it's there by popular demand, and agree condition that Scott was
telling you, we don't actually believe Jesus made the statement.
It was a polemical response to the Marcion ism. And there's more
additions to Luke, based on this fast growing cold called Marcin.
What percentage of Christians actually read the critical Great
question? Nobody.
Nobody knows.
Your friend pastors that don't agree as you become a pastor
English translation of
English translations
up so much of the translation
the next major concept is our Christological revision.
Luke,
revising marks Christology.
Number one in terms of soteriology.
soteriology means the study of salvation.
So,
so
the Savior,
so as soteriology.
And here we're talking about in terms of vicarious atonement.
So for example, in Mark 1045, it says that Jesus
gave his life as a ransom for many. This is Pauline dogma. Paul
believes that Jesus is a Pascal lamb who took all the sins of
humanity literally. And he committed an act of self
immolation suicide, quite literally, to atone for the sins
of humanity, His death is atonement, it's redemption. That's
marks Christology.
Okay. Luke, however, does not include any of these verses. For
Luke,
Luke make Jesus and example of service for his disciples.
Luke makes Jesus an example of service for his disciple.
In other words, in Luke, Jesus does not die for your sin. There's
no mystical atonement.
He died to set an example of service and sacrifice.
That's the meaning of his death, and I'm willing to give my life
for my cause. And you should be willing to do that. Also, the
message isn't, I'm going to die for your sins. That is not
indicated anywhere in Luke x, which is comprised of a quarter of
a New Testament. And this is very interesting, because that's the
crux of Paul's Christology. So how can Luke be a student of Paul,
when they had his major difference? Therefore, Luke never
knew, Paul. That's just something that scholars had to link in order
to show some continuity in the New Testament.
And in disbelief, more permissive among Christians, I mean, the
majority of Christians that he died for Yeah. That is what
majority of
the majority believe that that's true. Eastern Orthodox, that
Eastern Orthodoxy that Catholicism and that's Protestantism, Jesus
died for your sins, in some regard is the Savior in that sense that
he took your sin.
Just like they use the story of Passover on the high priests, or
Yom Kippur War, and the high priest would sacrifice a goat or
lamb
and release one into a wilderness sacrificing, meaning that he's
slaughtering the goat representing your sins in the communities
forgiven. Of course, the Jews don't actually believe that their
sins are literally forgiven by the blood of a goat or lamb. That's
just symbolical what's supposed to happen on the inside which was
Toba? We'll talk about that. Also.
So again, and Luke, Jesus does not die for your sin. There's no
redemption in his death. There's no atonement. Jesus simply sets an
example of service and sacrifice. And this is carried into the book
of Acts with Peter and Steven and Paul many of these people are
martyred for their faith
right following the example of Jesus
you
so many ticker
every my Hebrew Bible that I wanted to go to for the sequel
1820 You want to read it?
I have it here
I've ever taken out on my
shoulders
anyway.
It says, The soul that sins shall die.
The Son shall not bear the guilt of the father nor the father there
the guilt of the son.
The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, the wickedness
of the wicked shall be upon him.
In this is worse, he's equal 1820
Chapter 18 Verse 20.
And 21 Yeah, but if a wicked man turn from your sin, which he has
committed, keeps my statues and does that which is lawful and
right, he shall surely live he shall not die, die in a spiritual
sense. And the word here for turn in Hebrew
is literally turn
show
sure to show exactly equivalent of tab out yet who which also means
to turn or to reorient, to turn to who to turn to God.
Right, so Toba
is how repentance is done in the Hebrew Bible. And Luke does not
tamper with that.
That's how it's done. So Luke, folks, as you know, this is what
is eco mutilating?
Meaning this is what God already established.
As to how to
get rid of your sin is through Toba. Not through vicarious
atonement, which has nothing to do with the Old Testament. Some
Christians will say no, you're you're not reading the Old
Testament correctly. On Yom Kippur. The priests will slaughter
a lamb for the sins of the community. No Jew believes that
their sin is literally transferred into a lamb.
It's symbolic action that's supposed to be
manifested internally by every Jew with Toba
with Toba Okay, so during the second pipeline, they do they
sacrifice just like we sacrifice on eat, they have the same type of
concept. We can also make the sacrifices whatever on eat as a
as a Richard's atonement for my sin. We don't believe that the
Jews don't believe that either. 21 says that
if the wicked turn from since
then
he shall survive the chalk die. Right so right. So start by
spiritual death spiritual everyone's going to die with
spiritual death
somebody has taken
notice
there wasn't really my back sight I held it.
I put it somewhere else.
I'm
sorry, you went back. Now your
wealth is trust me. Whenever when I lose books I'm inconsolable for
like two weeks.
He was books once in a blue
another thing that Luke and Jesus is, Ehrman calls him imperturbable
imperturbable meaning that He's impossible to get angry. You won't
lose it ever. He never becomes overly emotional.
He's cool, calm is collected. He's always in control. He's like a
stoic philosopher.
Right? So again, Luke is writing for Gentile Christian community.
He's trying to appeal to, you know, Greco Romans living in the
Mediterranean, a very prevalent philosophy of stoicism, which was
founded by Zeno, on the fourth century before the Common Era. And
stoicism was basically self disbelief in God, and to have some
discipline not to become overly emotional. You ever heard of like,
you know, some doctor, he gave me a shot and I didn't make a sound
and he said, Oh, you're quite stoic. right not to lose it. The
look and Jesus is always cool, calm and collected, level headed,
right, even keel. He's always in control.
So look, eliminate marking descriptions of Jesus, that make
him too emotional.
Right, he toned it down a little bit.
Okay. For example, the cry of dereliction on the cross, which is
mentioned in Mark and in Matthew. Matthew had no issues with it. He
took it from Mark rubedo. Luke does not mention Eli, Eli, lama
say,
My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why? Because Jesus
lost it for a minute. Right? And this is beneath the Lucan Christ,
who's imperturbable always in control. So what are the last
words of the Luke and Jesus on the cross? always in control, father
into your hands, I commend my spirit. He actually hands over his
rule to God. He's always in control. never loses it. And
remember that, okay, because Luke is trying to,
he's trying to
you know, he's trying to offer Jesus in such a way that it's
pleasing to stoic.
In this those stoic philosophy, what was this column on the cross
called again? The cry of dereliction?
Forget how to write English.
Also
lose 20 students is also the Passion narrative. This isn't the
garden scene, right? So he goes to the Garden of Gethsemane on the
Mount of Olives just before he's already arrested. There are two
verses here that are controversial.
actually did a paper on this to be published soon. All right, argue
that these two verses are a fabrication to Luke's Gospel. And
once again, a polemical response to Marcion ism, it Christological
heresy, because what does it mention in those verses? It says
Jesus suddenly lost it, and was sweating blood.
Right. So it's interesting. You have to look at, like you said,
textual criticism,
textual criticism.
You look at external evidence
and internal evidence.
What is the external evidence is you have to look at the other
manuscripts of this gospel
and see how well attested it is and other manuscripts. Okay,
that's the first thing you have to do. If you see a verse that just
seems weird. And a good exegesis can pick these things up. Because
also included in here is this word agonia. In Greek agonia means
agony. And this is a hypoxic phenomenon, which means that this
is the only occurrence of the word and all of Luke.
So someone who knows the Greek well and exigent, who has a keen
eye will read that and say, I've never seen this word before in
Luke. Maybe this is a different author. Maybe this is a later
scribe, who's interpolating? Who's adding something to Luke for some
theological reason.
Right? Sometimes the Hublot hypoxylon Domina way authentic.
Sometimes it happens as well. Right? Like some ad in the Quran,
Allah Who summit that's a hypocotyl Agama Nam. It doesn't
occur anywhere else in the photo
Kofa is a popular Domina only appears in Santa Ana, California,
nowhere else in the Quran. That doesn't mean that a different
writer wrote that surah. Right.
But that's something that an exigent will notice. So external
evidence. And it's oh one and B, Codex Sinaiticus and Codex
Vaticanus do not contain the verses that Jesus suddenly lost it
he was in agony. And he started sweating like blood.
Right? If not mentioned in the best and oldest complete Greek New
Testament codici.
internal evidence
is two aspects.
The first is called
in transit.
Probability,
you don't have to write this down if you don't want to, it's
actually interesting. And then the other one is called
transcriptional.
Probability
external evidence looking at other manuscripts. And then there's
internal evidence which consists of intrinsic probabilities, which
means which focuses on blue, the actual author, the autograph
author.
So what you have to do here is you have to analyze Luke's theology.
And you have to ask yourself what Luke actually write this?
Based on Luke's writing style, his vocabulary is theology. What do
you actually write the original author
write to that focuses on Luke transcriptional probabilities
focuses on describe
describe
like why would a scribe include these verses?
If they were originally in Luke? Why would he take them out? These
are things you have to consider.
So the dominant opinion here is that these two verses are
fabrication. an airman points out something really interesting. Bart
Ehrman
when you should know well
watch videos of him on YouTube, you won't stop watching. I can
guarantee you hooked on him for airman
so what happens here? Just following Misquoting Jesus
this part is, I don't think so.
When he just mentioned this,
I don't know if he mentioned this in that book though. If you want
an article on this passage, but Ehrman says that quite often in a
loop you have what's known as a chi is
a chi ism what is a chi is
the Chi ism is basically a Pericles remember that we're
Caribbean
section of literature, like a story in the Gospels is called any
stories.
You have a predicate P
that has a has a focal point
the reader has to focus on.
So I'll give you an example with this passage. So Luke, chapter 22,
verses 40 to 46. Whatever this passage is, you have
to Jesus tells His
disciples
to
watch and pray
you have Jesus. Neil's
great.
And notice
Luke changes Matthew's version of this. Matthew says he fell up on
his face his face, he just collapsed on his face. But Luke
said no he knelt even control
Jesus
prays
and you have here Jesus
Prayer
tell is disciples,
watch
so take a look at this here.
This is called the chiasm.
Fantastic,
calm.
Also calling a tie at
those records.
What does that mean?
There's a focus to this curriculum.
So this court A corresponds to this A, right because they're the
same thing.
Jesus tells His disciples to watch and pray. That's what he does
initially. That's what he does last.
The second thing he does and the second elastic, use the pray, and
then he stands up for free. So then what is the focus? It's a
prayer of Jesus. So sit here. And in Luke, pray, prayer is a major
theme, prayer, prayers everywhere, in Luke.
But the thing is this, when you add those two verses, of Jesus
losing it and sweating like blood, the chiasm is completely
destroyed.
You see how it suddenly will stick out? This is foreign.
And he was doing his best to imitate Luke style.
But if you read that, in Greek, familiar with this kayak stick
Concord, immediately will come out. It'll stick out to you. These
are things that protect your critics. Look for
Kai ism is found in Semitic
Peric hippies, even in the Quran.
So you have Surah
Surah 108, which is three verses long.
Right? In that
Coco, so what is the context of this? Surah and then then off in
the wild,
some awesome died, some say when Ebola died, the prophet son, this
man.
