Prayer "Our Father"

Prayer "Our Father"

"Paulinity" versus Christianity - "Idolaters" of the Bible - Jesus' dedication to God.

Jesus' life was a life of prayer. As a devout Israelite and member of a faithful Jewish family, the life of Jesus was basically a life of prayer. This includes the daily worship and praise of Yahweh with the Psalms and other prayers or hymns, and the continuous thanksgiving to God. So, it was a life of worship, praise and thanksgiving to Yahweh.

A way of looking at the inner Jesus

A reflection on his prayer Our Father is a powerful way of looking at the inner Jesus. There is the possibility that Jesus didn't say the whole prayer, and that the text we have received was a composition of the disciples; but it seems to me, that in any case, this prayer expresses the mind and heart of Jesus. I think that we know Jesus very well through this prayer.

But before we go to the petitions, I have something to say.

"Paulinity" versus Christianity

I looked at the Lord's Prayer in Barnes Notes, one of the most famous commentaries of the New Testament, and I realized that he dedicates a few lines to the whole Our Father, while there are sometimes endless commentaries on one word of Paul's letters.

This is just one example of what has happened to Christianity, a religion based more on Paul's teachings than on Jesus' life and teachings; a kind of "Paulinity" versus Christianity. This is deplorable. Early Judeo Christians didn't even know Paul or his teachings, and some of them openly disagreed with him; they were true followers of Jesus, but they didn't adhere to Paul's teachings, neither did they care what was he was teaching in Macedonia, Greece or in Asia (Ephesus, Galatia, Antiochia).