re: #528 yma o hyd

This is also an interesting point to discuss.
I don’t think its about picking and choosing what I accept, according to my small knowledge to date, not being a theologian.

What it is about, for me, is getting rid of the centuries-old accretions to the image of Jesus which has been and still is being taught and preached in our churches. It is getting back to the Gospels, the letters, and try to understand what they really meant, for these early Christians. Why did they believe what they believed?
Why did this small group of people go out and lived changed lives? What was it that made them speak about Jesus they way they did?
Who really was this Jesus? Was he just another failed prophet, or another of those philosophers with a warm, fuzzy message?
Why were certain ‘gospels’ excluded from the Canon?

Thats what I’ve been reading up on and it is utterly gripping!

Oh, that’s simple, become a Jew.