{"id":3288,"date":"2006-04-09T09:39:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-09T09:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/04\/topic-du-jour.html"},"modified":"2006-04-09T09:39:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-09T09:39:00","slug":"topic-du-jour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/04\/topic-du-jour.html","title":{"rendered":"Topic du jour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mollie at Get Religion has a post on the coverage of the Gospel of Judas story<\/a> in which she notes the ignorance of press and purportedly "christian" public alike.  She also wonders about the lack of variety in the voices that are being quoted in the stories in the secular press. Here’s my comment, which is also in answer to comments that precede mine that confidently speak of the damning contraditions within the canonical gospels, and hey, who knows what the truth about that Jesus guy anyway:<\/p>\n

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The damning, discrediting \u201ccontradictions\u201d within the canonical Gospels? In which does Jesus preach repentance and the Kingdom of God and in which does he not? In which does he hold up religious authorities for criticism and which does he not? In which does he teach his disciples to put God first, depend on God and preach in his name and in which does he not? In which Gospel does Jesus die and rise from the dead and in which does he not?<\/p>\n

Waiting.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the thing that the \u201cdon\u2019t privilege the canonoical Gospels\u201d crowd don\u2019t address.<\/p>\n

Do you think that those who privileged these Gospels in the 2nd century already were idiots? Do you think they didn\u2019t read them? That they didn\u2019t notice, for example, that there were 2 (different) infancy narratives in Matthew and Luke and none at all in John and Mark? Do you think they didn\u2019t notice that Jesus doesn\u2019t tell parables in John? <\/p>\n

I mean, if they were all after power for a certain story, don\u2019t you think they would have selected – or written – texts that matched each other exactly and that even gave a less ambiguous portrait of Jesus? <\/p>\n

The point is, what the privileging of these Gospels show is that they, more than the others, are consistent with the traditions that the early Christians received in the preaching and teaching of the apostles. This is what the \u201cmany Christianities\u201d crowd never addresses. If the \u201corthodox\u201d party was intent on presenting a story that would \u201cwin\u201d – they went about it in an exceedingly odd way. <\/p>\n

And Mollie – I\u2019m guessing that the consistency that we see in the press stories are on this are due to nothing else than dependence on the press packet. The voices in the stories are all \u201cconsultants\u201d and experts to the project. Senior and Evans are both in the program. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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