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( votes)Traditional Supporting View of Matthew
- Placed first in the range of Gospels despite the fact that it was not the first to be written.
- Contains stories not found in any other Gospel
- Systematic way of arrangement
- It allows the better understanding of the content
- Quite advanced for its time
- 5 distinct passages
- Introductory Section as well
- Concluding Section as well
- Common end for each section
- Most sayings are from older documents
- Making them authentic for most Christians
- Sequence is the same as Mark
- Gives chronological validity
- Has supported the text with sayings of Jesus
- Better management than Luke
- For example the Sermon on the Mount is all at one place in Matthew but in Luke it is spread all around
- For historical Jews
- Matthew gives more regard to the Old Testament than MOST gospels
- He uses Old Testament to interpret the life of jesus
- In a way, Jews think Matthew was in support of the Christianity being a sub-sect of Judaism and not a separate sect.
- So more acceptable to the Jews than most other Gospels
- He even writes a few events from Jesus’s life to prove that he fulfilled the Jewish Prophecy
- Tries to create a bridge between Jewish and Christianity
- Matthew connects Christian ancestry to Abraham
- That makes Christianity an inherent Abrahamaic religion
- Matthew combines teachings and narrative in a single form
- He narrates events as in Mark
- Then takes pauses in between and tells Jesus’s words
- This way, the teachings become more in line and more understandbale
- Matthew does NOT agree with the individualistic attitude supported by Saint Paul
- He even indirectly accuses Paul and his followers to be broken from the Kingdom of Heaven based on Jesus’s teachings.
- Matthew was focused on ALL people, not specifically the Jews
- It is more encompassing than most other Gospels
- For example, different parables about common life.
- He asks for more than formal obedience
- He asks for the implementation of the ideas of religion in common life.
- Formal obedience alone is not the correct motive according to him when it comes to living life according to someone’s teachings.
- He does not polarization regarding the establishment of the Church
- He supports both the views
- 1. Church will be established in the future
- 2. Already present in the hearts of people
- He supports both the views
- It is based on temporary sources that were existent
- Not a personal narrative
- More authority
- Like Logia, mark and Q source
- Represents different point of views to avoid polarization.
Against Arguments For Matthew
- The fact that it contains stories not found elsewhere
- Raised questions about the authenticity of the Gospel
- Some writers consider it to be the personal opinion of the author more than a text of historical evidence and sancticity
- A few analysts have gone as far as to declare it a traditional work of fiction.
- The arrangement
- The highly systematic arrangement shows that the Gospel is a work of writing significantly than quoting reality.
- It could very well be a work a historical dilemma one way or another.
- The fact that it contains introductions and conclusions place it in more a formal writing contemporary than a religious text.
- Most sayings are from TEMPORARY SOURCES
- Some of these sources are no longer available.
- No one has the original copy of the Logia or Q source,
- No one knows if they REALLY existed
- The sayings in the Gospel can be fabricated as well.
- Jesus never said them
- OR Jesus said different versions of the them
- The key question here is
- If Jesus actually said them, why didn’t the other three canonical Gospels quoted some of these sayings?
- If they were from sources already present, they would have been quoted.
- Some of these sources are no longer available.
- A rearrangement of other Gospels with fabrication
- Most of the data in Gospel of Matthew has been taken from Mark, Luke and others and rearranged.
- The sayings are fabricated to support the same text in a unique way.
- It could be a thoughtful attempt to write a better version of Luke.
- Matthew remained too neutral or too inclined to gain Jewish support
- The views of Matthew DO NOT polarize the difference between Christianity and Judaism
- In essence, he could have taken the optimistic approach to gain support from the majority Jews.
- The text of Matthew focuses on sub-sect philosophy
- The writer places Christianity as a sub-sect of Judaism and deliberately inserts stories to show the Jesus fulfilled the prophecy in Old Testament.
- His views may have been personally biased being a Jewish Christian himself
- No objectivity in the material: subjectivity takes over.
- Matthew’s version places a close relation with Christian movement and Herod
- He links the physical movement from one location to another based on Herod
- It places Judaism as a more important and crucial determinant of Christianity
- Takes away religious solidarity from Christianity
- He links the physical movement from one location to another based on Herod
- He disagrees with the notion set by Paul
- In Christian theology, Paul’s interpretation has not been as criticized as Matthew to quote a Jesus’s reference to declare them infidel to the religion indirectly.
- Formal obedience vs non formal obedience is a crucial determinant between Christians and different sects.
- His ideas align with Jewish ideas of whole-hearted following
- His views of Christian Church are vague
- Supports both ideas.
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