I do. And don't we all? But here might be a difference between you and I which is crucial: I THRIVE & WELCOME challenges to both my belief system and my knowledge base because I know that I can only further refine and distill my own Christian faith. I look forward to further scrutinize my thoughts and beliefs in the public arena.You can believe whatever you want.
I think you should study the gospel accounts more carefully and pay special attention to how each writer tells us where and when Jesus became the "Son of God."More nonsense. To Paul Jesus WAS the Son of God (not became, silliness).
I have long left behind my puzzlement as to the discrepancies and contradictions found in the New Testament. Just as we do in the 21st century, the early communities of believers carried with them a Jesus who made sense to them and spoke to their own with their unique trials and tribulations. I am not threatened by the diversity of history and belief in the Bible so I have never had to mentally twist any part of the Bible into some mental pretzel to "explain" the contradictions.
These were unique communities who had their own agenda. Just as we Christian believers do today.
The New Testament is always predicated on a dynamic between and among what is actually IN the text, what the original authors meant at the time and finally, what we ourselves do to make it have some sense to our own time and place.I great deal of what the Bible DESCRIBES and EXPLAINS is not "in the text".
Many theological ideas (for example, the Trinity) is not found specifically and literally in the original New Testament. It must be a mixture of the Bible PLUS our interpretation of it. I have studied church history for some time and now know that every generation since the crucifixion has had different interpretations of what the New Testament is saying.