GUTTING THE GOSPEL
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The members of the Jesus Seminar intuit that Jesus Christ would not have claimed to be God incarnate if, in fact, he was merely a good, humble teacher, mortal man and the illegitimate son of Mary. So to avoid calling him a liar, they conveniently delete all passages of Scripture in which he reveals himself as the promised Messiah. The accusation of untruthfulness is thus transferred to the writers of the Bible.
The possibility that Jesus could actually be the person the disciples said he was is rejected outright, since the seminar is based on the premise that Scripture was written by a bunch of liars.
JAMIE BROWN
Placentia
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