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aeebee50 · 03-03-2011, 06:46 AM

You can only be annoyed, if you let it annoy you. Sounds like he is a good money maker and would make his banker father proud.

mountainman · 03-03-2011, 08:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Toto

John Dominic Crossan's 'blasphemous' portrait of Jesus

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Crossan is not worried that his work will shatter people's faith in Jesus. The closer one gets to the historical Jesus, Crossan says, the more extraordinary Jesus becomes.

It's statements like this that makes one wonder whether, in a spooky kind of way, that today's "Biblical Scholars" sound very much like quantum physicists discussing a black hole.

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Originally Posted by Crossan

"A lot of people in the first century thought Jesus was saying something so important that they were willing to die for it. If people finish with my books and now see why Pilate executed him and why people died for him, then I've done my job."

Is there a moral to this story?

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03-03-2011, 06:46 AM	#11
aeebee50 Veteran Member Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Texas Posts: 5,810	You can only be annoyed, if you let it annoy you. Sounds like he is a good money maker and would make his banker father proud.

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