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I don't see much in the way of "argument" in what Jesus says in the gospels. There are plenty of assertions, but simply asserting that something is true ("God loves you!") or asserting that one reviews ought to behave in reviews a certain way ("Turn the other cheek!") is obviously not the same thing as making an argument for those claims. I am also rather amazed that you seem to think it doesn't really matter whether the gospels are a reliable record of actual historical events, and whether Jesus Christ really was who he said he was, or whether it's all just a bunch of stuff someone made up for propaganda purposes. The more you describe your Christian beliefs, the more radical and revisionist they seem to be. Posted by: Don P | Dec 21, 2004 4:16:01 PM Don: I think there are numerous examples of what Jesus says in the Bible that could be called argument, for example his dialogue with the Pharisees about the nature of the Messiah in Matthew 22 where he uses a rabbinical question technique to uncover inconsistencies in their thinking about the Messiah.
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