Alex O'Connor - RE: Every Argument for Atheism - Jesus' Authentic Sayings

People have debated over which sayings of Jesus are authentic and which sayings are not authentic. Some scholars think the Gospels attribute sayings to Jesus He never made. The Gospel writers denied that they put their own ideas on Jesus’ lips. Who is right? In the 1990s, the Jesus Seminar questioned whether the Bible is the inspired word of God. The Jesus Seminar hoped to recover the actual words Jesus spoke, uncover what he really thought and discover which deeds recorded in the Bible He accomplished. During their quest to discover the true voice of Jesus, the seminar rejected about 80 percent of his words, calling them later creations. Several examples of such rejections are given. The seminar believes most of Jesus’ statements and teachings as reported in the Gospels are inaccurate. If the Gospel writers perpetrated a theological hoax, their Gospels would not be “gospel truth.” How could they be the word of a God who does not lie? (Titus 1:2). If the Seminar is correct, if the Gospel writers perpetrated a theological hoax, their Gospels would not be “gospel truth.” How could they be the word of a God who does not lie? (Titus 1:2). If this claim were true, it would put the Christian hope in serious jeopardy. We need to know whether the Gospels are the true word of God or the fraudulent words of men. The Jesus Seminar, of course, does not think the biblical Gospels are the word of God.