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

THE DA VINCI MYTH VS THE GOSPEL TRUTH
Instead, what the Jesus Seminar has done is to get rid
of 82 percent of the text. Textually, they stand on
quicksand.
An important book rebuts the Jesus Seminar from
an evangelical perspective: Jesus Under Fire: Modern
Scholarship Reinvents the Historical Jesus, edited by Michael
J. Wilkins and J. P. Moreland. Among those who have
written essays for this book is Dr. Gary Habermas, author
and co-author of numerous books on the historicity of
Jesus Christ. In the chapter entitled “Where Do We Start
Studying Jesus?,” Denver Seminary professor Craig
Blomberg has this to say about the group:
The Jesus Seminar and its friends do not reflect
any consensus of scholars, except for those
on the “radical fringe” of the field. Its
methodology is seriously flawed and its
conclusions unnecessarily skeptical....The
conservative nature of oral tradition in ancient
Judaism, particularly among disciples who
revered their rabbis’ words, makes it highly
likely that Jesus’ teaching would have been care
fully preserved, even given a certain flexibility in
the specific wording with which it was reported.
. . .There is a huge volume of scholarship to
support the picture of Christ that Matthew,
Mark, Luke, and John portray. 70
WANING DENOMINATIONS
The more a denomination moves toward embracing
these anti-biblical notions, the more it loses member-
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