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Does god give every human embryo a soul?

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  • #102
    Pompey Magnus
    Registered Users Posts: 5,406 ✭✭✭Pompey Magnus


    J C wrote: »
    When it comes to the Word of God EVERY word is important.

    The account of the visit of the Wise Men to Jesus in Mt2:1-16 is therefore important .......and true !!!:D:)

    But this doesn't address the question of why none of the other Gospel writers felt it important to mention.


  • #103
    PDN
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,686 ✭✭✭✭PDN


    Depeche_Mode wrote: »
    But this doesn't address the question of why none of the other Gospel writers felt it important to mention.

    The Gospel writers had limited space in which to write (there were only so many scrolls you could expect one scribe to carry) and a wealth of material to choose from. Therefore each Gospel writer chose the events that best suited the different emphasis they wanted to put on the story of Jesus. After all, if they all chose exactly the same events then there would, in effect, only be one Gospel instead of four - because no-one wants to read a book that is essentially the same as another book already on your bookshelf.

    Matthew, written for a Jewish audience, presents Jesus as the King of the Jews. Mark, written for a Roman readership, as the Servant who came to do the Father's Will. Luke, written for a potential Greek convert and sympathiser called Theophilus, as the Son of Man. John, writing for the Jews of the Diaspora,shows Jesus as the Logos & Son of God.

    Therefore it is perfectly consistent with the purpose of Matthew's Gospel to record the visit of the wise men, since that emphasises that Jesus was marked out from birth as a king. The event would not advance the purposes of the other three Gospels so was omitted in favour of material more directly related to their central themes.

    The idea that an event is somehow dubious or unimportant because it only gets mentioned in one of the Gospels is a complete non-starter.


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