/lit/ - Literature

>>20291922
I did. What I'm saying is that it is easy to retroactively change or add details to an event, should the author have motivations beyond a simple recall of events. The drawing of lots for instance is something that would have been a trivial addition, motivated by the conscious desire to seem to fulfil prophesies in Jewish texts; A pretty good idea if your main motivation is converting Jews, huh?

Look, I have a great deal of respect for all of my fellow Christians in these threads (excluding Evangelicals and Unitarians obviously) and the last thing I want to do is seem as if I'm attacking your theological positions. How about we just agree that we have different interpretations of the Jewish texts and their connection to the NT?