{"quotes":[{"text":"In my view, the gospels are true, not historically, but theologically, or, as I would argue, prophetically! What we have is, the Messiah’s history written in advance in story form.","author":"Eli Of Kittim","tags":["academic","apocalyptic","bible","criticism","exegesis","gospels","hermeneutics","inspirational","interpretation","literary-analysis","new-testament","prophecy","symbolism","theology"],"id":4038,"author_id":"Eli+Of+Kittim"},{"text":"The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees, long before the time of Christ, as they were familiar in all the civilizations of the earth — Egyptian, Babylonian, and Persian, Greek, and Hindu.","author":"Joseph McCabe","tags":["babylonian","christ","copy","egyptian","forgery","gospels","greek","hindu","jesus","jesus-christ","jewish","morality","old-testament","persian","pharisees","plagiarize","sentiments"],"id":28127,"author_id":"Joseph+McCabe"},{"text":"The reason we haven't yet fully understood the Jesus story is that we are gospel-based rather than Bible-based Christians!","author":"Eli Of Kittim","tags":["bible-interpretation","christianity","faith","gospels","jesus","prophecy"],"id":44509,"author_id":"Eli+Of+Kittim"},{"text":" I’ve never seen exquisite fallen beings, and I never shall see them, but such creatures as that painted Frenchwoman at the counter with the ringlets are vermin to my mind, and all fallen women are the same.’\t  ‘But the Magdalen?’\t  ‘Ah, drop that! Christ would never have said those words if He had known how they would be abused. Of all the Gospel those words are the only ones remembered. ","author":"Leo Tolstoy","tags":["anna-karenina","gospels","jesus","sin","women"],"id":73085,"author_id":"Leo+Tolstoy"},{"text":"The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.","author":"Dorothy Day","tags":["charity","christianity","gospels","poor","poverty"],"id":109814,"author_id":"Dorothy+Day"},{"text":"Moreover, it is not just that the early documents are silent about so much of Jesus that came to be recorded in the gospels, but that they view him in a substantially different way -- as a basically supernatural personage only obscurely on Earth as a man at some unspecified period in the past, 'emptied' then of all his supernatural attributes (Phil.2:7), and certainly not a worker of prodigious miracles which made him famous throughout 'all Syria' (Mt.4:24). I have argued that there is good reason to believe that the Jesus of Paul was constructed largely from musing and reflecting on a supernatural 'Wisdom' figure, amply documented in the earlier Jewish literature, who sought an abode on Earth, but was there rejected, rather than from information concerning a recently deceased historical individual. The influence of the Wisdom literature is undeniable; only assessment of what it amounted to still divides opinion.","author":"George Albert Wells","tags":["biblical-criticism","christ-myth","christ-myth-theory","epistles","fiction","gospels","historical-jesus","historicity","historicity-of-jesus","history","jesus-myth","jewish","literature","miracles","paul","st-paul","supernatural","syria"],"id":113247,"author_id":"George+Albert+Wells"},{"text":"The most 'authoritative' accounts of a historical Jesus come from the four canonical Gospels of the Bible. Note that these Gospels did not come into the Bible as original and authoritative from the authors themselves, but rather from the influence of early church fathers, especially the most influential of them all: Irenaeus of Lyon who lived in the middle of the second century. Many heretical gospels existed by that time, but Irenaeus considered only some of them for mystical reasons. He claimed only four in number; according to Romer, 'like the four zones of the world, the four winds, the four divisions of man's estate, and the four forms of the first living creatures-- the lion of Mark, the calf of Luke, the man of Matthew, the eagle of John.","author":"Frank Butcher","tags":["church-father","gospels","heretical-gospels","historicity-of-the-bible","history","irenaeus","irenaeus-of-lyon","mysticism","romer"],"id":179596,"author_id":"Frank+Butcher"},{"text":"The synoptic Gospels of the New Testament manuscripts make us aware of Christ's character and gives us a view of the 'son-ship' He modeled which flowed out of that Divine character.' ~R. Alan Woods [2013].","author":"R. Alan Woods","tags":["christ","gospels","modeling-behavior","new-testament","r-alan-woods","son-ship","synoptic"],"id":228113,"author_id":"R.+Alan+Woods"},{"text":"Miracle focus messages compels masses to think that the process of production is not necessary for prosperity.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["gospel","gospel-centered","gospels","miracle","miracles-of-life","process-of-creation","process-of-production","processes","prosperity","prosperity-gospel","prosperity"],"id":257978,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Except... What Jesus said was: 'I will build My church,' not you. The verse is not a prediction, it is a proclamation of the Lord of the Earth, who never once talked of 'children in subjection.' or 'wives be grave... Sober, faithful in all things.' In fact, reading the New Testament from the Gospels into Paul's letters, is like watching the Wizard of Oz backwards -- going from a world of color and amazement, into a land of black-and-white with insane devout women trying to kill your dog. -- editorial 2014.","author":"Glenn Hefley","tags":["bible","christianity","church","gospels","jesus","life-lessons","new-testament","religion","scripture"],"id":291143,"author_id":"Glenn+Hefley"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":11,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}