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- From: tp0x+@cs.cmu.edu (Thomas Price)
- Subject: Re: _Jesus: A Life_ by A.N. Wilson
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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 17:32:55 GMT
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- >Some quotes from Larry Stammer, ``Not the Stuff of Sermons'', Los
- >Angeles Times Book Review, Sunday, December 20, 1992, pp. 2,4. The
- >article is a review of the book _Jesus: A Life_ by A.N. Wilson (W.W.
- >Norton: $22.95; 256 pp.).
- >
- > "+ The resurrection is a `whopping lie.' The Risen Christ, as
- > opposed to the historical Jesus, is `an invention of Paul's
- > religious genius.'
- >
-
- I find this the most interesting. How does Paul's genius account for the
- resurrection stories in the gospels? Are they supposed to have been
- added much later?
-
- >
- > "+ The `servant of the high priest' who accompanied Judas in leading
- > authorities to arrest Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane may have
- > been the Apostle Paul himself before his conversion.
-
- This idea is found in _The Last Temptation of Christ_, but according
- to the Gospel of John, the servant's name was Malchus.
-
- > "+ Jesus' prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane, asking God to spare
- > him from the cup of death but nonetheless bowing to God's will,
- > is a literary creation. If Jesus prayed while his disciples
- > slept, who jotted down a transcript of the conversation?"
-
- An alternative explanation is divine inspiration, which is supposedly the
- method of composition of the book. Consequently, this observation is
- not independently significant: it is subordinate to the result of inquiry
- about inspiration, and can add nothing nor take anything away from
- that debate.
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- Tom Price | tp0x@cs.cmu.edu | Free will? What free will?
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