THE GOSPEL TRUTH?

THE ICONOCLASTIC AND PROVOCATIVE JESUS SEMINAR ARGUES THAT NOT MUCH OF THE NEW TESTAMENT CAN BE TRUSTED. IF SO, WHAT ARE CHRISTIANS TO BELIEVE?

JUDAS DIDN'T DO IT. OR AT LEAST THE CHARGES wouldn't stick. That was the decision of the judges (admittedly a little after the fact) in the Flamingo Resort Hotel Ballroom in Santa Rosa, California, late last year. Of course, there was testimony against him, primarily from Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. But that foursome is notoriously unreliable: the judges at the Flamingo already had to throw out the Evangelists' testimony on the Nativity, the Resurrection, the Sermon on the Mount and any number of other cases. So, as regards the matter of Judas, although there was a good deal of debate--some...

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