Awesome. And while he was speaking with the Prophet system, and the
Haram, and then the Prophet left him, and his friends came to us
and said, Who are you talking to? He's I was talking to her the
other day.
I was talking to this man who is cut off. He's been amputated. What
do they mean by that?
That he doesn't have lineage.
And then he would mock the prophesies to them and say,
there's no one to remember you after you're gone.
Right?
So you have Caltha
and here you have uptime.
And these two correspond because they're opposites.
Yeah, Kokoda is a river network for the gender. But then they say
Naboo is Shiva. They say, well, they know that it is Bates. I
think that she I have something right here. To be honest with you.
The Sunni exit just didn't mention that as they.
But that's the answer to upto that you're cut off from your lineage.
No, you have Kofa you have Fatima, which is great.
But I don't know, I don't think all of the Sunnis don't mention
that. Some of them might actually do that. But these are seen as
opposites, which is called Chibok. debuff means a juxtaposition of
opposite.
entities or images like a framing what Shamcey will do haha, this
type of thing. Right? You have a comment of the spectrum. It's
called Yeah, it's called duality or antitheses. Remember the
antipathies of Jesus or
the law says this, but barely I tell you this, you have heard
this, but I tell you this is called P Bach in Arabic rhetoric
and Bulava.
Up top so then what is the focus?
So prayer and sacrifice. This is where your focus is drawn to. So
you're saying that the chiasm is so that, that those phrases 43 to
47 or whatever are Luke Urban's point is that the the blood takes
away the focus? So yes, put in later. Precisely. Yeah. Yes,
that's just from a
linguistic standpoint, I think just from a linguistic standpoint,
looking at the language of chi isn't doesn't work with those
verses. And the Secondly, he'll say, the personality of Jesus
throughout the entire Gospel is imperturbable. If he's never
overly emotional. He's always in control, even when he's dying on
the crop. So suddenly, here in the garden, he breaks down in sweat
blood. So it's out of character. Right. So why would they? Why
would somebody put that in the gospel? That's the whole question.
Because remember, Marcion What did you say about Jesus? That Jesus
wasn't a real human being? He was a phantasm. Right? He was a
phantasm. So Luke wants to show you that he's a real human being.
He does have his moments. You can bleed. It's real. Right? This type
of thing.
So that's, that's the answer, I guess, from New Testament critics.
I'm sorry, I'm not
I mean,
Whereas any talking about any kind of
a must have ever talked about any kind of
they talk
they talk about all the time. So
I'm gonna throw that in his Tafseer, where he says if you look
at, for example, I sort of matalin and the sort of comes after Kota,
you have these four opposite ideas. Basically, they correspond,
even within, sort of like Michael Cuypers, actually won an award in
Iran.
He's a Jesuit, actually, he did this whole breakdown, there's
actually a book on this, he broke down sort of math. And he said,
the entire SUTA ism is a chi ism, which is 100 and something 16
verses that really phenomenal work, just something to think
about. And he's not even Muslim.
So in other, like, I'm cardio, myocardial
audio, and at the end, we'll now hear know how near the end and the
beginning sort of match. So the focus is in the middle.
Like the story steps, yeah, a lot of
this is kind of like cutting edge.
I said, 400 on the four years.
I mean, this isn't, there's probably more of a mental thing,
it has nothing to do so because I've never seen, you know, and if
there's something like this, if you want to write better, you
know, do you have to do, you know, make sure you have your, you know,
this is more of a
form and
it has,
you know, if you want to make it look better, or in poems, you
know, because everything is based on poetry.
Yeah, it's rhetoric, it's Bulava, which goes to show that if this is
true, somewhat, someone would have to actually sit down and work
these things out with paper, it's hard to get the process I'm going
to write so I was able to say this,
you know, without writing it down, and have this classic structure is
very difficult to do very, very difficult. I think it's also going
to study the linguistic
linguistic techniques because
they're when you have like the cemetery, you might not realize
it, but it makes it more appealing and maybe that's what makes it for
us. For those who understand for it's appealing, they might not
realize it, but subconsciously that cemetery are these
people Shakespeare?
Yeah, I mean, the reason why people appreciate Shakespeare
boys, you know, those people that understand the
you rhythmic pattern, and like sort of Doha, for example, the
ultimate point this out, and I'm big to your team and for our
whatever cabal and for her or whatever.
Melia team, as I like to call it, so this, your team goes back to
that first getting
either forgotten in the SAT is the opposite of ball. And so that
corresponds.
Well, what does that
correspond to that? What am I doing here? Mikayla? Because I
had, that we made you free for the revelation. So proclaim it.
So you have that also helps doing hits? Because you you notice these
things? You know, like if you're memorizing a surah, there's this
verse And okay, this surah is very similar, in terms of, you know,
what it's talking about repeating the concept, you know,
it's very helpful. It hisses on I think maybe that's another reason
why people find
remember,
the worst that's made it easy for you to remember, remember, and
remember, I
believe that I just because I was elimination, and if there isn't a
chasm somewhere that something's off, you can't just say that. You
don't have to open the door for affinity with this way. You know,
I'm saying.
So there's this, there's connections that if you go by this
rule, and that rule has to be present everywhere.
That's what I'm saying what I'm saying you have to be consistent.
Sometimes we'll also kind of look at it doesn't mention them, but
would be sometimes he does. Is there an inconsistency there? The
the the orientalist says yes, he says, Look, the Quran is not
consistent in its grammar, but Bulaga has a different standard.
You can't judge Quranic Arabic by Modern Standard Arabic. You can't
judge it that's the whole point. That's That's what I'm saying as
well. That sometimes ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada uses the chiasm maybe
sometimes he doesn't. Sometimes he left he leaves off them if need
be. Right? Like what he says, cuz I met them with a beautiful Aha.
Right off the bat is a fairly much it, which means that it's a verb
that needs to be, but there's no there's no object here.
whatsoever. He made a mistake. That's what the orientalist does
know.
Oh The point is, quote a think about what are you kidding about?
What did mood Ketubot Rasul Allah rasuluh Ha, we use it in the
feminine because we're talking about so the Quran is trying to
make you think about them. Absolutely. Right, it does give it
to you on a platter. Think about what it's saying.
This is a rhetorical device.
Right that the Modern Standard Arabic scholars like what's going
on here? Two and two doesn't matter because everything is well
mathematical for the mashallah for the GRE Marian.
But the Quran is different is Bulava. And that's an ocean in and
of itself.
Who may have this it may not Michael Cuypers Jesuit priest won
an award from of course there were she offered whatever you want to
say. But
I think they actually have a point about CalHFA because of absolutely
it's cut off and COVID must mean and progeny of some sort. But I
haven't come across with so many edges that mentioned that invader
ID or something like that, basically.
And that's probably true as well.
But what does that have to do with uptime? So, question
one was cut off from the progeny.
Live sources that
what does he have?
He has Mark Right.
Mark a lot to an L
special Luca material. I want to talk about the special Luca
material for a minute, because this is where some of the most
beautiful Pericles in my opinion actually happened in the New
Testament. Yes. You were seeing something with Armand. Yeah. So
logical, Peter? Yeah, Bart Ehrman. So when I came up with the chiasm
of Luke 22 on the garden,
the blood verse when it's interpolated, it screws up the
chiasm. The Bloodlust is mentioned and two of the you know, it's only
only only in Luke. There are versions however,
there are some manuscripts in Greek where that occurs in Matthew
and only Matthew. So this indication of a first set is
mobile indicates strongly that it's a fabrication as well.
Verses are moving around the New Testament says he prayed earnestly
is still cool, calm and collected.
Some say it is part of loops, there's a minority opinion.
Luke wrote he lost it for a minute.
Okay.
Actually wanted to go to
before we get into L here, let's do some Lukin themes.
Some more looking theme.
This is extremely important. The first thing is the Holy Spirit
is the main actor of the book of Acts. He's also a major actor in
the book of Luke.
And Luke, the Christian community is charismatic. This is where he
gets the word cut off from
charismatic things or spirit led, their Spirit empowered, they can
work miracles,
okay.
acts as the fifth book of the New Testament.
It's Luke's
set second volume of Luke acts called Luke acts. Luke as the
gospel acts as the apostolic history that comes after the
Gospel of John, the history of the early church. In Acts chapter two.
We have the day of Pentecost.
It's about 50 days after the crucifixion, disciples are in the
upper room where they have the Last Supper. It says, The Holy
Spirit descended, and they start speaking in tongues.
They start speaking in the tongues of the world. How many disciples
were there at the time 120 of them, the Holy Spirit descends.
And these 120 disciples are apostles. They start speaking in
tongues. And this is supposed to be a turning point in early church
history that they had been divinely empowered to work these
charismatic exploits these Kadima, why is it number 120?
Significant? A group of men 120 meeting in private.
Does that
just happen?
The Cardinals right God, the Conclave 20 Cardinals. They meet
and they discuss and the Holy Spirit's was a guide their
decision making, who is going to be the next Pope. The Vicar of
Christ is a big deal.
successor of Jesus comes from Acts chapter two. On the day of
Pentecost, the disciples were in the upper room, the Holy Spirit
descended, like fire. They started speaking the mentioned Arabic to
the spoken Arabic. On time this lady is evangelical Christian.
She thought I was possessed by demon and things like that.
Anyway, she's like, Lord, give, give me a language you'll
understand. So she starts speaking, like, I don't know if
Russian sounded like Russian or something. So she said, do you
understand this? I said, No, I know.
You were there.
It was actually there.
Interested in today's lesson, we talked about prayer, a Luke and
theme prayer. Jesus prays a lot of disciples pray a lot. Everyone's
praying all the time in the Gospel of Luke.
We also talked about crowds, right? Large crowds everywhere,
because Luke is trying to aggrandized Jesus, put them on the
world stage, trying to make him very, very important.
There's also this concern for women in the gods.
Right, because I think many of these things are very close to the
character, the province
imperturbable, right? Compassionate, the Merciful. He
has concerned for women.
So
Mary, we talked about Mary,
and Mary, the mother of Jesus, we'll talk more about her. But
Mary and Martha are mentioned, Elizabeth, as mentioned. And of
course, women were present at the crucifixion and resurrection,
according to Luke, as well, the first witnesses to the
resurrection.
So other gospels, dark mentioned any
other gospels do not mention any women. Nobody mentioned women. But
Luke has focus on wisdom, transfer Islamic theories, was established
on merit.
A strong opinion is no, no. But there's scholars who say there's
nothing wrong with believing that it's not an error, and you're off
here to believe that because there's nothing there's no w in
the Quran or strong Hadith that mentions he was a bachelor.
You can leave that if you want. And it seems likely that he was
married because a 30 year old man at that time, not married very,
very,
very.
Is Jesus considered a Levite? No, he's not a Levite. But his his
father is not only because there's no, he doesn't have a tribal
distinction. So that comes from the father in the tribe of Levi.
May was doing, she was allowed by his father. But he wasn't married
there. Right. He was older.
Yeah, I actually have the one time he said, Yeah, I don't know where
he got his information. But he said that, yeah, they said I'm was
engaged to be married but or was married but didn't concentrate. He
didn't get a chance to do it. He was arrested and beheaded.
