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Old 01-18-2004, 10:00 PM
kerry kerry is offline
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"History demands that we remain faithful to the story and Christians have a right to tell it. "

The problem with this statement is that a quick glance at any gospel parallels will show you that there is no one story. The gospel writers tell different stories to make different points. You can't just read a series of books written tens of years after the fact with the view that they are giving an objective accounting of what happened. There are numbers of other gospels that are not included in the NT and they tell different stories about who Jesus was and what he did. The Christian church could not agree on who Jesus was until the year 325 and the canon of the NT was not finalized until the mid 300's.

I think the question of who the historical Jesus was is a fascinating one that is very difficult to answer but worth the effort to pursue. Thinking that the NT gospels provide a critical answer to this question seems naive to me.

(This is not a comment on the film, it is a comment on Paul Harvey)
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