Robert Funk

Martin · Sep 7, 2005

Robert Funk, founder of the Jesus Seminar, has died. Since he rejected Christ this is not good news...

http://www.westarinstitute.org/Fellows/Funk/Obituary/obituary.html

Artimaeus · Sep 7, 2005

Wow! all that work for nothing.

mcdirector · Sep 7, 2005

How sad. I've heard vaguely of the Jesus Seminar. I did not know that it (and he) rejected Jesus as Messiah.

Charles Meadows · Sep 7, 2005

This is sad. Funk was a great scholar of the Greek language, arguably one of the best of his generation. I recall that he was universalist in his outlook, denying the divinity of Christ or His resurrection.

Yes this is sad.

Marcia · Sep 7, 2005

The Jesus Seminar would take votes on what Jesus had really said in the Gospels.

Each scholar offered his/her opinion on each "Jesus" statement by voting with different colored bead:

Red: Jesus undoubtedly said this or something very like it.
Pink: Jesus probably or might have said something like this.
Gray: Jesus did not say this, but the ideas are close to His own.
Black: Jesus did not say this; it represents a later tradition.
http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/docs/jesussem.html
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The Jesus seminar has done an incredible amount of harm and has helped promote the infamous Gospel of Thomas.

"Jesus did not ask us to believe that his death was a blood sacrifice, that he was going to die for our sins."
"Jesus did not ask us to believe that he was the messiah. He certainly never suggested that he was the second person of the trinity. In fact, he rarely referred to himself at all."
"Jesus did not call upon people to repent, or fast, or observe the sabbath. He did not threaten with hell or promise heaven."
"Jesus did not ask us to believe that he would be raised from the dead."
"Jesus did not ask us to believe that he was born of a virgin."
"Jesus did not regard scripture as infallible or even inspired."

So says Robert W. Funk, Architect and Founder of the Jesus Seminar, in a Keynote Address to the Jesus Seminar Fellows in the spring of 1994.

. . . The second source given high priority and preference by the Jesus Seminar Fellows is the Gospel of Thomas. In fact, they value it so highly they have placed it alongside the four traditional ones, giving it equal, if not superior, value and historical authenticity.
http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/docs/jesussem.html
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This is an article about the Jesus Seminar book, The Five Gospels: What Did Jesus Really Say?
http://www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/edn-t017.html

The 5th gospel is, of course, the Gospel of Thomas.

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