{"id":4086,"date":"2007-11-24T18:13:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-24T18:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/11\/a-q-puncture\/"},"modified":"2007-11-24T18:13:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-24T18:13:00","slug":"a-q-puncture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/11\/a-q-puncture.html","title":{"rendered":"A Q Puncture?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Is there any evidence for Q that could puncture \u201cthe case against Q\u201d which seems watertight to its proponents? Perhaps the Lord\u2019s Prayer will answer the prayers of Q supporters everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>The Matthean version of the prayer is better known and longer. It is easy to envisage the author of Matthew adding these comments as clarifications. It is much harder to imagine the author of Luke removing them. Why shorten a reference to our Father in heaven to simply \u2018Father\u2019? Why remove the reference to God\u2019s will being done? The latter makes sense, on the other hand, as an addition that explains what it means for God\u2019s kingdom to come \u2013 i.e. when one prays for the kingdom to come, one is praying for God\u2019s will to be done on earth the way it is in heaven.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, these are just the sorts of explanatory glosses that we find Matthew adding at times to Mark\u2019s material. For instance, where Mark (in chapter 13) speaks of the \u2018desolating sacrilege\u2019 standing where it ought not to be, Matthew clarifies things for the reader: the \u2018desolating sacrilege\u2019 is something that Daniel wrote about, and the place it ought not be is the Holy Place, i.e. the Temple. Let the reader understand.<\/p>\n<p>Such evidence seems to tell strongly against Luke having used Matthew, and that is the most common viewpoint among Q skeptics.<\/p>\n<p>Does the case against Q have a flat tire \u2013 or as they say in Britain, a puncture?<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-8659087688537885994?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there any evidence for Q that could puncture \u201cthe case against Q\u201d which seems watertight to its proponents? Perhaps the Lord\u2019s Prayer will answer the prayers of Q supporters everywhere. The Matthean version of the prayer is better known and longer. 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