And he was around 30 At the time, too. So it's very, very old for
the Bachelor at that time.
Did use leniency goes from mother right? To girls. Yeah. So if
Jesus was killed at the time, so it's tribes should come from the
mother, right? That's true in every tribe, except for Levi to
marry the Levites if it's from the Father, if it's patriarchal
or patrilineal
for the Levitical tribe, so his tribal distinction is whatever his
father is,
but isn't our father so he's not from Benny, it's about you. So you
cannot say yeah, call me and this is why the Quran with the Quran.
Quoting is that a sunnah? He never says, Yeah, call me. He says you
have any Israelite because his father is not for money as
a subtlety that sometimes people don't notice.
Jesus in the Gospel of Luke is called by this word.
So tear which means Savior. Now we have to investigate further
because I thought Jesus did not die hear the gospel.
So Luke, Colton, Savior
by this not in the sense that He died for your sins, but rather as
one who teaches you how to deal with sin
and its consequences as a means of salvation. That's why the new
English Bible translates Soto as deliver is the deliverer just like
Moses was called to deliver. Moses didn't die for your sins. He
taught you how to avoid sin or to deal with sin, a means of your
translate of your salvation. You see the difference? Is death makes
people realize their guilt before God. So they turn to God and
repentance and he God forgives their sin. This is the meaning of
savior in the Gospel of Luke. Not in the sense of
this idea of a Greco Roman
A
man God incarnating into human flesh, killing himself for the
sins of humanity. That's not consistent with Luke's
Christology. That's Marcus histology and Paul's Christology,
maybe Matthew.
So again, when Luke uses the word Celica, our Savior, a means of
salvation. A deliver in the sense of Moses is one who delivers you
from sin, not by killing himself, or taking on your sin, but
teaching you how to deal with sin.
You see the difference.
So, Jesus is not a sacrifice for sin. He's an example of compassion
for all to emulate.
He has a pattern of conduct of sacrifice and service for all to
emulate.
Also, in Luke T and his followers are completely innocent of any
crime against Rome.
Christians have nothing to do with any type of political sedition,
any type of crime
against Rome.
Neither do Jews that are, as they say, in the back pocket of the
Roman Empire. So only these two guys want to fight for their
freedom, zealous when he's Pharisee that are against Roman
occupation. These are the enemies.
The Pharisees are the religious establishment of the day. These
are Jewish scribes, and scholars that are consistently butting
heads with Jesus, especially in Matthew chapter 23. The seven woes
Woe unto you scribes and Pharisees.
They're the enemies of Jesus, not all of them are evil. Some of them
are good. Nicodemus, the Pharisee, Joseph, Aaron Messiah. And these
two guys are mentioned in John's Gospel.
Their Pharisees as well, but they actually helped Jesus.
After the so called crucifixion, Matthew seven.
Matthew 23, seven woes.
Okay, what time is
it for the next five minutes?
So let's talk. Let's actually take some questions now, for some
admission, Yannick title, it's very quick, I read this thing. I
don't know from a hedge, but
it seems it seems as though
there's a lot of other titles of man, the significance of
the Son of Man and why he's
totally shut up.
Probably is not a messianic title,
but maybe interpreted like that. So the Old Testament talks about
two types of sons of men,
talks about men, Adam and Barak and Nash. In the book of Daniel,
the son of man in the book of Ezekiel, that simply means
prophets,
of maddening prophets.
Jesus in
the gospels first himself consistently as the Son of Man,
right? It's his preferred title, over anything else. However, he
also talks about someone to come in the future, who is called Son
of Man.
Right? He says, For example, in a synoptic tradition, whoever is
ashamed of me, in my words, of him scholarship of himself, shall the
Son of man found a man be ashamed when he shall come in his glory?
prophesy, profit money.
Somebody, possibly, I mean, that's something that I think there's
strong evidence for
the Old Testament, there's been Adam, which means profit, and then
there's Daniel's Son of Man. In Hebrew, the word is bought in
Nash, which is different.
We'll talk more about these two titles.
But Ehrman says and Schweitzer agrees with him.
Dr. Albert Schweitzer the quest for the historical Jesus, that
the only historical the only reliable things in the New
Testament that we can say are historical, or that Jesus was an
apocalyptic Jewish prophet, who prophesized someone to come after
him called the Son of Man. They say that's the gospel. That's
Jesus in a nutshell, from a historical standpoint,
if we separate the dogma, the wheat from the chaff, what is
actually historical, is that Jesus was an apocalyptic Jewish prophet,
apocalyptic in the sense that he's the last prophets of Israel, who
prophesied an enigmatic and mysterious figure called the
bought in ash is going to come in the future and lay to waste
idolatry.
That's basically the basic message of Jesus
story. Welcome
because the book is given to one who knows no letters, and it says
Hebrew
first
and the Christian Orientalist says, well, the prophet knew the
story, or really did he know the story? He knew this little detail,
but realize that
there must have been a Jewish rabbi somewhere in Mecca at the
time, well, there's one up in Nelson.
But, you know, there's no Christian or Jewish tribe. I mean,
it's possible that the abundance of the money, some sort of known
the story, but how does he have knowledge of the stories of the
Bible, because many of these stories are specialized
knew them. And the majority of people, the vast majority were
illiterate. So they can't just go to someone pick up the floor and
start reading it, even if it's Arabic, and you're an Arab. And
you have to actually sit down with learned rabbis to get the details
of the exodus of the flood and these types of things. Who did he
sit down with? Which rabbis did he contact with? That were able to
translate these stories to an Arabic that he could understand?
So it's just unlikely, right? But that's what the genius to do with
these ideas, but this is the primary reason why they're
like
I don't think it's like a bunch of
like, exciting to them and like a bunch of Campbell's.
Yeah, that's founded also in Isaiah. I have to look at the tech
restless I believe it Isaiah chapter 28, is describing a war.
And they sort of rider up on a donkey and then following him as a
man on a camel. So listen, theologians, so they have a
practice with some of what we've
written,
which is finding a typology, esoteric interpretation of
Scripture, in Hebrew was called Tagada. So they would say this is
an indication of a silence. And that was followed by the process
of a body for that, but I found the exact reference.
Yeah.
2912 is much stronger. I mean, it's almost
described the events on later to further like, it's really amazing.
So then on Sunday, that was last Sunday. And then he saw the
incident. Now remember, this is according to the synoptic gospels,
Matthew, Mark, and Luke. A sigh Mm hmm. He spent the majority of his
life in Galilee in the north. Okay. The majority of his
ministry, the Ministry of Esau, they said I'm appointed Matthew,
Mark, and Luke is only a year long. One year started when he was
30. And ended a 31.
The last week of His life according to the synoptic
tradition, Matthew, Mark, and Luke. He comes into Jerusalem on
on Sunday.
And they welcome him. Right and the stage they shout Kasana, which
is pushy, Anna, pushy, Anna, which may save us, save us, save us in
the sense that deliver us from the Romans, because the Messiah is no
doubt. There's a there's a militaristic aspect to the mission
of the Messiah. And this is further exemplified when he
decides to run sometime during the week. Now, this whole week in
Jerusalem, which is packed with 1000s of Jews, as Romans on guard.
The whole weekend butting heads with the religious establishment
is something so obvious to the reader, for example, we talked
about this, Matthew 23 is called the seventh Woe to you scribes and
Pharisees hypocrites overlook the way you're the man of the left is
always debating the Pharisees during this week in Jerusalem. So
the Pharisees don't like him very much at all. And then he seizes
the temple at one point. And this is probably on Wednesday, which
would have been yesterday that actually goes to the Temple Mount.
And he turned over the money changers. And he could mix it with
and he started whipping people out of a temple.
And the question is, he has 12 disciples, and they're unarmed,
because they're pacifist. How do you see the Temple of Solomon on
Passover? Obviously, there are obvious this is a military
insurrection. They had seized the Temple Mount back from the
Pharisees of the time. And according to Matthew, Mark, and
Luke, this is the main reason why they wanted to kill him, because
he takes them to temple now.
The main reason why they wanted to kill them. Why? Because it was
claimed to be the Messiah, but also because he had affected was
their business. He says you've turned my father's house into a
den of thieves. Right? So again, people worship money, the prophesy
sentiment Cozzens of Medina, you know, the Jews, they signed mutual
treaties and peace with them. We have we actually have the
treaties. We actually
fulfill, the Jews shall maintain that one religion. But if we're
under attack, they'll come to our aid, if they're under attack will
come to their aid. Right? It's a contract meaning competition. But
in the suit, the humans rich returning Ribba on the Arabs, but
not on the Jews. And that's based on the Torah, rip off your
brother, you're the foreigner, the boy, but your brother, a Jew, you
can't. The Prophet, somebody said that. He said, We need to build
our own soup, where there's no river. And now what happened? You
have piano,
piano, you have treachery upon treachery upon treachery. Because
like, the bottom line is effective. Same thing as he
chases off the money changers. And now that's their source of income.
They don't like him anymore at all. They want to kill him.
And John, actually, we'll get to the Gospel of John is my favorite
gospel, by the way.
And John's ministry is three years long, not one year. And this seems
to be more historically accurate, actually, which is very strange,
because John's Gospel is theologically out of whack
completely.
But he seems to have gotten the timing right. Because he has
hindsight, right? In hindsight, you can sort of avoid mistakes and
your predecessor.
So that's actually what most Muslims will say about he's
obvious without the he ascended at 3331. Ministry was three years
long. Also in the Gospel of John, right at the outset.
Ministry.
Yeah, yeah, at the time of his prophecy. So the problem says some
prophecies 23 years later, number four in the Synoptic Gospels one
year.
But John says three years of the Gospel of John, he actually
cleanses the temple initially, he's going back and forth with
Galilee in Jerusalem.
The three Passover section and John one Passover mentioned.
Matthew, Mark, and Luke. So then what happened on
Thursday night, which is tonight,
during this week, he has what's known as the Last Supper.
So this is in the upper room, some serious
issues, some serious stuff.
So the ministry is one year it is but Tom Sunday is the final week.
It's yeah, Easter. Yeah. So what was he doing the other 51 weeks?
Just he wasn't gambling. We know but I thought he was in Jerusalem.
The ministry is
in Galilee, so he's only Jerusalem for one week. He's only a one
week. Okay. I thought the ministry was one year into the ministry is
51 weeks from Galilee to 61 weeks and out approximately in one week
is final week is in Jerusalem. Matthew, Mark and Luke.
All agree on holiday. Yeah. What was
it?
On Thursday night, to have the Last Supper.
According to Mark and Matthew, Jesus Institute's the New
Covenant.
Luke does not include that. Never Luke's Christology, what's so
unique about Luke's Christology when it comes to soteriology when
it comes to salvation, how it's different than Matthew and Mark
number Mark 10 45
million mark was, Jesus did not die for your sin Bri, the mark and
45. And Mark is taking cue from Pauline dogma. And Paul wrote all
those letters before the gospel. And aspect of Paul's Christology
has been adopted by all four gospel writers. The mark here says
that the front of Man did not come, to serve to do not did not
come to be served but to serve and give his life as a ransom for
many.
