[don-o]

The message Jesus and his apostles preached required no “intellectual jiu-jitsu” and I dare say any that does is a corruption of that message.

That is necessarily the conclusion that one draws when the first thousand years of church history is blithely dismissed.

[count-your-change]

Not “blithely dismissed” at all but understood in the light of Jesus’ illustration of how the field would be oversown with weeds that would appear similar to the wheat until it began to produce fruit. And what fruitage those weeds have produced!

It takes no Greek philosophers with cleverly worded formulas with their absurd contradictions of Scripture or this silly
“intellectual jiu-jitsu” to understand Jesus’ message.

But anything on a blog to sell a book, I guess.