From: Nichael Cramer (nichael@sover.net)
Date: Fri Feb 06 1998 - 17:26:03 EST
Lavopc@aol.com wrote:
> Jim West's presupposition that there was an "historical Jesus "
different from
> the one we have recorded, and he is is lost to us because of the
writers and
> editors of the nt strikes me as funny
This may well be, but the position that Jim sketched is precisely the
standard, mainline position of modern NT scholarship.
> [...] I don't want to start a
> theological debate but i had to respond.
And I would --with all due repect-- suggest that your "debate" is not so
much with Jim as it is with contemporary Biblical scholarship.
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