They voted on the authenticity of the words of Jesus by dropping colored balls into a box. How did the Jesus Seminar vote on the words of Jesus? In the most scholarly manner possible. (No scholarly papalism here!) What Did the Jesus Seminar Conclude About Jesus and His Teachings? Only the liberal scholars are so qualified. That’s like saying the average American has been disqualified from, and has no right to judge the truth of, certain specialized political claims.įurther, the author of the article, John Dart, reported, “The lay person unacquainted with New Testament research is no more in a position to have an informed judgment on the historical reliability of gospel accounts than a non-specialist would about ‘the Seventh Letter of Plato, the relationship of Montezuma to Cortez’ or other historical matters.” So, most Christians really aren’t qualified to say anything about the words of Jesus. Harvey implied that the layman, i.e., the average Christian, really isn’t qualified to understand the Bible or assess its various claims! “The Stanford professor said that New Testament scholarship has become so specialized and requires so much preparation that many scholars feel ‘the lay person has simply been disqualified from having any right to a judgment regarding the truth or falsity of certain historical claims.’” 8, by John Dart, “Skepticism of Many New Testament Scholars Clashes with Laymen’s Faith and Traditional Beliefs on Jesus” pointed out, “So far as the biblical historian is concerned, there is scarcely a popularly held traditional belief about Jesus that is not regarded with considerable skepticism” according to the chairman of Stanford University’s religious studies department, Van Harvey. Eight years, later the impact of the JS was beginning to be felt.Īn article in the ApLos Angeles Times, Part II, p. The Times pointed out that some evangelical scholars would be added to the Seminar (back then it was simply a committee) “but only those who use modern critical methods” according to MacRae. Harvard Divinity School’s George MacRae, one of the first members of the group, said that the real question the scholars would be asking was this: “What can we say Jesus said after 60 years of form criticism, of analyzing individual miracle stories and sayings?” Funk, a former president of the Society of Biblical Literature, said the purpose of the seminar was to determine “what did Jesus really say?” According to the Los Angeles Times of November 25, 1978, when the Jesus Seminar was first organized it had only several members and hoped to enlist 12 to 15 biblical authorities to vote on every word of Jesus to decide which were the most authentic and which were “put into his mouth” by early church tradition. The so-called Jesus Seminar (JS) illustrates the fraudulent nature of liberal biblical scholarship generally. THE JESUS SEMINAR, JESUS, AND HIGHER CRITICISM-PART TWO What is the Jesus Seminar? 1.3 Should Liberal Theologians Be Trusted?.
1.2 What Did the Jesus Seminar Conclude About Jesus and His Teachings?.1 THE JESUS SEMINAR, JESUS, AND HIGHER CRITICISM-PART TWO.
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