That's the *other* GodWell, there is certainly precedence for a holy man and God ignoring someone's plea for forgiveness (Jer. 37:3: "Please pray to the Lord our God for us!"), and for the reasons I've given, it doesn't seem like much of a stretch to suppose that Josephus' Simon and Acts' Simon are the same person.The big meanie from the OT. The new God which Jesus taught us about loves and accepts everyone
The big meanie from the OT. The new God which Jesus taught us about loves and accepts everyone They seem like the same God to me (and I do think early Christians thought Jesus was divine, in accordance with Daniel's "son of man" figure, which is something I came around to only in recent years, after reading Boyarin). And when Jesus comes to earth on the clouds of heaven (in the form of the "son of man"), he's going to render some serious God-level judgement on people, according to my understanding of the NT.
Statistics: Posted by John2 — Wed May 01, 2024 3:47 pm