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On Sat, 7 May 2005 18:07:47 +0000 (UTC), MyName wrote:

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>> I think I've found a few, and will name one.
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>In your original post you indicated there are other verses you
>find to be problenatic. I'd be interested to hear which ones &
>why if you'd care to share.

Luke's rendition of the sermon on the mount is notably different from
Matthew's, and it is apparently politically motivated; to the point of
social war of the poor against the rich. Only Luke's gospel carries
this tone throughout. The exception being the already mentioned "eye
of the needle"story also found in Matthew and Mark. Matthew and Mark
are not so socialistic as Luke. That story sticks out from the rest
of their books like a sore thumb, without context.
Note that Luke is assumed to have also written Acts. There is no
such social war in the gospel. The one exception of such venting of
hate to the rich is the story of Ananias and Saphira in Acts 5. Peter
is said to have watched over it. But I do not believe it, nor the
story as written. They sold their property, kept some of the money,
supposedly lied about selling it for the amount they're giving (as if
that would be so important to the church), and then are effectively
murdered by the Spirit before Peter, apparently consenting to their
deaths. How often does one hear this story practicably used? It is
an act of hate, as was the writing of that story.

And how about Luke's Lazarus, as supposedly told by Christ? What a
name to pull out of the air! A rich man feeds the sore-ful beggar
something to live on (so it is implied in the 'story'), but is
nevertheless sent to hell without a complaint. Luke's Lazarus is not
an expression of love, but of overt hate! And it is written so much
not as to convince one of loving the poor, but I think of hating
Christ for teaching such words.
The motive, I believe, is not Luke's politics. But from someone
who was in control of Luke's letters, who modified his words to do
overt damage to Christ. Politics was the apparent method, and so
presumed motive; but was not used properly as to be convincing. The
motive was to do harm to the gospel, not preach politics.
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Christ never taught grace. Paul taught it bluntly. The apostles
menitoned it in a complimentary fashion. But Christ never taught
grace. So how can we be saved by it, as Paul declared to forcefully?

I've already posted that I do not respect Paul as an apostle, even as
a Christian. He changed the gospel so to reject works. He wrote that
our works would meet the fire, though we would be saved. He fought
hard to convince others that works should not be thought necessary to
salvation. But that is the teaching of an anti-Christ.
Christ taught the parable of heaven compared to a denarius, which
is to be