Matthew had Mark in front of them. That's one of the sources he
copied that verbatim. Luke completely ignored it.
Jesus did not die for your sins.
And Luke, Jesus is the martyr prophet.
He is the martyr Prophet
teaches you how to deal with sin and recognize them and how to turn
away from sin through repentance.
Right? Jesus is an example. He was led to Massena. In the Gospel of
Luke is a beautiful example of conduct by which the apostles
should follow.
He's willing to give his life for his cause. His death does not mean
anything for you as far as atonement, vicarious atonement.
That's Mark's pathology that goes with Matthew. That's definitely in
John and Declan
At least in Paul, but Luke x does not have that aspect of
Christology, which again is very strange, because Luke is supposed
to be a student of Paul. And this is central to Paul's Christology,
Jesus died for your sins. He said that just like that Jesus died for
your sins, in the book of Romans, that Luke is supposed to be a
student completely rejects that Christology. And at the Last
Supper,
Jesus does not say this line, which is the blood of the new
covenant covenant shed for many things like that. He doesn't say
that there is a statement in Luke where he does say that, but many
scholars believe that the later fabrication, the Gospel, according
to Ehrman, looked at the intrinsic probability. If you look at the
transcriptional probabilities, it doesn't fit with this gospel. So
somebody later came and tried to harmonize Paul's physiology with
Luke by adding one or two verses to lose, to lose last supper
narrative where Jesus says, this is the cover of the new covenant,
which has shed for many or something like that. But Luke
doesn't say that the autograph offers different data. A later
scribe went back in
time, okay.
So the bottom line is,
when mu calls Jesus Soto Savior, He doesn't mean it in the sense
that Jesus will die for your sins. It means that in the sense that
he's going to deliver you from sin as Moses. How did Moses deliver
your city died? No, he taught you the law. He taught you wisdom, He
taught you how to make Toba and purified you it's like the Quran.
And that says the papacy son is the Savior. Not in the sense that
He died for your sins. Of course, not the cocoa.
But it teaches you and purifies you as a process, and teach us the
book in wisdom.
That Luke's Christology
and then that's Thursday night, right after the meal.
Jesus and the disciples, they go to the Mount of Olives,
government,
which is, quote, a stone's throw away from the upper room where
they have supper.
So this could be admitted, right? It's sort of matted. And there's a
scene at the end of the sutra, or Jesus
is with his disciples, and they bring down a, a table set, imagine
that imagine a table with food on it.
And he says, Don't you believe? And they say, Yes, we believe we
want to we want to be served them. And then he makes do offer last
time with the honor, he saw
a loss of time without assisting him off, center down. But if any
of you disbelieve after this terrible punishment, because of
the outward sign, Lauren does that. That's clear.
So that could be some Michael Cuypers. And we're talking about
Michael typers. He actually is the judge who has won an award on the
SUTA. And Matt,
because he says it's a chaotic structure. We talk about times of
chaos was the beginning of the sweater resembles the end. And the
second the last example, second part, and then there's a focal
customer.
We actually want to get to the phenomenal work because what's
really sparked the trip over the desert.
But Allahu Allah
is not Muslim, but it was worth taking a look at I think he called
this
the Last Supper of prices to put on a deal was delivered.
By Yeah, but you read it set up, brought down the meal specialty
for them.
And then what happened here are quite the gospel Synoptic Gospels
is that
he goes to the mouth of all this, and the disciples are armed. Okay,
there aren't. There's no How do we know there are? Because Peter on
the country arrest of Jesus pulled out a sword and cuts off the ear
of one of the temple guards. Right. The question is, why did
you have a sword?
What are swords used for those days? For cutting fruit? They
really think your toenail?
Yeah, yourself are plunging into human flesh. That's what swords
are used for. Right? So this is a story that's really interesting,
because it sort of cuts against the grain of what early Christians
want to say about Jesus.
So this is one of the one of the criteria of modern historiography.
If there's a story in the gospels, that kind of goes against the
tendency of early Christians, that story is probably accurate.
Story is probably accurate. So this story here, right, where
there's disciples, what early Christians would like to say Jesus
was a complete pacifist, who did not open his mouth to defend
himself. He was a lab led to the slaughter, right? He turned the
other cheek, Love your enemies, this type of thing.
But you have disciples on the Mount of Olives at night with
sores that's insurrection. And the Romans catch you all
You're dead.
Everyone's crucified, that insurrection. So this story cuts
against the grain, this is called dissimilarity. According to modern
historiography, if something is dissimilar to what the author
wants to say about Jesus, it probably means it's accurate. It's
accurate historically.
This is modern historiography. That's one of their criteria.
I'll give you another example of this.
There's a historian, I put it on my Facebook, but he's a Yale
historian that really
craves dollars and do more at Yale.
He said, Mark 1018, is probably the most historical verse in the
entire New Testament.
Because this first year, he was completely cut against the grain
of what early Hellenistic Christians believed about Jesus.
And Matthew, and Mark, I'm sorry, Matthew, and Luke, looking at Mark
is not like this. And so they rearranged the whole story. So
what happens here is scribe comes to Jesus and says, Good Master,
how do I get to heaven? And then Jesus says, according to the Greek
teammate, leg is a golfer, and he brings them up.
This is something we do in rhetoric in Arabic, when you bring
the direct object forward to stress it. So why me? Are you
calling good?
For example,
what Messiah enough at that time
Satilla is monsoon is Ruby, but the verb is dead, because the
stress is on the socket. As for the petitioner, do not scold him.
He cannot will do. Exactly.
So here is like me are in calling good. No one good as one. No one
good. No one is good, but one that is God.
That's more.
So Martin says that verse is historical, according to modern
historian
and the laptop has said about the new 22 by four that those who are
this
story.
Yeah. So but that goes towards this. You said, the fabricated
because they're against the story. Yeah. Now you're saying against
it.
Now, those those, those two verses do not fit the personality of the
author of
the Gospel of Luke.
They don't fit Jesus's
in his character.
And it doesn't fit with the story linguistically. There's vocabulary
in the story. That doesn't work. It also. Yeah. So it also
messes up this whole chaotic structure of the parable itself,
where the focus is taken off the priests talk about the verse where
he slept.
Right? Yeah, I mean, historian could make that point was about
prayer, you can actually make that point and say, Look, this cuts
against the grandest and probably historical, but most scholars say
no, it was totally added. Because we have mannequins a loop that
don't contain the verses. And then the whole chaotic structure is
compromised.
When you have those verses, and that's probably responsible
Marcion ism ever Marcin, Jesus did not have a physical body.
So for him to sweat like blood that really shows us humanity.
Marcin believed Jesus was pure God, he wouldn't even have a body.
Because for him, God becoming man was a big problem. And that's
true. The problem
was just a phantasm. We didn't really
have any questions
of dissimilarity.
So what happens is, this is the anti God proven.
Right? Essentially, I mean, Christians have I'm not I'm not
the one. Yeah, I debated Michael Cohen. I've actually debated
Martin and Bart Ehrman. And Christians have a nuanced ways of
translating the first and interpreting the first but the
most natural, most obvious, right cancellation on the first was very
clear that Jesus is denying being God very clearly.
Christians will say he's asking the rhetorical question, like, Do
you realize that if you're calling the good you're calling to God? Is
that what you need to say? Or something like that?
But it's very clear. The same
plan works. Yeah. In asking the Trump think about what you calling
him. That's that's a Christian, original Greek.
Female and why me Are you calling? There is no one good the one that
has got the stresses on me.
So most historians will say this declare denial
Allah
Like about
along with anything about
the way we read Scripture, the way that historians or theologians
have read the Old Testament is that some of the verses have
another context that points to future events. And that could be
one of them. I love that. So first, I love it right before that
one
another
another reference to reading.
And I read this is crazy. I cannot feel
that he again,
is the following same D in both of us, maybe, maybe.
So the way we do haggadah or wheel is that context immediate context
is always secretary, secretary, the typology the future. So
there's immediate context there that I have nothing to do with
anything, but the historical event that happened in the past. But
there might be one verse in the entire story, that actually might
be a foreshadowing of future events.
That's of origin or Matthew, are vs. Theologians. And reading the
Bible is very weak, in general, that he and her just, it's
difficult. It's sort of in every phrase, so is it like that in
Greek, or in Greek? Yeah, I mean, when you read the Greek
is it isn't full of whiskey and her or morality, you don't know if
they're coming from different seasons, you know, different. It's
difficult to make it personal Greek manuscripts. They're all in
caps, that no spaces, there's never quotes, there's some
periods, there's nothing, it's just a script script to a
continuous Magic School ending in all caps is going across.
Now like
retransmitted, bias and compromise
where
and I mean
those letters, capitalized, everything is capitalized, and the
original Greek manuscripts everything was okay, so there's
that wouldn't be a consequence. Oh, yeah, totally. The translator
is treacherous. Italian maximum. The translator is treacherous. So
when a translator chooses to put a word and capital letters,
obviously, in theological statement, the original Greek is
all in caps. What's interesting is that the phrase Son of God, right,
when you say the Son of God, it's an immediate Christian signifier,
right? But the phrase Son of God is actually Jewish in its origin.
But people don't know that.
For example, number mark, one 1k to L and L U, Ace of crystal K
with the beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God,
even though I've got here is an assertion, right? When you hear
the phrase, Son of God, you immediately Christianity.
But if you read, for example, Psalm 82.
What does it say? It talks about the band aid and your band aid.
The sons of the Most High God,
what is he talking about? He's talking about
honored servants of God.
prophets of God. Jesus says in John chapter 10, those who receive
the messages of God or Gods
This is an honorific title. Like the whole Andreas Badgerys agile
book rahoon of Africa.
They say Allahu Akbar, son, no, they're their servants raise to
honor.
So, the Old Testament talks about sons of God, when you say God the
Father, when you're against
specific words.
somebody mentions that son of God, yes, Son of God is God.
The word that uses Elohim God,
the same word for God.
For example, in numbers, believe it's numbers. Seven, Exodus
seven one, God tells Moses, I will send you as a god of the Pharaoh,
and Aaron as your prophet, and the word for God during the loading,
which is the same word for God.
Because that means Moses is God is a God means using the mind. The
mind with a lowercase d, what does that mean?
Someone who's wholly someone who's sanctified. That's the meaning of
it. These things are extremely
subtle. And they're meant to be metaphorical in the Old Testament,
the sons of the Most High God, those who receive the messages of
God and act upon it. In the Old Testament, the Christian
literalized it, and the Jesus is the Son of God, but Jesus himself
when he teaches people how to pray, and Matthew six, and Luke
11. What do we call that when something is in Matthew and Luke,
but not in March 4, the origin of this
cue source good. This is from Q, remember, Q is written before the
Gospels, and is concerning Paul. So this is very strong. Jesus says
here of Rhonda rush mail, Our Father who art in heaven, he's not
teaching this the Christian who would be speaking to the Jews,
everyone's Jewish. Right. And this is language that they can
understand. Calling Godfather in his context, nothing wrong with
it, because nobody says this is literal. Only when Paul comes
around. And Howard is a Christian, who starts in Jesus has gotten not
made the literal Son of God, God from God, like the light, the
second thing, the Nicene Creed, that was developed later.
