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- From: mam@jcnpc.cmhnet.org (Mike A. McAngus)
- Subject: Re: _Jesus: A Life_ by A.N. Wilson
- Message-ID: <1993Jan02.042224.5134@jcnpc.cmhnet.org>
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- Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 04:22:24 GMT
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- Thomas Price (tp0x+@cs.cmu.edu) wrote:
- : >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.).
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- [all except the following deleted]
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- : > "+ 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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- Ah yes, devine inspiration. The method where people can expound with authority
- concerning events about which they know nothing. The NT is full of them.
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