What Is The Effectiveness Of R. Ron Flaw
LIBERTY UNIVERSITY
THE SYNOPTIC PROBLEM:
A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE INTERRELATEDNESS OF THE FIRST THREE GOSPELS
A RESEARCH PAPER SUMITTED TO DR. RON FAY
IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIRMENTS FOR THE COURSE NBST 510
LIBERTY BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
BY
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2013
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE…………………………………………………………………………….1
TABLE OF CONTENTS………………………………………………………………...2
INTRODUCTION: COMING TO TERMS WITH THE PROBLEM…………….…….3
A GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF SYNOPTIC RELATIONSHIPS………………..….4
Relationships in Content………………………………………………………………..4
Relationships in Structure………………………………………………………………4
THE INVESTIGATIVE HISTORY OF SYNOPTIC RELATIONSHIPS……….….….5
The Early Church…………………………………………………………………..……6 …show more content…
When looking historically and biblically as a scenario to Mark’s writing the Fourfold- Gospel Hypothesis represents Mark’s writing well.
The Scenario of Mark’s Writing
In Jerusalem and Palestine during the final stages of the formation of the early church there was almost exclusive focus on preaching of the Gospels to the Jews. Matthew predicts Jesus is the fulfillment of the Jewish prophecy. A need arose as the gospel progressed from Palestine to the Jews of Diaspora and then to the Gentiles. The need for a universal Christ and less Jewish Christ and a more Hellenistic Gospel.
This would be Luke’s account it is “directed toward those Hellenistic congregations founded by the apostle Paul on his missionary journeys.” Mark binds Matthew and Luke’s Gospels together. Black explains Mark’s gospel: “because secondary chapter, Luke needed the approval of an eyewitness apostle proper accreditation in the church… Peter himself was apostolic eyewitness they provided the accreditation for the gospel of Luke by personally comparing it with the Gospel of Matthew as he gave his own oral version of the stories common to both, at which he himself had been present in
THE SYNOPTIC PROBLEM:
A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE INTERRELATEDNESS OF THE FIRST THREE GOSPELS
A RESEARCH PAPER SUMITTED TO DR. RON FAY
IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIRMENTS FOR THE COURSE NBST 510
LIBERTY BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
BY
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2013
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE…………………………………………………………………………….1
TABLE OF CONTENTS………………………………………………………………...2
INTRODUCTION: COMING TO TERMS WITH THE PROBLEM…………….…….3
A GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF SYNOPTIC RELATIONSHIPS………………..….4
Relationships in Content………………………………………………………………..4
Relationships in Structure………………………………………………………………4
THE INVESTIGATIVE HISTORY OF SYNOPTIC RELATIONSHIPS……….….….5
The Early Church…………………………………………………………………..……6 …show more content…
When looking historically and biblically as a scenario to Mark’s writing the Fourfold- Gospel Hypothesis represents Mark’s writing well.
The Scenario of Mark’s Writing
In Jerusalem and Palestine during the final stages of the formation of the early church there was almost exclusive focus on preaching of the Gospels to the Jews. Matthew predicts Jesus is the fulfillment of the Jewish prophecy. A need arose as the gospel progressed from Palestine to the Jews of Diaspora and then to the Gentiles. The need for a universal Christ and less Jewish Christ and a more Hellenistic Gospel.
This would be Luke’s account it is “directed toward those Hellenistic congregations founded by the apostle Paul on his missionary journeys.” Mark binds Matthew and Luke’s Gospels together. Black explains Mark’s gospel: “because secondary chapter, Luke needed the approval of an eyewitness apostle proper accreditation in the church… Peter himself was apostolic eyewitness they provided the accreditation for the gospel of Luke by personally comparing it with the Gospel of Matthew as he gave his own oral version of the stories common to both, at which he himself had been present in