But for example, the phrase, God the Father, when you say God, the
Father, immediately you think of Christianity, and immediate
Christian signifier. When you read the Old Testament, Isaiah 6416.
There's a prayer in Isaiah 6416, in the book of Isaiah is the most
monotheistic book in the entire Bible.
If you read the book of Isaiah, especially deutero, Isaiah, the
middle chunk of Isaiah, it basically says that God is unlike
anything you can possibly imagine. And the minute you bring God down
into the temporal world and make an idol out of God, whether it's
wood, or stone, or flesh and blood, that's the definition of
idolatry. When you say God dwells in creation, that's an idol.
you've constructed an idol, because God is outside of his
creation.
Outside transcends His creation, right? That's the message of
Isaiah 6416. Isaiah appraise, he says, At thought, I deny as he
knew, You are the Lord Our Father,
You are the Lord, our father, right? This is a Jewish liturgical
language.
Right but the Christians have monopolized the type of language
and claim that this is a Christianity brought this
relationship you have some thought or type of thing. All they did was
borrow these terms from the Old Testament, and literalized them
that God is literally the father of a scientist. Whatever I
was hitting, I'm trying to look it up that only goes to
1264 1264 1264 12.
No, I there's no 6416
Getting that
you know what it is? Is Old Testament 23. Isaiah, this is what
the verse in my Hebrew Bible that the numbering is often the English
translation.
Yeah, it's right here.
From actually 64 eight and the English translation. So the
numbering is a little off the Hebrew. Now oh Lord now are
nonprofit. Yeah. And now our Potter
language is totally is clear. It's very metaphorical. It's honestly
literal. God is a father in the sense that you're loving
cherisher.
And that's how Jesus uses it as well. This is like the former
fashion
you know the word of Christ. mushy, aka the Jewish concept.
That's what Judaism.
So let's go back to this
passion we were talking about.
I want to point out here
also. So what happens is Thursday night they have the Last Supper.
In Mark and Matthew we institute the New Covenant. This is my this
is my body. This is my blood,
which is shed as a ransom for many this type of language, which is
Paul line Christianity.
But Luke acts rejects it completely, which is very
interesting.
And then what happens is
we went to the Temple Mount, we went to the Mount of Olives, right
at the Mount of Olives, and here comes Judas now with a group of
men, and there's a difference of opinion as to who you bring with
them. Matthew, Mark and Luke the synoptics say that he brings a
temple guard. So the temple of the Sanhedrin This is a high religious
portion of the Jews. This is the highest religious quarter the Duke
of the Sanhedrin
I
know they have to have the Congress difficult to connect with
God. This was before the structure of the company.
So what happens is, John says, however he brings a cohort.
And some say that that means you get Roman soldiers with them.
We don't know exactly. There are discrepancies in this entire
narrative. By the way, all four gospels, they get the same type of
irreconcilable, especially when we get to the so called resurrection.
Very different.
But history historians will look at all the differences say none of
this is historical. It just all of this be thrown out of court.
So what happens is Judah says, the one that I kissed, is Jesus.
Right? Which is again, sort of strange, because why is it because
Jesus, what are you trying to do?
What is the point of this?
Identify them.
But he's been in Jerusalem for weeks. We've been arguing with
people, right? Well, why did why did he? Why did
exactly 500 People identify him? That's the whole
nother guy that
Thomas is a disciple and Thomas in Arabic. And Hebrew means twin.
Twin, maybe he looks exactly like Jesus.
That could be it.
They would have gone.
But Did you really write it? Probably not. It's probably also
sitting on but representing Thomas's viewpoint.
As Peter that he said, cut off that computer safety that was on
here. Yeah.
So it gives us kisses him to identify him, they take Jesus they
take him to the Sanhedrin. There's a trial that a lot of
contradiction. Now the same gospels, what actually happened?
Matthew, Mark, and Luke, in Mark, in Mark's gospel, he almost says
nothing. Basically, Are You the Messiah, I am. And you shall see
the Son of Man cheated on the cloud.
Quoting Daniel chapter seven. And that space is always says until
the client dereliction come across, very, very catchy turn in
speech. In John, however, he's giving these physiological
philosophical discourses kicking back with Pontius Pilate, talking
about what is the nature of truth and defending himself as they
strike down to get something while you're striking the eagle and bear
witness of the evil, I thought was really interesting. A dog was
going What are you guys doing? He's really coming to his own aid.
John, yeah, and this narrative here sort of cuts against the
grain of what early Christians wanted to say about him. So some
of his drawings might say this is probably more accurate, that he's
defending himself here. Because because the opposite the Christian
at this time will say, No, Jesus would be landless, of slaughter,
he opened his mouth. And what Isaiah said, was the prophecy, he
willingly went in depth.
So it seems like John has a few things, right? He probably did.
Whoever this person is, might be a sideways, descending insult, or
could be any sort of look alike.
And transfigured price. And there's different opinions from
Muslim theologians as to what actually happened, nobody knows.
But seems like the most popular is that the the disciple who betrayed
them, was transfigured to look like a scientist.
And anytime they said that was
carried into heaven, like you read it.
So they take us on to this. That's one theory. We don't know for
certain. There actually is a theory that he was put on the
cross that did not die. And that's actually based on what's happened
in the Gospels. That seems like it's likely. That's actually what
happened. If you read the four gospels that he just didn't die on
the call. Because Sudoku is to kill on a cross.
Some some Muslims will say how can you say Jesus put on a cross is
the Quran says for Mercer who
will not Cthulhu did not kill him, they'll crucify them. How can you
say that? Well, it depends on your definition of Salah.
The cruiser crucify someone means that you kill him on a cross.
That's what it means to kill someone on the call. There's no
verb in Arabic to describe someone put on a clock and have survived
the cross. There's no way to say it in English. The guy who
suggested crucifix did crucified fiction. Crusoe. He was a crucifix
it. This is called the Swoon Theory. He was put on a cross he
didn't die.
And it's actually Josephus, the famous Jewish historian actually
describes an incident when he was talking to him in a city called
Tekoa. Where there was a mountain across was taken down he survived.
And Jesus was only on the cross. Supposedly for six hours, which is
nothing
baby
They expire on the crop. And there's no way you can check his
pulse. Because you know, his legs are up here. And feet are probably
where your head is. But he checked the fall, he's not moving. Okay?
He said that he might be in a comatose or he just exhausted, you
don't know.
Anyway, that doesn't seem to be the popular theory. So that
theologians Muslim exigence will say, Well, then why does Allah
repeat himself here? It's redundant. Well, my thoughts are
they didn't kill him in any in any, any way. And they didn't kill
him on the cross. Why did you just say, well, not
some theologians would say that a lot of kind of what Donna is
saying they can kill him at all, by any means, including the
crucifixion. They didn't even touch him.
That could be that could be one interpretation, or that they put
him on the cross. But he didn't die on the cross.
In other words, he he's singling out this method of death
crucifixion especially because that's what they're saying
happened to him. And then
the topic says they stone him to death
that's at the top of
the stone him to death please no matter who they didn't kill them
in any way, what Masada who nor did northern Thailand
and this is also found in another verse in the Quran. Regarding the
Mohammed in what do you do to people who
are war mongers, you got to do some double again catalyzed solida
killed them or crucify them
to kill them on the frog, especially gruesome punishment,
coffee, that Judge will kind of degenerate person laughing and
Taylor probably deserves to be crucified
person.
Anyway.
Of course, I try to blame black Latvian pillar on Islam while he
was kidnapped by the Ottomans, and was raised and things like that,
and that's why he became crazy, you
know, he's crazy.
So at this point,
again, there's a lot of discrepancy in the gospel, but
basically the trial at the Sanhedrin they can't find any
witnesses to agree on anything.
Okay, so the religious High Court failed. The Christian will say,
they crucified Christ for blasphemy. They claim to be God.
Why don't we enter that evidence?
Now, for more, Mark 14 says, they tried to find evidence that was
merit a death sentence, but failed to find any. There's no evidence
of blasphemy of Cooper. They couldn't get two witnesses to
agree. That's what it says. So what did they do? What did they
take him? Anyone know? What are they doing now?
This was insurrection.
Right? So what do they do at this point? They take him to conscious
Pilate, the Roman governor, and they say to him, this person broke
our laws. He says, so what? What does it have to do with me judge
him according to the Torah? That we tried that he said, then I
don't want anything to do with you, too? Oh, no, he's telling us
don't pay taxes to Caesar.
This is what they say. And I'm just wondering, what do you say?
Don't pay taxes to Caesar? And of course, he's not Hmm. According to
the Gospels ever said that. Render to Caesar was either gonna get
they tried to trap him at one point.
Right, exactly. Exactly. Yeah. So this is an out and out lie what
they're saying about a site, but they want to get rid of him.
Somewhere. The best way to do it with the Romans is, this person is
making addition. He's a king, and they see Caesars are. That's what
the Rabbi's, the Pharisees. So Pilate, he's claiming to be the
king of Israel. The pilot, pilot interrogates, and he says, I don't
find any fault of this man at all. So he finds no fault. And then
what happens here is,
according to Luke, they take him to who is Herod Antipas. And this
is the only gospel that messages inherit, inherit and interrogate
them.
Herod Antipas, because with this trying to aggrandized cases, I
decided to get a very big deal. And he's also trying to show that
Roman puppets are innocent. If they're Jews, and they're puppets
of Rome. Those are innocent, the Pharisees, these religious Jews
that are rabble rousers.
But then again, there's a lot of difference of opinion actually,
what happened to the four Gospels?
Anyway, they find them guilty of treason, because the crowd is
shouting crucify people via he spent the night in jail. And then
five days
it's on Good Friday, which is tomorrow.
Good Friday. And according to Mark,
put on a cross at three 9am
On Good Friday
and by three
Free is that
so many hours is
six hours. Okay, so when this news was brought the pirate
pilot Marvel
was so marveling about this. What's so surprising about the
pilot made a career out of crucifying Jews is crucified
literally 1000s of Jews, and he knew what happened and there's a
lot of embellishments. You watch like a movie like The Passion of
the Christ, but you have these Roman soldiers who are like, drunk
Neanderthals. Completely historically accurate.
flogging someone with done as chastisement
to punish someone to kill somebody. You don't follow someone
until they're followed or hanging out in the back. According to Josh
McDowell Christian apologist, that's not what they did.
Give them a few lashes and
if that even happened.
So Pilate he marvels, how can this man be dead already? But it was it
was something very surprising. surprising to me.
But then what happens is
at 3pm
According to Matthew, yes, I didn't know that.
Definitely. Martin says.
He says,
so like 9am would be the ninth hour.
The ninth hour?
I think he I think he reckons the day from. Well, he says something
like that. But this is a translation.
Tonight.
