Have you ever played the game ‘telephone’? The game goes like this: I tell the person next to me a sentence they can only hear.
They then have to tell the person next to them so only they can listen.
It continues until it turns back to me, and then I relay what the final sentence sounds like.
By the time it reaches the original person, what you end up with is usually completely inaccurate, with perhaps many of the same phonetic sounds but the meaning completely changed.
The reason I bring up this game is because of the gospels themselves: each gospel was written at different times and by other people.
The style of each gospel is unique;
Mark is more straightforward, John more fantastic and supernatural, Matthew more poetic, and Luke more detailed.
Like the game of telephone, the more people that are playing, the farther that the message has to go, the more distorted it will become.
This is why Mark, in my opinion, is the most accurate depiction of the life of Christ.
Christ is still the son of God; he performs miracles, healing the sick and preaching about love for all mankind; finally, in these verses, he dies and rejoins his Father and ours, sitting beside God.



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