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...recent years, the Jesus Seminar weighed Christ's actual words as reported in the Gospels, and agreed that in most cases he never said them. Last fall they considered the Virgin Birth, and 96% agreed it never happened. And last month, just in time for Easter, they took up the subject of the Resurrection. The invitation to reporters promised that the experts "will be drilling close to the nerve of the Christian faith...
...heart of Christianity," the Rev. Billy Graham told Time last week. Graham rejects the idea that Jesus rose only as a spirit. "I believe he rose bodily. Otherwise you'd have to throw out the Easter story, because he showed the nail prints in his hands. If Christ didn't rise, as Paul said, it all has no meaning...
...Jesus' miracles than for many other ancient events that are never challenged, says Murray Harris, a conservative Bible professor at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. "We have the empty tomb in all four Gospels, representing three if not four independent sources, and appearances of the risen Christ in three Gospels. And they're clearly not copying one another." Harris gets impatient with the questioning of the standards of proof applied to the Gospels. "We have only two first century accounts of Hannibal's unlikely crossing of the Alps with 38 elephants in tow, but no one doubts...
...accept them, and I accept them by faith. I can't prove everything scientifically. But when I do accept the Scriptures by faith, it has an impact in my own personal life, and I can apply the principles Jesus taught to everyday life. So to me the miracles of Christ are essential. They are not essential to salvation but to one's Christian living...
...question of a gay clergy inspires a big shrug. Why shouldn't homosexuals (and women) be priests? These days, they are among the few who want to be. The real issue, blithely dodged in this movie, is the Catholic sin of giving scandal. A priest is, after all, Christ's salesman and stand-in. He need not be infallible--since he is human and conceived in sin-but he'd damn well better be discreet. So it is one thing for old Matthew to keep a woman quietly in the rectory; it is another for young Greg to go cruising...