re: #26 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

It makes for a compelling story, when you’re trying to convince people your chosen prophet is the bestest evah and they should follow him.

What I could never wrap my head around was why God, his omniscient/omnipresent father, let Jesus be arrested, imprisoned and then killed. Like, couldn’t Jesus have done a better job spreading the Word if he’d been allowed to live a bit longer?

Not sure I could trust a father who would let his own son die, just because.

Have you read any of Bart Ehrman’s books? Very scholarly analysis of the ancient texts.