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The last one, you are trying to find contradiction where there is none.


Among serious Christian circles it would be phrased as "learning that first century Jewish culture was different from ours and didn't react the same to certain concepts". They didn't see it as at all weird to identify Jesus with wisdom -- not because they were idiots or missed a blatant contradiction, but simply because they didn't have the same specific hangups we do. Likewise, Jesus identifying as a "hen gathering her chicks" in Matthew 23 wasn't a gender faux-pas.


It's not a gender faux-pas now either in 99% of the world.


I'm not saying there's a contradiction, I just find it interesting.




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