Walking, Talking Cross

Nearly full moon is brilliant high over the Bay, together with white haze, lighting up the place here at quarter to four. The light fog doesn’t obscure the view and channel buoy lights from one end of SABay to the other, downtown Panama City to my left, east, string of highrise condos way off to the right along Panama City Beach. 

Electronic gadgets I love, and one we have is a Brookstone given to me by TJCC some years ago, that has been on one desk and another. With a fresh battery in its new home on the balcony, it reports 67F, 98% humidity. This is so much better for a local native than the horrible cold weather of that aberrational seemingly endless winter.

Bible Seminar resumes this morning after our recess during an intense Holy Week. The group may overrule me, but my plan is to look at the widely different postResurrection accounts among the four Gospels and Acts 1. 

Most of the group have read it with me, but I may also show them the strange passion and Easter account in the non-canonical Gospel according to Peter. An online chronology I use http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/index.html dates it before all the NT books but genuine Paul, and before all the canonical gospels but Mark. Somewhat antisemitic and exonerating Pilate, it may have been read and accepted in the early church, when the passion narratives are said to have developed as the core for the rest of the narrative gospels, four of which eventually made it into the NT. But as we shall see, there were at least a couple reasons why Peter did not make the canon, and its walking, talking cross was not one of them.

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