Yeah, you mentioned the
point that Matthew At this point, there's a earthquake, there's an
eclipse. There's a thunderstorm besides dark. And so what happens
now with Saturdays what they have
for the Jews every Saturday is
the Sabbath. And you can't have a man hanging on a cross on the
Sabbath because of the defilements of the land. And it's already
mugged at a time at three o'clock.
Right. So this is seen as a warranty. So what they do is they
have to take them quickly.
And then in John and actually says that the other two crossings are
still alive. It's only been six hour, they're still alive. So they
have to do is they have to take a
club and break their legs while they're on the cross. So he has a
break, why did it break their legs because in the Roman, they
perfected the art of crucifixion.
They're hanging on a cross, you're stuck in an inhale position in
order to get a breath out, you have to push up with your legs.
You have to do like a calf raise and do this for days. You can
imagine you're later on fires can barely breathe. And that's how you
die either from exposure or explanation. And while this is
going on, people are throwing the venue, the birds have plucked out
your eyes. Right?
Your your skin is on fire
and you break the legs you can't push so you immediately suffocate.
But then it says in John that they saw that Jesus was already dead
not by checking his pulse or anything.
Okay, these passion narratives at a later time that's really
interesting. So then
he's put into a tomb. Now at this point,
there's a lot of contradictions in the Gospel narrative.
So
on Sunday
Mark says this is according to Mark
16.
To married Mary Magdalene, and possibly marry the mother of Jesus
is to marry and a woman named Salomi
they come to the tomb.
For what? What is what's the purpose of going tomorrow?
And don't forget that Jesus was supposed supposedly put into this
huge chamber there's this huge boulder that they rolled in front
of it. And apparently there's Temple Guards guarding the tomb as
well.
So this woman comes to the tomb to what to anointed the body of Jesus
is very strange.
How are these women planning on gaining access to the body of
Jesus?
Who's gonna roll the stone away? Are they going to bribe the temple
Jarvis Gordon
into hearing what's going on here? What are you they're gonna do
anoint the body. Is this a Jewish custom? That three days later you
would anointed dead body? No, it's actually hot often such as
audiences. According to Jewish Holika law.
It kind of reminded the demand body let alone these women's
bodies. Totally hot off
What are they doing? Why are they coming to the zoo? Nobody really
knows. I thought debate between Ehrmann and William Lane Craig
was a very good philosopher when it comes to the Kalam Cosmological
Argument, when it comes to Christianity sort of faltered. It
was pushed hard on this because why did it really come to this?
I have no idea
to anoint the body of Jesus that is a naked.
Mark is the only one that says that Matthew is not mentioned that
they are going to the body of Jesus. They just say they came to
see the two
oils, to give them a proper burial, apparently,
prepare the body because they had to hurry for early to get down to
the approaching Sabbath. We can't touch their bodies on the Sabbath,
put it in the tomb, we'll do it later. It's up to how women going
to get to the body.
Language comes with finding the because he died for your sins.
You know Pontius Pilate and the European church are the same.
The same on the pilot fly because he was the means by which Jesus
was killed.
When he tells me help them up with a vital Lord of the salvation of
humanity, by the same token that Judas Iscariot called Satan by
Jesus, He can also be in
order for him to be redemption that can penetrate. But I don't
think any church
gives an accent that
everybody automatically
says when they get there, the stone has rolled away Darnell
guard, which Gockel is Mark. Right, Martin? And Mark, the
guards are not mentioned the stones already been rolled away.
Right, okay. And they see a young man sitting there on the right
side, it says, and it says Jesus is not here, even Galilee will go
to Galilee.
And then they run away. They tell. They don't say anything to anyone
and they run away afraid. And that's the real end of the gospel.
According to the earliest canonical gospels, no one sees the
resurrected Jesus.
verses nine through 20 or later edition.
The last verse of the gospel of Mark is 16.
No one sees the residence.
Here's something interesting in First Corinthians 15.
Paul talks about Jesus's resurrected body. And this is
really interesting. This is what he says about a resurrected body.
He says there is a
he said there's a physical body and a spiritual body.
Okay, and if you want more information on this, the same
scholar, Martin Dale Harney, he wrote a book called The Corinthian
body, but he analyzes what is called the Pneumatology. What is
called the concept of
this spirit or the soul.
But what we can get from Mark 15.
I'm sorry, from First Corinthians 15 Is that Paul believes that
resurrected bodies become spiritualize.
resurrected bodies become spiritual. What does that mean?
That means?
Yeah, the flesh and blood body
transformed into a spiritual body. It's the same body when it becomes
spiritual life.
So you have a somatic body,
somatic body, which is a physical flesh and blood body.
And the Kanuma is the soul.
And somehow the Kanuma, which is matter of substance with creation
is something physical, but it's very rarefied.
It's very subtle. Somehow, it's attached to the soul, not the
body. You have a body, there's a roof in your body, right in your
body, but you can't pinpoint it somewhere. One of the fellas said
it's like the rose water in the roads. Right? That's the
relationship between the good and the bad.
Okay, so that's that's fine. But then Paul says, When the body is
resurrected, this somatic body becomes a pneumatic body
which means the body becomes purely spiritualize incorruptible.
The somatic body needs food drink, and it's subject to death. The
pneumatic body needs no food, no drink and a spiritually oriented
and cannot die again.
Okay, this is Paul Pneumatology
somatic body is not left behind it and
that's the whole body into Ross. Here's a question. No, the somatic
body yeah
He's left behind the rock. But then it's reassembled and made
spiritual. Like *. Now it's pneumatic. purely spiritual,
may incorruptible, and you're just gonna fall. This is this isn't
called? Yeah, this is called concept of a resurrected body. And
First Corinthians 15, you can read about it here. Paul was the first
author of the New Testament. Paul did not read any of the Gospels
are written after his time. So here's my question, though.
Why does the stone need to be rolled away?
And he's a neurotic, rough estimate. Exactly.
What's the purpose of the stone being moved away? If he's in the
tomb, and he's a pneumatic body, you can just show up somewhere in
the beam into a room. And here I am. Right? I've been resurrected.
So Paul doesn't know about the empty tomb, it's not important for
him. This is a later development that the gospel writers wanted to
write in order to kind of prove that Jesus was resurrected.
Okay. Now, if you read Luke, Luke 24.
What happens when Jesus comes to the upper room? What did he do?
I think prove who He is.
Do sort of disappear and reappear? How does he prove he's
resurrected? He's resurrected.
He takes a piece of fish, and he eats it.
Is this proof that you're resurrected?
Because then you're in a somatic body. So what happened, that means
he's alive.
He didn't die, apparently. That's what that proves that he's still
alive. Because Paul says, we're in a nomadic body. Now, somebody
might argue, but when Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead, is the
pneumatic body that we the somatic body. So
however, Paul says, Jesus's resurrection is the same type of
resurrection That we all have on the human piano. This is a
different resurrection. This is called a doomsday resurrection.
You see the difference? Jesus raised Lazarus back into his
somatic body. That isn't enough, and then Lazarus died again. He
died twice, which is a contradiction, by the way. Hebrews
927, which penned by Paul says, It pointed to every man has to taste
death, taste, death wants, period, once, though, to the internal
contradiction, we won't go there. Right? There's a difference, could
have an answer.
But doesn't say Mother kind of mother thing.
Every opponent just wants to see what happened to Lazarus.
Was Lazarus, resurrected into a pneumatic body? If the Christian
says yes. And so then why does Paul Why does Paul say Jesus is
the first one to be resurrected like this? Again, an internal
contradiction.
Let me sort of First Corinthians 15. First Corinthians 15.
Paul says Jesus was the first one to be raised, as all of us are
going to be raised on the Day of Judgment, the first fruits of
resurrection, and
what does that mean? That his physical body will be healed, and
spiritualize and made incorruptible like a proof and
then use a spirit. It's the same body but transformed into
spiritual, a spiritual body, where it cannot die, does not take food
does not take drink, right? Can be in and out of rooms can appear in
here and then in China in the back here.
This type of body,
okay.
But Luke 24 says that when Jesus comes to the upper room after the
so called crucifixion,
he eats fish and the honeycomb to prove what? That he's a pneumatic
body that's been resurrected according Blackfoot, balsa.
I mean, he said,
the alternative theory is an accident.
He was resurrected as a somatic body, but then that contradicts
what Paul says about the end of the body. So that's a
contradiction of Christianity. And Christians that are clever will
say that because they know what Paul says, You might catch an
unaware person and say, yeah, it was dramatic body. So you can say
that a Christian then if the Pharisees saw Jesus, they can kill
him again.
Why not?
Again, if he's was directed into a somatic body, and he's subject to
death and pain and hunger, they can kill them again, which is very
interesting, because Luke 24 also says, what? That Jesus, he walks
with two of his disciples, and they walk seven miles with the two
of his disciples, and they don't recognize them.
Why not?
I cannot recognize
faces the sky.
In John chapter 21.
We haven't gotten to John, Mary Magdalene is at the tomb, the
empty tomb. And she looks behind her. She sees the gardener.
The gardener is Jesus. Why didn't Jesus under his gardener
resurrected bodies look like gardeners?
Why is it important to look you've got a show around like this
problem
and she can tell from his voice This is Jesus.
But you can't tell from appearance. Why?
Because he's he's he's
he survived the crucifixion, and Jewish legal authority cm, was
founded by Roman legionnaires to kill them on the spot.
This is the only logical right?
The only plausible explanation or LCS internal contradictions
everywhere
so bad.
And he was that he never died.
He never died.
Never got your bikes like that, that he was put on a cross for a
few hours. John actually says to secret disciples took them off the
crop. John has only one dimension that
and then he's going to join it. I think it's a lengthy discussion.
So here's here's what happens in Matthew's Gospel.
In Matthew 28.
It's the to Mary's no settlement, for some reason, to Lady. They go
and they see an angel actually move the stone back.
They moved the stone that they look in the two minutes empty. You
see what happened here?
What does that mean? That means Jesus did come out of the tomb of
the now that was a fixing a problem.
To do the fixing. In marketing like that you have to be open for
Jesus to exit. The LLC can't exit because apparently he's still
gonna somatic.
But in Matthew, Matthew, wait a minute.
Paul says that resurrected bodies a spiritual life. So this is what
I'm going to do. I'm going to say that women go and there's an
earthquake again, and then an angel descent and moves the stone
and identity.
And that kind of resolves internal conflict.
Right?
So then what is what happens here?
Then these women are afraid. And they go and they see Jesus on the
road by walking on the road, and going to Galilee.
He told the two women go to my disciples, I'll meet them in
Galilee. Why? Like galleries? Why didn't meet me here. Because these
are dangerous.
I can't go past the Upper Room, these things, tie up this and this
guy. I prefer these deputies to come to see me I'm dead. So we'll
go back to data. So we go back to Galileo, the central time of
Jesus. And then
there's no ascension. And
we will have to
add one wouldn't be
too many. One is the mother and Mary Magdalene was, maybe his
wife, possibly.
But the disciples this is her glasses.
What happens in loose
2004. Five women at least go to the field. So all four gospels,
who goes to the tomb, what they see what they do. It's all
different. All of this is we thrown out of court.
