Previously:

(Part 1) The Philosophy of History: Professor Bart Ehrman’s New Course Comparing and Contrasting The Apostle Paul With The Historical Jesus

(Part 2) The Philosophy of History: Professor Bart Ehrman’s New Course Comparing and Contrasting The Apostle Paul With The Historical Jesus

(Part 3) The Philosophy of History: Professor Bart Ehrman’s New Course Comparing and Contrasting The Apostle Paul With The Historical Jesus

(Part 4) The Philosophy of History: Professor Bart Ehrman’s New Course Comparing and Contrasting The Apostle Paul With The Historical Jesus

(Part 5) The Philosophy of History: Professor Bart Ehrman’s New Course Comparing and Contrasting The Apostle Paul With The Historical Jesus

(Part 6) The Philosophy of History: Professor Bart Ehrman’s New Course Comparing and Contrasting The Apostle Paul With The Historical Jesus

(Part 7) The Philosophy of History: Professor Bart Ehrman’s New Course Comparing and Contrasting The Apostle Paul With The Historical Jesus

(Part 8) The Philosophy of History: Professor Bart Ehrman’s New Course Comparing and Contrasting The Apostle Paul With The Historical Jesus

(Part 9 – CONCLUSION) The Philosophy of History: Professor Bart Ehrman’s New Course Comparing and Contrasting The Apostle Paul With The Historical Jesus

Now

• I think the most helpful way to describe how Jesus viewed the Bible is to say he viewed it as a human book with some of God’s fingerprints on it. He was pointing to some of the fingerprints and denouncing some of the human thinking found in the Torah and Writings. For example, when he rejected the eye-for-eye-tooth-for-tooth-life-for-life code that is clearly taught in Leviticus and Deuteronomy. That code tells people to show no pity and deal with violent attacks with reciprocal violence. Jesus tells his Jewish hearers not to do that—don’t respond with tit-for-tat retribution—because God loves his enemies, is kind to both the ungrateful and the wicked, and is a merciful Father (which doesn’t mean he doesn’t hold people accountable). Because God is merciful, we are to be merciful. This clearly contradicts commands in the Torah: to have no pity, practice reciprocal retribution, and sacrifice (kill) without mercy the Canaanite tribes and any Jews guilty of serious offenses because that’s what God wills (Michael Camp).

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