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1 | Anyone take notes during Yashua's life? | NT general | Maus | 239834 | ||
Everything that I have read so far has it that the life and teachings of Yashua were written down sometime after His death. There were the 12, and the 70, and many others who followed yashua during His ministry. So, none of His followers took notes? Nobody wrote anything down until after He returned to the Father? | ||||||
2 | Anyone take notes during Yashua's life? | NT general | DocTrinsograce | 239835 | ||
Hi, Maus... Welcome to the forum! You are looking at the events in Scripture through the eyes of your own culture, experiences, and chronological context. Did you know that a Jewish 12-year-old in the time of Christ were not only literate, but they had large portions of the Law and Prophets memorized verbatim? Even the average Greek child could quote Homer and other poets. How many children today even have their times tables memorized? Even so, people very rarely are walking around recording everything for posterity. It always is after the fact, that people start realizing the need for something to be documented. We don't, for example, when Einstein is 30 years of age, suddenly start thinking, "Goodness! We better start taking notes for his biography!" In Him, Doc |
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3 | Anyone take notes during Yashua's life? | NT general | Maus | 239840 | ||
Hello Doc: Thank you for the welcome. Thirty years later, a disciple can remember how many fish were in the net, how many loaves and fish fed a multitude? When Einstein became important, people began to make extensive records of his activities and accomplishments. Yeshua certainly became important during His ministry, yet, nobody took notes? | ||||||
4 | Anyone take notes during Yashua's life? | NT general | DocTrinsograce | 239841 | ||
Hi, Maus... Maybe they did take notes, like Plato took notes of Socrates' dialogues. Well, I guess we don't have any of Plato's notes either. Thucydides must have taken notes. Maybe the problem is that those loose-leaf papyrus student notebooks are so easily mislaid. My grandkids certainly have difficulty insuring that their notebooks survive between the schoolhouse and home. Lewis Carroll suggested a similar notion when he wrote: "'The horror of that moment,' the King said, 'I shall never never never forget it!' 'You will, though,' the Queen said, 'if you don't make a memorandum of it.'" But I digress... Are you conjecturing that if the disciples (your reference to the 12) and/or the Sanhedrin (your reference to the 70?) had been chroniclers who kept running notations, that we would have some superior documents? Or are you expressing your skepticism concerning the veracity of the documents that we have? Or is there third possibility? In Him, Doc |
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5 | Anyone take notes during Yashua's life? | NT general | Maus | 239844 | ||
Hello Doc: The 70 that I referred to was the disciples that Yeshua sent out by twos. A third possibility; that many contemporary notes were kept, by many different people, in several different languages, and that the "Q-document" which is presumed to be the source for the gospels, is actually a compilation of these notes. If so, then the Gospels sources had originated from many languages. This would infer that the New Testament is the authorized word of Elohim, in every language which our current texts may have been preserved by. If this is so, then Greek re-translations back into Hebrew, and Latin, Aramaic, and Greek texts are all equally reliable ... even more so if they are each referenced with the others ... none having supremacy over the others. | ||||||
6 | Anyone take notes during Yashua's life? | NT general | Jalek | 239848 | ||
Greetings, Pardon me for interjecting here. I wanted to add a bit of insight. The idea of a "Q" document is just that ... an idea ... a hypothesis with no real support beyond comparisons between the Gospels. However, Doc did touch on a far more likely and feasible explanation. The problem with the "Q" document is that there is precisely zero mention of it in the Bible, non-biblical sources of the era, and the early church fathers. Something as important as a collection of notes from the three years during the ministry of Christ would have been precious and cherished, as well as preserved. Especially if any of that was written by Jesus himself. What is mentioned is that there were eye witnesses still alive throughout the first century. When you take in the abundance of eye witnesses, you don't need some mysterious and unmentioned "Q" document. This is especially true when the majority of the eyewitnesses are jewish, which Doc pointed out had a strong oral tradition of memorization. Jalek |
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7 | Anyone take notes during Yashua's life? | NT general | Maus | 239865 | ||
Jalek: Thank you for your input. While I would have taken notes, and I suppose many did, I can't justify going beyond my supposition. I guess that I will simply have to wait for some ancient notes to be unearthed somewhere, that confirms my supposition. | ||||||
8 | Anyone take notes during Yashua's life? | NT general | Jalek | 239870 | ||
Greetings, Something else to consider, in a time and place where paper may not be readily available, how do you retain knowledge? You pay attention and memorize what was said. Jalek |
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