Was Matthew cherry picking verses to convince people Jesus was the Messiah?Was he taking verses out of their original context? Why or why not?
>>18006851Why would he want to do that?It's more like he cherry picked verses to convince people to remain jews while believing jesus was god.Judaizing christians were worried that with the condescension of the annointed one, and the establishment of "the new covenant", people would lose all connection to torah law and use God's grace as an excuse to sin, only to damn themselves to hell forever.
>>18006851Obviously innerancy is false https://benthams.substack.com/p/why-im-not-a-christian?utm_source=post-banner&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true
>>18006864>with the condescension of the annointed oneI am trying in vain to figure out what is it that you wanted to say here.
>>18007030You're not trying, because that would imply I might have a point you actually want to understand and that's too risky for you.Annointed one means christ, or messiah.Condescension means gracefully stepping down to meet us at our level.
>>18007036>Condescensionah, I looked it up and apparently it's mormon newspeak. condescension means an ugly attitude towards others, and fuck you for trying to use common terms with sectarian meaning in public discourse.
>>18006851>>18006864Jesus was the actual descendant of the house of Michal-Saul, Davids first wife.The Judeans had developed a separate term based on their own thoughts and wishes.Jesus was being very polite in pointing out that the actual lineage was no secret to those who had read the sources, and that he also had read the scriptures of the Judeans as well as of Israel.
