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Originally Posted by tompe
What are you thinking about here? I just listened to a Swedish radio program that gave examples from the Bible and I cannot see how you from these examples can come to the conclusions that there is one teaching and that it is nice.
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Each of the four gospels presents a reasonably consistent picture. A different picture, certainly, but each one is consistent within itself, although they can be mutually contradictory. Of course, each one has its own "agenda" which one needs to take into account. That's only to be expected when one considers that they were written decades after the events they describe, in a different country, by people who certainly weren't eye-witnesses to those events. (eg the author of Mark's gospel was clearly not a Palestinian Jew - he gets the geography of the country wrong, and makes mistakes about Jewish law and customs).