Posted: May 04, 2012 1:41 pm
proudfootz wrote:it is an interesting parallel that the early christians believed they understood jewish scripture better than the jews.
You know how it went with the goat-roasters. They probably thought they understood many things a lot better than they really did. This problem continues apace, albeit about somewhat fewer matters.
The whole point of scripture, I think, is its capacity to make you think you understand more than you really do. Scriptural amendments to scripture are sufficient evidence of that; after that, scripture begins to constitute an interpretation of itself. Whoever decided that no further amendments should be made to the xian bible was a fricking genius. Now all the amendments are extracurricular, as it were, including the Book of Mormon. Hence the 38000 varieties of Heinz catsup.