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| | Jesus Seminar & Its Critics |
 | | "The Gospel according to the Jesus Seminar." Religion 25 (1995): 317-338. | | | Richard Hays asserts, the "Jesus Seminar employs its conviction that Jesus was a non-eschatological thinker as a stringent criterion for sorting the authenticity of the sayings material" (45), and "an a priori construal of Jesus and his message governs the critical judgment made about individual sayings" (47). | | | The 90 red and pink sayings are 18% of all the sayings attributed to Jesus in all Christian texts from the first three centuries, including gospels the Seminar unanimously voted black in their entirety, such as the Dialogue of the Savior, the Apocryphon of James, the Gospel of Mary, and the Infancy Gospel of Thomas. |
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http://virtualreligion.net/forum/miller1.html
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| | Can the New Jesus Save Us? by C. Stephan Evans |
| | These scholars claim their Jesus is the historical Jesus, the real Jesus, to be distinguished from the Jesus of myth or dogma who is the product of the church. | | | One might say that the ultimate ground of faith in Jesus for an individual is the total circumstances of his or her life in which the truth of the gospel has become evident. | | | Passages that represent Jesus as affirming the Law are a creation of the later church, intent on domesticating the hippielike free spirit of Jesus. |
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http://www.irr.org/evans1.html
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| | Jesus Seminar - definition of Jesus Seminar in Encyclopedia |
| | Gray beads were used for a passage that Jesus did not say but were Jesus' ideas. | | | Black beads were used for passages that Jesus did not say at all. | | | A Christian Critique of the Jesus Seminar (http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/docs/jesussem.html) |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Jesus_Seminar
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| | The Jesus Seminar participants note that halfway through the Gospel of Mark, Jesus supposedly tells disciples that they should "take up their cross." That doesn't make sense, the scholars concluded, because Jesus had not yet been crucified and the cross did not yet have a symbolic meaning. | | | Of the details of Jesus' life, one scholar calculated that, with the exception of the 40 days and nights in the wilderness (of which we are told virtually nothing), everything described in the gospels could be compressed into three weeks, which leaves by far the greater part of Christ's life unrecorded. | | | That Jesus never claimed to be the Messiah and did not predict the end of the world. |
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http://www.midtod.com/bestof/jesus.phtml
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| | The Jesus Scholars have declared that the Gospel of Thomas and the Q Source were written within the forty years between Jesus' death and the fall of Jerusalem, pushing forward the writing of the four canonical gospels (a necessity on their part to uphold their theory) to very late in the first century. | | | Therefore the Jesus Fellows assert that the Gospels could not have been written by eyewitnesses in the mid-first century. | | | Jefferson and the Jesus Fellows, like all skeptics, prefer their own reason and biases over the possibility that the Gospels are accurate in what they say about miracles, prophecy, and the claims of Christ. |
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http://www.inplainsite.org/html/jesus_seminar.html
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| | The Jesus Seminar, Part 1 : Christian Courier |
| | Second, the Jesus Seminar proposes, with its literary surgery, to expunge from the Gospel accounts all of those sayings of the Lord which are not authentic. | | | The participants of the Jesus Seminar charge that 82% of the teaching attributed to Christ in the four Gospel accounts is not genuine (Funk, p. | | | Fourth, the Jesus Seminar entertained a preconceived concept of what their “Jesus” ought to be, and whatever does not conform to that is excised from the divine record. |
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http://www.christiancourier.com/archives/jesusSeminar1.htm
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| | The Jesus Seminar - ChristianAnswers.Net |
| | The Jesus Seminar absurdly ends up with a Jew who is stripped of his Jewishness, and with the founder of a Church whose followers rarely bothered to actually quote him. | | | It is significant that contemporaneous Christians, Clement, Ignatius, and Polycarp described the Gospels as the words of Jesus. | | | Are "The Jesus Seminar" criticisms of the gospels and Jesus Christ valid? |
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http://www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/edn-t016.html
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| | Trinity Cathedral Church |
| | Finally the Jesus scholars point out that their studies indicate that not only was the story of Jesus' resurrection a fabrication, but most of the teachings attributed to him came from other sources. | | | As to Jesus himself, the scholars have determined that he was charismatic, visionary, prophetic, and quite possibly illiterate. | | | If the Apostles had not been entirely convinced that Jesus, the Son of God, had risen from the dead, it is incredulous that they have taken so great a risk. |
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http://www.trinitycathedral.org/jesus.htm
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| | New Testament Gateway: Historical Jesus |
| | A Portrait of Jesus: From Galilean Jew to the Face of God | | | By Mahlon Smith: A first class site exploring the world in which Jesus lived by means of well-organised, newly translated primary texts and other material. | | | "In Focus" feature in the magazine The Lutheran including short pieces by Mark Allan Powell, "Blackballing Jesus" on the Jesus Seminar and "Peasant, prophet or Spirit person?" on current Jesus research. |
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http://www.ntgateway.com/Jesus
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| | The Jesus Seminar |
| | Since there are no autographs of any New Testament book, and since there was this matter of the destruction of Jerusalem, the absence of this document Q (as well as a Hebrew version of Matthew and any number of other works we know from Eusebius--but are lost) is not so incredible. | | | First, you persist in calling the criteria used by the Jesus Seminar "presuppositions", as if they were prejudices pulled out of the hat. | | | So John [the Baptist] summoned two of his disciples and sent then to talk to the Lord to ask, "Are you the one who is to come, or we are to wait for another?"... |
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http://kevin.davnet.org/articles/seminar.html
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| | Jesus Seminar links |
| | Birger A. Pearson, "The Gospel According to the Jesus Seminar" (Prof. | | | Richard B. Hays, “The Corrected Jesus,” review of The Five Gospels: The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus, ed. | | | William Lane Craig, "Rediscovering the Historical Jesus: Presuppositions and Pretensions of the Jesus Seminar" (Leadership U) Gregory Koukl, "The Jesus Seminar Under Fire" (Stand to Reason) |
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http://www.lrc.edu/rel/blosser/jesus_seminar_links.htm
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| | Home - Probe Ministries |
| | Reporters state that this gospel sheds new light on the life of Christ and His relationship with Judas who may not be the traitor portrayed in the New Testament Gospels. | | | Although the gospel is obviously of great interest to scholars studying the variety of religious perspectives about Jesus and early Christianity which floated around the ancient world in the second to fourth centuries A.D., nevertheless, this gospel will almost certainly not give us any new and reliable information about the real Jesus of history. | | | This gospel further states that Jesus revealed secret knowledge to Judas instructing him to turn Jesus over to the Roman authorities. |
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http://www.probe.org/docs/jesussem.html
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| | Apologetics research resources on religious cults and sects - Jesus, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus Onlyism, Joyner, Jesus ... |
| | The congregation, called Jesus' Disciples, is not without controversy. | | | Some believe that Jesus' Disciples, which also calls itself God's Nation, a name modeled after gangs like People's Nation and Folk Nation, is a gang itself. | | | Apologetics research resources on religious cults and sects - Jesus, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus Onlyism, Joyner, Jesus Seminar, etc. |
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http://www.countercult.com/j00.html
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