Victoria asks here what is the gist so basically summarizing here like you've used in your debates
the concept that the gist is what is historically reliable if I'm conveying that fairly maybe you
could elaborate on what you mean here what do you mean by the gist of the story well the word gist
I think you know how it's technically defined it's a dictionary and how we interpret it can
be two different things okay so I believe the way the dictionary defines it is the main and
essential parts of what occurred so we could say that or an essentially faithful representation of
what occurred so you have an event how do you describe that event well as long as I give the
main and essential parts cover those without any of the peripheral details you could say I've given
you the gist however if I'm saying well you get the gist of what happened that's a little looser
way I could be talking to someone on the phone and relaying an event say I don't know my wife
and I went to a baseball game and you know we saw a walk-off home run in the bottom of the ninth by
Chris Ryan everyone's out what's got by that by the Cubs you guys were going to Wrigley Field
in this hypothetical right that's right that's it is totally hypothetical because the homerun
would have been in the top of the night that the Braves were playing against the cup no I clarified
at Wrigley Field though so the Cubs would have been the home team that's right that's why the
homerun would have occurred in the top of the night oh you said tougher they said bottom well
I did well then it would have been a walk-off well then it would have happened at SunTrust
field yeah right there yeah anyway if I relay in that story let's say to my son later on who's a
Braves fan and maybe I got a detail wrong maybe I attributed the homerun to one let's say I don't
know how maybe just a minor detail you know was wrong and my wife corrected it I'd say well he
gets the gist of what happened mhm you know so you get the main and essential parts of what occurred
so that that's what I'm referring to it just it's the main and essential parts I'm not saying that
there's an error could be may not be that would be irrelevant the gist is that you got the story you
know pretty much now so you know an example would be lets say when Jesus comes out of the water at
his baptism the voice from heaven in mark and Luke says you are my beloved son in with you I'm well
pleased whereas Matthew as God's voice say this is my beloved son with him I am well pleased so
was the voice addressing Jesus directly or was addressing the crowd directly you know I'd say
Matthew changed that in order probably I mean we can't get inside the mind of Matthew we can see
if we go with Mark and priority Matthew probably changed it and we can only guess why I would guess
and say he did that in order to make it a little more personable to the readers God is talking to
them and affirming that Jesus is a son so which one was it well we get the gist of what happened
right right moocher even if we say we don't know who changed it or what no the exact words were we
get the gist another one quick example would be the the plaque at the top of Jesus cross sure you
know all four Gospels have different wording for it but we get the gist of what it said