Well, strictly speaking Pat is wrong about Jesus having come up with that "Lake of Fire" riff. That phrase appears in Revelations ["The Apocalypse"], which was written well after Jesus shuffled off this mortal coil, and which does not claim that is a quote of Jesus' [the author, whoever he was, does not claim to having been a witness to the life of Jesus]. I can sympathize with Pat's wanting to have that riff, it's rhetorically nifty, but in the end it just ain't true. He could have referenced a few other things, like the scuffle with the moneychangers, but to keep to Jesus' gamesmanship the Apocalyptica sturmunddrang is unfortunately an afterthought.
Well, strictly speaking Pat is wrong about Jesus having come up with that "Lake of Fire" riff. That phrase appears in Revelations ["The Apocalypse"], which was written well after Jesus shuffled off this mortal coil, and which does not claim that is a quote of Jesus' [the author, whoever he was, does not claim to having been a witness to the life of Jesus]. I can sympathize with Pat's wanting to have that riff, it's rhetorically nifty, but in the end it just ain't true. He could have referenced a few other things, like the scuffle with the moneychangers, but to keep to Jesus' gamesmanship the Apocalyptica sturmunddrang is unfortunately an afterthought.
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