In a court of law, if you want to prove the resurrection, you take
testimony, all of the contradictions we're talking with
people talking about
five women go to the tomb in lieu, they go there. And again, the what
does it say it I think the stone has already been moved back. It's
already been moved back. Right? And they see two people sitting in
the zoom in shining garments.
And they say Jesus is he's alive.
Interesting. Like he says in the Gospel of John, the angel tells
Mary Magdalene, why do you think the living amongst the dead
is alive?
Then
and Luke, the women run away, they're afraid and now Jesus comes
into this disciple. They want to seven miles. You don't recognize
them.
And then he kicks in the Bethany and then he ascends from Bethany.
He never goes to Galilee. Again, contradiction.
All of the post resurrection. appearances of Jesus and Buddha
appeared in Jerusalem or
In the suburb of Jerusalem, because remember Jerusalem is
the great stage of the gospel. That's one of the things
John 20
It says that Jesus was actually crucified. And actually they had a
crucified on Thursday on Friday with another congregation.
So the meal he had on Friday night, was actually on Thursday
night. So that wasn't even a Passover meal. All he did was
washed His disciples.
Why is John saying that?
Maybe because there is a tradition from que. Matthew is the reference
for you, Matthew and Luke both put this statement of Christ where he
says,
with us come in and give us a sign. No sign would have given us
up to the sign of the prophet Jonah.
For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the
whale, so shall the Son of Man referring to himself, the three
days and three nights,
and the heart of the earth
is from a queue. So this is very early material. What does that
mean? as Jonah was so shallow it
what happened to Jonah, Jonah goes out, he goes to Nineveh leaves the
city, he tried to take a boat from chargers to jump up and get in the
boat. There's a massive campus, right? There's a storm in the
ocean. And they draw lots and assault against them. And then he
admits to the people that I dissipate my Lord. I was
impatient, elver says is actually according to the biblical story
about the process
of John and your testament. So they say he said, Throw me
overboard. And to know to know we're gonna we're gonna keep
rolling, don't worry about it. He's just throwing overboard are
all going to die.
So that he willingly is thrown over. He has no problem with it.
So that it subsides.
And then the men are what rolling away from him doesn't have a
lifejacket. And either profits is probably strong. But you know,
it's still the oceans open water. So they seem swimming. Like oh,
maybe. Maybe he's cool. And then they see a whale gonna go.
Okay.
When you have a doubt that is Oh, CCTVs. Okay.
And they don't know he's a prophet.
Some stranger Israelites. The men are pagans, by the way.
Yeah.
So then, let's say one of these men. Three days later, he's
walking around in a well, business.
Yeah, how much of those days?
Here comes units? Right?
What do you got to say he's a
year ago. Right? So Luke 2004. When Jesus enters the upper room,
it says the disciples were afraid because they thought they had seen
a spirit.
They thought they had seen what this a pneumatic body. That's what
they thought. But Jesus corrects your understanding by doing what
by beaming in and out.
What did he do? Does he does he fly around the room? He eats a
piece of fish to prove what
that means is he's in the same body.
Nothing happened to him just like Jonah. Because he says, Add Jonah
was how was Jonah Dead or Alive? Alive? So shall the Son of Man,
this is your sign?
This is your sign that you're gonna think you killed me. You're
gonna think it killed me.
Yeah, get into I think it's Matthew 11 or 12. And people that
we can check it off. So the fish eating of fish is all the confused
horse. Because it's the to
the eating enough. It's actually from Luke and material L. Count.
Yeah. The sign of Jonah is
the sign of Jonah when Jesus tells that to the Pharisees. That's
the mark of very early.
The question is what is the sign of Jonah? That he simply goes into
a cave for three days? No, it's people expected Jonah to be dead.
But then he's still alive.
So I say there's three types of resurrection in the New Testament.
Three types.
There's a somatic resurrection, like Lazarus
brought him to give him a lot and he's back. He's in the same body.
You can kill him again. There's a pneumatic resurrection, which is a
Paul says Jesus is what's going to happen to all of us on the AMA. We
believe that
At that our physical body will be reconstructed. The mortality light
actually says that our body is not restored. The ruler is taken from
our body and that's the judgment. This is a deviant.
This is what the new this is what the political philosopher Robbie
Cena said as well and this is considered a deviant position with
the market
and then there's a third type of resurrection which is called Jonas
resurrection
and it's not really a resurrection
it means that you believe someone to have died and then you see them
later thinking that they have died and resurrected but in reality
they had never died in the first place
well we have a Jesus is a Jonas resurrection what we have with
Lazarus is a somatic
what we have with everyone on the day of judgment and that pneumatic
chronic diseases Exactly, exactly that
the dominant opinion is that he was never killed
Jonas
so this is how we explain why did a Christian will ask him was so
how do you explain Jesus appearing alive to so many people after the
crucifixion? He never died. It's very simple. All comes razor right
here to welcome the razor since this is as simple as answering
these quick replies to say as a man God, you vicariously die
Pearson, Intuit himself, and then he raised himself in the debt and
refunding Okay, that's possible. But why do you scoff at that
literally says it was crucified in the first place. When you believe
that a man got
back many of those theories was on hand. And the first thing
you can believe that it was badly contrived, and it's full of
internal contradictions.
can actually you can actually get a Christian paradox here. You can
ask him, how would Jesus his body live directly? How was
he said he was resurrected at a spiritual body. But that's what
the disciples thought they can teach to disprove them. So you
have a physical body, so you can kill them.
So yes.
How do
you kill them again, then Paul is wrong again. All the drum. Now
let's get rid of First Corinthians. Paul made a mistake.
Are they going to get rid of Paul's? If they're part of
different Catholic, Eastern Orthodox? Well, this
is called the right 14 of the 27 books
of the New Testament. Everything besides the the candlestick
gospels, that's an hour. So there's four gospels, the book of
X.
X, which is that there's 14 letters of Paul, and he writes the
different Christian communities that he founded
14 For FY
19.
And that is a book of Revelation that the average of Apocalypse
that we want the
John of Patmos, a different John on an island. Another seven
epistles written by Peter and John, James and Jude, John, these
are all different than these are all synonymous. Peter didn't write
these James in a write
up or No, that's a big claim. But no, it's all because that book was
like First Peter was written 125. So Peters on 25 years old. Okay.
Traditionally, Christians believe that but no real scholar, no
credible seller believes an ampersand he used to be
not that. That's 40 years old in Galilee, you're dead. 40 years
old. 30 years old, your grandfather. So like Neil Martin,
right, who's a Trinitarian Christian. They asked him Why are
you Christian? Because he totally negates all of these Christian
theology. What does he say in the miracle? I just believe?
I couldn't believe it. I can't I don't know why. I didn't believe
it. I consider it a gift from God.
But I can't give you any evidence.
So Luke,
as I
was walking in Luke,
and Luke, what how does he ascend? And Bethany, Bethany is a few
miles in Jerusalem. He never go to the gallery. So it's seven miles,
and then
your mouth, your mouth seven miles in Jerusalem. He walks in the art
distance to the site I don't recommend. I don't recommend
Then he breaks the bread and they recognize and by the way you break
bread, there's a certain ways to break the bread. But these are
those guys.
And then he leaves, right. And then later he comes and says,
Follow me, he takes the Bethany, and then he has sent from Bethany
never go to Galilee.
So he's just never seen again.
Paul claims however,
I will read about Paul, in the book of Revelation, that three
years later, he appeared to Paul
at a pneumatic button.
And what he tells Paul is very interesting. And then who is Paul,
what is his relationship with the true disciples? It's very bad,
very bad relationship.
There are writings outside the New Testament that very clearly called
Paul's an apostate enemy of the apostles. This is someone who
tried to destroy the early Christians. And I'm using
Christian, loosely, the early movement early Jesus
tried to destroy it by killing, it didn't work. So I decided the CIA
agent,
infiltrate the group. And so corruption and landed a watch
the second coming of these I don't
know, the Second Coming is actually
there's not evidence for February talked about, nobody picks this
up. Nobody
talks about the Son of man to come in the future. No, historians
actually put more weight on those verses, because they kind of
against the grain.
They swim against the tide of what early Christians wanted to say
about
the accurate that Jesus actually predicts someone to come in the
future. When he called the boxing match, we destroy idolatry, and
universalizing, the kingdom of God on earth.
And he mentioned that over and over and over again, in all the
Gospels,
the apocalyptic Son of man, and Daniel chapter seven, it says, a
Son of Man will come to the ascent unto thee I keep your mate Yeah, I
think for God, and then he'll be given Dean. This is the word use
of Aramaic.
And then he will come back to Earth and you'll destroy the
idolatrous Kingdom
probably
Isn't that odd to come to the, for the given theme, right, the
essential prebooking. To be honest, the
essence of the
the thought was, was given
the honest
willow tree, and then when he came back,
because the Medina and these empires Greco Roman Empire, the
Persian and these all fall.
This is the process of the the apocalyptic man that he's added
some prophesizing
this is all over the golf game.
Go to Blue letter bible.org and put in some events into the
database and just read what it says. Blue letter bible.org is
important. In this
kind of setup, man can either mean simply a profit,
okay, but easy fuel in his book, he refers to himself as a son of
man, many, many times. It just means profit, but the son of men
that Jesus is talking about the cover of the future. This is the
Son of Man of the book of Daniel seven.
The book of Daniel is also in Apocalypse.
Daniel has a vision
of the future of someone called the Son of Man, and it's different
in the original language is Eagle son of medical Ben Adam, then Adam
is going to profit. But he bought Ken Nash bought in Nash, even
doing that, the son of humanity, which could mean that this person
is a universal prophet,
but in asking the son of humanity
this son of man is very different than Ezekiel says, Man, this son
of man is exceedingly powerful on the earth extends on to God. He
descends he destroys idolatry all over the earth.
Okay.
Jesus actually said somewhere in the gospels I have to get to the
the citation. He says just as lightning coming out of the east
and China's unto the West, so shall the coming of the Son of Man
becomes like lightning.
For them, they come to the temple.
So he's on the block, which is from the roof block, lightning
suddenly to this couple
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apparently
mentioned a few times in the Gospel of John
this is the word is great Tata is a preposition which aims to be
next to and Plato's system cafe or which means to call that's what
the English were called come from Kaneohe. So this is someone you
call the next to you when you're in trouble. So like your advocate,
your counselor, your lawyer, you can translate as a lawyer. You're
intercessor
so this is definitely an article which means that this is a title
it's not going to name we don't know the name of the parakeet that
he thought about any money from after him humanity all true and
he's probably calling him therapy because this is his Muhammad the
afterlife
the prophecy sort of name on the Day of Judgment in
this world
but the adjustment he's officially decided that we're going to have
to make sure that
he's apparently
that's the best we could do with that but in the New Testament
again the call of the customer New Testament is that it's a dream to
Syria
that's in the Old Testament that's
the name of the policy as Mohammed appears in
the Song of Songs
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Echo as his name is a description given in there we'll talk about
that
so then what are the what are the sources of Luke's Gospel there's
three sources of principal sources
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all population oral tradition, we would have moved word of mouth
yet. So this comes from the congregation that were founded but
all around the Mediterranean. Mark was highly influenced by calling
dogmatism. That's my cue is so important because he was written
either concurrently or before Paul's letters. I sent him a
Passion narrative and all that. What does that mean is a
passionate narrative and to That means whatever Luke and Matthew
mentioned about the death of Jesus, they either took for Mark,
or on their own special sauce
is nowhere in queue.
