Once again, my point is not that it is entirely impossible that Paul, or someone prior to Paul, made all this up. But the question I keep coming back to is whether that \u201cconspiracy theory\u201d scenario makes does better justice to the evidence, and treats it in a more straightforward way, than one in which an actual historical figure, Jesus from Nazareth, addressed God as abba<\/em> and was remembered to have done so by the movement focused on him, led at least initially by those who knew him.<\/p>\n Tom Verenna has posted a response to my blog entry about Jesus\u2019 prayer in the garden of Gethsemane. For the moment, all I\u2019ll say is that Tom seems to treat addressing God as \u201cabba\u201d as though it were the most natural thing in the world. In fact, it seems to have been uncommon, to say […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-1981251534834485880?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\")