Read The Old Testament and the one thing strikes you immediately is that it hides nothing.
Look at all the old time 'heroes' and what you see
is ordinary people, many of whom did great things but they all had feet of clay:
Adam, Cain, Jacob, Moses, Abraham, Saul, David inter al.
Look at the New Testament and what do you find? -
The disciples are all profoundly flawed. Jesus could hardly have picked a bigger
bunch of losers to change the world: Doubting Thomas, boastful Simon Peter,
'Give-us -the-best-place-in-heaven' James and John. Then look in Mark's Gospel
at the number of times Jesus had told these losers what would happen in Jerusalem
- and they were ready to pack it all in between the crucifixion and the
resurrection! Truth looks just like
that!
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