I was not raised in any particular religious tradition and have never studied the Bible. Despite that, I could recognize reframings of familiar events from Jesus' life as they are recounted in the scriptures. What struck me is the way Moore almost glossed over the major events that we are so familiar with today--for example, the Sermon on the Mount. He seems to be saying that it was the everyday learning and the everyday acts of compassion that made Jesus/Joshua who he was.
The passages that resonated most with me described Joshua's healings, especially the ones that occurred when nobody else was watching.
"Lamb" describes the maturation and coming of age of Jesus Christ. As characterized by Moore, what kind of Jesus does Joshua become? Is he the Jesus you were raised to believe in, or have come to believe in (if in fact you do believe in him at all)? Is this interpretation an old-fashioned or a modern one?
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I liked how the bible stories demonstrated how these were real life events. They happened. There were other things going on of course; not like these funny retellings like the made for tv miniseries "Jesus of Nazarath." These dudes didn't just walk around looking pius all day, they weren't statues. They were men. It actually made me want to go back and read the Bible some more because it sparked my imagination some more about what some of the surrounding events may have been like. I always found it hard to imagine Jesus ever sitting down and actually having a meal; and maybe critisizing how burnt it was, or maybe even changing it into a better meal.
ReplyDeleteIf Jesus was human and divine, the church has definately taken out the part about him being human.
I think that this interpretation may be so old school that it brings Jesus to life again, as a person; not just someone floating around with a halo over his head. The fact that people could see this human acting in such a compassionate way is what made believers out of people.