I guess I'm not entirely sure what branch you see Jesus as standing on that would be undermined (sawn off, maybe?) by the claim that, say, Deuteronomy was written in the reign of Josiah. Jesus may have seen the Law as having been written by Moses, but don't think he saw it as having been written by G-d -- otherwise why would he have spent so much time saying, "Moses told you x, but I say y"? So I don't see questioning the divinity of the Torah as undermining Jesus. (As an aside, I am using what I understand to be your definition of "divinity, " which sounds to me like what Christians call verbal plenary inspiration. I don't necessarily believe that the Torah has to have been written by God in order to be divine.)
I think I, personally, see Jesus more as standing on the Prophets than on the Law. Now that I think about it, in fact, I think my tendency is to see the Prophets as more divine than the Law, whereas your perspective is obviously the other way around.
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Re: My point was
Date: 2005-06-15 05:55 pm (UTC)I think I, personally, see Jesus more as standing on the Prophets than on the Law. Now that I think about it, in fact, I think my tendency is to see the Prophets as more divine than the Law, whereas your perspective is obviously the other way around.