text: Wow. "The Sermon on the Mount may be a lie for you shaped by the gospel authors" 
  
  That is one of the most spectacular misrepresentations of my point if view that I have ever encountered! Eric, I am beginning to wonder if you have a sufficient grasp of the concept of "genre" as a fundamental aspect of literature, a concept without which one can not even begin to make sense of anything written in the past that does not fit into any of the currently active "genres" of writing today. 
  
  That the genre of our gospels is NOT history as we understand that genre today is essentially a very simple proposition. For you to assume that my evidence that neither the Sermon on the Mount nor the Sermon on the Plain were understood by their authors or original readers as "history" means that "I believe them to be lies" is so beyond the pale. Do you understand the genres come and go over the centuries, and that Gospels is a genre we no longer practice? Correctly characterizing that genre is crucial.