Episcopalian or Unitarian, then you are liberal. Gospels , the stories of Jesus told from a number of different angles and what he did and how he lived and what we taught us to do as human
I, Simon Peter. That's striking because Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John in the New Testament are written by authors who do not identify themselves. The Gospels in the New Testament are anonymous. Only later, people said, "Oh yeah, this one's written by Matthew.
traveling rabbis in in the ancient world. recorded in the Gospels .
Phil said. That is correct. The four gospels ? Ted shook his head. That's the first thing the church did was enshrine those gospels , telling the story they wanted to tell about the meek liberal
I don't know. So there's this erotic love poem here situated in the midst of the Bible. But in the Gospels , from the voice of Jesus, we hear that his reply to this question about what the greatest of commandments is.
Wait a second. Why would he say that? With the gospels there are certain things that you can say with absolute certainty.
And so, in that sense, they're in the lifetime of the eyewitnesses to a certain degree. Mhm. And there's evidence even within some of the gospels where you have these names thrown out kind of randomly. And part of the thinking of that is that this is like citing your sources. At one point
the book. Now the codeex was invented long before Christianity but Christians were the first people who really used And so you have for instance four gospels . You would never have that if you only had a scroll. So the codeex
And you get it very early on. You get bits of it in the Gospels , particularly from Paul, who was, of course, Jewish, which makes it even more complicated. And you get it in what we call the Church Fathers, so that people like Justin Martyr, there's people like St. Augustine, and they really, really
He keeps saying that over and over again. We have in one or two gospels , we hear Christ as a child talking to folks within the temple.
securitization of worldly Goods turn these stones into bread those of you who have read the gospels might recognize this as the phrase that the tempter hurled at Jesus who was emaciated after he was fasting for about 40 days and Jesus responded resisting
Because, he says, I'm not a Westerner. And you read through the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
The Catholic Church, much wiser. If you simply put the Gospels on the table, with the guy with the beard, no one will listen. You need to work a little harder.
Wait a second. Why would he say that? How do know the four gospels were written between 50 and 100?
Wait a second. Why would he say that? Give you the short story with the gospels .
And that person is Joseph of Arimathea. Well, one of the gospels names one of Joseph of Arimathea's son by name. And the thinking is that this is probably someone who's well-known within the early Jesus community.
The four gospels ? Ted shook his head. That's the first thing the church did was enshrine those gospels , telling the story they wanted to tell about the meek liberal Jesus who gave food away to poor people and healed the sick and so on.
And he also-- Sikh by religion, and we have the holy book. And my grandfather also translated the first two gospels , let's say, of that holy book into English. So I said, I'm sure he's there.
and spiritually mature. A sign of spiritual stagnancy is sticking our heels in. And if we look at Christ's ministry in all four gospels , Christ is constantly being changed by those he encounters. He does not stay the same in his ministry.
Because, he says, I'm not a Westerner. come to believe in Jesus Christ is they read the gospels , and they see Jesus.
Wait a second. Why would he say that? For example, the gospels all talk about Pontius Pilate.
Wait a second. Why would he say that? So, the gospels are written after 36, or sometime after the 30s.
to ours on the inside so then you've got these ten healthy tips and then you click on each of those it's like well here's the longer version go read the Gospels right i mean it sort of and if you really really want the long stuff then you can go hang out with Sergey right and get the chief philosophy officer or whatever you call them
traveling rabbis in in the ancient world. So, some of those other gospels that I mentioned earlier that are written later on, Gospel of Thomas, Judas, Mary, Peter,
Seth Grahame-Smith: No, Matthew and Luke is really were it all comes from and then there's also a lot of later text that the Apocrypha they're called that are just sort of, whether they be like the Gnostic gospels or things like that or even like the Koran has, there are parts of the Koran that deal with Christ's journey as an infant so it's interesting. You take all these different sources and you sort of put together a patch work of a truth of a story.
The most stark difference comes at the very end. The Gospel of Peter, unlike the other gospels that we have, do not--. The Gospel of Peter narrates an account of Jesus being raised from the dead.
hundred years to settle and Christianity was a constant source of argument Christians argued with each other about what was true Doctrine they argued with each other about which were the real gospels they argued about with each other about which was the legitimate Church Christians felt the need for ready reference and this is probably by lawyers and Christians were among the
You can see one of the most famous here, the "Lindisfarne Gospels ," made around 700.
Seth Grahame-Smith: Yes >>woman 2: About your research on the Unholy Night. I don't remember their being a whole lot about the wise men in the four gospels in the Bible and I'm just curious did you look at all of those other gospels . Seth Grahame-Smith: Oh yeah >>woman 2: And was there more in there or did you just kind of invent most of it?
The first is from Elaine Pagels, the famous scholar of the Gnostic Gospels , whose late husband was the noted physicist, Heinz Pagels.
Yeah, so that is a question of historical reliability. So there are a couple different ways we could go about it. First we have four biographical accounts of Jesus' life, which is very unusual. So we call them the Gospels , Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
and connects with the individuals who are who he called the disciples who are like this this close Jesus community and connects with them. So, he's our earliest source, but then you have these gospel accounts, these these biographies. And the gospels are interesting because they fit within the historical framework of ancient Greco-Roman biography. So, let me give
Velleius Paterculus is coming from the 1st century. He's very close to the source, but he's a paid propagandist. So, even though he's the earliest, he's the least reliable. And for the gospels , that comes around in the 4th century.
And some of those manuscripts have never been seen in Britain before, including this fantastic gospel book, the Gospels on loan from Paris
Notice too, please, so keep Tolkien in mind, but also keep in mind, in the gospels , the great story of the temptation of Jesus.
Because, he says, I'm not a Westerner. And that's the reason why, in the end, by the way, if you read the gospels , one of the main reasons that people
And they told me that the word gospel-- I hope this is true-- that the word gospel means the spreading of good news, that the Gospels were
And in the Renaissance, the Catholic Church knew that it had an awful lot of complex messages to get across to people, arduous messages, difficult messages. Really about how to live like Jesus Christ, kind of difficult, all about the Gospels , et cetera. So when they set about doing their altar pieces of giant advertisements for their faith, they realized that they had to do some particular things
has a very interesting nuance take on his understanding of Muhammad and where his visions came from. And Elaine Pagels, the Gnostic Gospels scholar who I played a very short
But we absolutely need to take every word of the New Testament seriously. I use the Christian Lectionary to preach from that is a three-year cycle, where all Christian churches, ideally, are using the same lessons from the Gospels , from the letters of Paul, from Psalms, and from the Old Testament or the Hebrew bible, every Sunday and that's a really good discipline, because there's the text. The text for this week may be, I come not
The Gospel of Peter, unlike the other gospels that we have, do not--. The Gospel of Peter narrates an account of Jesus being raised from the dead. And in a way, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John narrate Jesus being raised from the dead, right?