In our previous post, Peter and Herod had an epic battle of the wills. Herod went crazy and tried his best to kill Peter. Peter does what he is best at, and has god kill Herod. Dead. Worm food. It really, really isn’t a good idea to fuck with Peter! Chapter 13Well, after a chapter… Read More »
Things are still moving along nicely in the Acts of the Apostles. Last week, Peter started killing people for no really good reason, other than to assert his authority. In his defense, almost everyone acted a little bit out-of-character in the previous chapters, including the Twelve disciples, who chose spreading the word of Jesus above… Read More »
In the previous entry, I started into the wacky world that is the Acts of the Apostles. In Acts, we find Peter making the power play to become the de facto head of the church. Peter showed that he wasn’t above twisting facts or re-interpreting scripture to make his points. Also, the Holy Spirit burns… Read More »
With the completion of the Gospel of John, all four canonical Gospels are now in the can. We can now move on to fresh material. I have to say that I am not quite looking forward to the Acts of the Apostles (from here on in referred to as Acts). I remember Acts as the… Read More »
The Gospel of John is weighing on me. I am really not liking it much at all. As I noted in my previous post, there are just so many things in John that are different or don’t exist in the other Gospels. And John is putting so much energy into painting Jesus as confident and… Read More »
In case you didn’t notice from my previous entry, I am not liking the Gospel of John. Mostly this is because John is creating a very different version of Jesus than any of the other gospel authors. In John, Jesus is almost condescending in how he talks to his disciples and followers. He is also… Read More »