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Thu 4 Apr, 2013 02:07 am
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But as I read the actual account of His life for the first time in the four gospels, the eyewitness nature of the narratives and the enormity of Christ's claims and their consequences gradually began to sink in. Here was a man who not only claimed to know God, He claimed to be God. No other figure I could find in any other faith made such an outrageous claim. He also claimed to be able to forgive sins, which seemed both exciting and utterly shocking.
@oristarA,
Shocking perhaps, but more like unbelievable.
@roger,
Thank you Roger.
From the same book:
Quote: The other scandalous thing that the New Testament eyewitnesses said about Him, and that Christians seemed to take as a central tenet of their faith, is that this good man rose from the dead.
I wonder whether the word scandalous here is a negative adjective, meaning shameful, giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation.
In this context, scandalous could mean "unbelievable, outrageous or controversial."
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