Luke in material here is really interesting. We met with John
So here, Luke primarily chapter nine through 19, facade, the
travel narrative. And I think some of those beautiful teaching of the
findings is preserved in this travel narrative. And it really is
indicative of Luke's Christology as far as his rejection of Jesus.
Which book nine
chapters nine through 19 a booth. Why is it called the travel
America because this is actually what Jesus is saying, while
they're walking the gallery.
This is what he's teaching, while walking.
But one of the things he mentioned is the Good Samaritan.
Have you heard of this?
Like if you
if you're on the call,
inherit the bridge and you pay for someone behind you so that
Americans
so this is a parable.
In Luke chapter 10, curricularly, in Luke chapter 10. So this is
part of a travel narrative. What is the point of the Good
Samaritan? The point of Good Samaritan is to show the
universality of the message of ethos about that there's a
cosmopolitan aspect to it. So what happens and that is going from
Jerusalem to Jericho seem to fall upon and they strip and make it
take everything and they leave them on the side of the road at
night. And then they leave it to them and crosses the street.
And then a preseason with also Levi's
and crosses the street, and then a Samaritan, why it's American, so
scandalous, for Jesus.
The Jews at the time of Jesus considered us Americans to be sort
of a pseudo hat, but breeds that are not really Jewish, or
imposters.
So when the Jews returned from Babylon and five victims before
the Common Era, the Jews that were not taken into captivity, they had
interbred with some of the pagans. And the fruits of their
interbreeding are called the Samaritan. And they actually had
their own version of the Torah. And they rejected the prophets and
the writing. And they have their own sacred mountain called Mount
Carmel. So they were seen as inherited. Right? The Jesus has
now given you a parable of a Good Samaritan. So when the disciples
initially that's what they're talking
about.
They shouldn't have direct reports with some people.
hotter.
It's dangerous for a lay Muslim to go to a hadith and derive legal
rulings for themselves, you can have in your house or bought up.
But don't use that to make, you know, to derive time for yourself
for dangerous, that might be 40 to 50 on one issue, and some of them
contradict the other, some of them might abrogate the other one. So
when it comes to Hadith, we have to be very, very careful. So this
hadith calm is very commonly attacked. So one of my teachers
from overseas, have you any God, when he was asked about this
hadith, I've been ordered to fight the people. He said, Well, you
have to learn Arabic, because the prophets that nobody said them, he
uses a third verbal form, which is content, a new car to have
moved to Madrid okatie lenez, who got is different than to move to
an act to learn maths. So we have to learn Arabic, and I highly,
highly encourage people. We just started Arabic class on Tuesday
nights, if you're interested. We just had one class and it was
really introduction. So we're interested here at 630 on Tuesday,
Intro to Arabic 630, right here on Tuesday nights. That was my plan
for my Arabic.
But the first level of Tafseer to Quran and Hadith is looking at
Arabic. And the third form is what?
What's the
what's the wisdom of the third form?
What's the difference between father and father?
Coleman as you see, associated form, right? So it's two sides
engaging in something, right? Like the word for
murder is cottoned on. That's the first form. But the tab, the third
floor must have been a battle between two sides. Right. So the
prophets, they set it up, is basically saying according to the
hectic thing that have been ordered to defend the community.
Right. And there's nothing wrong with self defense. Now above and
beyond that.
Will Mitchell and okatie lead NASA and NASA there's a definite
article here. Right? It is like mid to mid to end Ducati that NASA
or something like that. It's definite. So the article
is Alif Lam. Right? So there's two out east of mass add nests. What
is the definite article mean in Arabic?
It could mean all of humanity specific, right? I've been ordered
to find all of humanity. But no one takes it like that. Except
less than 1% of 1% of Americans.
That that's dominant opinion is that it's tough seas. It's
specific. It's more again, a group of people that's already known at
the time.
Interestingly, this hadith in Maasai says we'll move to add
okatie, land machinery cane,
you see, and that has been replaced by an Bucha became, what
is the context of the Hadith, even Hajra, s Fulani, and half and even
Hajra was memorize over 100,000 Hadith says this statement was
made by the prophets I said them during the Battle of thunder, and
only applies to the motion again for attacking.
So the meaning greatly changes when you know the Seop when he
knows the context of the Hadith. So again, to some of these issues
as well.
Biblical criticism, establishing the actual text of the New
Testament. What was written money, autograph, author, autograph means
the original author.
Right? We have the Gospel of John, for example, which is the fourth
gospel talking about John's gospel, very interesting. Gnostic
gospel. I would consider the Gnostic gospel, the gospel about
Malita. Besides that,
you know, there's, there's things written in John's gospel, that
many scholars don't believe our authentic at all, ever. Maybe
you've seen some Jesus movies in the past. But almost every Jesus
movie has the same. There's a woman who was caught in adultery.
And she'd been chased by a bunch of bearded men with food
and their thrones stones at her. She's running, she's running, oh,
she sees Jesus. She falls down at his feet.
And then, Jesus, he gets down on the ground and says, he writes
something in the sand.
That nobody knows what he wrote. It doesn't say. But then he stands
up and he says, Whoever is without sin, cast the first stone. Right?
You've heard this before, in almost every Jesus movie. What is
the implication of that statement? The implication here is very
Paul line,
Paul line means inspired by Paul's gospel. Paul, is someone
extraordinary that we're going to learn about really amazing human
being
really, really amazing. Probably a big shape AKA,
really, the power of one person epitomizes that someone who has
high him up for Boston can do a lot of damage.
Right? So Paul's all idea is NT Knowmia. Never heard this term.
And you know me and anti no most of this is a Greek word no most
Naboo some Arabic, which means Shut up. Anti Sharia is against
the shutdown. There's no shutting up. Because as Paul stands,
you can eat what you want. You can drink whatever you want. Nothing's
compulsory upon you. It's a good idea to follow the 10
commandments. There's nothing compelling you to do. You have a
guarantee of paradise. When you have a guarantee of paradise.
Muslims have a guarantee of paradise. And Muslim, not a
specific Muslim.
Right? The Prophet says that men men are Pilar la de la la la, la
la. Is sit in Dhaka Jana, whoever says La la la la la with sincerity
will enter Paradise, a Muslim, as I say,
I live in San Ramon. So yeah, who are either illallah wa who are
your full agenda? I don't have a personal guarantee. My name is not
in the head.
In other words, your name is on it. But in Muslim who falls under
that category, we'll get agenda in trouble. But the Christian
believes
the vast majority of Christians believe they're inspired by Paul,
that they have a guaranteed
agenda, which of course leads to irresponsible action. Anyway, this
story, right? Whoever's with sin cast the first stone. Every single
scholar of the New Testament says this story is a fabrication. It
never happened.
It never happened.
It's called the Peric of a product compete. adulterer, I will learn
about the Gospel of John. But it was added much later.
And if you look at critical editions of the Greek New
Testament, right, this is the actual New Testament. This here
is what they feed to the laity. This is the New King James
Version, right? This is very different than this. This is
cutting edge scholarship, it keeps getting updated. Because I keep
finding new manuscripts. This happens every year. There's 27
editions of the Nestle aland, critical Greek edition 27
editions, because they keep finding new manuscripts. And they
keep changing their mind. They actually give a letter grade
changes that they make.
So the Greek New Testament, the original New Testament, were the
language of New Testaments is an eclectic text. The others means
eclectic means Yeah, it means that it's
a amalgamation of several 1000 different manuscripts that are
brought under one text.
Because textual critics of the New Testament, they have to make a
decision, when they find 100 different versions of the same
stories, which one is the most authentic? They pick that and then
they read another story. And there's two versions of it, which
one of these is the most authentic? So they they extract
that story. So this is supposed to be the most authentic of them.
And if you read
John chapter eight
where that story is supposed to be, it's in double brackets.
There, but it's a double bracket. And if you read the introduction,
what do the double brackets actually mean?
It says brackets enclosed passages, which are regarded by
the editors as later additions to the text, which are quite
evidence, but which are of evident Antiquities and importance you're
really trying to say is, this is what people believe, and it's
popular.
So we're gonna go in and conclude the story. But to let you know
that we don't really believe this authentic, we're going to put it
in practice.
But it really shouldn't be there. You find hundreds of examples.
Some are extremely interesting.
Maybe we'll see one related.
We're also going to be looking at
and Allahu Alem prophecies of the Prophet sallallahu translated as
big, wide eyed
The maidens of paradise, right? He says if you put the dots in
different places, and they're shot Manji actually mentioned this in
an interview, right? And she said, It's actually from a hadith, but
it's actually a Koran. And then she called it the Koran and said
it's a hadith. So these are, these are people that are speaking for
us. Anyway.
So this guy, Luxembourg is that if you put if you change the dots
around, of course, there's no manuscript of the Quran that has
these dots that are changed. This is just conjecture. But he says,
you change the dots around, it says big grapes.
Right? And this is the meaning that Muslims have, they don't know
what they're talking about. Right? So I said, Well, it'd be looking
at. So I looked at a few places in the Quran where that phrase
occurs. And then one place it says, was that which not only was
Zenwatch novel, we hold a name.
So we're going to marry them. The people of paradise to big grapes.
Beautiful. This is a pseudo scholarship, but people are doing
attacking hottie so also a major part of this class deals with
FAQs, you know, big you know, type of issues that we get
what happened to Eastside they set up if he wasn't crucified? Why
don't you believe these are they sit on his God when He says in
Johnny 58? He says, putting up but I'm giving us that angle and me
before Abraham was I AM. He's claiming to have pre eternality
Why don't you believe that he's got Why did the promises have so
many wives? Why did he fight the battles?
So the Quran is difficult for them to attack. Right? It's difficult.
So they spend most of their energy on Hadith.
So they attack
that hadith.
And there's a few Hadith that they attack.
I'll give you an example. There's a hadith that's in Imam no is
really solid. I'm sorry about that. But it's a go hottie Muslim
and there's different versions of it, like intimidate the Saudi
witch the Prophet salallahu Salam is committed to MSRT the NASA
hertiage
Allah and Muhammad Rasool Allah.
Oh, come up Allah. I have been ordered to fight the people until
they witness in the oneness of God, and that Mohamed Salah Lonnie
Center is a messenger of God. Right.
So, Daniel Pipes has a commentary on this hadith.
And he says, Look, Muslims believe in unmitigated perpetual warfare
against unbelievers. And if they're nice to you, it's Sofia,
they really want to kill you. Your Muslim neighbor really wants to
kill you. The prophet is ordering them he's been ordered to fight
the people. So in Hadith, we have to look at CR.
See if means what context
context is very important. Every verse of the Quran, as a context
is called as Baba nozel