• daannii@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    How I would teach it :

    Okay students. What do you think this passage means?

    Well let’s take a look at the history. Did you know the Bible has been translated multiple times from its unknown original text. With a king of England being one of the more recent people who decided what the text said.

    Do you think he may have been wrong about some of the text?

    Do you think other people may have lied about what it said for their own benefits. ?

    Let’s take a look at some of the scripts about rules like eating pigs meat, and wearing fabric from multiple types of fiber.

    Maybe the people who re-wrote/interpreted the text were trying to get people to stop buying things from their competitors ?

    What do you think ?

    There sure is a lot of rules in the old testament that directly contradict what Jesus says.

    who should Christians follow? Jesus or a random guy who wrote things in the old testament. ?

    -id be fired of course.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      I would get them to write essays on how “the not one jot or tittle” thing fits in with claims of having a “new covenant”.

    • TWeaK@lemmy.today
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      14 days ago

      Apparently a lot of the translations for women “washing feet” was actually originally “washing genitals” - probably the equivalent of a “massage” in the modern day.

      Also, Jesus washed a lot of people’s feet.