ve evidence of that? They are scholars who ahve studied the Bible and contemporaneous documents for many years.
Sorry. One of my cats was insisting on helping me with that last post.
You wrote, "The Jesus Seminar people's credibility is doubtful because they went in with preconceptions and made their findings match."
Do you have any evidence of that? They are scholars who ahve studied the Bible and contemporaneous documents for many years.
Prophetic statements. Predictions by Jesus of such things as the destruction of the Temple, or of Jerusalem, or His own resurrection are later literary additions or interpolations. How do we know this? Because no one can predict the future. So they MUST have been added later by zealous followers.
Miracles. Since miracles are not possible, every recorded miracle in the Gospels must be a later elaboration by an admiring disciple or follower, or must be explained on the basis of some physical or natural cause (i.e., the Feeding of the 5,000: Jesus gave the signal, and all those present reached beneath their cloaks, pulled out their own "sack lunches," and ate together!).
Claims of Jesus. Christ claimed to be God, Savior, Messiah, Judge, Forgiver of sin, sacrificial Lamb of God, etc. All of these, say the Jesus Fellows, are the later work of His devoted followers. The historical Jesus never claimed these things for Himself, as Funk infers in his above-mentioned statements. Reality isn't like this. It couldn't be true.
I don't know anything about this site - I was trying to find an article I read a while back that did a good job summing up the problems, but this I thought was a good description of the biggest problem.