In Luke Timothy Johnson's, The Real Jesus, he tries to discredit the Jesus Seminar. He also attempts to justify that the historical Jesus cannot be found because the New Testament was discredited and then Jesus can be molded into anything the scholars want to make him. He also stresses that the publicity of the Jesus Seminar makes it less reliable. Johnson makes good point in discrediting the Jesus Seminar and the books that scholars have written about him but does not make a convincing point that the New Testament is the way that Jesus should be interpreted.
Johnson discredits the Jesus Seminar. The Jesus Seminar showed itself unusually willing to involve the media (5). The media usually tries to show negative stories and things that cause people to become upset or give something for people to talk about. Since the Jesus Seminar was showing so much involvement in the media it seems like the Jesus Seminar is just trying to get people upset. With the headlines and the offense that......
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