The DaVinci Myth vs. The Gospel Truth - Online Christian Library

THE DA VINCI MYTH VS THE GOSPEL TRUTH
believe Jesus said everything that is recorded of Him in
the four Gospels. But that is never going to make Time,
or Newsweek, or any other magazines. They seem to only
print that which is contrary to the Bible.
Father Francis Martin, a New Testament scholar who
teaches at the John Paul II Cultural Institute in
Washington, D.C., says: “In my opinion, having worked
in this field now for about 40 years, 85 percent or more
of the scholars in the United States and in Europe would
not accept the basic principals of the Jesus Seminar.” 66
THE JESUS SEMINAR FROM AN ORTHODOX
PERSPECTIVE
Let us delve further into the Jesus Seminar. The critical
point to understand about this group is that there
was no new evidence in the Scripture that drove them to
their conclusions; it was rather their own liberal
approach that led them to even undertake the project in
the first place. The Jesus Seminar is best understood as
worn out, liberal theologians who have turned to a publicist
instead of the truth—the Jesus of Scripture. The late
Dr. James Montgomery Boice, formerly the pastor of
Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, points out
the Jesus Seminar is “really an example of liberal ministers
and professors coming out of the closet. All they are
really doing in public is what they do in a more private
way in the classroom and in their own studies.” 67 Dr.
Boice points out the obvious: “Imagine a group of scholars,
two thousand years from the time that Jesus lived
and whose words were written down by eyewitnesses,
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