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Originally Posted by awareness

Bro zeek is just offering an alternative way to interpret the Bible, that makes it more palpable to modern minds.

Today, with science explaining most everything, it doesn't make sense that the man Jesus just lifted off the earth into a cloud, and vanished, and end up on high sitting at the right hand of his Father.

In truth it does need to be spiritualized. After all, maybe they could watch Jesus rise up to the cloud, but how could they see him at the righthand of God? (Not to mention that God has a right and left hand, and sits His ass on a throne -- how's that for both a Christian and Jewish God? -- it was Christian Jews writing the NT books - don't claim Luke wasn't a Jew - they were anonymous).

So spiritualizing all the fantastical stories allows us to get the ethical values in the NT. Bro zeek is just creating a different method of making the Jefferson Bible -- not having to cut them out, leaving them but spiritualizing them.

It is an alternative way of reading the NT ... howbeit, not the traditional Christian way.

Not true. It is a traditional way of reading the Bible that goes back at least as far as Philo who was a contemporary of Jesus and has been practiced by many Christian theologians including Origen and Augustine of Hippo to name only two examples.