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And with the context around it, makes even less sense.
Luke 17: 1 Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!
2 It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
3 Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.
4 And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.
5 And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.
Why does that feel like a non sequitur? The whole thing seems to be about forgiving an asshole for being a dick seven times a day as long as he says sorry (especially since being a dick is a given), but where does the little ones even come in?
Kind of bad advice, either way.
It's because this is coming from Mark 9:42, where in Mark 9:36-37 he takes a small child and says whoever welcomes the child welcomes him.
Which follows Mark 9:35 where in answer to "who is the greatest apostle" he replies the one who becomes "servant to all" almost verbatim from 1 Cor 9:19 where Paul described himself as a slave to all.
Paul was only a small child at the time Jesus was doing his thing, and described himself as the last apostle as well as being slave to all.
So the passage was about backdating the legitimacy for Paul's being welcomed as "slave to all" and the "last of all" who was one such child being welcomed in his name.
This passage then connected the presence of this hypothetical child to the sayings about better to die/cut off hand/etc than sin. That original part with the child is located elsewhere in Luke 9:46-48, separated from this other part here, so in Luke it is literally missing its context.
(The only thing I still really miss from Reddit is /r/AcademicBiblical...)
Ah, that makes sense. I mean, at least more sense at least. Thanks for the context!
I probably won't ever get around to reading those old books (which as an atheist makes sense, although I always find it funny athiests know the Bible more than religious people do lol).
I was just angry about this the other day while I was driving home and listening to the Data over Dogma podcast (theist but very open minded Bible scholar chats with an atheist about the history of the bible) I am getting kinda annoyed at this lifestyle.
Maybe I just don't want to believe in sky-daddy. Is that so much to ask? Maybe I don't want to have a pile of books on Bible text analysis and spend my free time studying that fuck awful book anymore. Maybe I don't want to try to be an expert on philosophy, logic, evolutionary biology, Big Bang cosmology, what random really means in QM theory, Pali Canon, the Vedas, the Korean, and human+animal psychology.
I feel like every time I am on some site or talking to someone about this subject like I have to dwarf their knowledge on every single avenue of attack when the burden of proof shouldn't be on me. It is their fucking claim, fucking defend it!
Oh, I heard about that podcast-- I think a host was a guest on Scathing Athiest.
What I learned from dating a preachers daughter a long time ago is that at least all that prep in evolution, psychology, etc, made me a much better, more knowledge person (which helped a lot in going to college, grad school, etc). I appreciate that aspect, even if it sucked at the time and involved a lot of heated debate and temporary blocked AIM accounts.
A good push for a bad reason, especially since they inevitably could not see reason. Some people aren't worth the effort, but I would hate to have to put on that fight for family members or other loved ones.
I miss that sub as well. I wish they had a once a week open mic kinda deal.
Chatgpt works wonders for this btw. I noticed something in Mark I didn't get a few months ago. No one responded to my question in that sub but chatgpt was there ready to engage. It is loaded with biblical scholarship and can even do a bit of speculation.
ChatGPT is very susceptible to poor source selection when it comes to biblical scholarship because of the preponderance of apologetics online, just be aware.
And I have been copying the open discussion threads into !AcademicBiblical@lemmy.world (created by one of the mods from the sub) in the hopes that there's eventually a bit of activity over there in turn. Feel free to repost the question in one of those and given the relative silence so far, it might stand out a bit more in terms of getting an answer?
Yeah I appreciate the warning and I have noticed it has a slant. Still for nitty gritty stuff it is amazing. Mark for example is a fairly terse. So I had it do a unique word count on it and compared it to unique word counts in other Greek Documents and confirmed it. That would have been a fairly painful project only a few months ago.
I took your advice and posted. https://lemmy.world/post/2354097 I guess I have Mark on my mind today. Haha
True. Though "repent" doesn't just mean saying sorry.
I think Mathew's interpretation of events to be kind of more straightforward....
Both Matthew and Luke are pulling it from Mark 9.
It's because it's coming from Mark 9 where there's a kid, but it was split up in Luke to the kid being in Luke 9 and the saying here in Luke 17.