“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning.” — John 1:1-2
“Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.” — Matthew 10:39
“Only the beginning of what I want to feel forever;
Only the beginning,
Only just the start…” — Chicago , “Beginnings”
Quite an eclectic selection of quotes, no? I’ve never claimed myself to be anything even remotely resembling a genius; in fact, the title of my post from last week, “Dawn Breaks Over Marblehead”, might well make for a damned fine quote on my tombstone. And in this regard, the underlying message and theme from Robin Griffith-Jones’ book, “The Four Witnesses” might well go down in my own personal history as a kind of life-changing event. Allow me to explain…
Anyone picking up Griffith-Jones’ book might find it (as I did) incredibly frustrating; you just want the author to simply get to the damned freakin’ point. But that’s the whole idea at work here, for he has taken great pains to make sure his readers understand fully the context (not the theology) by which each of the four authors of the Gospels strove to write about Jesus in a way their target audiences would understand - after all, their communities were struggling (as each of us still are two thousand years later) to make sense of this extremely uncommon human being during difficult times.
And it wasn’t unti ...
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