If you have been following along with my posts you will have noted a long list of the errors of the Jesus Project. In this post I will revisit some of those and point out some others. Certainly, the staff of the Presbyterian Community Church of the Rockies are aware of these problems. So, you may ask, why would they invite the error laden Jesus Project to present the faith sapping results of their poor scholarship to the body of Christ in Estes Park? The only explanation possible is that they too share the same anti-Christ agenda of the Westar Institute. That brings me to the first of their mistakes: Agenda Drive Scholarship. As I pointed out in my first post, the founder of the Jesus Seminar started out with an explicit agenda to undermine orthodox Christianity. In fact, in 1998 Funk explained his vision for the future of the faith in a paper entitled The Coming Radical Reformation . Here is one of his assertions: “The resurrection of Jesus did not involve the r
I have examined the anti-Christian motive and bias-laden methods of the Westar Institute sponsored Jesus Seminar. Today I will take a look at how the Institute and Seminar tries to undermine faith. In general, their approach is simple and straightforward, they hollow out and water down the Bible. The original Jesus Seminar did this by holding court over the words and works of Jesus. As I have written in previous posts a hand-picked panel of experts isolated Jesus from His historical context and edited His life. They then added a spurious, gnostic, Gospel of Thomas even though it was dismissed by both Hippolytus and Origen in the early years of the church. This pattern of hollowing out and watering down continues today. The leadership of the Presbyterian Church of the Rockies somehow found that their service to the local body of Christ was to bring the Jesus Seminar to Estes Park and invite Hal Taussig to hold forth on faith communities in the 1 st and 21 st centu