Umm... what of Job?

[pasithea]

So, this was sorta skipped over in bible school. Do you know the last words of Jesus?



27:46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying,
Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast
thou forsaken me?

27:47 Some of them that stood there, when they
heard that, said, This man calleth for Elias.

27:48 And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled
it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.

27:49 The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to
save him.

27:50 Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the
ghost.

Now, I have to ask... What of Job? I mean supposedly Job was a good man because he didn't swear at God like this. Was Jesus really the Christ? Seems unlikely. This is a pretty pitiful and mortal cry.

Also, Jesus doesn't drink at the Last Supper (No grail!) and there's no mention of nails or the Spear of Longinus! The New Testament is a total letdown.

Well, except for that Sith Lord action. That was cool!

Comments

[captpackrat.livejournal.com]

The four Gospels each tell the story of the Crucifixion from a different angle. The reason they repeat information is because each was written by a different person for a different audience. Matthew was a tax collector and one of Jesus' Apostles, and his book was intended more for the Jewish (hence the huge geneological listing at the beginning), Mark was a disciple of Peter and wrote primarily for non-Jewish, non-Christian members of the Roman Empire, Luke was a Greek whose target audience was Gentile Christians and John was complied some time after the Ascension and deals more with mysticism and the relationship between Jesus, God and the Holy Spirit.

I used to have a neat book called the Harmony of the Gospels which put the whole of the 4 books in chronological order with similar passages side by side. Very edumacational.