What's so 'Good' about the 'News' that The Best Guy got #Crucified? (I ask as @UsefulCharts reviews #WhoWroteTheBible?)

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that's the question that comes to mind, making |that word| seem important; so I found out a little more about |that word| and share my findings with you below (and I link to the topic that brought the word up, and take notes on it beneath (and/or you might start a discussion in the comments)).
The word |Crucified| is built on ancient words that mean "Cross (see #Crux, built on a proto-word they haven't identified yet ... something like *kryg- meaning "Heap, Hill, |Summit, |Backbone, |Ridge")" + those that mean "Fasten, Fix" (from proto-word *dheigw- "to Stick").
on which also-built (Yoda-ese? a little) #Crucified #Crucifying
 #Crucifies #Crucifix #Crucifixes #Crucifixion #Crucifixions
To Keep Up on My 'Research,'
Taking notes,

I don't really care about the 'original source'-theories Matt covers in the video. My ears don't 'perk up' until he gets to The Gospel of Thomas (the most canonical of the dozens of gospels that didn't 'make it into' the Biblical Canon---apocryphal books of the New Testament).

Oh, I heard him mention how ancients didn't make too much fuss over whether they were viewing "fiction or non-fiction." When explaining 'how something came to be' or 'how something has always been done,' they would often 'invent' a person to serve as witness (kind of like when they put 'new' characters into a show so that it's not weird when one of the 'old' characters explains something that all the characters should know); and this 'invented person' is known as a "literary character."


Oftentimes in The Bible, even God & Jesus are 'Literary Characters'---the same way that--though George Washington actually existed (probably 😏)--the 'George Washington' who confessed to his father that he "chopped down that cherry-tree" is a literary character. (I suppose we're all 'Literary Characters' in our personal histories.)

When Matt's talking about 'how these gospels weren't written by "one person each" but rather -by "groups of people" (see the 'Useful Chart'),' I think of the gospel-passage that tells us 'a truth is "held true in Heaven" if two or more of the disciples agree on it.'

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