1. what if the jesus of luke and matthew spoke in parables and the jesus of john spoke with the abstract greek light of reason ... how can you say it was jesus and not more john matthew or luke ... written thirty to sixty years later they had to have had more influence than something said all those years before ... the actual jesus had to have been more ambiguous than socrates was to xenophon and plato ... what is your guarantee of objective accuracy ... 2. my guarantee will not satisfy you ... it's not a simple aggregate of matter and form ... there is something else ... just two things more ... a person and a purpose ... the form corresponds precisely to the original matter because of that person and that purpose ... when the form of the world was abandoned and then left he left behind that person and his purpose ... how else could he have been so confident in our success ... he told us to listen ... he said we'd be the judge
1. johnson, jesus, 107, ch 5; 2. socrates in plato is sprightly and wry but in xenophon he's dour; 3. aristotle believed in four causes or explanations of what was real: matter, form, agent, and purpose; 4. john 7: 17.
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