Word: jesus
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...event that rests at the heart of Christian faith, they concluded, is a poetic rendering of a devout wish but certainly not an authentic record. Crossan, who is co-chairman of the seminar with Funk, argues it this way: since the Crucifixion was conducted by Roman soldiers, he reckons, Jesus' body was most likely left on the Cross or tossed into a shallow grave to be eaten by scavenger dogs, crows or other wild beasts. As for Jesus' family and followers, depicted in the Bible as conducting a decent burial of the body according to Jewish...
...hope. It represents the promise that death can be defeated, that hatred cannot ultimately prevail. "If I were an enemy of Christianity, I'd aim right at the Resurrection, because that's the 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...
...generations of Christians who have tried to invent a demythologized Jesus--the great moral leader and wilderness prophet, inspired but certainly not divine--traditional theologians have always countered with the fact that Jesus himself said he was God's son. C.S. Lewis was blunt in dismissing efforts at compromise. "A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said wouldn't be a great moral teacher. He'd either be a lunatic . or else he'd be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this...
While conservatives dismiss the theology of the Jesus Seminar members, middle-of-the-road Bible professors reject their scholarship. They use the same rigorous standards of inquiry to prove the very assertions that liberals are so quick to reject. First, they argue, the skeptics assume the New Testament was written long after the Crucifixion occurred, and so reflects the agenda and faith of the second generation of Christians, not events as experienced by the original apostles. That whole approach is undercut by the purported discovery announced in January of what would be the oldest manuscript of a Gospel, which dates...
...scholars need multiple, independent sources to prove that an event occurred, the evidence is much stronger for 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...