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HomerJay wrote:

Zwaarddijk wrote:
Like fucking seriously:

Oh dear, now where does it say the earlier prophets told him to go back and tell the jews that their prophets had to told him to tell them to follow Christ?

Like fucking seriously.

What do you think is the fucking point of having that narrative in the gospels? It's exactly to show that Jesus' authority is accepted by the prophets of Old, their turning up out of the blue like that and chatting with Jesus has the exact same function as the narrative of Mohammed ascending to the heavens. Or do you think the evangelist just liked telling those who would hear his story out that Moses and Eliah liked hanging around? Or that the point is "Jesus gets approval from both Moses and Eliah, so it's at least ok to listen to him"? Read in light of the fact that most Jews of the time probably literally thought Moses had given this commandment as well: "The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;"

Anyway, your comment does kind of suggest you're not cut out to understand the language games these kinds of books often contain. Go and learn.