The One Solitary Life

"I don't buy the notion that what it's really finally all about is having the truth," he says. "What good is it to have the Nicene Creed and be a slave owner or the captain of a slave ship?" Mark speaks in the tradition of Amos, who focuses on social practices rather than religious ones, Erickson writes. The Old Testament prophets were constantly complaining about how people worshiped other gods, not their own; they bitched at God for letting them do so.