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Was Jesus of Nazareth a religious loon?

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Was Jesus of Nazareth a religious loon?
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RE: Was Jesus of Nazareth a religious loon?
April 11, 2020 at 9:17 am
(April 10, 2020 at 11:10 am)Vicki Q Wrote:
(April 9, 2020 at 10:58 am)Jehanne Wrote: The Jesus Seminar coded the entire Gospel of John as being black, indicating that not a single phrase as recorded in that Gospel was spoken by the historical Jesus.  Do you agree with their conclusions?  If so, how can John be an "ancient biography" of Jesus if it did not record anything that he said??

No, I don't agree with the conclusions of the Jesus Seminar. They are representative only of one radical strand of thinking within academia, and did their work mostly last century. Their methodologies are highly questionable. The widely available criticisms of their methods are multiple and deep.

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Was Jesus of Nazareth a religious loon?

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Was Jesus of Nazareth a religious loon? - by Jehanne - March 22, 2020 at 9:39 am
RE: Was Jesus of Nazareth a religious loon? - by Jehanne - March 29, 2020 at 11:09 pm
RE: Was Jesus of Nazareth a religious loon? - by Ranjr - March 22, 2020 at 10:55 am
RE: Was Jesus of Nazareth a religious loon? - by Jehanne - March 22, 2020 at 11:18 am
RE: Was Jesus of Nazareth a religious loon? - by Vicki Q - March 29, 2020 at 11:52 am
RE: Was Jesus of Nazareth a religious loon? - by Jehanne - March 29, 2020 at 10:17 pm
RE: Was Jesus of Nazareth a religious loon? - by Vicki Q - March 30, 2020 at 6:44 pm
RE: Was Jesus of Nazareth a religious loon? - by Jehanne - April 1, 2020 at 10:20 pm
RE: Was Jesus of Nazareth a religious loon? - by Jehanne - March 30, 2020 at 11:13 pm
RE: Was Jesus of Nazareth a religious loon? - by Fireball - April 1, 2020 at 10:12 pm
RE: Was Jesus of Nazareth a religious loon? - by Jehanne - April 3, 2020 at 11:01 pm
RE: Was Jesus of Nazareth a religious loon? - by Jehanne - April 5, 2020 at 11:24 pm
RE: Was Jesus of Nazareth a religious loon? - by Vicki Q - April 8, 2020 at 10:54 am
RE: Was Jesus of Nazareth a religious loon? - by Vicki Q - April 10, 2020 at 11:10 am
RE: Was Jesus of Nazareth a religious loon? - by Jehanne - April 11, 2020 at 9:17 am
RE: Was Jesus of Nazareth a religious loon? - by Jehanne - April 9, 2020 at 10:58 am
RE: Was Jesus of Nazareth a religious loon? - by Jehanne - April 8, 2020 at 11:07 pm
RE: Was Jesus of Nazareth a religious loon? - by Jehanne - April 15, 2020 at 11:25 am
RE: Was Jesus of Nazareth a religious loon? - by Vicki Q - April 13, 2020 at 10:05 am
RE: Was Jesus of Nazareth a religious loon? - by Jehanne - April 14, 2020 at 7:35 am
RE: Was Jesus of Nazareth a religious loon? - by Jehanne - April 14, 2020 at 11:22 pm

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