LUKE BY PAULA GOODER

[@77heraclitus]

Fascinating and engrossing introduction to Luke. These series are very illuminating. Thanks!

[@paulagooder9645]

David, you are quite right! Trouble with doing this without notes - I thought I'd said John the Baptist - thanks for picking this up, Paula

[@tjinnes]

Thanks for a great introduction to Luke.

[@MadderPrinciple]

Brilliant - so helpful and relevant

[@sagesarabia5053]

How do you determine the Q as a source

[@creoleconsulting]

Really helpful lecture, thanks. I love the point (obvious when pointed out, like all the best observations) about Luke thinking he's writing an OT book. Pedantic point: the exegesis of Luke 1:80 seems to read this as being about the young Jesus - surely this verse refers to John the Baptist?

[@vjbnoble1]

so fascinating so thank you for that explanation of Luke's gripping narrative

[@lukilittle3098]

I think you misquoted Luke 1,80: Luke referred to John the baptist not to Jesus as you explained.

[@TheAnniepies]

Where's the part where Jesus tells people to slay non-believers (Luke 19:27) or the part where Jesus said to beat slaves that makes mistakes (Luke 12:48)??? Where's the part where Jesus introduced the psychological child abuse of telling kids they must submit to (and believe in) an invisible vengeant god or else face never-ending punishment in a lake of fire?? I mean, are you talking about the right guy here??

[@nicholashaugh4028]

Uhh huh..I'll refrain from commentary, For those who would like to look up the specific verses that our dear friend "TheAnniepies" has listed... I would recommend looking up the entire chapters the verses are located in as well. a little bit of background information... a little bit of context.. a little bit more information for educational purposes... unless you'd rather invoke those specific verses on Christian forums or websites and then get ridiculed.

[@nicholashaugh4028]

TheAnniepies Fair enough: Luke Chapter 19: The verse you are invoking there is part of a parable (A story that is told with a spiritual lesson in mind) where a king goes to a distant country and is going to return soon. He asks his servants to invest the money. When he returns he finds that some of his servants have not been loyal, and then he asks for them to be beheaded. (Luke 19:11-27) Now notice that Jesus is speaking from the perspective of a hypothetical king. There is nothing in that entire chapter that implies that he wants his own personal disciples to go out beheading people. ....Would you like me to talk about the other verse you invoked?

[@TheAnniepies]

Nathan Apollos BULLSHIT. A parable is a story that imparts a moral lesson. Jesus was explaining how the king had authority to command the slaying of his subjects, as an analogy of how he allegedly their god, has even more authority to take their lives. He in no way criticized the king's command to slaughter non-allegiant citizens. He used the example to as a JUSTIFICATION for slaughter, which can --and many times HAS been throughout Christianity's bloody history-- used as justification to KILL non-believers. If Jesus disagreed with killing infidels, he would have said so, rather than state an analogy depicting a monarch's "right" to do it to emphasis his and god's even greater "right" to take human lives. 2. Yes, please do try to explain why Jesus only said to be a bit less vicious when beating slaves that make mistakes, rather than take the opportunity to say that slavery and beating slaves was evil. And remember that the OT made it very clear that beatings could be justified so long as the slave lived at least a few days. Don't give me some bull about how he might have been persecuted if he spoke against it--that was the reason he came here wasn't it??

[@nicholashaugh4028]

That is the lesson that you have read from it?... Okay well this is probably not going to be a very fruitful conversation. I am sorry for wasting your time my dear friend.. I pray that the next time we meet it will be under better circumstances.. and you will use less vulgar words such as "Bull####" to present your cases and your arguments.

[@TheAnniepies]

Nathan Apollos " I pray that " How pompous. Suggesting that you have the ear of an all-powerful Genie that sways to your pleas. You are a daft fool. And you are even more haughty to pretend that "bullshit" is "vulgar". It is a visual analogy for what you said. That's entirely relevant and appropriate. And I see that you are taking a little criticism as an excuse to run away. How typical. Well, 1 Peter 3:15 is your god's directive for you to ANSWER for your faith, not run away. You have NOT answered me about why Jesus endorsed beating slaves. Explain, or go ahead and hypocritically DISOBEY your god for all readers here to see.

[@frankbowman9493]

Except it was Jesus who told the parable of the Prodigal Son. Luke relayed it as he learned it.

[@ulysses2711]

And how do you know that Luke, the beloved physician, and the writer of the Gospel, which is ascribed to Luke, were the same person?

[@jhonjairosanchez4136]

speaks too quicly. Fon english spoken people is all wright, but for others is quiete difficult to follow her.