10-12-2004, 11:35 AM
Quote:The New Testament Gospel of Mark, though considered by Church scholars to be the oldest of the Gospels is that it was not written by a disciple of Jesus. Biblical scholars concluded, based on the evidence contained in the Gospel, that Mark himself was not a disciple of Jesus.
You made reference to the book "The Five Gospels". These are people claiming to be "Christian" scholars, yet they (for some reason) want to strip mostly everything away from the Bible in order to support their little theories. Those people are *not* Christian. I have not studied about these "schoalars" in-depth, but I know a little about them.
Let me make an analogy: Listening to them for the truth about the Bible and Christianity would be like me going to the "Progressive Muslims" to find out what the Quran says. Have you heard of the Progressive Muslims? They claim to be Muslim, yet interpret the Quran so liberally that they are almost unrecognizable as Muslims.
So, to answer your question, no, I do not accept the word of these people who have come around in modern day times seeking to destroy that which they do not understand.
The "gospel" of Barnabas was NEVER considered scripture and history tells us that the only copy that exists is in Latin and dates to the Middle Ages. I mean, the book makes reference to hosiery, of all things! I don't think Jewish people were wearing hosiery in Jesus' day. LOOL. But, people did in the Middle Ages in Europe.
So, that one is easy to prove false.
Now that you have brought the "Jesus Seminar" people back up, I will probably start looking into their claims more in-depth just so I know their strategy and what they teach.
Don't know about the Encyclopaedia either. I'll have to try to look that reference up and I'll get back to you.