Biblical scholars involved in the Jesus Seminar have difficulty finding ‘the Jesus of history.’ In their reading of the gospels, they have concluded that ‘maybe’ there are about 15 authentic sayings of Jesus that they can attribute to him. Though the Jesus Seminar works under the guise of ecumenical Christian scholarship, perhaps the real motivation to find “the Jesus of history” lies in the unregenerate mind’s repulsion at the Jesus of the Bible.
Liberal scholars do not like the Jesus of the Bible. The Bible presents Jesus as the eternal Son of the Triune God, the Creator of the world, the exclusive Redeemer of fallen mankind, and the final Judge of the entire world. Continue reading “The “Real” Jesus”
