Comments on: Response to Misquoting Jesus – Summary and Conclusion

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Threads from Henry’s Web » Book Notes: God’s Problem (Ehrman) — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:06:57 +0000

[...] on their jackets than on their pages (see notes on The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot and Response to Misquoting Jesus). This is not to say that there is nothing controversial. Rather, well-known issues are stated in a [...]

By: Peter Kirk

Peter Kirk — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 10:20:04 +0000

Oops, the last part of my previous comment doesn’t say what I had intended. It should be more like “and treating questions about it as an all-out attack on the very basis of Christianity.”

By: Bob MacDonald

Bob MacDonald — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 02:23:29 +0000

Henry – thanks; I like your summary very much. The theme of some of my recent writing has been ‘learning from the Spirit’. Our preconceptions of what the Anointing should be teaching others (or us) can get in the way of the desired (by God) inspiration (of us).

By: Henry Neufeld

Henry Neufeld — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:23:10 +0000

The revelations made by the author were considerably less startling than the dust jacket would indicate. The advertising, from the title onward, tended to make people think it was an attack, but the actual content would not be surprising to anyone with a basic knowledge of textual criticism.

By: Peter Kirk

Peter Kirk — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:15:02 +0000

Thanks for this series. I can't help thinking that the storm about this book should have been fitted into a teacup. It was perhaps another case (a bit like this one) of fundamentalists getting very worked up about someone who questioned one of their pet ideas and treating an all-out attack on it as an attack on the very basis of Christianity.