Beer and Bible: Luke 7:36 - 8:18

Sorry that I missed last weeks report. We did meet and I’m afraid you will now never know what was discussed. This week, back in the lounge of The Northcote Hotel, the gathered took on these two quite famous stories from Luke. Jesus anointed by the sinful women and the parable of the sower.

Questions

The main questions that came up were;

Are the stories in Luke actually true as they seem too similar, but also different, to accounts in other Gospels.
Why is the story of the sinful women included?
Why did Jesus talk in code?
Why did he seem to not want certain people to understand?

Discussion

We discussed at length two main ideas. The first being whether or not we can take the Gospels at face value and why Luke has hand picked the narrative that he has. The second was why Jesus talked in riddles that only some people could understand.

Somehow we ended with a fantastic discussion about whether or not Jesus was God? Did the first Christians see him as God? Does it really matter either way.

Man we were deep.

Drinks consumed were: 6x, Carlsberg, Heineken, sparkling mineral water (!)