Status Updates From John 1:1-7:1

This years life light study.

These passages are pertinent to the interpretation of the controversial JS and ML´s comments. The issue is a hermeneutical one, but not racial - even if it would be tempting to go that way after the Nazi atrozities. John records the dispute between Jesus and the Pharisees/Jews along the lines of God´s Torah - given first in a prelininary way on Mt. Sinai in the form of stone slabs, but then finally & exhaustively IX

IX here speaks of his coming death in the language of the Sacrament.
SARX...

"Thus Christian righeousness and the genuine service of God lie outside our strength, our work, and our merit, in IX alone." (ML) ... Faith finds no other expression than that of becoming a disciple of IX. Since IX is the true Torah of God, to "walk in the Law of the Lord" (Ps.119,1) means to become and to live as a disciple of IX... The path to the Father is the way of the cross. ...

Had he cleft us the sea,
And not brought us through it dryshod
It had sufficed us!

Had he brought us through it dryshod,
And not sunk our oppressors in its depths
It had sufficed us!

Had he sunk our oppressors in its depths,
And not satisfief our wants in the wilderness for 40 years,
It had sufficed us!

Had he satisfied our wants in the wilderness for 40 years,
And not fed us with the manna
It had sufficed us!